The Mu

Award-winning USB adapter reduces size of bulky British power plug design by 70%

Designed in 1947, the British plug firmly holds its place as one of the world’s largest three-pin power interfaces, escaping the grips of design innovation with the equally clunky editions continuously rolled out. Now, however, product designer and illustrator Min-Kyu Choi of Made in Mind has created The Mu—a folding USB adapter with a minimal, refined design that reduces overall object size by more than …

Jot

Adonit brings precision drawing to touch screens with an innovative stylus solution

Advertorial content: The explosion of tablet computing has brought on just as many challenges as opportunities—one of them being how best to interface with touchscreens. Fingers do well enough for most tasks, but lack the precision that some users may want. Most stylus pens that try to address this issue fall a bit short either in functionality or style, many of them consisting of nothing …

CH Edition: Freehands 2011

Our favorite cashmere gadget gloves in a Cool Hunting exclusive colorway

For this year’s Cool Hunting Edition of Freehands gloves we stuck with the cashmere but added new colorways and narrowed the stripes. We also partnered up with our friends at fab.com to exclusively sell these warm and functional gloves. The fab.com sale starts Wednesday, 30 November 2011, at 11am EST but can be previewed here. All other styles of Freehands can be found at freehands.com.