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Running short of cupboard space? Yuu could stick some of your flavourings on the wall with the Soho Spices Magnetic Spice Rack, designed by Laura Martin.
This 12-piece spice rack is made from 18-8 stainless steel, with twist-and-shake tops and magnetic bottoms make the shakers easy to use and put back. It comes with a stainless steel back plate but you can opt to stick the containers on either a fridge or any metal surface.
You can pick it up for £65.
Sometimes a picture is enough, which is just as well in this case, because information on the Philippe Starck-designed Voxan super naked Xv motorbike is very much at a premium.
Classed as a "cafe racer". French maker Voxan describes it as "raw power enhanced by the radical purity of the minimalism. The absolute essence of the motorcycle". Still no clearer? Me either. But if your sold on the looks, you'll probably be interested to know that it has a 1200cc engine, 140hp and weighs 180kg.
It should be on sale in the early part of this year - no details on price.
Taking minimalism to the extreme is this Greenapple all-glass desk.
A large working surface of 160 x 75 x 76cm, with plenty of storage for your computer kit and documents, as well as a raised platform for your monitor. The downside is that same selling point - where are you going to hide your clutter? Probably heavy too if you need to move it.
If you can live with that, you can buy it online for around £700. A version with black contrast shelves is also available.
When it comes to a trolley, few have come close to beating the classic Boby trolley by Joe Colombo. 38 years later and that's still the case - although the Jennifer Newman Trolley is certainly a smart-looking alternative, especially if you don't fancy plastic.
Aimed at designers and artists, the Trolley has plenty of purpose-built space for your paper, drawing rolls and portfolios, as well as a good surface space. but can double up for other uses too. It's also on casters - so you can move it around quickly and easily.
Made of powder-coated aluminium in a choice of colours, it's built to last. And just as well - as the price is £1,293.
Find out more at the Jennifer Newman website
Suddenly everyone's digital camera looks a bit weedy, with Sony unveiling its latest compact - the 13.6 megapixel Cyber-Shot W300.
Aside from the pixel count, Sony's latest compact offers a scratch-resistant titanium case, 2.7-inch LCD screen, 3x optical zoom, Smile Shutter (a smile prompts the snap), optical image stabiliser, intelligent scene recognition, ISO up to 6400, a burst mode and HD output for viewing your pictures on a HD-ready TV.
Expect to see it instore from May, with a price of around £200.
Sony website
Looking for an alternative to the iPod? Creative's miniature Zen Stone and Zen Stone Plus MP3 players might fit the bill.
Available in a choice of smooth or textured finishes and capacities of 2GB or 4GB, both the Zen Stone and Zen Stone Plus have a bright blue display, , up to 20 hours of playback from the rechargeable battery and the option of playback via the built-in speaker or earphones. Songs can be stored in MP3/WMA format and can be used with iTunes. Also on board is an FM radio, microphone, clock and stopwatch.
Prices start at £29.99, rising to £49.99 - all available from March 1st.
Never mind a fast coffee on the move, how about slowing things down a bit? You can with the Cafino by Tassilo von Grolman.
It's coffee at a snail's pace. Just place your coffee beans into the mesh sieve, insert into the heat resistant borosilicate glass cylinder, pour boiled water to capacity, and let the aroma unfold.
After brewing and removal of the sieve, the bitterns are also removed, and it is all done in an ecologically friendly manner. Oh yes - and it looks good too. The Cafino retails at £90.50.
Another new DAB radio from Roberts - the Gemini 31.
Packed into a case that's described as 'retro-meets-modern' and with a mahogany handle, the Gemini 31 is packed with all the usual DAB features. That includes PausePlus (you can pause live radio for up to 40 minutes), full-range stereo loudspeakers, 100 hours of battery life, LCD display, 10 station presets and FM reception.
The Gemini 31 is available now for £89.99
Find out more at the Roberts Radio website
Last year it was Orla Kiely, but this year club label Hed Kandi is Millets' partner for fashion tents, specifically with the Boudoir tent.
Arriving in good time for the festival season, the Boudoir tent is a two-man job with pop-up assembly, gold-embossed flysheet and a big logo on the side. Whether the latter is a good or bad thing is open to debate.
It retails for £59.99. And if you like that, you'll probably wants the matching snuggle bag (£29.99) and Sun Seat (£19.99). Expect them in MIllets stores in the next few weeks.
Something of a design classic in Europe, the Koziol Tasche Bag is less common in the UK.
