CH Gift Guide: Editor’s Picks

Ten shortlisted highlights from our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide

Twenty-twelve has been a rambunctious year in the world of product design, and we’ve been right here watching, salivating and collecting the best of the best for our annual Gift Guide. With hundreds of items already in the archive and more being added every day, plus our newly launched iOS Gift Guide app, our selections represent a highly edited survey of the overwhelming market. Following …

Cool Hunting Gift Guide 2012

Private islands, Brooklyn beard oil, baby gnome hats and more in our annual guide to giving

Not even the biggest Scrooge can deny a little holiday cheer upon perusing this year’s update to the Cool Hunting Gift Guide, and 2012 brings with it a new bounty of items sure to top your wish list this season. We’ve scoured the globe online and off to make the task of gift-giving not only easier, but super fun too. After all, who wouldn’t want …

Skataviz

South Korea's toilet museum, Bond's 3D-printed Aston Martin, facial hair fanatics and more in our weekly look at the web

Developed by Design I/O, Skataviz is an experimental prototype designed to capture the exact motion of a skateboard by using the internal gyroscope and accelerometer within an iPod Touch. Check out the informative video, which visualizes the 3D motion data augmented over live skate footage.