Prosthesis: Mech Racing | Alpha Mech Pilot Program Kickstarter. The video itself is worth a watch, and the swag is pretty fun... maybe monstrous mech exoskeleton racing is exactly what we need the way things are going?

FEATUREDHappy Mother's Day - first proper NOTCOT.com feature in nearly 1.5 years! An update on life, our latest project in the making, and a few things i couldn't have survived pregnancy without... and a peek at things to come.

Stokke Flexi Bath - interesting design for a collapsible baby bath tub (that you could easily use for everyday things!) with a unique, color changing, temperature sensitive stopper.

White Elfa Kids' Mesh Coloring Table with Rounded Corners. The Melamine Desk Top is supported by two drawer units with mesh drawers, and a roll of Banner Paper is included. As with all things Elfa, you can adapt the modular pieces to grow as needed.

Is "As Seen On Instagram" our generation's "As Seen On TV"? Interesting read on Racked - "Instagram Ads Are Basically Infomercials for Millennials: Shoppers who’d never buy something ‘As Seen on TV’ are buying things from their feeds."

FEATUREDUPDATED NOTCOT Collection Of Stuff For People!!! There's no need for labels or categories. Just amazing things we love, want, or think about gifting... (Now with more stuff!)

Paper Signals are little build-it-yourself objects that you can control with your voice. They track things like weather, Bitcoin, rocket launches, and more.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Collection Of Stuff For People!!! There's no need for labels or categories. Just amazing things we love, want, or think about gifting... I supposed you could call it an impromptu gift guide of sorts?

The School of Hard Blocks is a set of 12 concrete alphabet blocks depicting the hardships of life. Things like divorce, dentists, hangovers, genocidal dictators, etc.

design(human)design - helps you generate ideas of things to create (May you not get this desperate!) There is also a physical card based version. This project comes from the MIT Media Lab: Object-Based Media Group.

Canadiano Designer Scaled Ruler Set. Made of laminated hardwoods, these minimal scales are a nostalgic take on an ordinary item.

Design*Sponge's State of the Blog Union 2017 is a look back at where things started 13 years ago followed by an insightful look at what it takes to make things work in today's digital world (from both editorial and financial perspectives.)

To promote its newest exhibition, The Field Museum from Chicago is asking people to give their voice to its collection of specimens. Everyday, Chicagoans can record monologues in a special pop-up audio booth that is traveling around the city this summer.

SDR Traveller's D3 Traveller Duffel - designed not to draw attention and be ultra durable (made of Dyneema). This article at Gear Junkie about it is even more fascinating than the bag itself!

Miss Jones Baking Co. - beyond the organic baking mixes and frostings, they have cheeky text sweatshirts and fun gift sets. Bakers gonna bake! Move fast & bake things! Bake it easy! Bake it off! Let them get baked!

Skip Hop Bandana Buddies - our new go-to surprise for visiting babies. Adorable animals that squeak, crinkle, rattle, and more with a mirror they can peek into, various things to chew on, and even a removable bandana teether for your wrist.

Willow the wearable breast pump has been a surprising stand out at CES. Letting you pump anywhere and anytime, while still doing other things! And of course it has a milk-tracking app as well.

Norton Core by Symantec. This new router focuses on the security of your connected home, but more interesting is how routers are being designed to be shown off instead of hidden in a closet or behind/under things in your home.

The Way Things Work Now by David Macaulay. A new update on one of my favorite childhood classics. (The mammoths!) Now with everything from 3D Printers, Hybrid Cars, Touch Screens, and beyond.

Little Big Things Whale Jon0+ is part of a series of grasping toys for babies. Made from genuine wood and all-safe TPE, little hands can discover different shapes and materials. The soft plastic parts helps sooth the gums when the baby is teething.

Located in Madrid, this apartment is anything but ordinary. Manuel Ocaña transformed the apartment with glass partitions to divide the interior living spaces.

Make It Stranger type generator by the people at Nelson Cash. While people are getting a bit overdosed on Stranger Things typography/intro stories, this is still pretty fun.

Stranger Things! Art of the Title interview with Creative Director Michelle Dougherty of Imaginary Forces on the creation of the intro sequence, the inspirations, and how it all came together.

Tinycards by Duolingo. A fun new way to learn things through adorable digital flashcards. Learn pre-made lessons, or make your own decks!

