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Instant Coaster
A coaster that turns your own photographs into a tabletop detail.
£12.00Coast on your photos
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WTF Is That
Completely UnnecessaryTech & Gadgets
Mobile Suit Gundam Transforming Business Card Case
A business-card case that transforms like a Gundam is networking with a little mechanical ceremony.
£11.99 RRPSee the card case
Visual ShowstopperMusic & Audio
TERRA
TERRA looks like a piece of sculpture until its metal contacts start behaving like a keyboard.
£1,000–£5,000See TERRA
That's Actually BrilliantOutdoors & Adventure
LiTRIC Tour 28 S
An avalanche airbag backpack that can reset without a gas cartridge is serious mountain kit with unusual repeatability.
UK price unknownSee the LiTRIC pack
Professional SecretScience & Engineering
Kromek D3S ID Wearable Radiation Detector
A wearable detector for gamma and neutron radiation is not everyday tech, but it makes invisible risk measurable.
Price on requestSee the D3S ID
Didn't Know That ExistedAnimals & Pets
Hydro Physio Canine Underwater Treadmill
An underwater treadmill for dogs is exactly what it sounds like, which somehow makes it even more memorable.
Price on requestSee the dog treadmill
Hidden NormalFood & Drink
Ortwo
Ortwo is a spice mill you squeeze rather than twist, because grinding pepper apparently needed a different hand movement.
UK price unknownSee Ortwo
Professional SecretGarden & Farming
DP Hydraulic Pro Contractor Crush
A mobile hydraulic cattle restraint system is farm machinery built around a very particular moment in hoof care.
£25,000+See the hoof crush
Didn't Know That ExistedOutdoors & Adventure
TRIGON P-Valve
A drysuit valve for urination is an awkward problem solved with impressive directness.
£100–£250See the TRIGON valve
WTF Is ThatMusic & Audio
SOMA FLUX Touchless Magnetic-Bow Synthesizer
SOMA FLUX turns hand position and movement into sound without asking you to touch a keyboard.
£1,000–£5,000See SOMA FLUX
Future Is HereTools & Workshop
Festool ExoActive EXO 18
An 18V exoskeleton that supports your arms is an attempt to make overhead work less punishing.
UK price unknownSee the ExoActive
Didn't Know That ExistedScience & Engineering
Fluke ii905 Acoustic Imager
A camera that sees compressed-air and gas leaks turns wasted noise into a picture.
£5,000–£25,000See the ii905
Future Is HereFood & Drink
Foodini
Foodini extrudes fresh ingredients into repeatable edible shapes, giving the kitchen its own small additive-manufacturing department.
Price unavailableSee the food printer
That's Actually BrilliantTools & Workshop
WAZER Desktop Waterjet
WAZER brings abrasive waterjet cutting down to a machine small enough to picture in a workshop.
Price on requestSee the waterjet
Professional SecretProfessional & Industrial
Dakota IV Fleshing Machine
Before a hide becomes leather or a taxidermy mount, it has to be thinned and cleaned, and this guarded machine does that job.
Price unavailableSee the flesher
Future Is HereOutdoors & Adventure
CHASING DORY Underwater Drone
An underwater drone tethered to a surface float makes exploring below the water feel oddly like flying a kite.
UK price unknownSee the drone
Professional SecretGarden & Farming
JCB Tree Spade
A tree spade lifts the whole root ball, because sometimes replanting means moving the ground as well.
Price on requestSee the tree spade
Didn't Know That ExistedScience & Engineering
Echo 525 Acoustic Liquid Handler
Echo 525 moves tiny liquid samples with sound, so nothing touches them on the way, which is laboratory work at an almost absurd scale.
Price on requestSee the liquid handler
That's Actually BrilliantOutdoors & Adventure
Restube Automatic
A compact pouch that inflates a buoyancy float when it hits the water is a rescue device built to buy someone time.
UK price unknownSee the rescue float
Visual ShowstopperFood & Drink
Flavour Blaster Pro 2
A handheld bar tool that fills bubbles and clouds with edible aromatic vapour turns cocktail presentation into a small special-effects department.
£415.20See the aroma blaster
Didn't Know That ExistedScience & Engineering
SPIDER 230C Compact Radio Telescope
A small radio telescope turns the invisible sky into a local engineering project.
Price on requestSee the radio telescope
Professional SecretProfessional & Industrial
Electric Mortuary Body Hoist
Moving a body tray safely between trolleys, racks and preparation equipment is a job with its own electric hoist.
Price on requestSee the hoist
Future Is HereFood & Drink
Rotimatic NEXT
Rotimatic NEXT measures, kneads, portions, flattens and cooks rotis on its own, leaving you to wonder how far automation should go.
UK price unknownSee the roti maker
That's Actually BrilliantTech & Gadgets
Tech-Air 5 Plasma Motorcycle Airbag System
An airbag system for motorcyclists that works out for itself when a crash is happening, then inflates.
UK price unknownSee the airbag system
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