Plantraco Carbon Butterfly

Only half the weight of a dollar bill, this radio-controlled Carbon Butterfly airplane is the world’s lightest at merely 3.6 grams. Recently improved from a previous design, the new model is super flexible and brand-new to the market. At $300, it's a pricey toy, but—nearly indestructible, quiet, durable, and featuring a simple modern design—the cost's worth it. Especially considering that most radio-controlled planes are similarly …

Salvor Kiosk: Mexico

Salvor Kiosk, a New York-based concept store, always keeps things interesting with their rotating selection of goods sourced from foreign lands. Their past collections of objects from Sweden and Japan are delightful, straightforward objects, functioning as antidotes to over-design. The latest crop from Mexico includes a variety of inexpensive functional objects, like this notebook, set of erasers and box of rubber-bands, which all bear Salvor's …

The Farm’s Paint-by-Numbers

Usually confined to small-scale images of the Last Supper, nature scenes, ballerinas, or other such clichés, this Paint-by-Numbers installation is a psychedelic 3D version by London-based graphic design group The Farm. Created for the London Design Festival's Design Hub at Old Truman Brewery, visitors are invited to don a jumpsuit and use one of the numbered paint buckets to contribute to the piece throughout the …