Sometimes descriptions are pretty pointless – and that seems to be the point with this Veer Umbrella lamp.
Yes, it’s a lamp shaped like your everyday umbrella. Standing around 24 inches high (so more of a desk and bedside lamp), it is fully adjustable in both size and in the amount of light it gives off.
There’s also two colours to choose from – white and ice blue. Sold with the 60w bulb, you can pick one up online for $130 (around £65).
Find out more at the Veer website
Via Notcot
The disintegrating clock is the image most associated with Salvador Dali and its no surprise that museums and galleries are selling Dali-style timepieces. However, Dali’s work isn’t really something you would usually think of as being for children, but the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida is selling a Soft Dali Clock for Kids.
The clock is made from bright coloured foam but still features Dali’s signature melting appearance, although in this guise it looks fun rather than the stuff of nightmares you’d usually associate with surrealism.
It costs $19,95 (approximately £10) from the Salvador Dali Museum website.
You’ll never be short of a middle for your 7-inch singles with this 45 record insert t-shirt from Orphan Lyrics.
There’s a choice of black and white for t-shirt colour and slim-fit sizes that fit both males and females. Design-wise, the image is on the front and sleeve, with some wording on the back and slightly shorter sleeves and a slight stretch on the women’s tops.
You can pick one up online, priced at $30 (around £15).
Find out more at the Orphan Lyrics website
Struggling to find the right design for your domestic seating? You can now create your own online, then add it to a Danish designer chair.
Yes, using a web tool (which requires a small Windows download), you can create a 3D design using your own design, photograph or pattern. And once you’re happy with it, you can have the seat (or seats) made, courtesy of Finnish furniture manufacturer Piiroinen.
The chair itself is the Flakes chair, the work of Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen – the firm also behind the idea of customising the chair. Obviously a combination of custom design and designer seating isn’t going to be cheap, but considering you are getting something unique to you, the price of around £462 for a single chair (falling to around £367 each if you buy four), isn’t completely out of reach.
Design our own chair at the Flakes Piiroinen website
Mushroom sweets? Well, not quite – these are sweets in a container shaped like the Super Mario Brothers Mushrooms.
There are three flavours available – raspberry (blue), cherry (red) and apple (green), with the containers sized at 3.5 inches high. That means you can use it again for storing your small essentials. Or as the makers suggest, as the Mushrooms can give an extra life in the game, they’re ideal for medication!
Available to buy online, you can pick one up for $3 (around £1.50).
Find out more at the Fractal Spin website
Regular readers will know of our fascination with all things Lego, but we think this Lego block iPod speaker is pretty much the best use so far.
Just plug the block into the bottom of your iPod and you can wave goodbye to those earphones – our music is played through the block. And the speakers are powered via our player, so no need for extra batteries.
A range of colours available – but only in Korea so far. However, you can order online for UK delivery from 10×10, with the speaker priced at the equivalent of £8.
Find out more at the 10×10 website
Via Technabob
