Design

Use a Tiny House With a Tiny Chimney To Steam Your Normal-Sized Veggies

Cooking some healthy veggies? Cover the pot with this adorable new steamer from Gamago, and the steam will rise up through the chimney. Super cute, right? The cover is 8 inches in diameter, costs $10, and is totally safe for the microwave and dishwasher.If you think you don’t like brussels sprouts, maybe try them with…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 31

I Wish More Companies Had Simple Logos Like This

Inspired by the beautiful typography-centric logos of Japanese cameras in the 70’s and 80’s, design firm Antrepo re-imagined the logos of tech companies by stripping them down to their essence. What resulted were line-based logos that’re clean, light and forever classic. Antrepo said: When we take a look at the vintage 35 mm cameras, we…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 30

These 55 Amazing Lego Riddles Will Push Your Brain to the Limit

A few of these Lego brick riddles can be easily solved. The rest? Not so much. In fact, some of them are really hard—but definitely doable. They just require a little bit of imagination. Give them a try and post your answers in the comments. We will send a nice Lego set to the first…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 30

The Colorful Coatrack That Makes a Splash

The Splash Coat Rack by Blu Dot gets its very fitting name from the nice pop of color it’ll add to your room. It’s 65 inches tall and comes in a variety of bright colors, like red, blue, yellow, grey, or white versions. Made of powder-coated steel and bits of walnut, it kind of looks…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 30

Rotating LED Lamp That Shines Light Only Where You Want It

Light fixtures are so gothic. Wanna be modern? Throw something behind your monolithic sofa and light room from the bottom up. Only problem with upward-shining lights? Aiming them. The Up Lamp aims (GET IT??) to remedy that with a tilted funnel that rotates to send lumens only where you want them: against the wall, at…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 30

The Rack Table Is Every Table At Once

The Rack Table is the ultimate coffee table because it’s everything at once: a magazine rack, a TV tray, and a beautiful piece for your living room. Unfortunately it’s just a prototype design. Created by Swiss designer Anthony Guex, the table has sliding panels you can move around to reveal a metal skeleton where you…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 30

You Can Thank Galileo For This Marvelous Modern Clock

Galileo was the first to think to use a pendulum as a time keeper in 1637. An actual clock using the precise weighted mechanism was patented in 1656 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. Roughly 350 years later, Christian Kim has reinterpreted the classic ticker with the modern Pendulum clock for Zwilling. Unless you’re an antiques…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 30

Old-Fashioned Lighting Meets Modern Style in These Stocky Stone Candle Holderns

Lucky for you a well-lit night is just a lightswitch away, but it wasn’t always that easy. The “Weight Here” family of candle-holders by Menu harkens back to a more fiery time, with a flourish of sleek minimalist design. The collection contains single candle-holders and three-pronged candelabras in thin models for normal candles, and thicker…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 28

Behind the Scenes at the New York Gift Fair

The New York International Gift Fair—a trade show for gifts, home goods and other stuff—has a crap ton of scarves, an entire floor devoted to candles, and loads and loads of items your mother would consider sticking in your Christmas stocking. But also? A lot of cool products that you’ll see popping up all over…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 28

No Eggs Were Harmed in the Making of These Cardboard Lamps

Recycling. Sustainability. Lamps made of egg cartons. Sure, why not? These fixtures aren’t actually built from the things that once carried your unfertilized baby chickens, they were crafted out of similar cardboard material. Designed by Valentina Carretta for Seletti, The Egg of Columbus has a shade made of coarse, moisture-resistant paper. Apparently the name was…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 28

What Kid Wouldn’t Want This Nuclear Power Plant Playset?

Cars, boats, trains, planes. They’re all pretty standard kids’ toys, and there’s nothing wrong with them either. But maybe you want your offspring to get too familiar with something a little more sophisticated at that formative age. How about some nuclear power plant blocks? Called “Critical Blocks,” these sets were created by construction-worker-turned-art-student Maykel Roovers…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 26

Most Beautiful Items of the Week: January 18-25, 2013

An old phone tower. Business cards of famous people. Crazy space age Nikes. There’s basically something for everyone in this edition of the most beautiful items of the week. Why Aren’t Telephone Towers This Beautiful Anymore? https://gizmodo.com/why-arent-telephone-towers-this-beautiful-anymore-5978936 You’re looking at what was once the main junction for telephone connections in Stockholm. See all the wires?…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 25

