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By Fast Company Staff | 11-22-2011 | 6:39 PM
This Stem Vacuum Cuts Energy Use By 43%
The Most Fashionable Hot Water Bottle Ever
A Steve Jobs Portrait Made From MacBook Pro Parts
LED Lamps That Magically Glow For Hours After Being Switched Off
Toy Container Ships That Are Impossibly Cool
Rocker, The Best Way To Crush Garlic
Jasper Morrison's Alarm Clock Has Clever UI Touches
Pocket Piano Makes Synthy Loops Portable And Fun
Alessi's Ultimate No-Mess Bathroom Set
Oxo's Good Grips Egg Beater
The Raleigh Rush Hour, A Stylishly Bare Urban Bike
A Handy Toolkit For Making Catchy Protest Signs
The Cheap 35mm Camera Lives Again!
The Libratone Speaker Blends In, Instead Of Just Blasting
Kicks Solve A Subtle Failing Of The iPad's Design
Nendo's Collection Of Electronics Accessories
A Racy E-Dress That Helps You Flirt
Grid-It, A Carrying Case That Holds Everything
A Fishbowl That Doubles As Glass Sculpture
Famed Theater Director Robert Wilson's "Electric Chairs" For Kartell
Fuego's Portable Grill
A Bendable, Infinitely Adjustable Stand For iPhones And iPads
A Sexier Wristband For iPod Nano
A Chic Stylus For Drawing On iPads With Hyper Precision
A Teaspoon That Wrings Out Your Tea Bags
Steven Alan Brings Understated Style To A Nike Line
A Runner's Watch With Touch Screen and GPS
The First Windowfarm Kit, From A Pioneer In Micro Gardening
This Sleek Bike Charges Its Own Headlights And Your iPhone
There are, of course, many aspects of Black Friday that are unseemly and unsavory. But this doesn't mean that, like most people, we aren't regularly seduced by fantastically designed products. To wit: our Best Of Wanted picks for 2011, from our stylish sister site, Co.Design. From low tech (The Most Fashionable Hot Water Bottle Ever), to high (A Chic Stylus For Drawing On iPads), here we've collected our favorite products of the year. Happy shopping!
Remember those ads where a vacuum cleaner picks up a series of ridiculously oversized items to demonstrate its supposed strength: peanuts... bolts... golf balls?
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“That morning in the studio, when we heard the sad news, it seemed fitting to create a tribute to Steve Jobs using his own work,” designer Genis Carreras told Co.Design.
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Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson, a couple of grads from the Design Academy Eindhoven, showcased a striking, new lighting concept at Milan's furniture fair: Glass lamps that glow well after the lightbulb goes dark, like magic.
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Papa Foxtrot renders three of the world's largest transport ships in brilliant, modern detail.
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A curve of stainless steel that looks like something out of the Georg Jensen catalog, the gadget chops garlic using, yes, a rocking motion.
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There are no labels on the gorgeous brushed-aluminum casing or luscious looking wooden knobs and keys: it's so delightfully physical that you just want to pick it up and play with it.
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If you're of the opinion that the bathroom is a good place to think--and many of us are--then it couldn't hurt to surround yourself with a purposeful set of objects while you're in there. The line includes a toilet brush, soap dish, cotton-swab tray, cups, waste bin, and Kleenex box.
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Leave it to Oxo, the design-minded kitchen-tool manufacturer behind Good Grips, to lure you back to fluffing eggs and whipping cream the old-fashioned way.
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Urban cycling is a tribal sport in New York and London, but you have to admit: The most rakish of urban bikes have a little bit of Detroit in them. Done in the messenger style, the Raleigh Rush Hour is an urban bike in blank form.
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Here’s something that oughta come in handy now that Occupy Wall Street has officially transformed into Occupy Everywhere: a toolkit for making your own protest signs that covers an indiscriminate raft of causes--and in multiple languages.
