There’s no escaping it: when you hit the beach, you come home with sand in your bag, littered over everything you stashed in there. Unless, of course, you hit the beach carrying a Quirky Shake Bag. A women’s tote bag, it comes with a mesh bottom that automatically lets out those tiny grains of sand, so none of them gets stuck inside. Whether the sand gets kicked in there accidentally or came attached to the Hi Sun Beach Blanket you [...]
Hey, even your door locks are going digital, so why not your street signs, right? That can soon be a reality with Points, a signage system that turns erstwhile street signs into high-tech information hubs. Created by Breakfast NY, it looks like a regular street sign at first glance, complete with a post holding up directional signs that’s meant to sit at intersections around the city. Instead of fixed signage, though, it uses digital displays that can change their message [...]
You already use your phone in your car to perform a whole load of functions. Why not use it in your bicycle, too? That’s exactly what you can do with the Handleband. A universal bike mount designed to dock your phone onto the handlebars, it offers a quick way to turn your smartphone into a multi-purpose bike computer. At the least, it lets you use your phone easily while you’re on the bike, giving you full access to the display [...]
There are plenty of bike racks out in the market. If you’ve been let down by equipment that fit poorly or broke easily, though, you might want to upgrade to the TUF Rack, a bike rack that’s being touted as a downright indestructible rig. Designed by actual riders, the bicycle storage is equipped to mount on the back of your ride, regardless of whether you plan to hit the town on a pickup, a sport wagon or even a UTV. [...]
We love modular storage spaces, from the sleek Muunto Wall Shelves to the funky MoModul Cabinets, for the amount of flexibility they bring to outfitting your home. When they can look as good as the Opencase Wall System, we can’t help but adore them even more. Made by Henrybuilt, it’s a set of modular panels designed for mounting up walls in virtually unlimited configurations. With a little careful planning, you can use them for practically any part of the house [...]
Existing bicycle mudguards work well enough. Well, aside from the fact that they’re usually ugly. And that a lot of them aren’t very durable. And that they’re really easy to steal. The Plume is looking to change that. Billed as a “better mudguard,” it brings a streamlined design that makes it a better fit with the look of most bicycles in the market. It’s slim, compact and unobtrusive, making for a mudguard that hardly makes a dent in your bike’s [...]
You already make a whole load of original stuff with 3D printers. Next step: turn those same objects into smart objects of sort. If the kind of things you design, however, aren’t quite sized to hold conventional circuit boards that will let you turn them into self-functioning automatons, you’ll need to make your own. The Othermill is designed to accomplish that. Made by Otherfab, it’s a desktop mill that lets you make custom circuit boards cheaply and quickly (1,000 mm/min [...]
I know the Pin Pres is designed as a reconfigurable children’s shelf. It makes a great space to stash their toys, it’s easy to rearrange, and it makes for endless hours of kiddie fun. Still, I want one for myself. Created by OOO My Design, the children’s furniture is comprised of a board packed with built-in push pins that go through to the other side. Kids can line up the shelves themselves or, more likely, they can just push [...]
We’ve seen plenty of modular cabinets and storage systems before, such as Muunto’s wall-mounted units and the Quirky Crate. The MoModul joins that list, bringing a very contemporary style that makes it ideal for many modern interiors. Designed by Belgium-based Xavier Coenen, the system can be used to design unique-looking cabinets and shelves, with geometric patterns that shake up the traditional boxy dimensions of freestanding storage furniture. Just connect the individual modules together to form your desired configurations and you’ve [...]
We’re no strangers to bicycle racks around these parts and we’re loving the creativity that’s going into a lot of them, from the carved-in style of the Bike Shelf to the freestanding talents of the Michelangelo Gravity Stand. The Bike All, though, doesn’t just intend to be a rack for hanging your bike, it’s meant as an all-in-one spot for holding your daily bicycle accessories, too. Created by Colorado-based Board by Design, it’s a wall-mounted storage unit with a bottom panel [...]
At first, the idea of a modular backpack sounds a little too much design. I mean, it’s not like shoulder straps raise the price of pack in exorbitant ways. The Bootlegger Modular Pack System, however, offers a good argument for a modular pack: it lets you adjust the suspension in ways other backpacks probably can’t. The heart of the Bootlegger Modular Pack System is the Triple-Tramp Suspension, which consists of a comfy backing for the bag and all the straps [...]
No matter how much some people may whine, a key fob (especially a stylish one like the Keysquare) is still the best way to hold and manage all your keys. If you’re neither a fan of pocket bulges or getting your phone scratched in your pockets, though, the Keyper should prove a more suitable alternative. Instead of holding your keys in a fob, the new solution offers holding them in a dedicated key wallet. Simply insert your keys into [...]
Those Concrete Wine Bunkers are awesome for setting up a modular storage system for your growing wine collection. Made from heavy bricks, however, they’re far from the most convenient option when moving digs or rearranging your home. If you’re looking for something a lot less troublesome for later use, the Stact Wine Wall should prove a better solution. Designed by Eric Pfeiffer, it’s a set of wall-mountable racks that you can use to hold your wine bottles perpendicular to the [...]
Buying boxes for holding your stuff and stacking them in a tall pile has been your go-to move for organizing the mess of things that you call your home. Problem is, when you need to use something you put away in those boxes: you need to do a whole lot of un-stacking and digging through each one. These All Access Organizers will still have you digging, but spares you the hassle of taking down your tall stacks of boxes. Made [...]
Putting up your kids’ drawings on the fridge door using magnets is a great way to show off their kiddie doodles. Once your little art prodigy graduates to doing sketches a little too advanced for his age, though, you’ll definitely want to show them off someplace other than the fridge door. These OpenFrames offer an ideal solution. Unlike traditional frames, these wooden display panels don’t have an inner slot where you can slip in your pictures and prints. Instead, it [...]
Sensor-activated automated soap dispensers are a godsend. If you feel like all that electronics is overkill but still cannot stand regular soap dispensers, maybe you’ll find yourself smitten with the C-Pump. Made by Joseph Joseph, it’s a pump-based soap dispenser that reimagines the traditional pump design (like the ones used on the Jack Daniel’s Soap Dispenser). Instead of a pump you press on with one palm while the other palm waits for the soap to pour or a pump-nozzle that [...]
Your air purifier probably works well as it is. Heck, it might even be a peach to look at like the Andrea Air Purifier we raved about a while back. It’s probably fair to say that no matter what unit you’re using, it won’t be as awesome as the Airocide Air Purifier. Unlike other air purifiers, these ones are based off technology that NASA used to slow down the process of fruits and vegetables ripening too quickly during space [...]
You are not a big fan of plastic cups for the non-biodegradable waste, but you also hate paper cups because they’re flimsy as heck. And you also despise carrying a reusable KeepCup around because the thing is just so darn bulky. What to do? How about these Pocket Cups? Made by Connect Design, it’s a reusable silicone cup clad in the adorable likeness of a leaf. It’s a little too cute, in fact, you’d probably sooner mistake it for a [...]
I know what you are thinking, these Panorama Knives are going to be annoying to use. With serrated edges that look like they been gnawed on by a robot rat, you might as well just use a fork to slice your breads. No, they didn’t just pick a bunch of high school blacksmithing reject projects for these knives (although that’s perfectly plausible). Instead, they’re actually intended to look that way, mimicking the silhouettes of peaks in various sections of the [...]
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