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Feed via Feedburner What are feeds? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	SMART STUFF #12, VOLUME 4. DECEMBER 2008..\|..<.....3..4..5 The needle that opens wide. We're not sure wether this is a concept or if this needle can be ordered from somewhere. Of it's a concept we'd like someone to start manufacture as soon as possible. If it's an existing product we'd like to order a few. The last time we were re-fastening a loose shirt button, finding the eye of the needle with the end of the thread made us break out in a sweat. And it's not going to get any easier as time goes by, is it? The Big Eye Needle, as it is called, is supposed to be an ordinary sewing needle, except that is is made from some new metal alloy allows the eye-part to expand to the size of a button hole with a slight pressure. There's no information regarding cost, but our source says the inventor's name is Woo Moon-Hyung. Those clever Koreans... [Via] PS. With this post we wish all our lovely readers a pleasant holiday. We'll be back after Christmas Day with a new and hopefully interesting invention or idea. Until then; MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Smart Stuff crew! /Ed. 23 December 2008 Fix broken zippers with the ZlideOn slider replacement. Ever take an jacket to a tailor's to get a broken zipper replaced? Or have you discarded a garment because the zipper seemed broken beyond repair? This has probably happened to most of us, since zippers seems to be the part of clothes that give up first. Now, however, there's an alternative, and it's invented in the Swedish province of Gotland. The product is called ZlideOn and it's really quite simple; just a smart replacement slider. But even though the idea is simple and smart, the actual development of a functioning product has taken years. It was not until the beginning of this year that Zip Clip Solutions, the company behind the idea, could start marketing their product. The ZlideOn is now available in 14 different versions, to fit as many zippers as possible, and more are under development. Read more about the ZlideOn on the ZlideOn website. There's even a small video to show you how it's done. If you want to buy one, you'll have to mail in for retailers. The ZlideOn is about SEK 70:- (approx. USD 9:-) a piece in Sweden, but compared to buying a new jacket, that seems quite reasonable. 17 december 2008 Egg cutter with double cutting tools. Today we made a trip to Ikea. We picked a day in the middle of the week to avoid the crowds, and not have to wait in line so much. The Ikea store at "Kungens Kurva" just outside Stockholm was surprisingly quiet, and we did not even have to stand in line to pay, believe it or not. Now, besides some Christmas gifts and some stuff we can't seem to be able to leave an Ikea store without having bought (like tea-lights, candles and paper napkins) we invested in this egg cutter. It's a model we have not seen before. It has double cutting tools, so you can choose between cutting your egg cut in slices or in wedges. If you use both tools at once you'd end up with your egg both sliced and wedged, which would probably be a mess. But we have not tried that. Yet. Our new egg slicer was SEK 9:-, (about USD 1:20 using today's exchange rate). 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