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Philips Lumiware LED Platter Lights up Your Dinner Table

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Looking for a way to make a statement the next time you have guests over to a party? Well you’ll certainly start up some conversations if you serve up some grub on one of these LED-illuminated platters from Philips.

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The Philip Lumiware platter has built-in ambient lighting, which makes it look sort of like the plate is floating off of the tabletop. It can be changed to a variety of different colors using capacitive touch buttons built into its rim.

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The platter is weatherproof for both indoor and outdoor use. You can even wash it under the tap – gently – though the dishwasher or microwave is a no-no. I’m also guessing that they don’t want you to put hot food on it, as all of the sample photos show items like fruit, cheese and crackers. The platter includes a wireless induction charger, and you should get about 10 hours on a charge.

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You can find the Philips Lumiware platter over at Amazon for about $72(USD).

Shark Sushi Plate: Eat Your Fish From the Jaws of a Great White

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Shark Sushi Plate

Cat got your tongue? Shark’s got your fish? I guess you could say yes to both if you shy away from speaking in public and happen to be eating your sushi on the Shark Sushi Plate. These unusual but cool plates are handmade from clay by Avigayil of Avi Ceramics. You’d think that she was a professional sculptor or something from the looks of her work, but she’s actually a full-time biology student with a hobby of doing ceramics on the side.

The rectangular plate looks just like any other, except that it’s got a great white shark breaking out of the surface of the plate off to one side. You can stuff some sushi into it or use the shark’s gaping jaw as a sauce bowl of sorts, if you prefer.

The Shark Sushi Plate is priced at $70 and can be purchased from Avigayil. Just follow the instructions on her DeviantArt page.

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Shark Sushi Plate: Big Fish Eat Little Fish

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I love sushi. Not only does it taste good, it’s actually one of the more healthy things you can put in your body. I really should eat more of the stuff. But I have a thing about only eating it when it’s freshly made in a restaurant. I never buy the pre-made rolls in the grocery – and definitely don’t possess the knife skills to make my own. But maybe owning this sushi plate would inspire me to eat sushi at home more often.

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The ceramic shark sushi plate is handmade by Avigayil of Avi Ceramics, and it’s the perfect way to eat your sushi – assuming you don’t mind fighting a great white for each tasty morsel of raw fish and rice, as you dip it into the beast’s mouth to get some soy sauce.

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So if you’re a sushi loving marine biologist, you can order one for yourself for $70(USD) plus shipping by following the instructions over on DeviantArt.

Chew on This: Keyboard With a Plate in the Middle

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Keyboards are every computer user’s best friend. For one, you can’t really do much on your laptop or computer without one. And if you happen to have a tablet, you’ll have to endure the pains and inconveniences of a virtual keyboard if you don’t have a physical one.

I do a lot of work on my computer and I often get hungry in the middle of work. Eating in front of my computer (and getting crumbs all over the keyboard?) Guilty as charged.

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It’s a situation that Dutch designer Hella Jongerius knows all too well, which is why he came up with this ultra-interesting concept for a keyboard. As you can see, it’s not just a keyboard. It’s a keyboard with an actual plate, right smack in the middle.

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It’s a ridiculous concept that probably won’t get made in reality, but it’s still a pretty fun one at that.

[via Buzzfeed]


Memorize Pi While You Drink, Cook and Eat

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Mathematics geeks will often use the number of digits of Pi they can remember as a measure of pride. While I might be able to get as far as 3.141592653589793, that’s about where I lose it. But with these special drinking glasses, I bet I’d be able to recite 100 digits in no time.

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TheUncommonGreen’s Pi series is printed several hundred digits of the mathematical constant – which for those of you who flunked math class is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Duh.

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There’s a Pi pint glass ($36/pair), a Pi rocks glass ($36/pair) and a Pi shot glass ($20/each), so you can even memorize digits while you get drunk. I’m not sure how much those Pi coasters go for, though. And if you want to keep working on your math while you cook dinner, there’s a matching Pi kitchen towel.

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And when your guests arrive, you can help them learn Pi too, while they cut the cheese on this Pi plate ($55).

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But my favorite of the Pi series won’t help me memorize its digits at all – but it will help me drink more beer – and that’s the Pi bottle opener ($45).

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