Called Karoto (carrot in ancient Greek), the device for Israeli company Monkey Business can also be used on courgettes or cucumbers and comes in black or yellow.

Other products from Monkey Business on Dezeen include a pencil sharpener shaped like a wind-up key and a set of pins for making little animals out of wine corks.

See a sharpener for chocolate shavings by Japanese designers Nendo here.

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Competition: we've teamed up with Israeli design brand Monkey Business to offer readers the chance to win one of five silver pencil sharpeners by Noam Bar Yochai that resemble clockwork keys. 

Congratulations to the winners! Federico Guidotto in Italy, Jean-Marc Commenge in France, Hrvoje Skender in Croatia, Carla Sulaiman in Australia and Adeleh Nejati in the USA all won a Turnkey pencil sharpener from Monkey Business.

Instead of turning the pencil in the sharpener, users hold the pencil still and twist the cast-metal key. It's also available from Monkey Business in bright red.

We recently featured a set of pins produced by Monkey Business that can be stuck onto wine corks to create animal toys at the dinner table.

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Each kit contains the required limbs and features to make one of six characters, although all the parts can be interchanged to create whatever kind of strange menagerie you want.

The range includes a monkey, deer, buffalo, bear, bunny and crow.

See more stories about animals on Dezeen here.

See more stories about cork here.

Here's a tiny bit of text from the designers:

An original addition to the wine bottle you bring to dinner.

A design collaboration between Monkey Business and Reddish Studio.

Bring your dinner party and your bottle corks to life with these cute, collectable animal parts.

Each pack includes the body parts required for one Corker.

Available in 6 designs: Monkey, Deer, Buffalo, Bear, Bunny & Crow.

Cork not included.

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