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This chic Origami-inspired flower vase also doubles up as a warm ambient light

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There’s a certain beauty in the Gingko Smart Vase Light’s simplicity. Made from a folded piece of paper with two wooden pieces at either side, the Smart Vase Light has an accordion-ish design that opens up from a flat shape to a wonderful vase. Built with an LED light on the inside, the vase is more than just a vessel for your flowers, it doubles up as an ambient lamp that casts a wash of warm light on your table as well as your walls. A heat-safe and waterproof glass tube sits right in the middle of the vase, holding a flower along with some water to keep your floral decor alive for a few days…

Designer: Gingko

This accordion-inspired light isn’t Gingko’s first. The company’s made quite a few inventive, fidget-worthy Origami-inspired lamps in the past. This is, however, the first time Gingko’s integrated lighting and vases into the same product. The result is decidedly lively. The flower within the lamp adds a touch of natural beauty during the day, and at night, the lamp’s inner ‘aura’ quite literally lights up your space.

The vase is made to be durable and waterproof, with a pleated Tyvek-paper outer that’s heat-proof and also does a wonderful job of diffusing the inner light evenly. The wooden plates on either side are available in Japanese Bamboo or American Walnut finishes, with magnets on the inside that allow them to snap together when the vase is opened up, helping it keep its shape. Inside the Smart Vase Light is a 3W LED powered by a 2000mAh Li-on chargeable battery that gives it 6-10 hours of use on a full charge.

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Gingko’s Dragonfly Balance Light is part table-lamp, part kinetic sculpture

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With a design that transcends mere functionality, Gingko’s Dragonfly Balance Light has a unique interactive quality that makes it absolutely irresistible. The dragonfly-shaped lamp rests precariously on a vertical platform, and invites you to touch it and play with it, making it both visually and physically engaging!

Created by UK-based Gingko Design, the Dragonfly Balance Light falls well within the company’s wheelhouse of unusually creative lighting products. Like all their other lights, the Dragonfly Balance Light is built from wood and runs on LEDs. The light takes the shape of a dragonfly, with the LED panels embedded in the underside of its 2 pairs of wings. The dragonfly’s body is crafted from laser-cut wood (maple or walnut), and a single power button on its back lets you switch the light on and toggle through its 4 brightness settings. Talking about the Dragonfly Balance Light, however, is incomplete without talking about its fun balancing act!

Designer: Paul Sun of Gingko Design

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Designed to be perfectly symmetrical, the lamp’s form has a center of gravity that’s located right at the tip of the dragonfly’s head – a feature that allows it to casually balance on any surface. The Dragonfly Balance Light does come with its own wooden balancing platform (which elevates the lamp at a height to make it an effective lighting device), although it can pretty much be balanced on any narrow object, from the corner of a table/shelf to even your fingertip! Once balanced, the light can effectively be ‘fidgeted’ with by nudging it, only to have it rock to and fro before settling back down to its balanced position.

This hands-on aspect is really what makes the Dragonfly Balance Lamp such a uniquely pleasing tabletop accessory. It’s a lamp, but it’s more than just a lamp – It’s also the contemporary equivalent of a Newton’s Cradle (those tabletop toys with the swinging steel orbs). The Dragonfly Balance Lamp adds light and lightheartedness to your table, inviting your hands to constantly play with it, while still functioning traditionally as a dimmable light that illuminates your table effectively with a diffused bright glow.

The fun, interactive illusion of the lamp is further made possible by the fact that the Dragonfly Balance Light is entirely wireless. A 650mAh Li-on rechargeable battery powers the light for anywhere between 3 and 36 hours (depending on the brightness setting), and a USB-C port on the back of the dragonfly lets you plug your lamp in to replenish the battery. Each Dragonfly Balance Lamp is made from FSC certified natural maple or walnut solid wood and comes packed (along with the cylindrical stand) in a premium gift box. YD readers can grab their own Dragonfly Balance Lamp for a special 15% discounted price using the code “YANKO-DBL“.

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Top modern gifts for people who love great design – YD Holiday Gift Guide 2021

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We took the thinking and planning out of gift-giving so you don’t have to worry about what to buy for yourself or for a loved one this holiday season! Here’s a list of great home, kitchen, and lifestyle products to spark joy in your life and the lives of the people around you. The one thing that’s common across all of them? The fact that they’re clever and innovative products that get the stamp of approval from the design-elves at the YD headquarters.

Be sure to snag some of these products while they’re around (and on discount), or share them with a friend/relative/partner if you want to give them hints!

