This is the most x-treme confection conflation in the illustrious history of food and food-like products. Its organic sustainably farmed bacon and I know you’re already on board but wait, theres more. Its got a touch of Vermont maple syrup flavouring. But wait.  Theres more. It’s in convenient on-a-stick lollipop form. But wait! THERES MORE! It’s also double Caffeinated for that extra punch to the brain you’ve been looking for. Ambrosia is for peasants. This is truly the food of the gods.

[Lollyphile]

Pure Digital Technologies Inc. isn’t the most well known of brands. Ask people what they make and most wouldn’t know but show them a Flip Video camera and they’re instantly interested. Its quite a nice lineup of products they’ve got with a very focused direction; simplicity in photography. The Flip Video series has been tremendously well received by bloggers and social media aficionados but yet the brand, in Canada at least, is relatively unknown.With a value price point and a solid product you would think the original Flip Video cameras would be tremendously popular but soon after their release in Canada they started to show their age in as much as they did not support high definition. By that point it was fast becoming a necessity. The cameras promoted their Easy-To-YouTube abilities so then once YouTube began to support HD footage, the lack of HD in the Flip cameras became the elephant in the room. continue…

Santiago Calatrava bases a lot of his work on biology, fusing his engineering prowess and architectural sensibilities with bio-mimicry of naturalistic forms. Then he paints it all bone white. He makes no secret of this inspiration though some astute intellectuals would argue that nothing can be gained from attempting to mimic the beauty of a butterfly, for instance, since one can never succeed in actually coming out as the winner in such a comparison as one could never supersede or even match that beauty and elegance. Black + Blum did not seek inspiration from nature for their High + Dry dish rack though. They, more sensibly perhaps, looked to architecture for inspiration. Santiago Calatrava’s architecture. Ruh Roh. So now we have a dish rack based on a building based on a butterfly. Welcome to the future. It’s recyclable and folds completely flat for storage too. Too bad it’s made from plastic in the first place. Wood is recyclable too you know.

There is a new stylish space saver in town. Theres a lot of horrible junk-invention masquerading as industrial design these days so its refreshing to see something both new and good. Its nice to have a Cheval mirror if you have the space so you can evaluate your look head to toe. Its also nice to have a full size ironing board so you can, you know, iron your clothes. Using them both simultaneously is extremely rare yet once you see what Aïssa Logerot has done, the combination seems so obvious (which is always a sign of good design) and graceful. Hopefully Aïssa continues refining the design for durability and practicality and gets these into mass production soon.

[Aïssa Logerot]

Get a load of this handy little tool design from Lee Valley & veritas. It’s called the Brush lugg and it helps you open paint cans, but also can be either clipped or magnetized to them such that they provide a handy place to put your brush when not in use via another inclined magnet. They even have design consideration factoring in the fill level of the can in question. Wonderful design work here.