Happy Spoon is the spoon that smiles back at you. Buy them from Spoon Sisters.

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The box above may not look like much, but Casulo – yet another clever Danish furniture design innovation – contains an armoire, a desk, a height-adjustable stool, two more stools, a six-shelf bookcase, and a bed with a mattress. That is enough furniture to fill up a studio apartment.

Check out the video below to see how it all unpacks.

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ToothHold, my favourite Die Electric product, is cut power cord that holds toothbrushes, or other stuff, and would be perfect suspended over the bathroom sink area. ToothHold sells for $145.

These are just 2 of the 11 products that comprise the Die Electric range. Check all 11 out here.

Pilot Pen Corporation of America introduced the world’s first full line of earth-friendly writing instruments this week.

Selling for the same price as their non-recycled products, Pilot’s BeGreen writing instruments–including ballpoint pens, rolling balls pens and mechanical pencils–are made from 70% recycled content and packaged in recycled materials.

Nice! I hope that this the beginning of something larger and also not part of a green-washing effort.

Lego A/S, Europe’s largest toymaker, commemorated the 50th anniversary of its interlocking plastic building bricks by re-introducing a set from five decades ago.

The Town Plan set, which contains 1,000 blocks and costs 1,199 kroner ($237), went on sale today along with a hundred other new items on the Web site of the Billund, Denmark-based company. Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, marked the occasion by using depictions of the bricks to spell its own name on its main Web site.

Lego, which estimates that children spend 5 billion hours a year playing with its bricks, was founded in 1932 as a maker of wooden toys. The company has made more than 400 billion of the plastic blocks since they were patented in 1958 by the father of current owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. Its name comes from the first letters of the words “leg godt,” Danish for “play well.”

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Designed at GM’s Incheon, South Korea design center, the Trax will be joined onstage by two other minicar concepts, and the public will be able to vote for their favorite one online at http://www.vote4chevrolet.com. That little marketing exercise will help the General gauge US market interest in the mini/city car segment as well as get reaction to the individual models they’re debuting in the Big Apple. The Trax stows a 1.0L gasoline engine under it’s stubby hood, and we’re looking forward to getting up close and personal with the car next week.

Check it out – it’s the Alba alarm clock by Furni. With a sleek acrylic front on beech wood, Alba’s red LED lights will let you know what time it is when you want to smack the snooze and go back to sleep. You can listen to Alba’s alarm tone here.

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