Design For Better Life
Q Collection Junior is now on 2Modern.com! Q Collection Junior is the first children’s furniture & bedding line recommended by Healthy Child Healthy World, the leading non-profit organization helping parents find non-toxic and environmentally-friendly products for their children. Check out their cribs–both the Cielo & Solare–their bedding (Elephant Parade & Galileo), & their Solare Armoire pieces (top, bottom, & bookcase).
If your teabags end up heaped on the edge of the sink or sliding down the side of your garbage can, Jonas Trampedach has designed the delightfully morbid Tea Bag Coffin just for you. This is one of those ingenious little ideas that has tea guzzling designers around the world slapping foreheads and exclaiming "Why didn’t I think of that!?" Or perhaps that’s just me.
No word yet on when and where this little gem will be available, but if the reaction so far is anything to go by, avid tea drinkers will be lining up around the block.
From the department of incredibly cool things comes EasyBloom, which is both a plant sensor system and a web site that acts as your personal botanist, making recommendations for your garden.
The EasyBloom gadget is a plant sensor system that you stick into the ground, either in a place where you want to plant something or next to an existing plant that isn’t thriving the way you imagined. You leave EasyBloom in place for 24 hours to gather information on the soil’s moisture, sunlight intensity, humidity, etc. The next day, remove the sensor from the ground and plug it directly into the USB port on your computer (the sensor head is removable so your not stuffing soil into the port) and upload the data captured in it’s memory to the EasyBloom web site where it can be analyzed depending upon your needs.
In ‘Recommend Mode’, EasyBloom sifts the data it collects from your soil along with georaphic and climate information it gathers from the web, and then suggests plants that would do well in your garden.
In ‘Monitor Mode’, EasyBloom analyzes the information gathered from your ailing plant and makes a diagnosis and perscribes a remedy.
The EasyBloom web site allows you to create a customized database of all your plants and keep a record of thier health and growth over time. And here lies one of the most intersting features of EasyBloom, which is that it turns information into something tangible you can use, and then creates a virtual tool kit to help you be a better gardener. The EasyBloom on-line plant encyclopedia is worth using even without buying the product. You can register for free and use many of EasyBloom’s web features, but having the gadget with all its bells and whistles is a lot more fun, not to mention better for your plants.
Or is something much more? I love lighting fixtures. Especially modern pendant and chandelier families. Is there a limit to how many chandeliers or hanging lamps you can ask Santa for? I hope not!
Santa baby…hurry down the chimney with these..!
Pipe Sospensione by Artemide
Daedalus by Ivalo Lighting
