Portable Lighting with the Luminoodle

A versatile, waterproof string of LED lights that's easy to hang, wrap or stick with magnets

The Salt Lake City, UT-based team Power Practical has some inventive battery-charging solutions under their belt, from their debut product PowerPot (a camping pot that charges your mobile devices as you boil water, thanks to thermoelectric technology) to the Pronto5, a portable battery-pack that recharges itself to full in one hour so you can go right back out the door. Their latest product ventures into …

Totokaelo Opens in Soho, NYC

The fashion brand makes a statement with its East Coast arrival in a dream apartment-like space

It’s rewarding to be able to grow alongside a brand you love and follow its evolution. And as longtime Totokaelo fans, we’ve observed the thoughtful fashion purveyors develop and extend their philosophy far beyond the doors of their original brick-and-mortar store in Seattle—from their first dive into e-commerce in 2008 to the launch of their sister brand Totokaelo Art-Object in 2012, offering handmade art and …

Studio Cheha’s “3D” Reading Lamps

A new, more functional addition to the Tel Aviv-based design studio's collection of optical illusion lights

Ever since creating their first optical illusion lamp—a 3D-looking bulb that’s actually a flat, laser-engraved sheet of acrylic glass—Tel Aviv-based Studio Cheha has continued to play with perception with more fun iterations, from a glowing scene of the galaxy to an eerie silhouette of a skull. The latest design in Studio Cheha’s “Bulbing” collection has just launched on Kickstarter: three functional LED reading lamps with …