We’re not normally one to blog about our own products, but this is an exception. Check out the tea sub available to buy from Giftlab.co.uk just by clicking on the picture above. It’s cute and practical, what more could you want?

I can’t tell if I like this or if I’d find it really annoying. You know when you were at school and you wanted to write diagonally across your notepad because the lines were straight?  I guess this has the opposite effect and will have children in schools across the country finally writing in a straight line, just because their notepad tells them not to. Well… That’s if this ever makes the shelves. At the moment it’s just an idea from designer Matt Brown. via nerdapproved.com

A laptop sleeve to rival the Undercover. The BookBook has a hard shell and a rigid spine to keep your MacBook from being crushed, and is lined with soft fabric to keep it from being scratched. Designer Twelve South also plays up the fact that by disguising your laptop as a beat up old book, you make it less likely to be stolen. Because who wants to steal an old book? See… that’s the same idea we had, but we used a tatty old envelope.

The leather cases are hand-distressed, so each tome is unique, and the cases have two zippers that are disguised as bookmarks to complete the illusion. These books look so authentic that you might even fool yourself into thinking that you’ve been reading an old hardcover book.

Do you like it? Yes or no?

This is the photo that has everyone torn, including us in the Giftlab office. The photo won a prestigious wildlife photography competition but now the photographer has had his £10,000 reward taken back after judges decided it was fake… well sort of fake. Obviously it is an actual wolf jumping over a fence, but they’ve decided it’s a tame wolf which the photographer had to pay to hire so he could take his photo. Which doesn’t really make it wild… which sort of defeats the object of entering it into a wildlife competition. The photographer claims it isn’t true and it is a wild wolf but the judges think they have evidence it’s tame. Why? It’s an exceedingly rare species, hardly ever seen in the wild; a wild wolf would be more likely to squeeze through the fence than leap over it; and, um, it looks like the wolf, Ossian, who you can hire. What do you think? Do you care?!

This is a pretty cool guitar tuning device. The TC Electronic PolyTune can tell exactly what notes are out simply by you strumming a chord.

It is also capable of tuning all kinds of alternate tunings, drop tunings, open tunings, and many others. Aside from being a Polyphonic tuner, PolyTune also features a chromatic tuner that can hang with any tuning technology available, with staggering 0.5 cent precision. What’s great is, PolyTune offers two chromatic tuning modes – needle mode and stream mode. The former mode caters to those who want classic view on a tuner while the latter delivers real-time information, measuring even the slightest variation in pitch and displays the information by means of a rotating motion on the display.

If you’re still not sure how it works check out this youtube video for more info

This stuff is amazing! Children’s artist Saxton Freymann took it upon himself to make art out of a variety of our five a day.

Creepy or incredible… you decide?

The lemons are especially cute.

Click on the top picture to see lots more.

Remember that really cool phone in Juno? Well this is like that… except it’s a desktop hoover.

Everyone loves a pug in an anorak…

It’s first thing in the morning, you rub your eyes, climb out of a bed and head to the kitchen to have a bowl of cereal… but hang on… what’s this I’m about to pour my Cocoa Pops into? Oh of course… an embroidered ceramic… just what I’ve always wanted. I’m sort of assuming you can’t actually use these to eat and drink from.

But you can play with their hair…

Just what the cool gift market needs… another novelty salt & pepper shaker? Probably not, but they’re still worth a mention. How do they work, you ask? Well you simply lift the barbell off the heavy cast-iron weightlifter, give the weights on each side a little twist, and, well, that’s about it…!