Go The Twizy Way

Newly released in Europe, the Twizy is an electric car from Renault. Measuring just 2,338 millimeters long, 1,237 millimeters wide and 1,454 millimeters high, it is ideally suited to the unique space requirements of a city driver.

The battery is leased for just €45, including taxes, for an annual distance of 7,500km. Ample distance for a city run around!

More information on the Renault Twizy can be found on Buzzecolo (in French) and on the Renault website

Pocket Letterpress

Let me set the scene: you are at a trade fair and have to give out your business card, but horror of horrors, you forgot the whole box at home. What do you do? Well if you are Copenhagen designer Ishac Bertan, you pull out the little pocket letterpress he made from recycled parts.

You can see a gallery of how the letterpress is used on étapes

I Could Eat A Horse Pasta Portion Measure

We’ve all seen the usual past portion measures around town. The little things that look like rulers with holes of various sizes in them. But what if you wanted something different for your kitchen, something that measures your portions according to how hungry you really are. Here it is, the “I Could Eat A Horse” pasta portion measure.

Tell the truth, sometimes, you aren’t that hungry and could maybe eat a child’s portion of spaghetti, another day you might feel like a little more, but not too much. So you take the woman’s size portion. Then after a particular hard day, when you didn’t manage to get lunch, you could eat a horse, now you actually can!

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