Samsonite has rolled out yet another clever piece of rugged luggage and this time, it’s not on wheels – it is a wheel. It’s a hard case that’ll fit in the overhead space when you’re flying, but it’s circular, so the whole thing rolls right along.
The London Design Festival 2008 has thrown up some tasty designer tech, including the Xbox 360-styled lamp by Jean-Marie Massaud for Skandium. It’s made of green materials – and we don’t just mean the base.
This pint-sized sucker from Morphy Richards is no bigger than a basketball, so it uses less material in its production and it has an ‘eco-switch’ to save power. More amazing though is the price.
The ‘wine preservation and optimization system’, to give it the full name, isn’t about speed, but storing and serving fine wines at their optimum temperature. It’s all electronically controlled so you can’t spill any or drop the bottle.
Swiss coffee connoisseur Jura, which has already claimed the first web-enabled bean machine, now has the slimmest fully automatic espresso maker too. It’s available in six colours and we believe the green livery could be another first – and possibly last – for Jura.
Vintage technology repurposed for modern day use is the latest craze. These salt and pepper shakers by Charles & Marie are actually made of old telephone handset parts and Morris Minor blinkers.
It’s the ideal partner to balance the yin and yang of your cutting edge MacBook Air. The retro Tape Hub will split that single USB socket into four and remind you that all technology is destined for landfill at some point.
Fugu is the cheerful-looking relief chopper that’s been designed to replace the Chinook for delivering huge relief packages and landing anywhere on it’s auto-sensing feet.