Scandyna celebrates 40 years in the audio business with a special and very limited 40th anniversary Minipod Jubilee edition. If you want one of these matte black speakers with gold plated speaker, spike stands and Scandyna badge you better hurry up - there’s only 200 of them made. Get one for £550.
The Highwire Power LED DeskLight by Balmuda Design isn’t just a stylish desk lamp, this subtile aluminum creation is actually the brightest LED desk lamp in the world.
“It keeps 70% of its original light output even after 50,000 hours. The color emitted by Highwire matches the color of a computer display therefore, the display is not distorted. The light coming from Highwire does not include infrared rays and so emits less heat.”
It’s available in two models; the Highwire 1100 for 23" displays and smaller and the Highwire 1300 for 24" and bigger. The price is pretty close though, $630 vs $660.
Balmuda: Highwire Power LED DeskLight
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Wattson is a wireless device able to constantly measure and display how much electricity you consume in your home. Just clip the transceiver to the wire leading to your meter and fusebox and you’re done.
The exact number can be read on the display on the top (you can choose between watts and pound sterling) and by the ambient lights beneath it - blue means low energy consumption, read means high.
It’s USB-friendly as well, so if you hook it up with a computer you can compare your electricity usage with fellow Wattson owners around the world. Sweet.
Firebox UK: Wattson (£149.95, about 300 USD)
Here’s the DeLighTable by Kloss, a coffee table sporting a surface that emits light when touched. This touch-sensitive and light-emitting technology has been around for a while now but now they’ve finally managed to slim it down (the coffee table is only 25mm thick) and make it available for purchase. It’s completely waterproof and runs on a safe 12 volts.
The price is 1200GBP (about $2,300).
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I don’t know if this is a mere concept or available for purchase, but neat idea nevertheless: the Hi-tech Light-emitting Wallpaper by Jonas Samson. As long as the wallpaper is turned off the pattern is invisible, when turned on it becomes animated and glows right through it.
Size: 240 cm x 360 cm.
JonasSamson.com: The hi-tech light-emitting wallpaper
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The Illusion Wine Glasses combines the looks of a delicate wine glass and the comfort of a milk glass. A glass inside the glass, so to say.
“Combining inventive design with delightful execution, the wine goblet fills entirely with liquid and seems to float within the surrounding glass, which remains empty.”
UncommonGoods: Illusion Wine Glasses (4 glasses, $75.00)
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Is it just me or does the Triple Timer kitchen timer resemble a certain MP3 player? Well, I can imagine two reasons to get this $20 timer:
1) You want people to think you’ve actually bought a second iPod just to keep track of your cooking times.
2) You’re the kind of guy who likes to give fake gifts to your nephew, just to watch him cry when he realizes that he’s been fooled. Again.
Anway, if you want one you better get it before Apple’s lawyers spot it. Even though the scroll-wheel is becoming somewhat obsolete these days they eat companies that produces stuff like this for breakfast.
Williams-Sonoma: Triple Timer ($19.95)
Here’s the wall-mountable Just A Moment Clock by Reddish Design (Fluke Collective). Elegant and minimalistic, by separating each hand you read the time in a sequence.
Dimensions: 15.75" x 6".
Fluke Collective: The Just A Moment Clock ($72.00)
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The Gun Mug is designed by the Hong-Kong based design studio ChillyChilly. It’s made in porcelain and available in white with a gold plated trigger and black with a platinum plated trigger.
To quote the website: “Go slow in life, kill time with a cup of coffee!”
Shopmodi.com: Gun Mug ($16.00)
This simple yet clever bottle opening fridge magnet is designed by Suck UK and currently available in four colors; chrome, white, red and black. And as we all know, anything that manages to optimize the grab-a-cold-one procedure is a good thing by definition.
Charles & Marie: Bottle Opener / Fridge Magnet (€24.00, about $36)