Stare In Awe as This Transforming Table Grows an Extra Three Feet In Mere Seconds

Team 7’s new Flaye dining table isn’t just a gorgeous piece of eye candy with its solid wood top and surrounding leather trim. It’s functional too, hiding a complex pop-up mechanism that lets just one person extend the table by over three feet in just four seconds. With this in your dining room, you’ll be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 25

Industrial Desk Lamp Perfectly Complements Your Construction Site Motif

Designed to look like a massive construction site digger, this imposing thirteen foot tall lamp will tower over your desk, and everything else in your office. Designed by Pascal Howe, The Worker has a definite industrial charm to it, particularly if you grew up staring in awe at the massive yellow machinery that’s used to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 25

This Snappable Spork Could See You Through a Whole Meal

This spork isn’t really a spork: it’s a spoon that turns into a knife and fork. It’s cleverly designed to see the user through soup then a regular main course—we just can’t really work out what it should be called. A sporkife? Fooife? Knoork? Spifork? So many words to squeeze into a single name. Still,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 25

Clever Light Fixture Brings Hanging Gardens to Your Home

It’s safe to say that the future will be here any day now, specifically the future from Back to the Future Part II. We’re still working on our hoverboard and levitating DeLorean technologies. Now, Toronto-based designer Ryan Taylor has developed the forerunner of the Garden Center fruit dispenser. https://gizmodo.com/the-back-to-the-future-hoverboard-is-2012s-worst-toy-5967983 As Taylor explains, The Babylon Light…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 23

Blow This (Chihuly Glass Blowing) App

Paging Dale Chihuly enthusiast Marissa Mayer. You can make your own incredible glass sculptures in the same style of the artist with an iPhone app. Just blow into the microphone, then choose your color, and texture, and then. Just admire the picture. You can’t actually 3D print the items you design or anything, but it…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 23

Nobody Would See You Coming on This Beautiful Transparent Bike

From certain angles you can barely see this beautiful bicycle—because it’s made from the same strong, lighthtweight and transparent plastic used in fighter jet canopies. It’s the perfect stealth bike. A concept put together by Designaffairs, this bicycle—aptly called Clarity Bike—is built from a polymer called Trivex. First used in helicopter windscreens and then in…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 23

Here Are the Business Cards of Famous People

Even though business cards seemed like they would be one of the first things to get killed by some fancy techwiznology, they’ve managed to survive even though the use of dead paper is dying. Everybody has business cards—even the super rich and super famous. Here are a few business cards from people you definitely already…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 22

Who Cares If They’re Probably Impractical? These Wooden Knives Are Stunning

There’s probably a good reason the master knife makers of the world traditionally choose steel and other metals for their blades, instead of maple. But even if these wooden knives, designed by The Federal, aren’t as durable or lack the heft of a traditional blade, they’d still make a gorgeous addition to any kitchen, particularly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 22

Use a Tiny House With a Tiny Chimney To Steam Your Normal-Sized Veggies

I Wish More Companies Had Simple Logos Like This

These 55 Amazing Lego Riddles Will Push Your Brain to the Limit

The Colorful Coatrack That Makes a Splash

Rotating LED Lamp That Shines Light Only Where You Want It

The Rack Table Is Every Table At Once

You Can Thank Galileo For This Marvelous Modern Clock

Old-Fashioned Lighting Meets Modern Style in These Stocky Stone Candle Holderns

Behind the Scenes at the New York Gift Fair

No Eggs Were Harmed in the Making of These Cardboard Lamps

What Kid Wouldn’t Want This Nuclear Power Plant Playset?

Most Beautiful Items of the Week: January 18-25, 2013

Stare In Awe as This Transforming Table Grows an Extra Three Feet In Mere Seconds

Industrial Desk Lamp Perfectly Complements Your Construction Site Motif

This Snappable Spork Could See You Through a Whole Meal

Clever Light Fixture Brings Hanging Gardens to Your Home

Blow This (Chihuly Glass Blowing) App

Nobody Would See You Coming on This Beautiful Transparent Bike

Here Are the Business Cards of Famous People

Who Cares If They’re Probably Impractical? These Wooden Knives Are Stunning

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