Find Tranquillity in City Life with this 3-in-1 Smartphone Friendly Mini Garden

Posted on 05/09/2023 by Tanvi Joshi

In today’s fast-paced urban lifestyle, our homes and offices often lack the connection to nature that our ancestors once enjoyed. As our cities expand and green spaces diminish, we find ourselves yearning for a breath of fresh air and a touch of tranquility. Fortunately, a revolutionary product is here to transform your indoor environment and infuse it with the essence of a moonlit garden. Meet the ingenious creation that combines an air purifier, mood light, and wireless charger, designed with the inspiration of nature: the Mini Moonlit Desk Garden.

Designer: Seunghyuk Shin

Imagine having a miniature moonlit garden right on your desk. The mini desk garden does just that by encapsulating the serene beauty of the moon and forest in a single device. This innovative product is not just a functional accessory but a work of art that enhances your living or workspace.

One of the standout features of this extraordinary product is the magnetic levitation mood light in the depiction of the moon rising over a mountain. This enchanting element adds a touch of magic to your surroundings. As you place the mood lamp on the device, it levitates mid-air, lighting up like a mystical moonrise. The mini desk garden captivates your senses, creating an ambiance that mimics the calming effect of the moon gracing the night sky.

Embedded within this masterpiece is Scandia Moss, a natural moss material reminiscent of a lush forest. This moss is not just for aesthetics; it boasts many functions that transform your indoor space. Scandia Moss serves as a natural air purifier, regulating humidity, removing toxic substances, and neutralizing unpleasant odors. It brings the fresh, invigorating scent of the forest into your personal sanctuary, turning your desk into a haven of tranquility.

The moonlit garden desk companion isn’t just a product; it’s a lifestyle choice. It introduces a novel approach to indoor-outdoor living, allowing you to reconnect with nature even within the confines of your urban dwelling. In today’s world, where hot and humid climates often limit the joy of outdoor living, this product bridges the gap between indoors and outdoors. It provides a slice of the natural world in the heart of the city, transforming your environment into a refreshing oasis.

For those residing in cities with sweltering, muggy climates that restrict the pleasures of modern indoor-outdoor living, the mini desk garden is a game-changer. It offers a respite from the heat and a retreat from the concrete jungle, allowing you to bask in the soothing aura of the moonlit garden without stepping outside.

In addition to its enchanting features, the desk garden offers practical functionality. Placing your smartphone on the top of the product activates its wireless charging capabilities, ensuring that your devices stay powered up effortlessly. Furthermore, the product features a convenient C-type USB port on the side, allowing you to charge and use various devices simultaneously. This versatility enhances your productivity and connectivity while maintaining the elegance of your moonlit garden-inspired desk.

The mini desk garden is more than just a product; it’s a transformative experience. With its mesmerizing levitating mood light, natural air-purifying properties, and the essence of a moonlit forest, it brings a touch of magic and tranquility into your life. Say goodbye to the confines of city living and welcome the enchantment of the moon and forest into your home or workspace with this remarkable creation. It’s time to rediscover the joy of nature, one levitating moonlight at a time.

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

Posted on 08/11/2021 by Sarang Sheth

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!

Posted on 30/05/2021 by Sarang Sheth

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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Better than watching the moon in 4K

Posted on 19/04/2016 by Sarang Sheth

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Brace yourself for a lot of moon pictures! The Moon lamp has me absolutely gobsmacked. The idea, execution, and attention to detail, all make this a sure-shot winner. The Moon lamp is a lamp that displays lunar phases. One can toggle between manual and auto, allowing the ‘sun’ to move around a brilliantly detailed replica of the moon, casting shadows that make the moon look so realistic, you’ll pinch yourself. Each and every crater is captured in this 1:20 billionth scale model of the moon, thanks to Nasa. The result? An otherworldly cosmic experience, right inside your own home!

Designers: Oscar Lhermitte & Kudu Studio.

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