FEATUREDBarista Parlor Coffee Packaging has taken things to a whole new level. Each box has been meticulously graphic designed and letterpressed over at Isle of Printing and there's even quite the surprise hidden within!

MAGIC SURROUNDS. This banner is a good reminder these days to keep our eyes peeled for the little things.

VIDEOGoogle NYC lobby has an installation with 5880 arcade buttons as pixels! It uses AnyPixel.js - their open source software and hardware library which lets you use the web to create big, unusual, interactive displays out of all kinds of things.

VIDEOK Flay - FML music video directed by Ken Edge - "goal was to capture a sense of duality with in ones self. The ways in which the very things that destroy us can also be amazing & fun."

Yumbox Lunchbox for kids (or adults?) - swappable compartmentalized trays for keeping things organized (i.e. grains, protein, fruit, veggies) with fun themes like space.

The Man Who Made Things Out Of Trees book by Robert Penn - working with some of Britain’s best makers to find out how many objects can be whittled from a single Ash tree.

LA Metroline will finally reach Santa Monica! So for any of you Angelenos or visitors to LA... starting May 20th, you can actually get from the beach to downtown (and everything in between) more easily.

YONOPLAY by Shlomi Eiger and Roi Vaspi Yanay is a series of wooden structures for kids. Built from simple modules and packed in to a very flat package, easily hosted in every ordinary apartment.

Photojojo Iris Lens System! So excited to try these new phone lenses made from the ground up by Photojojo. Love that you don't have to glue things to your phone, can work over a case, and should work on multiple phones more easily!

Domino's 2016 DXP - "The Ultimate Pizza Delivery Vehicle" An upgraded Chevy Spark that has things like a warming oven and special stabilized pizza areas to hold up to 80 pies. 5 years in the making, there are currently 97 on the road! Fun website.

"Arabian Street Artists" Bomb Homeland: Why We Hacked An Award Winning Series on Heba Y Amin. Nice article on how set designers overlooked the content of graffiti when focusing on how things looked...

Vice Munchies new video series - Food Hacking Japan with host Simon Klose exploring the intersection of food and tech. The first episode visits a Japanese researcher who shows us how to use virtual reality to make a cookie taste like five different things.

FEATUREDRESEARCH: Stacking + Totems. Since NOTCOT is where all my inspiration lives, here's the first (ever evolving) NOTlabs Research post as i dive back into the archives and around the internet on things i'm thinking about for experiments/projects!

Ludviks - Playful 3d printed designs from Toronto, inspired by Scandinavian and Baltic roots. Striking a balance between geometric and organic, fragile and strong, precious and ordinary, traditional and modern.

"Hardware Things: Killing, Reviving, and Owning an Amazon Dash Button" by Scott Vanderlind

VIDEORefil is launching 3d printer filament (ink) made from old car dashboards with an installation that shows how to make things right.

For the love of unusual ingredients and all things citrus, learn how to make your own CITRUS POWDER. (= intense flavor fun)

FEATURED Tucked inside a red barn in Calgary, you'll find the new Livery Shop. All things Camp Brand Goods, Coutu Kitsch, and lots of other fun local goods. Also, loving how comfy and well cut their tees are. (Yay, Bison + Happy Campers!)

Parisian artist, Baptise Debombourg, creates mind bending three-dimensional installations, taking ordinary materials and creating chaos with shapes in patterns.

FEATUREDEdmonton Silver Skate Festival -The perfect intro to all things winter fun: dog sledding, ice skating on the frozen lake, snow sculptures, snow mazes and ice slides, live music, and so much more.

From Japanese design group Kuralab, an ordinary looking black folding umbrella, decorated with cute, smiley-faced cartoon transistors and diodes.

Balloon Invasions by Charles Pétillon are metaphors. Their goal is to change the way in which we see the things we live alongside each day without really noticing them.

FEATUREDKelly Denato's (@NoPunchBacks) #drinkanddraw has become one of my favorite things on Instagram! With a blank sketchbook page and a drink, she takes suggestions for what turns into stunning sketches!

FEATUREDMoss Ring! And a mini update on all things NOTCOT...

5 Everyday - a simple app that gives you 5 things to do in LA everyday - Art, City, Food, Music, and a Wildcard. From Silver Lake Band YACHT.

