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Love painting but hate the mess? Well Buoy Brushes can help you a tad bit in keeping things clean. They simply float vertical in a bowl of water, making sure you don’t stain the tabletop. The sizes easily distinguish the brushes and look artsy too!
Buoy Brush is a 2013 iF Design award – concept design entry.
Designer: Weijie Kong
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At first glance, I was all prepared to make fun of Thanko’s latest USB-powered product, then I realized it’s genius. If you don’t understand how useful a brush that blows a mist in your hair could be, you obviously don’t have a stubborn eight-year-old girl at home. Apparently, in eight-year-old girl land having parents spray detangler in your hair is about the worst thing that can possibly happen at 6 o’clock in the morning.
I remain convinced that when the sock gnomes get tired of running off with my socks, they spend time rubbing balloons in my daughter’s hair as she sleeps. I’m saying the knots she has in her hair each morning would leave a grizzled sailor scratching his head. Since I’m now banned from using the scissors to remove those knots, this brush might be the perfect solution.
The brush has a battery inside that is charged by a USB port. That battery slurps water out of a tiny plastic container inside the brush head and sprays a mist on your hair as you brush it. While the idea is to use water to hydrate your hair, I think it might work perfectly to create a continuous mist of hair detangler. That plastic container holds 15 mL of fluid and the battery holds the power to spray for two and half hours.
Regardless of what you think of it, it’s infinitely more useful than that USB powered butt chiller Thanko also offers.
[via EverythingUSB]
The Brusheads is a genius toothbrush collection that will have little ones begging to brush instead of resisting like they often do. Each fun, portable Brushead is presented as a 3D sculptured character that kids will love. The USB powered brushes feature intelligent sensors that detect brushing patterns & play fun audio messages as they’re used to encourage good practice. A synced mobile app lets kids compete their characters with peers & helps parents monitor brushing habits. I call dibs on the panda!
Designer: PA Consulting
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(Meet the Brusheads was originally posted on Yanko Design)
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Gotta love these custom toothbrushes by Yumaki! The series of 3 includes: KIRI- a steam pressed bamboo handle with burnmark, FURUI KAME, a faux tortoise shell handle with metal badge, and KICKFLIP, a biodegradable sugar cane plastic handle with lasered texture. Each brush also utilizes antibacterial bamboo charcoal blended nylon bristles for extended lifespan and enhanced hygiene. Do want! But wait there’s more…
The FURUI KAME style is completely random and every handle has a completely unique pattern. But our QC goes through every single handle and picks out only the best looking patterns to put in the range. The toothbrushes that are less aesthetically on point (but still high quality) are donated to third-world orphans. Some styles are more difficult to get right than others and therefore more are donated. More than 1 and a half toothbrushes are donated for every toothbrush sold.
The KICKFLIP brush with the sugar cane plastic handle takes about 6-8 months to biodegrade in a regular compost, but since bristles still are made in nylon (as with the KIRI bamboo toothbrush), the head should be cut off (and thrown away) before starting the decomposing process. (To speed up the process, the handle can be cut up in smaller pieces.)
Yumaki also offers an ultra-thin toothpick! 1/4th the size of a normal toothpick, it is cut directly from the branch of a special type of bamboo with extremely thin branches which makes it very flexible. It is the closest an organic toothpick can come to being floss since it is so thin it can go straight between teeth.
Designer: Yumaki
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(Chic and Consious Toothbrushes was originally posted on Yanko Design)
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