Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. More »

These racy figurines by ceramicist Rebecca Wilson are cast from pieces of fruit.  More »

Made to Pleasusre, a new online venture allowing customers to customize their own sex toys opens today. More »

Marc Dibeh of Lebanon has designed a table-top lamp with a sex toy stowed in its side. More »

This waterproof sex toy has been designed by San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject for sex toy brand JimmyJane. More »

San Francisco designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has designed a sex toy in collaboration with Ethan Imboden of sex toy brand JimmyJane. More »

Milan 09: German lighting designer Ingo Maurer launched Euro Condom, a protest against new European guidelines banning frosted incandescent bulbs, at the Euroluce lighting fair in Milan last month. More »

Milan 09: Twenty designers including Arik Levy (above) and Matali Crasset (below) will exhibit sex toys and other objects on the theme of love in Milan next month, during the furniture fair. More »

Spanish designers Discoh have created a sex toy inspired by the aloe vera plant. More »

Designers Airside have created an alphabet formed by leggy cartoon rabbit girls. More »

Design Indaba 08: South African industrial design firm …XYZ has relaunched its condom applicator with new packaging and a new brand name, 4:Secs. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Industrial designer Michael Young has designed another sex toy, this time called Sabar. More »

More sex: Matali Crasset has designed a ‘love toy’ for Exquise Design For Pleasure – a new brand that aims to reinvent the notion of the sex toy by working with leading female designers. More »

Design Indaba update: a condom applicator designed to help AIDS prevention has been named the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa by Dutch designer Jurgen Bey. More »