Animagraffs by Jacob O'Neal - beautiful animated gif illustrations of how things work - from car engines to speakers, handguns to giant spiders...

INCH x INCH is a monthly 1" button subscription club, where all proceeds go to fund youth art education. We believe small things can make a big difference.

Shelf Life from the American Museum of Natural History. The first episode offers a look at the 33 million things inside the museum!

Dangerous Popsicles are a collection of weird shaped popsicles inspired by cacti and life-threatening viruses. What will happen when we put these dangerous things on one of our most sensitive organs, our tongues? Does pain really bring pleasure?

Camille Kachani's objects might be ordinary objects for utility or decorative purposes, but entirely open to be invaded by art.

The Typographic Universe: Letterforms Found In Nature, The Built World, and Human Imagination, a new book of typography in unexpected places from Thames and Hudson, designers Steven Heller and Gail Anderson .

Artist and Inventor Dominic Wilcox has published a book of his absurd yet perfectly logical invention ideas. Variations on Normal includes such things as a maraca/toothbrush, a family sized poncho and a technological solution to snoring. 128 pages

VIDEOOscar-nominated K.K. Barrett (Her, Where the Wild Things Are) directs a genre-mashing adaptation of Kid Koala's graphic novel and love story, Nufonia Must Fall.

Indigo Dyed Desk Clamp, have useful things nearby, while keeping your work surface clean.

Rich People Things Surfboards are made of wine corks! "From the pine resin to the bees wax that we use as glue until the natural fiber and the bioresin we use to finish the boards, all our process try to increase that intimal conection to nature."

Small things matter. Product Design students at Parsons the New School for Design partnered with Areaware, challenging students to design an inexpensive, point-of-purchase, “impulse buy” gift item.

VIDEOFascinating watching this video about how to turn plastic bottles into plastic thread. Interesting to see him use it to bind things together and then take a heat gun to it to seal it together.

Cruet Bottles by Esque. Making the ordinary, extraordinary, these olive oil and vinegar cruets elevate the humble bottle to an art form.

London-based designer and illustrator Aled Lewis has created a series of images featuring plastic toy figurines ‘interacting’ with each other.

Gestalten's Printing Things book ~ "An inspirational and understandable exploration of the creative potential of 3D printing that introduces outstanding projects, key experts, and the newest technologies."

Sruli Recht Lo Rez - Faceted "Wooden Textiles" collection made with Elisa Strozyk.

"Room for Rent" by Mike Ellis - An experiential installation using multicoloured LEDs the illustrations come to life within the house, exposing things that may not be seen under normal circumstances.

"12 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started My Business" ~ really nice podcast from Design Sponge's Grace Bonney and her wife, Julia Turshen!

Dan & Dave Fly Trap - a nice little, triangular, leather button pouch that's perfect for a few coins or other little things on your keychain. Made by Avund Goods.

A new responsive digital experience for Finlandia Vodka, inspired by its "To The Life Less Ordinary" global creative campaign.

Series of influential people, places & things.

The perfect solution for keeping things at hand, in an elegant and sculptural product. Robust, made for everyday use, ideal for tight entrances and living rooms.

Sony - Be Moved. "We are engineers, but also artists" ~ beautiful new microsite by W+K Portland. Stunning to scroll and see how things come together!

Everyday Hustlin' 2014 Calendar from Busy Building Things

Ippinka Key Keeper - Tired of your keys scratching up other things in your pocket or bag? This little sleeve protects things from your keys.

Mira Schroder from experimental studio Bless takes things to a more ‘personal’ level by creating the Workbed, fusing a work desk and a bed into a singular conception.

Door Stopper is a minimalist design created by Germany-based designer Sarah Boettger for Common Things exhibition.

By multiplying the ordinary and traditional diamond frame, a new look of wireframe appears.
Concept of wireframe bike by Kobi Nakav.

Installation works by Michael Johansson. It's beautiful when things all just fit.

Pocket is a storage tray made of solid oak wood. Punctuated by a colorful elastic, it offers a variety of storage options and enables to conceal things that you want to hide.

Bamboochopper, minimalist design cutting board suitcase, with the most important things to prepare a meal, all in one place, by designer Iskander van Wagtendonk.

Say Hello to Peg. Peg is a multipurpose hub for some of the smaller things in your life.

The Giving Tree Sticky Note Set from Mochi Things.

