It’s not quite barbeque weather for everyone yet, but I couldn’t pass up a chance to show off the VULCAN All-in-One BBQ Set. You won’t have an excuse to stay home with everything you need in one (relatively) small backpack, plus it’s a great way to keep all your essential items in one place so you don’t forget anything.

In honor of the recently completed Winter Games, here’s an invention created in the Great White North herself, the ”Ravi” instant wine chiller. What amounts to a weapon suppressor for wine bottles, you charge this in your freezer for 6 hours, and then it’s “designed to cool a full bottle of wine served within one hour.” Ok, so maybe the time frames don’t line up perfectly. Perhaps one day you can charge it for 1 hour and then use it for 6? But until then, they also have a really nifty decanter that disassembles for easy cleaning. It’s truly a great time to be a lush!

After yesterday’s bootleg underground product photo, I decided to show off some proper snaps of a Joseph Joseph product that’s actually way more useful than that fancy condiment grinder… it’s the Quicksnap Ice Block Tray! It’s a great solution that should be available soon - which is astonishing considering this market. Summed up best via Gizmodo: “we have access to the world’s knowledge with the touch of a button, but we still can’t pop out one ice cube at a time”.

My favorite kitchen gadget from the latest NYIGF was Joseph Joseph’s Y-Grinder, but it’s been totally MIA online. Well, not anymore - a big thanks to the Walker Art Center’s Off Center blog for this sneaky product shot from the shelves of the gift fair. It combines Salt + Pepper into a single Y-shaped grinder; maybe not the first product to do so, but I know the dual grinders and Y-shape would certainly have me endlessly seasoning every meal.

While you can find an interesting selection of contemporary watch designs from Projects Watches, they also feature some wristwatches designed by Daniel Will-Harris with some amazing “reveal” mechanisms for displaying time. The face of the Twilight Watch (pictured left) actually changes from light to dark every 20 seconds; other watches such as the Iridium or Reveal display only the necessary numerals. Hopefully these will be showing up on Pure Modern before too long....

Catching a few eyes at NYIGF was Bedol’s selection of Water Powered Alarm Clocks (pictured below). Working on “100% natural power,” these ingenious devices require only water to operate - no batteries, chemicals, electricity or pollution. With this in the bag, next I’m expecting a complete line of fully functioning, water-based equipment for my home and office.



For your more dubious endeavors, Bedol also offers a “James Bond” style Super Sleuth Pen complete with Voice, Still Picture and Video Capture modes. It even has a motion sensor so you can stash it in a pen cup and collect evidence “Dwight Schrute” style! See their full collection of stuff here.

When you’re packing away those pints later today, it’s important to remember to stay hydrated. Avoid the metallic taste of aluminum bottles, and the compounded chemical weirdness of those BPA laden bottles with Tkaro’s new pure and simple ”glass water bottle.” The stainless steel cover provides an airtight seal and travel durability, while the glass construction gives the highest possible water purity. Finally, a water bottle solution that accounts for form, function and the environment (and actually succeeds on all 3).

With so many great finds from last week’s NYIGF left to showcase here, it took a rare convergence of high style and video gaming for a limited edition PSP of all things to find its way here. Back before the “PSP Go” spoiled everyone’s taste for a handheld gaming device from Sony, the PSP 3000 was the go-to machine. So it’s with that in mind that Jill Stuart lent her name to this lovely special edition game bundle created for female gamers tired of bold, dark color schemes. No word yet on a Region 1 release, but designs like this are always a welcome change. via.

Two awesome product ideas that capture sunlight during the day, then serve as fun pieces of lighting once the sun sets. First the Sun Jar, designed by Tobias Wong, features a traditional Mason jar with highly efficient solar cell and LED lights. This would no doubt be great for a camping trip or walk on the beach (Do people still do those?)



The Glow Brick is a solid block of acrylic resin encasing a real light bulb that’s full of glow-in-the-dark pigment. Designed by Alvaro Catalan for Suck UK, this ambient nightlight may not offer as much lighting as the Sun Jar, but gives off a an enticing jewel-like glow that I really love.

Just unveiled by our friends at Three By Three Seattle, it’s a real wood, writable bamboo dry-erase board surface! Finally, a dry-erase board that doesn’t look out of place in a regular home setting. In fact, it’s probably the first that’s actually worth pointing out to your guests. That familiar blank white marker board was all too clinical.

Here’s a smart idea we likely won’t see featured at this weekend’s NYIGF, but I love it nonetheless. Touted mostly as a place to store your spare key - and honestly, does anyone use those magnetic hide-a-key’s anyway? - the ”Hitch Safe” is a clever storage place for truck owners. They also appear to be compatible with most existing Truck Nuts (I’ll just assume that someone can’t remove the pin and steal your entire hitch)

One of the many brilliant creations from XYZ Design, their Computer Desk is completely cable free, and all of the computer components are easily accessible under the desk lid. Their design is from 2007 and still listed as a prototype for purchase shortly.. One day everything will look like this, so please hurry up with it!

The perfect icebreaker! Once you’ve touched on the subject of your visitor’s weight, the rest of the conversation should unfold much easier.. Available for sale at curiosite, it’s the Felpudo Chivato or “Doormat Scale.” via.

It’s the first exciting electrical socket news of 2010! From the Best of Yanko Design 2009 - from creator Meysam Movahedi - the ”Rambler Socket” is an incredible concept that needs to catch on as soon as possible. Simply pinch the sides to release the cord, about 5 feet worth, and when you’re finished, just give it a tug to activate the spring and retract it back to the socket. What more could you possibly want? Ok, maybe an “On/Off switch” but that’s IT!

Sleek, contemporary doorbell buttons illuminated by long lasting, colored LED lights from Spore Inc are the most recent additions to our product catalog at Pure Modern. While they’re designed to work with most standard doorbell systems, they also can be used for garage doors, security systems or home automation with some amazing results. See our collection [ here ].

Pictured below: Spore Inc’s True LED Illuminated Doorbell Button (in Black with White LED; Aluminum with Blue LED) and Square LED Illuminated Doorbell Button in Amber.