Designed by designer Alessandro Mendini with Christina Hamel, it's the plastic bag that can help the environment - if you keep using it instead of the disposable ones at the supermarket. It's heavy duty enough for most everyday items or if you don't want to use it outdoors, it also makes a decent magazine rack.
Available online, it retails for £16.50.
Plenty of novelty phones around, but none quite like the Toaster Phone.
Yes, a toaster in looks, but a phone in functionality. It's the work of Brazilian industrial design student Renata Quintela and a concept right now, offering pop-up handsets, charging via thew 'toaster' and all the buttons and keys you would expect on the 'toast'.
No news of this going into production as yet - but we'll take one if it does.
Find out more at the Coroflot website
It might stand just 9cm high, but the glossy black Liscio handset from Onyx packs an awful lot into that very small case.
The Liscio is being pitched as a stylish phone for anyone who wants to be contract-free, with the tri-band handset packing in a full-screen 1.1-inch OLED display, 128MB of storage (which can be expanded by microSD card), Bluetooth, MP3 ringtones, MP3 player, FM radio, equaliser, 11 hours of music playback and three hours of talk time.
It's being sold without a contract for £129.99. I've got one in my possession right now, so expect a hands-on later this week - if I don't lose it.
Want to show off your wealth at the next board meeting? Then the gold and diamond-encrusted Blackberry Pearl from Amosu could be for you.
In fact, there are three models available - the Amosu Blackberry Pearl Gold Edition (in solid white gold, yellow gold or platinum), the Amosu Blackberry Pearlific (made from solid gold with diamonds) and the limited edition Amosu Blackberry Pearl Diamond, modelled in solid gold and hand cut diamonds.
Each one is custom-made and recyclable. That's right - when your phone goes out of date, the diamonds can be removed from one handset and fixed onto another. Prices start at...wait for it...£12,000, but that does include membership to a bespoke concierge service, with Amosu promising you everything from front row seats to fashion shows to a fully chartered private yacht at the press of a button.
Clever piece of design from Dwell, with the Convertible Coffee Table rising up tp be something much bigger.
Yes, in its original state it's a fairly unassuming chrome and walnut veneer coffee table, But lift it up and it is high and indeed wide enough to double as a dining table, with room for six people at a push. Although you'll still need to grab six chairs from somewhere.
Due to arrive in March, it will retail for £375.
Find out more at the Dwell website
I've always like the look of the Nooka watch range, but rather like the Tokyo Flash timepieces, they're almost impossible to read - or at least, require a great deal of thinking. Thankfully, that's not the case with the Nooka Zoo-V watch.
Yes, this is the Nooka you can use. Available with a choice of straps (black, white and mesh) and different shades of face, the Zoo-V offers up digital numbers, an indication of am or pm and a bar to show time passing.
Practical and stylish, but not all that cheap at £190.
When it comes to houses, you get less space for more money as each years passes. Which means every piece of furniture has to earn its keep. And that's certain the case with the Pause.
It's a two-in-one unit, offering a solid oak desk and adjustable shelving with a natural wax oil finish. Support is via a brushed stainless steel frame and there's even a couple of drawers to house your bits and pieces.
According to retailer Greenhaus, installation and delivery is included - but included in what isn't clear as the price is 'on application'.
Toshiba is currently launching its 2008 range of electronics, including this rather stylish Camileo Pro HD camcorder, retailing at under £150.
It's not just a camcorder, although the five megapixel CMOS sensor can shoot high definition video footage for playback straight to your HD-ready TV via the HDMI connectivity. Other features include 128MB of storage (which can be expanded to 32GB), 3x optical and 4x digital zoom, 2.5”inch TFT LCD screen, voice recording, MP3 player and if you like, a very expensive webcam.
All of that can be yours from April for £149.99.
A little underwhelmed by a traditional wooden desk? Maybe the BaObab Desk by Vitra is more your style.
Designed by Philippe Starck, the BaObab is described as a 'a sculptural piece of furniture', combining space age looks with everyday functionality - including cable management, storage space and plenty of surface for your desktop clutter.
And there's a colour choice of light yellow, light grey, aqua, lime green and red, one of which is sure to fit in with your home office decor. All that does come at a price though - £1,928.
Fancy boosting your profile in the living room? The Giant Chair will put you head and shoulders above the rest of the house.
The Giant Chair is made from solid steam bent oak and scaled up to be twice the size of a normal chair - although it looks more, judging by the photo. Just 10 of these will be available, all handmade and signed by the Sixixis designers.
