When I burned my tights for the zillionth time with my laptop, I was quite happy to be directed to the website, Laptoppárna, that is Laptop pillow in hungarian. I immediately liked the simple name and the simple design that managed still to be appealing to the eye.

Unfortunately for you, the official site is all in hungarian, but mostly it’s about how comfort meets trend, how easy it is to carry and to clean, and how good it is for your health, whereas keeping your hot laptop on your laps is not. We leave it to your imagination why. But the reason why we love this pillow is the feeling of ‘why didn’t I think of this before?’. Sure, I always put a pillow or a big book underneath my laptop. But never tried the two at once!

The pillow is also quite cheap with its price around 40 dollars, and they can be ordered in white, black or pink.

Even though it might sound a bit weird to still play with legos over a certain age, we’re glad that there are some who stayed hooked on them. Like Dee & Ricky.

Although at the moment there are only brooches and belts available, we hope that soon more accessories will be added to the collection!

I think I handed out the ’sofa of my dreams’ title too quickly. Can it get any better than building your own sofa from Lego blocks?

This is an example, but everyone can buy their LunaBlocks and design their own, and of course they can be reconstructed any time, like we did with the real Lego buildings long time ago.

The designers, Thierry Nahon & Philippe Landecker took care of all the needs: amongst the blocks you can find pillows, metal, glass, and child-friendly material.

The blocks are available in many colours and many sizes, so the number of variations is countless.

(source: freshome.com)

If you think about the word ’speakers’, what do you think of first? The object or the people? It seems Sherwood Forlee couldn’t really tell them apart, so he designed Speak-er, the speak bubble shaped speakers.

So that’s “why speakers are called what they are.”

(source: yankodesign.com)

I’m not a huge fan of watches (a phone is good enough to check the time), but if I had one, it would be definitely this one. Especially, if they had a girly version as well.

If you’re feeling nostalgic, get your Cassette Face Watch from ASOS for 35 pounds.

(source: retrotogo.com)

Keeping your laptop on your lap for a long time is impossible without burning yourself. And it’s not good for the laptop either. Of course the best solution always comes in the form of tentacles!

Right, so the company that sells it, Intelligent Forms (whose name already suggests something extraterrestrial!) named the pillow Log, but you should know better.

The pillows are made of recycled and organic material, and are attached to each other with snaps.

(source: trendhunter.com)

If you’re the kind of person, who stands in front of the mirror for hours looking for the right accessory, look no further. The EPA dress, designed by Stephanie Sandstrom will give you the answer. If masks are your thing, that is.

The dress, that is on view now at the San Francisco 2nd Skin exhibition, reacts on pollution, as it has embedded sensors that can read the surrounding atmosphere. Whenever the air quality is poor, it crumples up as if you had no iron at home.

Not sure if it’s too practical, but at least the crumpled look will definitely make you go back home and avoid bad air.

(source: inhabitat.com)

Since I know you spend more time in front of the computer, than in bed, I know you like funny geek-related items, like these.

Even though these Ctrl, Alt and Del key shaped things are salty lliquorice candies!

CtrlAltDel means Peter Luining, who is an artist, curator, theorist, VJ, musician and the combination of all of these, living in Amsterdam. Check out his other works as well!
Mmmm, candy!

Don’t forget to participate in our second anniversary competition, where you can win a dress by Naketano!

Of course you have plenty of these already, and it’s quite hard to grab our attention when it comes to USB drives. But the Cruzer Tag flash drives are definitely cute enough to be featured here.

Available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB at SanDisk.

(source: chipchick.com)

An item that is inseparable from the geek lifestyle: a MacBook. Or dreaming about a MacBook. Or if you’re like me, it’s dreaming of a baby blue (as blue is the new pink, fyi) MacBook. It would look something like this:

Although I wouldn’t refuse one in pink either!

Experiment with other colours at the website of ColorWare, who is ready to colour almost all your gadgets (iPhone, iPod, Wii, X-Box, Zune, etc.) in a great variety of shades! I didn’t know about them before, but from now on, they’re my best friend.

Are you sitting in front of the computer all day? You forgot how fresh air, nature and sunlight feels? If this is the case, close the browser, switch off the computer, and go out for a walk while the sun is out. If you can’t do that, we advise you to get the Sensory lamp, designed by Sara Rossbach.

The lamp mimics natural day cycles by altering the colours and intensity. The smell of the grass, and the maintenance is a constant reminder of the nature out there.

The designer plays safe: by attaching the mousepad, once we install it on our worktable, it is impossible to forget about our little garden.

I only wish we could plant some flowers or vegetables in there!

A green banana, that you buy thinking it will turn yellow and ripe. Something like this is the concept of the dutch company, De Groene Banaan. This is the idea that made them create their product named Ivy.

Ivy is an external hard drive. It’s easy to guess: when you start using it by storing data, it will alter its skin visualising the content of the hard disk.

The pattern is always personal: it is created by the actual data, so it will be different every time you upload something new on it.

(source: joshspear.com)

(source: shinyshiny.tv)

A not very typical post here on the site, but we love it when design and technology meet, and this time they meet in the form of a mobile phone. It’s the Sony Ericsson Z310, whose new outfit was designed by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. And even though our eyes are normally totally blind to phones, this one is so pretty, we can’t even look at it as a mobile phone, but as a fashion item.

The technical specs are the same, and it comes with interchangeable face plates and wallpapers. The proud parent is Vodafone Europe, who’s selling it for only 89 euros.

(source: shinyshiny.tv)

Welcome. Let us introduce you to the products of the Hulger company.

Luckily the introduction doesn’t start like that, although they have one eye in the past. But the other is focusing directly on all things new: PCs, Macs, bluetooth, and other mobile phones, to make sure you can use your Hulger phone the way you’re used to do your phonecalls.

And since the whole blogosphere seems to have talked about these before, the only thing we need to do is choose a favourite:

People like me, who think tidying up equals putting everything away in drawers, need people like Chong Mingliang Sky, who makes sure with her fantastic USB key-holder design, that important things have their own place.

Although we could use this with our existing USB drives, but only in an ideal world do we have five of the same drives. Luckily, the holder comes with five matching USB keys, each with keychain attachments. Once we plug one in, the flame shaped LED above it lights up, so from a distance, it looks like a set of candles.

(source: yankodesign.com)

Let’s get nostalgic with these famous russian Matryoshka dolls, made from genuine russian wood, transformed into a geek toy!

These are designed by Anton Shnaider, and are available for only 27 euros.

Pac-Man is the new skull. Well, I won’t ebay my clothes just yet, especially since these characters don’t come on clothes. Not long ago we posted about the cute knitted figures, now here you have a Pac-Man rug.

Only two were produced, absolutely hand made, and this one is selling for 1095 pounds.

And so you can pour something on it, you can get the matching shot glasses as well.

Although there are slightly more of these sets, 2500 are out to buy for only 30 dollars, and they are a lovely symbol of our game addiction from our childhood.

(source: retrotogo.com and geeksugar.com)

I have a feeling it’s going to be all over the blogosphere very soon, so I’m trying to make it to the top 10: here’s this week’s winner of the Threadless t-shirt design contest.

We love it!

(source: popgadget.com)

I don’t necesseraly understand what’s this good for, but i like it nevertheless.

It’s called the Sunokotan, and supposed to be a heat radiator. “It will radiate heat and protect your PC, game console and DVD player.” Protect from what? As it is a japanese product, i must think of ninjas.