News: a project to bring cheap and easy-to-build mine detonators to Afghan minefields has just nine days left to raise the final £14,000 of its £100,000 goal on crowdfunding website Kickstarter. More »
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Wind-powered mine detonator
Bird sNest Box by
All Lovely Stuff
Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. More »
Apple rumoured to be
working on "iWatch"
Colour Nativity by
Sebastian Bergne
London designer Sebastian Bergne has created a nativity scene comprising nothing but rectangular wooden blocks. More »
Drawing Machine
by All Lovely Stuff
Product news: this wind-up toy by British design brand All Lovely Stuff creates abstract art when let loose on a sheet of paper. More »
Just in Case by Menosunocerouno
More doomsday preparations: earlier this year we published this survival kit for tomorrow's predicted apocalypse, containing practical items such matches and water as well as chocolate and hard liqueur. It's designed by Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno and you can read our story about it here »
Eggwave by WertelOberfell
for Neff
Product news: new Neff fridges will come with this golf-ball-textured extendable egg tray by German design studio WerterlOberfell. More »
Competition: Stackable Snowmen
and Happy Little Trees to be won
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win a set of Stackable Snowmen or Happy Little Trees Christmas decorations, both designed by Fruitsuper Design (+ movie). More »
ONE calendar
by Jeong Yong
Product news: three magnetic rings can be joined in different configurations to display the date on this table calendar by South Korean designer Jeong Yong. More »
Sneaker Speaker by
Ray Kingston Inc.
New York studio Ray Kingston Inc. has developed a wireless speaker that you wear over your sneakers. More »
Nebula 12
by Micasa LAB
This weather-forecasting lamp creates an indoor cloud to warn of grey skies outside (+ movie). More »
Dezeen Book of Ideas: The Toaster Project
by Thomas Thwaites
Every day this week Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will pick one of his favourite extracts from our Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is available for just £12 and makes a lovely Christmas gift. First up is a homemade toaster by Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites. More »
Omote 3D Shashinkan
by Party
Customers visiting a pop-up 3D photo booth in Tokyo from tomorrow can take home miniature colour models of themselves (+ slideshow). More »
Erratum by
Jeremy Hutchison
British artist Jeremy Hutchison will open a pop-up shop selling useless objects at a London gallery this December. More »
iFlash One
by KiBiSi
Product news: this magnetic bicycle light by Danish design studio KiBiSi lights up instantly when its two halves snap together. More »