No price as yet - if you are interested, drop them a line via the website.
Find out more at the Sixixis website
There's something very simple, very classic and very stylish about the Hamilton office chair from Habitat.
Almost retro in appearance, the Hamilton chair is based around a powder-coated metal tube frame, with brown leather for the seat and back. And that's it - sometimes less really is more.
Yours for £99.
Find out more at the Habitat website
Arcam has shrunk down its successful Solo audio system, introducing the Arcam Solo Mini for the space conscious.
It might be smaller, but it doesn't compromise on quality, offering award-winning industrial design, easy access top-mounted controls, a large two dot-matrix fluorescent display, an ergonomic remote handset, audiophile grade CD player (with MP3/WMA playback), DAB/FM/AM radio, clock/alarm, all the connectivity you'll need and a 25 watts per channel linear amplifier.
It's even got a smaller price tag than its predecessor, retailing at £650 (without speakers) from March.
Find out more at the Arcam website
Numerous retailers are offering reusable bags these days - but with profit more than the environment being the prime motivation. That's not the case with the Design Museum Bag, which retails for just £1.
Yes, that's right, this stylish tote bag is just £1. It's a re-usable non-woven bag, available with a long shoulder strap or as a double-handled shopper, both featuring the Design Museum artwork on a black background.
The Design Museum doesn't profit from sales of the bag - it's simply doing its bit to cut down on the use of plastic bags. Other retailers take note.
Advice to Sony - if you're attempting people to ditch the iPod, come up with a more catchy name than the NW-A820 series.
Shame about the name, but the media player itself looks like a stylish piece of kit. Available with up to 16GB of storage, the player has a 2.4-inch screen, music and video playback (MP3, AAC, WMA and MPEG-4 video) plus a long battery life (up to 36 hours of music) and Bluetooth for playing it wirelessly through a Bluetooth-friendly speaker.
In fact, a matching speaker is coming arriving at the same time, along with a cradle to play video through your TV and to record TV to the player in real time. Expect to see it in April, no price available as yet.
Quite possibly the most expensive cardboard-based item you would ever own - the Brown Paper Bag by Giles Miller.
Available as either a shoulder bag or a handbag (pictured here), these bags are hand assembled from part recycled and partly sustainably sourced cardboard, with the card cut at steep angles to leave a surface of swirls. And just in case you are worried about the rain, it is treated to be water resistant.
Finished with a leather handle and chrome detailing, the Brown Paper Bag retails for £179.95.
Sometimes a box of Milk Tray just isn't enough - if you want to make a real splash with chocolates, perhaps the Neuhaus Rain Of Stars is just the thing.
It's been created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the famed chocolatier, with nine internationally-renowned chefs each creating a unique praline for the box - Raymond Blanc, Pierre Wynants, Marc Veyrat, Peter Goossens, Pedro Subijana, Tateru Yoshino, Jean-Claude Bourgueil, Daniel Boulud and Guy Savoy if you want the names.
In fact, the end product looks more like a work of art than something sweet to eat. But at £30 for just 18 chocolates, you can't afford to let a single one go to waste.
Find out more at the Neuhaus website
Got money to burn on a new sports car? You'll probably need it to buy an Alfa Romeo 8C Spider.
Set to be shown off at the Geneva Car Show, the 8C Spider has been developed by Alfa's Centro Stile and is limited to just 500 units, which should make it all the more desirable and expensive. According to Alfa Romeo, the interior has "Italian elegance" and a "unique and inimitable style", although as yet, we can't see that up close.
What we do know is that it has a powerful 8 cylinder 4.7 litre engine producing 450 HP and a 6-speed robotic gearbox. And of course, that it has that stunning exterior. Start saving now, the 500 will be available to buy later this year.
Travel through almost any British town or city and you're sure to see a burnt-out wreck or a trashed car by the side of the road. And now you can buy your very own replica with the Urban Collectables toy cars.
Take your pick from The Joy ridden 2-door Hatchback, The Mini Van/Insurance Scam and The Petrol Bombed Jeep - every one unique, individually hand burnt and in its own presentation box.
If you want to give your kids a dose of realism, they retail for £35 each.
Find out more at the Beyond The Valleys website
Originally produced as part of the Vitra Home Collection, these Lanterns lamps available again, courtesy of Belux.
Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, they are so named because of the similarity to the Chinese lantern, but rather than paper, these bulbous lamps are made from two identically shaped plastic bowls (in a range of colours), separated by a horizontal black plastic ring.