Scandinavian lifestyle brand The Creatørs Club showcases their affinity for all things nostalgic and minimalist with their Sjø & Land badges. These badges are embroidered with high-quality materials and designed for the explorers of the world.

Yield's new Mirror Shelf series nests in the corner of any room to open up an illusion of space while displaying your favorite things.

Dragons Love Tacos (two of our favorite things!) children's book by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

The #slyPhone reverses culture of surveillance. A subversive device that turns an ordinary iPhone camera into a sneaky periscope. Created by James George and Alexander Porter. Special edition of 200.

Illusive is an iPhone app for creating optical illusions from your photos. The resulting picture looks like an ordinary pattern when viewed up-close, only revealing the hidden image when tilted or viewed from far.

VIDEOLisa Frank ~ first on camera interview? Love it or hate it, it's inspiring to hear about how it started, seeing the warehouse where there's one of everything... things used to be airbrushed and hand painted!

I-Mechanic, the Augmented Reality Application that helps in ordinary maintenance of car engines, is now on Indiegogo.

The Makers of Things documents the work and workshops of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers. From experimental tinkerers to woodworkers and librarians, brought together in South London.

Modern and colorful state prints via These Are Things in Brooklyn.

Felicity Fenton's new series titled "Everyday Quotes" explores the more mundane things people say on a daily basis through enticing and graphic text treatments.

Andrew Bell's Android Mini Collectibles: RAINBOW SET! Best part ~ these little guys' heads open, so you can stash things inside!

A simple & smart checklist for getting things done, with timers for tasks!

The all new Óg backpack from Trakke. Built for everyday adventures and constructed from military-spec Ventile cotton, this lightweight pack is super-simple but packs a punch when things get spicy!

Corkscapes are hand cut cork wall coverings, carved from sheets of cork so you can easily pin things to them as you would with a cork board.

VIDEOA preview of the new ARmedia 3D Tracker supporting ordinary maintenance of a real Ford engine.

Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living by Todd McLellan ~ a photographic inspiration filled book!

Sold! Super sleek new iPhone app/service that sells things for you... with nice packaging!

Koziol Design Babell Small Tiered Serving Plate - perfect for organizing your little things (change, jewelry, keys, what nots)

STITX- A stick-on organizer for your belongings and gadgets necessary for work on-the-go bringing you convenience by sitting snugly at the back of your laptop, reducing the clutter of things on the already-tiny workspaces.

FEATUREDFour days and over 25,000 dogs! We visit the world's largest dog show, Crufts on Gun Dog day, celebrating all things canine with events from flyball and agility to Gameskeeper rings for working gun dogs.

Houses for Objects: a place to live for your everyday things. LA based creative agency, Potluck, launches new brand of housewares on Kickstarter called Versir.

Eyebombing is the act of setting googly eyes on inanimate things in the public space.

Tobias Klein and design studio Ordinary's The Invisible Human grows a human body by crowing crystals on a template made from an MRI scan. Visitors can change the temperature and influence growth.

Scientists are tweaking 3D printers to print cartilage from living cells. Such technology might allow them to use 3D printed cartilage for things like ears.

Lance Hosey on Why We Love Beautiful Things for the NYTimes.

This cookie - featuring love birds carrying an anatomical heart - is just one of the things on offer at Throb. It's a pop up gift shop in London selling only products which feature anatomically correct hearts as part of their design.

Lovely packaging program for DRY Things. DRY Things is created from a genuine interest in beautiful sustainable objects.

'Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things' an exhibition opening Jan. 30 at London's Design Museum. Preview selected objects with the free itunes app.

The Art of Fixing Things by Lawrence Pierce is a guide to repairing most things around your house from principle.

CuBox - Using less than 3 watts, weighing 91 grams (3.2oz) and measuring roughly 2x2x2 inches, this is a miniature computer capable of some amazing things.

VIDEOVirgin's latest campaign makes staff seem like born superheroes with their new 'flying in the face of ordinary' ad directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet through Partizan.

Simple browser plugin that adds some Christmas Spirit to the depressing state of most Youtube comment threads. It automagically replaces things for 'chubby little elf' and 'new red train set' and more.

Extra.ordinary Objects by Domingo Seminario de Col attempts to rescue and reinterpret functional objects through design, without altering too much of their original form.

