Reading by the light of your notebook? Been there, done that. Surprisingly, this wasn’t what inspired the japanese studio, Vinta, when they created the Butterfly lamp.

“This light came from the idea of folding a piece of paper. The function of its adjustment of light and the space created by that are a result of simple [...]

Tokyo Flash, the company who has never made it easy to tell the time, is now selling Citizen Independent watches on their website, which hopefully means the company is slowly inching towards watch designs that can be read without needing a physics degree.
The ITX21-5014 is a watch from Citizen Independent that includes a digital and [...]

Austrian luxury designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson has something more to add to his kitty – ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the Aloisson designed iPhone – the world’s most expensive iPhone. While diamond studded phones are nothing new, the only thing the iPhone Princess Plus has to its credit is being the most [...]

Hey, kids! Forget cops ‘n’ robbers—let’s play insurgents ‘n’ infantry! Lap Sui et al’s patent for an ultra-realistic mechanical Toy Grenade is all you need for hours of convincing fantasy maiming and menace.
Filled with a mixture of powder, dye and compressed air, the toy grenade has a functioning pin that gives a few seconds to [...]

What could be nerdier than a shelf modeled on an ECG readout? Possibly nothing, which is why we love Måns Salomonsen’s Plusline. The shelf even sports a glow-in-the-dark edge, turning your wall into giant oscilloscope at lights-out.
Product page [Steneby via Book of Joe ]

Storage is cool and stuff made out of bamboo is cool.  When you blend the two together you get some environmentally sustainable hotness that is hard to be beat.  Designer Ryan Frank produced this piece on commission for the Post Design Gallery, where it will go on display this April.  Let’s hope it makes it [...]

Most of us take for granted the fundamental human need for enlightenment. No, I am not talking about being one with the Universe or counting beads. Besides, I look positively horrid in orange. I am talking about the simple need to physically see after the sun sets. We are not like most other creatures on [...]

Artistic beauty and toilets don’t normally go hand in hand, but why not? We’ve seen all kinds of artistic add ons for your tech devices, so why not one for this somewhat older tech device that we each use several times a day. Toilet tattoos are printed on plastic film that will stick electrostatically to [...]

Maybe it’s a guy thing, but I can’t really figure out why some people think that slapping a bunch of Swarovski crystals on an object somehow makes it more glamorous. The latest victim is this optical travel mouse, which comes hand blinged to order using your choice of Swarovski crystals in various colors. No word [...]

The acrylic X Lamp by the French design company PRoToCol is a fun cool and cool alternative for lighting up your room. The contemporary x-shaped design of the lamp creates a glowing light in four directions.

Exmocare has released their BT2 wrist watch, which is wrist watch equipped with emotional and arousal levels monitoring functions. The watch seems to be heading to the service industry. Meaning it’ll be used by bosses who’re interested in monitoring their employees’ emotional and even arousal states.

Combining the delicate beauty of a Japanese bonsai tree, with the practicality of a battery powered mantle clock, the Bonsai Gear Clock is perfect for someone like me who can’t even keep a cactus alive for long. Despite their steely looks, the clock’s gears are actually made from plastic, although the frame is metal and [...]

This whole “turning waste into fuel” idea has certainly gained a lot of traction lately, and it seems that Whirlpool is next in line to show off a concept that could purportedly hack down your energy bill (and give Mother Earth some love, too). Simply hailed as the green kitchen, this futuristic area would reportedly [...]

A new sharp dressed member has joined the crowd of environmentally friendly self-powered LED pigs, monkeys and rats. Say hello to the penguin flashlight.

When you press the lower button Bright Guy’s wing pops out to allow you to charge this penguin up. Crank his penguin wing, and the LED will get you where you [...]

Yeah, there’s a lot of good, civically-minded things you could do with your cash… but wouldn’t it be more fun to blow it on a 1GB iPod? If you’re dying to prove how little £20,000 (or around $40,000) means to you, here’s your chance. A jeweler named Thomas Heyerdahl has created an 18 karat, diamond [...]

Make of it what you will, but Germany’s own Mac Life has apparently grabbed hold of a few more details concerning that SportBand we saw sashay into the FCC’s database late last month. Reportedly, the unit isn’t meant to replace the Nike+iPod system; rather, it’s an alternative for runners who’d prefer not to have earbuds [...]

This analog stainless steel watch comes with 1GB of built-in memory and works as an MP3 player, a voice recorder, and a file storage device.

Features:

Voice recorder, MP3 Player and Files storage
Recording format: saved in VOIC by WMA/WAV/MP3
Built-in 180mAh/3.7V Li-ion rechargable battery
Battery Life: More than 6 hours continuous playing time when fully charged

The Spy Recording [...]

The Maplemap is a particularly snazzy lamp that was created by Frederic Guibrunet. Guibrunet doesn’t sound like a Canadian name, but there is a good chance he is from the northern tundra as his lamp is constructed of maple leafs cut out of cotton paper. Guibrunet produced 100 of these lamps for purchase.
This is one [...]

Style and USB flash drive are words you rarely see used in the same sentence, but Poland’s Zana Design thinks they can work together. While anyone can slap a few gems on a tech device to make it expensive, Zana Wood’s line of USB drives are much more subtle, combining exotic Merbau wood, silver, and [...]

The Intimate Utensils product line is all about the intimacy of eating food. Most eating utensils are about leverage, elegance, and efficiency. The Intimate Utensils’ unique shape brings food much close to the hand, thus closer to the mouth. It’s a modern take on how primitive people ate long long ago. I still prefer chopsticks.