There's a choice of either a table lamp version or a floor lamp, the latter adding a matt black powder-coated steel frame with a round floor plate. Prices start at around £280.
Find out more at the Made In Design website
Not content with dominating the skies, easyGroup now wants control of your wrist with its new range of budges watches launched under the easyWatch banner.
And they're better than you might think. Made in association with Zeon, the watches are very much in the affordable category, with prices starting from just under £6, rising to a maximum of £19.95. Picture above are two extremes, with the space age Cannes watch offering an oval case, sun ray-effect dial, rubber feel strap and water resistance for just £5.95. At the other end of the scale, the Monaco is a black contrast-stitched chronograph that's also water resistant (watch and strap) and features a stop watch. That one sells for £19.95.
Check out the website for the full range, with all available to buy online.
Forget illegal music downloading, the Intempo Rebel can provide your favourite tracks for free - and according to the company, it's all above board.
Essentially it's a radio with a trick up its sleeve. Keep playing your favourite FM station and the patented PopCatcher technology will to record up to 40 of the most played music tracks, automatically cutting out the DJ chat and the ads, then letting you download optimised versions of songs onto your iPod, MP3 or mobile phone.
And if you want to extend that to DAB or internet radio you can - just hook up the device to either of those things and it can pick out the tracks from there too. Once you've downloaded the 40 tracks, just clear the memory and you are ready for 40 more. The Rebel is available in red or hi-gloss black and will be priced at £69.99 from March.
Find out more at the Intempo website
I love the minimalist Slapshot range of furniture design, particularly the De Nord Slapshot SL 092 desk.
Available in a range of wood finishes as well as the white pictured here, the Slapshot desk offers everything you need and absolutely nothing more - three drawers, a good amount surface space (140cm wide), a sled base and just enough detailing to catch the eye.
It retails for £615, with matching drawers and a media unit also available.
Apple has cut the price of its tiny iPod shuffle as well as introducing a new model with 2GB of storage.
Nothing much else has changed - the iPod shuffle is still just half a cubic inch in volume, weighs just half an ounce, features an aluminium design with a built-in clip and comes in five colours—silver, blue, green, purple and a Product Red special edition.
But now the standard model is available for £32, with the 2GB model available in the coming weeks for £49.
Find out more at the Apple website
The Italian Toy Watch Company produces watches based on classic Rolex models including the Submariner and the Daytona, but with a modern finish more in keeping with the Swatch.
Confused? Well, let's take the 7010RDP Daytona as a typical example. This red and black version packs in a Miyota quartz movement and is made from high-strength, ultralight, clear policarbonate with a black graduated steel bezel. And just to keep the Rolex theme going, it also has a strap identical to the Rolex Oyster bracelet - but made from clear ultra-strong and lightweight policarbonate.
Yours for £139.99.
Another day, another high-profile mobile phone - this time from Sony Ericsson with the Xperia X1.
It's an 'arc' slider phone with a metal finish, with a full QWERTY keyboard 'arcing' out of the handset, making it easy to type those emails, texts and website addresses. There's also a 3-inch touch screen, Windows Mobile software, a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and photo light, Bluetooth music streaming, Wi-Fi, satellite navigation and 400MB of storage (extendable via microSD card).
According to Sony Ericsson, this will be available in the middle of 2008, price dependent on the contract you sign.
If you're after a splash of colour for your desk, the Artemide Tolomeo table lamp can provide it.
It's a classic Artemide cantilevered lamp, made from a polished coloured aluminium and with a fully rotational diffuser in matt anodised aluminium, the whole thing extending to a maximum height of 73cm.
Choose from all the colours shown here, with each one priced at £118.
Plastic furniture didn't disappear at some point in the mid-70s, it's still around if you look hard enough - and a great example is this Bonaldo Flip plastic rocking chair.
It does have something of that 70s vibe about it, but this Claudio Dondoli design should still fit into both a modern home and a modern garden. You see, that's the benefit of going plastic - you can kick back and rock away outside when the sun comes out, dragging it back in when the inevitable rain returns,
You can buy the Flip online in a range of colours, priced at £370.
Find out more at the Panik Design website
Ever find yourself short of seating when unexpected visitors drop by? The Pinch Stool could come to the rescue.
Looking like oversized sweets, the Pinch Stool collection is available in a seemingly endless range of colours and finishes, all extremely versatile. By that, we mean you can sit on it, straddle it, put your feet on it and store it away easily when you don't need it around.
The only downside is the price, a rather excessive £315.
