If you're a modernist that eats walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts, what to do? You don't want the standard nutcracking tool we all know, with its I-wear-my-function-on-my-sleeve serrated jaws, ergonomically knurled handles for grip and exposed pivot, do you?

No, you don't. What you want is to step up to the Nusskubus, a hammer-and-anvil-type nutcracking solution made of two beech cubes. Semi-spherical hollows of three different sizes populate different faces of the anvil half, each sized to accept one of the aforementioned nut types.

You pick up the "hammer" cube—okay, so it doesn't fit in your hand perfectly, stop whining—and bring it down onto the nut cradled into the other cube with a therapeutic smash. It is a metaphor for life: You want to join these two cubes together perfectly, but while you may come close you cannot, because there is a nut in the way.

The Nusskubus was designed by Berlin-based Adam + Harbroth Design as part of their Siebensachen line, which roughly translates to "belongings" or "paraphernalia," and will set you back 25 Euros.