Here's what we saw this week:

Form follows function, in fifteen free minutes: These objects remind me of the cobbled-together self-projects you'd see on an ID student's desk.

British engineering firm MetMo is crowdfunding their Pocket Driver, a compact version of their wildly successful ratcheting screwdriver design.

A role reversal in design and manufacturing: Affordable Chinese components with design improvements that rescue pricey Western appliances, as evinced in this Dyson vacuum trigger replacement.

There are some fantastic design details in this MC9 Uncino barstool, designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Mattiazzi.

Marc Newson's modular Quobus display units are made from enameled steel cubes in three different sizes.

Teenage Engineering has designed their first microphone, the CM-15. Unsurprisingly, it's sexy.

This striking-looking AT-R modelmaking tool rack is by Shanghai-based precision toolmaker DSPIAE.

A sexy furniture prototype that never made production: Furniture designer Thomas Alken's Leia Lounge Chair.

Turns out half of people who buy vinyl records don't own a record player. Here's why they buy them anyway.

This computer scientist installed a voicebox and ChatGPT AI in his robot dog. What could go wrong?

These paperboard desktop storage units help when desks don't have drawers.

This strange baseball cap features built-in, flip-down sun-shading lenses on the back.

This booze flask borrows a trick from dental rinse bottles, allowing you to squeeze the hooch into a built-in shot-dispensing chamber.

This Lin Series of glass tables, by Studio Shinyoo, borrow timber framing techniques for structure.

For the inspiration behind this stool designed for Zanat, architects/designers Ludovica and Roberto Palomba went all the way back to Stonehenge.

This elaborate "Piano Key Design" Shower System features four separate nozzles and an LED screen that runs on hydraulic power.

The X-Hanger, by industrial designers Kfir Schwalb and Orit Magia (a/k/a Studio Shulab) is an alternative take on the wall hook.

Pierre Charpin designed this PC Lamp Series for Hay. He also shows us the before/after of when he was working out the design of the clamping variant.

This attractive, ceramic-bodied tabletop Lucarne Mirror was designed by Ionna Vautrin for Moustache. It's essentially a monitor for you rather than social media. Comes in two sizes.