TROPE capsule collection inspired by familiar and bright symbols of mass culture. TROPE candles are limited edition handmade candles. Every candle is an clever metaphor about idea of destruction daily things.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #30: The Working Proof & Brevity Jewelry & Sub-studio. Chance to win Aztec Necklace and Animal Medley by bee things print with a decorative wood frame designed by Sub-Studio and made by NOTlabs!

Eight Emperors, by artists Thea Augistina Eck and Matthew Shlian, showcases the things they love to make: objects that install a sense of wonder, created from simple materials: paper, wood, and fiber.

FEATUREDThe Cockpit Arts' Christmas Open Studios filled with studio/shops stocked full of lovely things, the people who made them, mulled wine and mince pies! Not your typical London Christmas shopping!

Aquaovo Therm-O Terra - Ecothermal Glass Vessel that keeps things hot/cold and has a removable stainless steel tea strainer and silicone splash guard.

Nendo's Oki Sato chooses five of his favourite things for Icon magazine, including these ceramics by Mitsuke Masayasu and his pet dog!

Incredible art installations made from ordinary toilet paper by artist Sakir Gökcebag.

VIDEOWax Tailor's great music video tells the tale of a crochet quadropus, who journeys throughout the land turning things blue. Great stop motion animation, painstakingly made by Oh Yeah Wow.

GE Garage ~ Cool Hunting has a great look into this new NYC pop up that " is a skill-building center powered by TechShop and developed in partnership with Skillshare, Quirky, Make and Inventables to serve as an advanced manufacturing lab..."

Arduino powered Lanyard used to count interactions at "Socialising the Internet of Things" hosted by Imagination for Social Media Week, London.

Roman And Williams' Things We Made book is coming ~ and Cool Hunting has a nice peek inside. They've done The Standard Hotel, The Breslin, The Ace Hotel, The Standard Grill, Stumptown Coffee, The Dutch, The Boom Boom Room.

VIDEODennis P Paul scans the surface of everyday things and turns it into sounds.

The classic interoffice envelope inspired the look and function of the Envelope Chest. Perfect for storing your most important things, the sleek chest fastens securely with custom leather rounds and cord.

FEATUREDMONSTERS!!! Amazing super furry yeti like creatures in the F/W12 ad campaign for Mulberry... also take a peek at these Wild Things inspired guys on the catwalk, in the pool, as cupcakes and more...

FINALLY! Carnovsky for Blik magical RGB nature inspired giant wall sticker mandalas are here! Three complex layers in each, depending whether you have red, green, blue lighting/glasses you see different things!

Cool Hunting takes a peek inside the new LA store, GARDE. The owner, Scotti Sitz, loves to fill her store with things that are modern and natural.

Richard Branson's Necker Nymph is an underwater ‘aircraft’ that takes exploration under the sea to a whole new level. It can go down to as deep as 30 meters below the surface and can travel at speeds of up to 6 knots underwater.

Amazon Lockers ~ instead of having things shipped to you, these have been popping up in grocery stores/drugstores/etc where you can pick up your package.

Swallow X CLOCK from Haoshi Design uses 12 delicate handmade flying swallows to replace the boring numbers in ordinary clock.

Leo Villareal’s BUCKYBALL ~ a huge glowing sculpture will come to NYC in Madison Square Park in Oct 2012.

Brand new website for These Are Things full of fun illustrations and jQuery parallax goodness.

KAMKAM's Gicha - train motifed seating for kids... you can roll around (and drag others for a ride) and store things within!

Interactive Things’ Benjamin Wiederkehr on the Future of Information Visualization

The Mini ice cream maker invented by Piero Musso has been produced in small numbers since the early sixties at Mortara, in Pavia. It has seduced ordinary and not-so-ordinary people.

No ordinary Seesaw by ENESS. A Tilt of Light - now playing at Melbourne's Federation Square.

Nicolas Rittter's photo series 'The Social Network', a series of humorous photographic illustrations about facebook specific vocabulary and staging of banal things in social networks.

Bitponics, a system to simplify hydroponic gardening. Sensors in your garden track conditions, then sends notifications back to your device to control things such as pumps and lights

Keisuke Tsubakimoto's fork design that looks like a hand, even including a thumb!

Caviar Kaspia commissioned graffiti artist Andre Saraiva to create a colorful limited edition box label inspired by the look of a magic box to 'access to a world beyond reality'.