Swiss design studio Big-Game has launched a range of doorknobs and handles inspired by the multi-faceted grip of pencils and handheld tools. More about Big-Game launches range of multi-faceted door handles
A New York-based company has unveiled designs for a bicycle seat that also functions as a one-metre-long bike lock made of steel links that fold up under the seat for storage during travel (+ slideshow). More about Seatylock is a bicycle seat that is also a removable bike lock
Opinion: Apple's latest launches show it has become reactive rather than innovative, but after leading the market for 30 years it could still have an important role to play, says Karim Rashid. More about "Apple has taken the minimal aesthetic too far"
London Design Festival 2014: Italian design duo Formafantasma has installed a range of unusual timepieces in the showroom of British furniture brand Established & Sons. More about Formafantasma uses saxophones and a brass pendulum to track the passing of time
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the next preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, we visit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg at the RCA workshop where she's been making 112 miniature cars to create a "model ecosystem" of vehicles. More about Car design and production could "start to show biological adaptation and mutation"
In this movie produced by Dezeen for Biennale Interieur, Joost Vanhecke introduces this year's festival and explains why it runs a workshop for the 20 young designers selected for its Interieur Awards. More about Biennale Interieur "gives chances to a new generation of designers"
News: Apple has finally launched its eagerly anticipated Apple Watch, with a purely digital square face, interchangeable straps and a sapphire screen (+ slideshow). More about "We set out to create the best watch in the world" says Apple's Tim Cook
News: tech giant Apple has launched the iPhone 6 live at its annual conference in Cupertino, California. More about Apple launches iPhone 6
News: BERG, the design company behind Little Printer and one of the stars of the London technology scene, is to close after failing to establish a sustainable business around its connected products. More about BERG, the design company behind Little Printer, to close
News: British inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for an intelligent vacuuming robot that can be programmed remotely, which has been in development for the past 16 years. More about Dyson launches "most powerful" vacuum cleaning robot
Japanese design studio Nendo has created an ice cream cake, featuring a group of small chocolate houses intended to remind people of returning home for the holidays (+ slideshow). More about Nendo designs ice cream Village cake for Häagen-Dazs
News: a Russian YouTube video claims to show an iPhone 6 created by appropriating different parts from a factory production line. More about Video footage of Apple's new iPhone 6 design leaks
New Zealand designer Ramon Telfer used his own experiences of panic attacks to design The Calming Stone, a hand-held device created to help alleviate symptoms of stress and anxiety (+ slideshow). More about Pebble-shaped Calming Stone is designed to help prevent panic attacks
London Design Festival 2014: geometric pencil sharpeners, a horse-shaped chaise longue and a ladder with a built-in seat are among the dream items created by young designers for clients including Paul Smith, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers (+ slideshow). More about The Wish List: emerging designers produce objects for Hadid, Foster, Rogers and more
Tired of lugging around large-format paper in plastic cylinders or rubber bands, Australian studio One Design Office has created an "aesthetically pleasing" aluminium presentation tube for transporting architectural drawings (+ slideshow). More about One Design Office creates aluminium Arkitube for carrying large-format drawings
Australian designer Marc Newson has created a fountain pen with a retractable nib for French fashion house Hermès. More about Marc Newson designs Nautilus pen for Hermès
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Roland Lamb, inventor of the squishy-keyed Seaboard piano that won the Designs of the Year 2014 product category, claims we are on the cusp of a new generation of "multidimensional" digital musical instruments. More about Advances in digital interfaces will lead to a "new beginning in music"
San Francisco company Scribble Technology has revealed a prototype for a writing device that can scan specific tones and then write in the same colour (+ slideshow). More about Scribble's colour-matching pen can write in millions of tones
This clothes hanger by German studio A'postrophe Design twists into a new shape to hold multiple garments and save space in the wardrobe (+ slideshow). More about Inside Out Hanger by A'postrophe Design transforms to hold more than one shirt
Designer Andrew Lee McConnell drew on his own experience of suffering a neck injury when developing this concept for a wearable protective brace that could help prevent whiplash and other impact-related injuries (+ slideshow). More about Neck Frame by Andrew McConnell could be worn like "a structural second skin"