Retro turntable suitcase lets you carry your love for vinyl anywhere you go!

Some people didn’t really get the memo when the Walkman and the iPod made music portable! Designed for people who have a clear, unwavering love for old-school retro music players, the Spinnerette Turntable from Third Man Records, lets you easily carry your own personal vinyl disc player with you wherever you go. Designed to turn into a briefcase when closed, this portable turntable has a turntable and swing-arm, a built-in speaker with volume and tone controls, the ability to toggle between 33 ⅓, 45, and 78 RPM, and get this… even a 3.5mm headphone port! Styled in a delightfully energetic yellow colorway, the Spinnerette lets you pump out music retro style like it’s the 70s no matter where you are. Tie-dye shirt and large tinted glasses sold separately!

Designer: Third Man Records

An inductee at the Museum of Modern Art, the Spinnerette comes with a belt-driven turntable mechanism, an Audio-Technica diamond-stylus needle, and has the ability to play records at 3 different speed settings. To the right of the turntable sits a dynamic full-range speaker built into the ABS chassis of the Spinnerette. If the speaker isn’t quite punchy enough for you, the Spinnerette does have a headphone out, letting you connect something more substantial. Moreover, there’s even an aux input, in case you want to play stuff through the Spinnerette’s speakers, and a PC output that lets you directly send music from your vinyl to a laptop or desktop via USB – a feature that’s great for deejays and people who want to sample audio from old vinyl discs!

The Spinnerette is powered by an AC input (even though it’s portable, it isn’t wireless), and unfortunately there’s no Bluetooth capabilities on this pretty-boy, but maybe future iterations will support wireless audio… although it sort of defeats the hipster purpose of owning a retro turntable device, doesn’t it?!

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This quirky anti-minimalism watch tells time twice!

Cool watch designs are always fun. They’re an expression of our style, and well, of course, a means of telling the time. However, Ji Lee’s Redundant Watch is as quirky as it gets! A communication designer at Facebook, Ji Lee collaborated with Anicorn to create a wristwatch version of his Redundant Clock, which had gained immense popularity. And Anicorn just released an exclusive version of the watch for MoMA. What’s so special about it? The quirky timepiece tells time twice! Instead of the conventional hour markers in a watch, the watch face features clock hands! The hour numbers are completely replaced by a mini arrangement of hands to display each hour of the day.

However, these mini clock hands are still, whereas the larger running hands tell the minutes and the hour. Featuring a 40mm case, the watch is unisex. The 316L stainless-steel enclosed casing is available in color options of black and silver. Not to mention the casing is ultra-thin, only 7.5mm. Running on a Miyota GL20 Japanese movement, the watch is a part of Anicorn’s Trio of Time Series. Its straps are interchangeable with the strap of any other watch in the TTT series.

The exclusive MoMA version features an eccentric pop of color. The minute hand is blue, whereas the hour hand is yellow! You can even spot a splash of red somewhere if you look hard enough. Unique, fun, and considered to be anti-minimalism, the Redundant Watch is a refreshing design that I’m sure we would all love to get our hands on!

Designer: Ji Lee and Anicorn

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Arca will use AI to soundtrack NYC’s Museum of Modern Art

If you pay a visit to New York City's Museum of Modern Art in the near future, you'll be awash in artificial intelligence before you've even seen an exhibit. Electronic musician Arca (who has produced for Bjork and FKA Twigs) has announced that a pi...

This clever cup is your cheat-book to being a Barista

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What if, instead playing it by judgement, you knew exactly how much of espresso and foamed milk you needed to make a perfect, creamy macchiato, or what the ratio of espresso to steaming water made the ideal Americano. Luckily, with the Multi Ccino Mug, you don’t need to base your barista skills on your ability to visually judge intensities by looking at the color. The Multi Ccino Mug, a cup so clever it got inducted into the MoMA Store, comes with a borosilicate build, and a very convenient guide across its side that explains the ratios of various types of coffees, from the strong single-serve of espresso to the macchiato to the cortado, caffé au lait, Americano, flat white and the cappuccino. Follow the instructions for a perfect, consistent cup of coffee every time. Transfer the contents to another cup when you’re serving your friends, so your clever trade-secret is kept safe!