Air6+ Air Purifier by YFLife

The AIR6Plus purifier by YFLife is about the size of a smart speaker and can be placed anywhere within the house… yet within it is air purifying technology so advanced, it’s even used by NASA. Referred to as photocatalytic oxidation or PCO, this technology obliterates any kind of germ or organic compound, turning it into CO2 and water. The technology would normally sound like overkill for using inside our homes on planet earth, but considering deteriorating air quality, the presence of pathogens, and a whole host of other organic compounds (smoke even) … it actually makes for a rather advanced air purifier that gives you the cleanest breathable air possible. Operating with a simple touch of a button, the AIR6Plus comes with 3 fan modes, and can sanitize the air down to 0.001 micrometers within a space of 360 sqft without generating any sound or even any waste… and with a ridiculously energy-efficient power consumption of 13W (that’s about as much as an LED bulb). Grab one for a YD-special discount below!
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Nanopresso Handheld Espresso Maker by Wacaco

An espresso-maker that’s smaller than a Starbucks cup, the Nanopresso from Wacaco is designed to give you the most luxuriously rich and crema-laden coffee wherever you go. Just load hot water into the Nanopresso, pack coffee grounds into the pod (or use a Nespresso pod of your own), and the Nanopresso’s custom-designed pumping system can generate a whopping 18 bars (261 PSI) of pressure, pushing the hot water right through the tightly packed coffee grounds to produce up to 80ml (or two shots) of pure concentrated espresso. The Nanopresso also comes with a cup to dispense your fresh coffee in, and requires no electricity to use, making it perfect both at home or even outdoors. Once you’re caffeinated for the day, the Nanopresso is easy to clean, and even comes with a nifty EVA foam case to carry it around in!
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Koda 12 Compact Pizza Oven by Ooni

Imagine never having to stand for hours outside Lucali’s to get some crazy good Neapolitan-style pizza. Or rather, imagine being able to make that pizza right at home! That’s what the Koda by Ooni promises, with its ridiculously compact design that can frankly sit on most outdoor tabletops, letting you turn any table into an instant pizzeria. The Koda 12 is small enough to make a 12-inch pizza or calzone, and comes with a foldable design that you can flat-pack and carry home with you once you’re done (and once the pizza oven’s cooled down, obviously). The compact little gas-powered oven takes mere minutes to set up, and can heat up to ripping dough-baking temperatures in just 15 minutes. Use it to make pizzas, breads, babkas, steaks, or even grill veggies!
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Nanoleaf Shapes Modular Wall Lights by Nanoleaf

The year is 2021 and wallpaper has just been rendered obsolete. Meet the Nanoleaf Shapes, a series of slim, smart LED panels that come in geometric shapes and can be connected to one another to create a dynamic work of art on your walls. The modular panels can be used to create shapes, patterns, textures, even text, and they add a touch of color to spaces when off, but completely transform the ambiance of a room when switched on! The smart LED panels work via touch, and can instantly be transformed into an interactive installation that changes hues when you touch any of the panels. Alternatively, they can connect to your smart speaker and change colors to the rhythm of the music you play, or better still, hook them to your television and activate Match Mode, which lets the Nanoleaf panels light up to match the colors on your TV screen, creating an immersive experience that’s nonpareil!
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Bradley Element Tactile Wristwatch by Eone

Easily one of the most iconic watches of modern time, the Bradley watch from Eone comes with a spectacular design that’s backed by an even more incredible story. Named after former naval officer and Paralympic Gold medalist Bradley Snyder, the watch hopes to champion inclusive design by being a timepiece that you can read not just with your eyes, but with your hands too. The watch hopes to celebrate the brave legacy of officer Bradley, who lost his vision while diffusing bombs during his time stationed in Afghanistan. Championing Bradley’s no-can-do attitude, the watch features two ball-bearings that magnetically travel around the timepiece’s face to read the time (one bearing on the front tells the minutes, and another on the rim tells the hours). The wearer can simply run their finger across the watch to feel for the bearings and get an immediate sense of what the time is. If the bearings shift position while you touch them, they can slide immediately back thanks to the underlying magnets… which make the award-winning tactile timepiece double up as a nifty toy too!
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Millo Wireless Blender by Millo

Designed like something out of Apple’s or Dyson’s design studio, the Millo is a smart, sophisticated, and silent blender, that makes 4x lesser noise than your conventional blender, generates twice as less heat, and 2x more energy efficient. Moreover, using it is bafflingly futuristic. Just load your smoothie ingredients into the Millo, screw the top on, and rest it inverted on the base… and just like a phone starts charging the moment you rest it on a wireless-charging surface, the Millo begins whirring and blitzing all your ingredients into a fine smoothie. You can control the Millo’s intensity by sliding your finger around the rim of the base, as lights under the surface come to life, letting you see what power you’re running the blender at. When you’re done, lift the blender up and the blade magically stops spinning. It’s a sight to absolutely admire! Yes, this blender is everything Steve Jobs would love. It’s sleek, wireless, quiet, and removes any ugly mechanical details that would blemish the blender’s pristine design. Oh, and the base is made out of Aluminium too!
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ZenBeam Latte L1 Portable Projector by ASUS

