Analog Hand-warmer!

I could use a product like the Cieplik. I’m one of those people whose hands go instantly ice-cold in the winters, and then I’m holding them up against my cheeks, or sitting on them to keep them warm. Just one tea-light candle away from toasty-warm hands, the Cieplik uses a base-plate and a rather alluring ceramic cover that rests on top. Relying on ceramic’s heat dissipating properties, the Cieplik uses just one simple tea-light candle on the inside to create a heat chamber inside itself. The heat then gently dissipates into the environment, not only working as a natural heater, but even encouraging you to warm your hands around this earthen fireplace! Its rippled design not only makes for a great design detail, it also helps increase the surface area so that the heat-loss around the top is higher.

Designer: Katarzyna Giedroyć

Sarang Sheth

Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.

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