Designer: Josh Corn

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Bang & Olufsen unveils David Lynch speaker collaboration

Long-time Bang & Olufsen fan David Lynch is lending his creative eye to a special edition speaker collection. The series includes the Beoplay A9, M5 and P2, featuring selected images and details from Lynch's War Between the Shapes series and Pari...

The Blend watch uses color theory to tell the time

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Taking the watch and mildly altering one small yet crucial detail, Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden designed the Blend Watch… a watch without traditional hands, but with a design detail that creates the perception of them. The Blend uses the subtractive color model to create color compositions that tell time. The subtractive color model is basically how we get all our pigments (for example cyan + magenta + yellow = black), and the Blend uses it rather inventively to create blocks of color. Instead of relying on two hands to tell the time, the Blend uses two sheets of tinted transparent plastic with hands cut out of them. When placed over a white watch face, the layered sheets showcase a combined color, while the hands appear as the individual colors that were used to begin with. With each passing hour, the watch face creates colorful compositions that get really interesting especially when the two hands align, to reveal the white dial underneath!

Designer: Aruliden

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The perfect pencil set for Architecture lovers!

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Inspired by the architecture of the city of dreams, the Graphite Towers literally let you sketch your dreams down on paper! Designed by Aruliden for the Museum of Modern Art, the Graphite Towers come precisely carved from blocks of graphite and can be used either by the tip or by the base to sketch on paper. Conversely, if you’re like me, you’ll probably keep them on your desks as keepsakes, rarely using them because they look so pretty!

Designed to resemble three of New York’s most iconic buildings, you can choose from the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and the One World Trade Center… or be like me and buy the set so you can build yourself a New York skyline on your desk!

Designer: Aruliden

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The lamp with dual personalities

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The Guidelight’s elegant design and multifaceted nature saw it getting accepted into the Museum of Modern Art’s design store. A simple globe with a light housed within it, the Guidelight can shift from a point-light to an ambient light by simply rotating the globe to face either forward at a spot, or downwards, into the translucent plastic lampshade.

Made for both outdoors and indoors, the Guidelight comes with a 150-hour battery life, a splash-proof design, and even a dimmer switch on one side, allowing you to select the intensity. Available in red, green, and grey, the Guidelight has an outdoorsy/nomadic spirit and demeanor of a traditional lamp, combined with an adaptability and multi-faceted nature that has earned it the term “the Swiss Army knife among lights”.

Designer: Floris Schoonderbeek for Weltevree

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UNA gives you the thrill to grill anywhere you want!

The only grill to be inducted into MoMA’s (Museum of Modern Art) Design Store, the UNA is portable and pretty nifty. With a body made from two powder-coated sheets of stainless steel that cleverly fit into each other, the UNA Grill turns from a closed form to a grill in just seconds as the lid pops off the top and becomes the base for the grill. Its small size and easy-to-use design makes it perfect for grilling in outdoor spaces, and a leather leash makes it as easy to carry around with you as you would a thermos. Its tiny design makes it perfect for small groups, and the stand it comes with allows it to be operated on a table-top without the heat affecting the surface in any way. The grill surface on the inside is dual-sided, allowing you to roast food on the flat surface, or flip it over and rest skewers on the notched surface. With an entirely sheet steel body, the UNA weighs a mere 8.2 lbs and is dish-washer friendly… and when done, fits right into a storage cabinet in your kitchen, waiting to be used on another beautiful morning outdoors!

Designers: John Spaven, Jeroen Verbrugge, Willemijn Verduijn & Amir Soubra.

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Google’s AI scans and tags millions of ‘Life’ magazine photos

Google is pretty big on art. Its technology has turned clumsy doodles into masterpieces, transformed smartphones into virtual exhibitions and, in a move that caused momentary internet hysteria, helped selfie-takers find their fine art doppelganger. N...