Ever considered paying £1400 for a book? It's the price you'll have to pay for the Vivienne Westwood Opus Manifesto, but with just 900 copies available worldwide, it could be a shrewd investment.
This hefty volume (90cm tall, 64cm wide and weighing 25kg) is being made in batches of 100, each batch with a different Westwood-designed linen cover and indiviidually numbered. Inside there are 196 pages and 97 huge Polaroid images, all taken on the Polaroid 20 x 24 Studio camera.
The images are of Vivienne's friends and family, include international celebrities and important personalities within the world of fashion, all wearing one of her creations, with each celebrity signing their own polaroid. Want names? Well, how about Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Moss, Phillip Treacy, Tim Burton, Jerry Hall, Sarah Ferguson, Naomi Campbell, Bob Geldof, Erin O'Connor and Tracy Emin.
You can order the book now from the V&A website.
Find out more at the V&A website
The Polaroid Instamatic may have bitten the dust, but Polaroid is still offering immediate photography - this time with the Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer.
Yes, your very own pocket printer. Using Zink Zero Ink printing technology, it prints off borderless images sized at 2 x 3 inches. All you have to do is connect your digital camera or camera phone via USB or Bluetooth. The device has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and the photos have a sticky back, so you can annoy your friends by plastering them all over.
No price or shelf date as yet.
Remember the Mr Scruff tea and tea caddy? Well, now there's something to drink the tea out of - the Mr Scruff 'make us a brew!' mug.
Similar to the tea caddy, the mug features the Mr Scruff-drawn cartoon and the 'make us a brew!' catchphrase, all printed on a mug that's big enough for that morning cuppa.
You can buy one online, priced at just £5.
Find out more at the Mr Scruff website
More mobile phones, this time from Samsung, which has launched a glut of handsets, most notably the U900 Soul and the F400, the latter in association with Bang & Olufsen.
The metallic U900 Soul (on the right) has 'magic touch' controls, which means it only shows suitable icons (music when you're in music mode etc), a 5 megapixel camera with features you would expect on a standalone camera (face detection and image stabiliser for example), high-speed web browsing, mobile blogging and a media player.
The Bang & Olufsen-driven F400 is two-way slider handset - one way to show the keypad, the other way showing the Bang & Olufsen speakers. Also on board is a 2.2-inch screen, 3G speeds, FM radio, media player and storage via a microSD card.
Both phones on their way in the coming weeks, prices to be confirmed.
Find out more at the Samsung website
This is confusing - Guzzini and Lavazza have worked together on the Blue espresso machine, which is available in a variety of colours, none of them actually blue!
Get past that and you have a stylish coffee maker, a conbination of steel, aluminium, chrome and plastic (though we'll try and forget the last bit). It uses coffee pods (30 included) that promise a perfect espresso or latte every time and absolutely no mess.
Forma House has an exclusive on this in the UK in orange, cream, red or white - all priced at £195.
Find out more at the Forma House website
The traditional cuckoo clock is more kitsch than cool, so how about a more modern taken on an old design?
This is the 21st century Cuckoo Clock by Osian Batyka Williams, a stripped down version of the Swiss classic. Available with a digital or analogue clock, it is made of Forest Stewardship Council-certified plywood, with the birds shifting from inside the clock to the steel chains.
Cheap too (no pun intended) - £25 for the analogue or £30 for the digital (which also shows the day of the week).
Find out more at the Osian Batyka Williams website
Ever feel the need to warm up a slice of pizza or a ready meal on the move? You can with the iWave Cube.
Well, up to a point anyway. It has a carrying handle and measures around one cubic foot and weighs 12lbs, so not the worst thing to drag round with you (although that size does limit the size of food contained in it). And it has all the electronic controls you would expect from a decent model.
But it only works on mains, so you can carry it around - but you can only use it where there's a plug socket. Available in red, black and silver, the iWave Cube is only available in the US right now (as far as I can see), retailing for $130 (around £65).
Ok, this isn't an official update on the Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair, but the Lobster Chair certainly has its roots with that late 50s classic.
Lobster is probably down to its claw-like shape, but for me, the design isn't the most eye-catching aspect - that's the bent wood construction and its walnut veneer, matched with a quality leather, Pantera foam for comfort and the chrome-plated steel base. Other finishes are available, but none are quite as classy.
We know it is designed by Lund & Paarmann for Verikon Furniture, but as yet, we don't have a fixed price. More when we know it.
Find out more at the Strictly Design website
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