Ideal Home • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

I can't believe I care this much about a grater

Ideal Home • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

And prices start at just £2.50!

Ideal Home • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

Plus, the pastel colours are to die for

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

How many different ways could you possibly design a folding or collapsible helmet? You might be surprised, as we were, having covered a number of different designs over the years.

(While most are designed for cyclists, the Japanese ones on this list are intended for natural disaster environments.) Here are fifteen different approaches: Julien Bergignat and Patrice Mouille's Tatoo Helmet Mike Rose's polypropylene Collapsible Helmet Jeff Woolf's Morpher helmet Closca's Fuga helmet BioLogic's Pango folding helmet The Hövding "airbag for cyclists" The Fend Helmet The Tanizawa Portable Fold-up Disaster Helmet The Osamet Collapsible Safety Helmet The Derucap Collapsible Safety Helmet The Tatamet Designer Foldable Safety Helmet and Tatawing BCP Designer Foldable Safety Helmet Designer Foldable Safety Helmet Tatawing BCP Tatawing BCP The Flatmet Collapsible Helmet The Ventete aH-1 The latest is this Newlane Foldable MIPS Bike Helmet . The sheer variety is a testament to human creativity.

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

Korea has a long history of producing fine ceramics, dating back some 8,000 years. Image: National Museum of Korea - KOGL Type 1 The country also, like neighboring Japan, has a love of cute, primitively-drawn cartoon characters.

So it was just a matter of time before someone combined the two. These pieces are by Korean ceramicist Jiho Song : Because he draws each character by hand, he can occasionally insert Easter eggs: Song appears to have a pottery studio in Ye's Park, a crafts village in Icheon, but maintains no web presence beyond an Instagram account.

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

Here's a clever invention for contractors doing clean-up: The KwicKan is just a sheet of ABS with handle cutouts. You stick it inside of a contractor bag, which gives the bag structure and lets it stand on its own.

Once the bag is full, you just grab the handles and the KwicKan can be easily pulled out. It of course stores flat, and being made out of ABS, it's easy to clean off.

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

For fine detail work, a Dremel has long been the go-to tool. But Chinese manufacturer Hozo Tools has designed something that looks better in every way.

Hozo reckons that rotary tools are limiting and imprecise, and have thus designed their NeoSander to use reciprocating motion instead. The company reckons this offers less vibration, improved control and greater precision.

The tool comes with eight different heads of various shapes: Sandpaper for the heads comes in eight different grits, and is pre-cut. Furthermore, the system comes with 64 heads total; that's eight of each of the eight head styles.

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

In conjunction with a new exhibition, Magis has gone digging in the crates. Here's a short furniture design history lesson from the company, on Konstantin Grcic's Chair_One.

At Magis, there is no project without research. And when the collaboration with Konstantin Grcic began, in the late 90s, the subject of that research was a technology not commonly used to produce furniture: aluminium die-casting.

At that time, an unexplored territory that left space for creativity. The image of hot, liquid aluminium fired into the mould inspired a geometric design based on subtraction, with flat triangular elements joined at the edges and empty spaces characterising the aesthetics of the chair.

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

If IDD Cologne 2025 was the trade fair's new move to bring an urban flavor to the more industrial international furniture fair in Cologne, Passagen has always been approaching its audience from the urban side by design. Established by Sabine Voggenreiter in 1990 as a decentralized off-program to contrast the IMM in the trade fair area, Passagen is the less corporate (but not less premium), often more hidden, and potentially more diverse grassroots counterpart.

This is where design students, smaller brands, designer-makers, movers and shakers show their stuff, fresh out of the workshop.

Core77 - Blog • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

These days, companies like Stihl and Makita sell multi-heads. These are battery-powered motors that can drive a variety of common landscaping attachments, like string trimmers and hedge cutters.

Uniquely, Makita also offers this Snow Thrower attachment: The business end is 12" wide and can handle a 6" depth of snow at a time. Tiltable vanes on the inside let you control whether you want to throw the snow to the left, to the right or straight ahead.

The company says you can clear about five parking spaces with two 18V batteries. So how well does it work?

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