Rather adorably named the Latte, this coffee-glass-shaped device from ASUS is actually a portable projector, capable of delivering 720p content while also functioning as a speaker-system. The ZenBeam Latte blends 720p HD projection and Harman/Kardon audio performance into a compact, lightweight, and ultra-portable design that’s similar in size, shape, and weight to a grande cup of coffee. The tiny projector can project screens measuring up to 120-inches in size, and works seamlessly with iOS and Android devices. Go ahead and Netflix & Chill in style!
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Levitating Smart Moon Lamp by Gingko

Dim the lights and switch the Gingko Smart Moon Lamp on and it quite literally looks like you’ve got a supermoon inside your home! Having gone certifiably viral on TikTok, its gravity-defying levitating design completes the illusion, creating a pretty remarkable-looking prop that’s great for decor as well as photography! The floating moon comes 3D printed from translucent PLA, complete with craters and undulating surface details to make it look like the real thing, and it floats on its base too, gently rotating as a planetary object would. 140mm (5.5 inches) in diameter, the moon floats on a wooden base made of dark walnut or light ash wood, suspended in place by a strong rare-earth magnet. It comes with built-in LEDs that give the moon its signature glow, with 3 light temperatures to choose from – warm white (3500k) and white (5000k), and a special yellow warm (2700k) for that rare blood moon effect! Each Smart Moon Lamp comes with its base and a 12V- 1A AD adapter to power the entire experience. Plus, Gingko offers a cool 2-year warranty that should quite literally send you ‘over the moon!’
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The Moon Lamp that went viral on TikTok now comes with a magnetic levitating design!

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If you’ve ever tried photographing the moon with your smartphone camera, you know what a terrible job it does. Smartphones, as incredible as they are, just aren’t good for long-distance shots like the moon… which is why TikTok users have apparently taken to using Moon Lamps instead. A Moon Lamp is much easier to photograph since it’s closer to you, and with a little visual trickery, it can look exactly like the real deal! Besides, when you’re not photographing away at it, it serves as a neat ambient room light too!

Dim the lights and switch the Gingko Smart Moon Lamp on and it quite literally looks like you’ve got a supermoon inside your home! Its gravity-defying levitating design completes the illusion, creating a pretty remarkable-looking prop that’s great for decor as well as photography! The floating moon comes 3D printed from translucent PLA, complete with craters and undulating surface details to make it look like the real thing, and it floats on its base too, gently rotating as a planetary object would. 140mm (5.5 inches) in diameter, the moon floats on a wooden base made of dark walnut or light ash wood, suspended in place by a strong rare-earth magnet. It comes with built-in LEDs that give the moon its signature glow, with 3 light temperatures to choose from – warm white (3500k) and white (5000k), and a special yellow warm (2700k) for that rare blood moon effect!

Each Smart Moon Lamp comes with its base and a 12V- 1A AD adapter to power the entire experience. Plus, Gingko offers a cool 2-year warranty that should quite literally send you ‘over the moon!’

Designer: Gingko Design

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Levitating Smart Moon Lamp

This gravity-defying moon lamp seems to magically ‘float’ above a walnut or white ash wood base and slowly rotates just like the real elliptical orbiting moon.

American Walnut base

Made with safe PLA material, this 3D printed full moon even has a textured surface just like the moon’s own craters and glows an ethereal-like light as it emits its cool white light.

White Ash base

Suspended by a strong built-in magnet it creates a fascinating and life-like illusion of the real thing.

How to Set-up the Moon Lamp





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This beautiful accordion-inspired ambient light transforms into whatever shape you want!

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You’ve heard about fidget toys, but have you ever heard about fidget lighting? The Accordion Lamp from Gingko is the perfect example of a lighting design that doesn’t just illuminate… it interacts too! The folding/foldable lamp comes a pleated Tyvek-paper shade sitting between two pieces of wood. The lamp’s lights illuminate through the pleated paper, while the Tyvek’s folded nature allows you to maneuver the lamp like a slinky, adjusting it in a variety of shapes and forms.

The lamp’s LED lighting and battery come built right into its wooden ends, and hidden magnets allow the ends to snap to each other, creating interesting-looking closed forms, or even allowing you to hook up multiple Accordion Lamps to create one singular, fun, flexible strip of lighting! The portable lamp comes with two light color-temperatures, allowing you to switch between warm and cool lighting just by shutting and opening the lamp, and provides 7-10 hours of lighting (and playing) on a full battery charge!

Designer: Gingko Design

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Designer: Gingko Design