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DMTC: Smile Cooking Toaster

Smile Toaster by Xu Yan Xiang

Didn’t Make the Cut: Gifts on Wantist must meet two criteria—the ability to buy it today and overall gift greatness. When we come across something we’d like to share but doesn’t pass the test, we post it here.

We all know that a good breakfast is a healthy way to start the day, so it stands to reason that smiling toast would be a healthy, and happy, addition to your morning routine.

Our friend Melissa helped us discover this grinning gadget—something funny for someone geeky we thought. But alas it’s only a concept and the closest match in the retail world was not nearly as snazzy, nor reliable.

Have a suggestion for something funny for someone geeky? Let us know in the comments below.

(Thanks, Melissa!)

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Smile Toaster by Xu Yan Xiang

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DMTC: Write-A-Bike

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Didn’t Make the Cut: Gifts on Wantist must meet two criteria—the ability to buy it today and overall gift greatness. When we come across something we’d like to share but doesn’t pass the test, we post it here.

I’m imagining a street full of these filling the screen in a Gondry film. A stunning gift if it existed, Write-A-Bike by Swiss designer Juri Zaech is, at this point, just a lovely expression of his imagination with the possibility of a prototype on the way. All that’s missing is a girl in a hat with a red ballon.

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DMTC: TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits

TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits

One of our criteria for products included on Wantist is the ability to get it today. When you need a gift you usually can’t wait too long, and while we come across some really amazing almost-there ideas coming out of the industrial design world every day, unless you can buy it, it won’t make the cut. Every so often we’d still like to share them with you, so here’s numero uno.

Our first edition of Didn’t Make the Cut (DMTC) should include a big ol “Yet” because it’s very likely they’ll be in production soon. It’s a Kickstarter project (if you don’t know what that means read here) by Chicago-based design studio MINIMAL to build premium watch bands that “transform the iPod Nano into the world’s coolest mutli-touch watches”.

Check out the video below to see more about the two versions they’ve designed, TikTok and LunaTik. If you want to get in on the ground floor, consider a pledge to be one of the first to get your hands on one of these. (They’ve already raised $231K in three days!)

This is a very cool idea and the design looks terrific. We’re particularly smitten with the LunaTik and as soon as it hits stores we’ll change this one from Yet to Yes!

TikTok will retail for $34.95 and LunaTik will retail for $69.95.

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