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Here's what we looked at this week:The Cylindric UX1 is a handsome, designey USB-C charger from Sweden.Montezuma's Triangular Toolboxes, designed for rough transport. Roof's Djagger, a rear-entry motorcycle helmet that you don like a mask.

These are Häfele's adjustable feet for cabinets. They allow tradespeople to easily get cabinets level on uneven floors, by simply turning the threaded spindles. If they can reach them, that is. As you can imagine, during a cabinetry install, the feet on the front are easy to get to. But the ones in the back, not so much.

As we live our lives, we humans steadily pollute the planet. And when we die, we have our final opportunity to concentrate poison into the Earth. And boy do we make the most of it.Your average casket is made out of wood, which biodegrades. But few funeral planners are opting for unfinished pine boxes. Instead we slather that casket in stains and polyurethane finishes, and fasten the joinery with polyvinyl acetate glue. We fill that casket with shiny synthetic textiles covering a thin foam mattress attached to plywood laminated with formaldehyde glue. We add a foam pillow, also covered in faux silk. Then we attach all of the metal hardware, and we lacquer or topcoat that stuff too.Then the casket goes into the ground, and spends the next several decades slowly releasing its toxic payload into the soil,

This is incredibly clever. An unknown developer has come up with an easy way to do projection mapping, using any projector (as long as it's got HDMI) and your smartphone or tablet. You do this by isolating different zones you'd like to project onto, and turning each of them into a separate channel:Three channels not enough? Here he breaks it into nine:Here's a demo where he shows you how to set it up:

Paintings can be wrapped in bubble wrap to protect them in storage or during transit. And while bubble wrap is technically reusable, few bother to carefully cut it off and re-coil it, so it often becomes waste.A Spanish company called Artmor has come up with a neater, reusable and more bespoke solution. Their Aircrate product comes in multiple sizes, and arrives to you like this: You sleeve the piece, then inflate it with an compressor, a balloon pump or a manual pump:

Back in the days of corded landlines, everyone had a phone in the kitchen. It was desirable for the cord to be long, so users could still move around the kitchen as they chatted. Telephone manufacturers provided a built-in way to keep cords long, yet manageable:Image: Al Butler Those are called retractile cords, and they were made on purpose-built coiling production lines. First copper is drawn and annealed into wires. These wires are individually insulated (so they don't mix signals), then wrapped together in a plastic sleeve, either PVC or polyurethane. Next the cords, w

This Ottagono project, by Italian architect Giulia Foscari, aims to cram a home gym into a single piece of furniture. Conceived as an autonomous architectural object, OTTAGONO appears as a monolithic column with an octagonal base. Its sculptural presence in the space conceals unexpected and surprising functionalities, encompassing diverse spatial programmes within its compact volume.

This Ridge line of wooden door handles is by Milan-based industrial designer Keiji Takeuchi.

In 1953 Egon Eiermann, a German architect and proponent of functionalism, designed this no-frills desk for himself. His aim was to make it as minimalist as possible.Eiermann was a professor at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Architecture students began producing the desk in the school's shop, for use around campus. The school continued producing the desk thru the 1950s and '60s.The desk had

You've undoubtedly seen those boxy, golf-cart-like vehicles that airports use to shuttle disabled passengers to the gate. Called Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) vehicles, they've got the all the aesthetic value of a Willys Jeep.Incheon International Airport, near Seoul, wanted better. They commissioned local company ThorDrive, an autonomous driving startup, to create a more elegant PRM. ThorDrive then worked with South Korean industrial design firm Intenxiv to produce this Air Ride, a fully autonomous vehicle.