Play! began as an exploration of how work and play intertwine. Most parents don’t like changing diapers but any good doctor will tell you it’s important to the bonding experience. Play! enhances that experience by making both you and baby playful. The large hollowed out table does double duty by encouraging play down below. Several cut out holes are perfect for playing a rousing game of peek-a-boo.

Designer: Sara McMillan

If Charlie ever imagined what a modern chocolate factory would look like, he’d probably never have thought it would look like this. Then again, he’s probably never visited Mexico.

Architect: Michel Rojkind

Did you know you potentially waste gallons of water every year just from your dishes drip drying? It’s true. Why not put that drip water to good use by using the Planter Dish Drip. It’s plastic and can hold several dishes at one time. The water drips into the plant below so everyone’s happy. A total win-win situation. However clever you think this is you may have to wait to get one because for now, it’s just another concept from Erdem Selek.

Designer: Erdem Selek

Outstanding household debt in the U.S. reached over 12.5 trillion dollars at the end of 2006. This hand held digital wallet is a financial planning aid that consolidates multiple ways of tracking earning and spending in order to help people successfully manage their money and develop personal strategies for saving.

Designer: Veronica Vail

Sandbank is an outdoor sofa made out of sandbags, which is inspired by the Kubus seat of Josef Hoffmann and its grid. This stack of cushions can grow or diminish by adding or subtracting pillows and form different configurations from one-seaters to oversized sofas.

Designer: Christiane Hogner

Bence Bogar must be a leftie because his SE PXi concept is a product specifically created for all lefties tho it’s flexible enough for righties too. Obviously following the current direction of SE’s P series of smartphones, the PXi is powerful while staying somewhat slim and ergonomic. The body is magnesium framing a big 3.3 inch touchscreen. The screen rotates automatically ala iPhone and is optimized for both finger and stylus input.

Designer: Bence Bogar

Poke is a push pin cushion that’s supposed to look like a naked porcupine. It’s up to you to create something that actually resembles the animal. Not exactly highly conceptual and I can’t believe that something like this doesn’t already exist but it does have one thing going for it. The cushion is made from a material that won’t wear out from you constantly sticking pins in it. Joy!

Designer: Paul Sandip

Zlatko Antolovic and Alexander Wendlik’s practice COAST completed the T-Bone house last summer. At a modest 150 square metres, this family home near the German town of Waiblingen mixes environmentally friendly technology like Geothermal heating and rainwater collection, with a decidedly un-PC, but very understandable, focus on the client’s pride and joy, a 1974 Porsche Targa.

Architect: Coast Office

If you haven’t already started blowing your entry for this year’s Bombay Sapphire International Glass Award, then you’d better get a move on. The deadline for entries is 31st October and just in case you’ve forgotten what’s in store, click here to read about the competition.

Source: Bombay Sapphire

This is a phosphorescent lamp that glows in the dark, more for kids (or big kids…), this classical shade to hang is full of poetry. Behind the shade, you’ll find stickers showing shadowgraphs that will stay black once the lamp is turned off, and then it will start to glow in the dark…

Designer: Nathalie Dewez