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Attention indie music video directors: Your next retro-beautiful visual trend has arrived, courtesy of a little $79 film camera called the LomoKino.
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With audio speakers, a good rule of thumb is this: The better they sound, the more ugly and massive they get. (A quick Google image search serves as Exhibit A.) That needn’t be the case, according to Libratone, a Copenhagen-based audio company that produces speakers whose Italian upholstery and Scandinavian minimalism could put the rest of your furniture to shame. What’s more, they’re wireless, able to stream your entire iTunes library directly from Airplay.
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Apple’s Smart Cover was a stroke of genius. It attaches to the iPad by magnetic hinges, hugs tight to the screen, automatically puts the gadget to sleep and wakes it up, and folds into a stand. What doesn't it do? Protect the gadget's vulnerable metallic underside--or keep the damn thing from slipping onto the floor when you're leaning it up against anything. Bluelounge came with a simple complementary accessory called Kicks: two silicone-rubber strips that adhere to the back of the screen for added traction.
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Oki Sato, the low-profile principal of the Japanese firm Nendo, is the design world's James Franco, a man who can seemingly do just about anything.
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For ladies who don’t have the patience for coy flirtation, here’s something that gets the job done quickly: a sensor-enabled cocktail dress that flashes a whole lot of skin the more excited you get.
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If there’s one accessory that looks horribly out of a place in a minimalist home, it’s a fish tank decked out with plastic accessories. Which is kind of a shame, since a fish is one of the few pets that won’t wreck the Mies van der Rohe daybed.
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You won’t find electric chairs on death row anymore (save in a few notable Southern states that still think it’s 1908). You will, however, find them in the foyer at La Scala, the most famous opera house in the world. Well, sort of.
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Spring will be back eventually (right?) and we've always got barbecuing on the brain. One tool we're lacking is a decent portable grill. I mean, let's say you're playing whiffle ball in the park or lazing on the beach. Do you really want to eat a clammy chicken salad? Obviously not, but you just might settle if the alternative is lugging around a bulbous Weber "portable" grill.
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Where other iPad and iPhone stands are limited to only a few positions, InfiniteLoop can be twisted into whatever application you can imagine.
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Gadget accessories maker Incase was on a roll this year, from capsule collections with A.P.C. and Andy Warhol to an expansion into headphones.
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Remember when a Palm Pilot stylus signaled cutting-edge technology? Fortunately, one doesn’t need a small stick to operate a smartphone anymore, but a stylus can be handy for tablet users who want to bang out a quick sketch. Especially if that stylus is The Architect, created by Pedro Gomes.
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If you like wearing stylish sneakers but dislike looking like a reject from Step Up 3D, your footwear options can often seem scant. Nike brought designer Steven Alan to the rescue, with his collection of classic, low-key designs that say "Yes, I have evolved beyond my five-year-old pair of New Balances" without looking like you're auditioning for a pop-and-lock dance crew.
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More from Nike. Popular fitness device Nike+ launched years back to much fanfare, thanks to a smart, simple design and sleek integration with Apple's iPod and iPhone. CEO Mark Parker's newer training gadget no longer relies on Apple's branding. Instead, Nike has teamed with car-navigation company TomTom for the Nike+ SportWatch GPS.
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You don’t need a plot of land for growing your own food. Heck, you don’t even need soil, according to Windowfarms Projects, a Brooklyn-based startup that hopes to receive enough funding on Kickstarter to manufacture easy-to-assemble kits for growing vertical hydroponic gardens. Previous versions of the system are made from recycled bottles and require a full day (and some MacGyver skills) to put together. The new model is an elegant, streamlined set of pots that can be snapped together in about 10 minutes.
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The math on your bike doesn't seem to add up. The sweat from all those thigh-burning, hill-climbing miles evaporates into thin air, as you change batteries in your bike light and drag your GPS inside to charge it. And so a German bike company, Silverback, made the Starke, which can transfer all those pedal revolutions into energy you can actually use.
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