CoolShit

A giant round flannel blanket printed to look exactly like a flour tortilla. Wrap yourself up and become a human burrito. Six feet of glorious beige comfort.

Nessie's neck and head poke above the waterline while her body steeps your tea at the bottom of the mug. Loose-leaf tea infuser. Food-safe silicone. Makes every cup of tea a cryptid encounter.

A lifelike resin hen, moulded feather by feather, positioned mid-lay — and the egg emerging from her is the actual light bulb. USB powered, warm glow, and completely straight-faced about what it is doing on your side table. Genuinely good ambient lighting and permanently funny, which is a combination almost nothing else manages.

A hand-tuned steel tongue drum, hand-cut and weatherproofed to live outdoors permanently, so that falling rain plays it. Each drop strikes a tuned tongue and the whole garden turns into an ambient instrument during a downpour. Playable by hand with the included mallets too, but the point is what happens when nobody is there.

A dome lamp that melts a candle from above with a halogen bulb instead of burning it. No flame, no soot, no wick to trim — and because the heat pools the entire wax surface evenly rather than tunnelling down the middle, the candle throws more scent and lasts dramatically longer. The TikTok favourite that turned out to actually work.

A cast resin tentacle in aged bronze, hand-painted and polished, curling off a mounting plate as a fully working pull handle. Around 20cm long and solid enough for daily use on a cupboard, study or bathroom door. One of very few novelty objects that stops being decor and becomes part of the building.

A planter that hovers a clear inch above its wooden base on opposed magnets, rotating slowly and silently as long as it is powered. Rated for light loads of roughly 200 grams including soil, so it takes succulents, air plants and very small bonsai. The photographs undersell it — the moment people notice the gap underneath, the conversation stops.

A penguin-shaped electric egg boiler. Six eggs nest inside the penguin's body. It beeps when they're done. Possibly the most cheerful kitchen appliance in existence.

A pillow you wear over your entire head. Blocks all light and sound. Creates a personal microclimate for power naps at your desk, airport, or anywhere you've given up. Designed by award-winning studio.