News: mobile phone maker Nokia has released open-source files that will let Lumia 820 smartphone users 3D print their own customised case. More about Nokia releases files for 3D printing mobile phone cases
News: American college student Tyler McNaney has invented a desktop machine that makes the raw materials for 3D printing by grinding up waste plastic from bottles, wrappers and even Lego bricks. More about Desktop recycling plant makes plastic for 3D printing
Maison&Objet 2013: Spanish designer Héctor Serrano will launch a portable speaker designed to look like the sound icon from a computer at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. More about Iconico by Héctor Serrano for Lexon
Product news: Dutch brand Usuals has crafted a set of handmade wooden toys out of branches from a hazel tree that grows on the family farm of one of the designers (+ slideshow). More about Happy Toys by Usuals
Product news: colourful LED torches shaped like the handlebar grips of BMX bicycles by British designer Alexander Taylor have gone into production with Hong Kong brand Praxis. More about Grip Torch by Alexander Taylor for Praxis
News: a fork for dieters that vibrates when you eat too much or too fast is one of the most talked-about launches at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. More about Vibrating "smart fork" for weight loss launches at CES
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 about Wind-powered mine detonator on Kickstarter
Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. More about Bird sNest Box by All Lovely Stuff
News: rumours are mounting that Apple is working on a wearable smartwatch that would link up to an iPhone. More about Apple rumoured to be working on "iWatch"
London designer Sebastian Bergne has created a nativity scene comprising nothing but rectangular wooden blocks. More about Colour Nativity by Sebastian Bergne
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 about Drawing Machine by All Lovely Stuff
Product news: new Neff fridges will come with this golf-ball-textured extendable egg tray by German design studio WerterlOberfell. More about Eggwave by WertelOberfell for Neff
Product news: ten metres of electrical cord are coiled around to form the shade of this pendant lamp by Italian designer Nicolò Barlera. More about Cordial lamp by Nicolò Barlera
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 about Competition: Stackable Snowmen and Happy Little Trees to be won
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 about ONE calendar by Jeong Yong
New York studio Ray Kingston Inc. has developed a wireless speaker that you wear over your sneakers. More about Sneaker Speaker by Ray Kingston Inc.
This weather-forecasting lamp creates an indoor cloud to warn of grey skies outside (+ movie). More about Nebula 12 by Micasa LAB
Customers visiting a pop-up 3D photo booth in Tokyo from tomorrow can take home miniature colour models of themselves (+ slideshow). More about Omote 3D Shashinkan by Party
News: 3D printer manufacturer Makerbot has opened a photo booth in its New York City store offering customers the chance to print out a model of their own face. More about Makerbot photo booth prints 3D models of faces
British artist Jeremy Hutchison will open a pop-up shop selling useless objects at a London gallery this December. More about Erratum by Jeremy Hutchison