These button-themed tables by Swedish design group Wis are delightful:

The perfect furnishing for Mr Spoon’s baked bean tin.

Some inventions are so pointless you can’t help but wonder how somebody convinced a manufacturer to put them into production. Take the hoover mouse, for example. As the name implies, it’s a pointing device that doubles as a hoover.

Combining a mouse with an electric shaver… that’d be killer. Or a maybe a HP sauce dispenser.

Designer Geneviève Gauckler creates numerous lovable characters, some of which are featured on these splendid plates from Domestic.

My digital splendidometer reads a solid 10 when pointed at these - magic!

The award-winning Casulo is surely the way forward for furnishing affordable in a jiffy. The “apartment in a box” really does have everything you need to get your home up-and-running in no time:

• wardrobe
• single bed with mattress
• large desk/table with separate lockable drawers
• revolving, height adjustable desk chair
• two stools
• shelving unit

The following animated gif (please, contain your excitement!) shows the Casulo in action:

If animated gifs make you wretch with low-resolution sickness, check out these nice photos:

Apple have consistently rubbished the rumoured iBeardTouch, the combined phone, music player, web browser and beard maintenance wonder-gadget. “It simply does not exist - the whole idea is pure fantasy,” barked Dave Satsuma, Chief of Male Grooming Technology at Apple. However, the following image, leaked to undercover barbers in the Los Angeles underground, suggests the incredible device may actually exist!

“Picture the scene: you’re on the train, listening to Slade, chatting on the phone to your mistress, whilst trimming your precious face blanket - genius!” enthused Alan Key, barber to the stars. “This will make the lawnmower redundant!”

Chicago Designer Jenny Beorkrem (a.k.a. Ork Design) has released a series of maps/posters featuring some very nice typography.

See more and buy at Ork Posters.

Scientists have conclusively proven that tea is the second tastiest drink in the world after beer. Thanks to New York designer Joey Roth, mankind can brew the king of health drinks without resorting to nasty stainless steel or even porcelain teapots favoured by old women.

Behold, the Sorapot.

Unfortunately, Joey is cleary not a man in a hurry, as this won’t be on the market until February 2008, and even then, the first production run will be limited to 300 units.

MeAndJo have some very nice vintage furniture in stock, including this delightful 1950s office machine stand.

This refinished 1960s medical cabinet in striking uber-lumo-banana yellow is a gem.

Check out this incredibly ornate, laser-cut rug on the Brocade Home online store.

I wouldn’t fancy dragging a Dyson over it mind you…