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Handles on Everything

Handles are so important. They enable our wiry, dexterous fingers to grasp all sorts of objects. “Your Magnet” is a u-magnet with little suction cup feet. Stick it on handleless cups, electronics, glass and just about anything that’ll stick. Personally I have a mirrored cabinet that’s near impossible to open after a steamy shower. Your Magnet looks like a good solve for that.

Designer: Lufdesign

Wooden Earbuds

Headphones with a small eco-footprint? Well that’s just crazy! Wait though, looks like there’s something like that right here: “thinksound ts02+mic” – and they say they sound incredible. Made with real wood creating natural resonance and “unparalleled acoustics.” Sounds like some sweetness to me! Even the packaging is made with recycled materials using minimal plastic components. The cables are PVC-free and the wood is chosen from renewable sources. Super!

Designer: ThinkSound

Lamp and Vase Display

Two items, one intent. There’s the “Platevase” combination plate and vase and the “Favourite Things” pendant lamp. With the Platevase you can place not only a lovely flower or flowering treebranch, you can fill it with chocolates and other lovely edibles! What a fantastic combination of smells and tastes made possible by a round porcelain vase! Then there’s the Favourite Things, a pendant lamp with room for all your most awesome little items. Put anything you want in there and bam! Lit well, displayed well, makes the item feel really important. A real esteem booster for trinkets!

Designer: Chen Karlsson

Illusion For Hot Chocolate?

We have been exploring the various ways to get the perfect coffee fix while completely ignoring our other addiction, CHOCOLATE! My apologies. It wasn’t till Ahmad Bittar brought to my notice the Maya Machine. Now Maya means illusion, so let’s get swept up in this fantasy express. Maya is completely dedicated to the chocolate cause, it’s similar to the espresso machine, but doesn’t use crass powders to bring out the choco-licious flavors. It uses special pods of real chocolate that melts & blends into steamed fresh milk. Giving you the perfect velvet-chocolate experience.

Designer: Cambridge Design Partnership

Unexpected Drawer Funk

This ain’t about no beats. It’s got a bright nature about it though, colors and fabulous icons to make you say “ahh.” And what’s more unique about this particular set of clothes holders? Their shape. They’re all wavy. In the way the fronts of these drawers are shaped, there’s a space between the container and the frame. Thus, a handle. Four handles to be precise.

Designer: Joongho Choi

Chocolate Is Sexy

Chocolate – it’s sensual, sexual, and delicious; known the world over for its mood altering properties and palette pleasuring sensibilities. We’re not supposed to play with food but Forplay is a concept near and dear to my heart. It explores the three main ways chocolate is enjoyed: licking, melting, and pouring. Ooh how scintillating!

Designer: Adva Noach

For Soggy Boots

Do you live in a place where it snows very often? I sure do. If you’re smart, you either make a living off blogging and never leave your house, or you get a nice fresh pair of snow stomping boots! But as you face it, the cold, cold world you live in becomes clear, and you realize you must get groceries. And your shoes will become wet. What do you do then? Dry em.

Designer: Olga Kalugina

Last Minute Shopping Guide

The countdown has begun and before you get accused of gifting something tactless and trivial to your loved ones, let us help you out. Here is a Last Minute Shopping Guide, which features some really creative gift ideas. Although this cuts it real close, the Christmas Gifts will arrive in time for the celebrations, if you place your orders BEFORE the stated time-limit (X-mas delivery for the US only). What’s more the range goes from super affordable to super elite, suiting every budget! So, Happy Gifting!

Ten Distinguished Gifts for Someone Who Has Everything

Christmas is fast approaching and it’s the season to smile and sweat! Smile: because you’re going to get loads of gifts and Sweat: because you’ll have to reciprocate the gesture! To answer the toughest question, ‘What do you get for someone who has everything’, we’ve drawn up a list of Ten Gifts that are really Distinguished. An array ideas to get something for someone who is a design connoisseur.

Designers: Various

Flights of Fantasy Come Alive

YD has been mauled many a times for featuring concept designs, but that didn’t stop us then and it won’t stop us now. We have served as a platform for many a young minds that dared to dream big…so big that now their flights of fantasies have come alive. Here’s a re-cap of three awesome designs that are now available at the YD Store: Aroma USB, Twist Together Lamp & Shrine Shoe Rack. If you loved them then, I’m sure you’d be happy to BUY them NOW!

Available: YD Store

Scales Are Never My Friend

Standing on scales to check your weight is supposed to be this hushed up ritual (unless you’re thin) that no one is supposed to know of. So I’m really curious to know how people will react and accept the Riant Weighing Scale. It’s got this jazzy pendulum system to it, with one knob that stays focused at your previous weight (or desired weight) and the other one that reads your actual weight. Stand on it, and god forbid you’ve gain weight; it lets out this shrill sound of pendulums crashing!

Designer: Daum Gano

Koala Pad Under the Keyboard

Wait! Don’t get your pants in a twist! This is actually a much more advanced design than the title would have you believe! The Koala Pad was a drawing tablet produced and distributed in the 1980′s for Apple IIe computers and Atari and all sort of super neat stuff like that. Well here’s something not only super neat, but super new! A fully-integrated tablet-in-laptop concept, for you new-agers!

Designer: Victor Bivol