This is great news for me as it’ll be in my neck of the woods - near the Columbia Road Flower Market - giving me the chance to ooh and ahh at his designs (and then ouch! at the price tags) in person, rather than on his Etsy shop.

Both Ryan and Callesen have some remarkable work on their sites so if you’re unfamiliar with them I highly recommend a look!

Today sees the start of the 61st Cannes Festival and for the second year running LG are partners for the festival, this year bringing all the highlights and best clips to you via the web on our special Scarlet monitor inspired viewer, in partnership with Canal+.

Sadly the service is French so lost on me but for the multi-lingual (&/or French!) among you, you can find out more here.

Which has been watched an incredible 2,483,947 times since it was added to YouTube on May 5th. Is it a clever advert or PR stunt or just some guys with too much time and/or an aversion to getting dressed in the traditional fashion? …No pun intended.

Either way, I recommend you don’t try it at home - skinny jeans can be painful enough without trying to get into them at high speed!

Terrifying for me because I have enough trouble playing on a standard table but also because I can imagine the havoc created were we to actually get one in our office! Fortunately there is only one of these giant tables in existence at the moment; built for beer promotion during the recent European Champions League finals.in
It also reminds me of another beer advert which suggested ‘You do the football, we’ll do the beer’ - I’ll buy the beer if I need to but please do not make any more of these tables - the guys in my office all went misty eyed at the mere idea of a bigger foozball table, the office would never be the same if they actually got hold of one!

And another thing our office would never be the same with is the jDome - a new invention by John Nilsson, a Swedish gamer who, fed up with waiting for technology to improve his gaming immersion, took his inspiration from an OmnImax cinema. The jDome will give gamers a massive 180-degree field of vision instead of the usual 15 to 20 degrees they get from their monitors and Nilsson believes it will be possible to sell them for around $125-200, keeping prices low by only having the high quality focus right where gamers need it - straight ahead - and a lower quality visibility more like motion detection for peripheral views.

I’ve just been emailed a link to this wonderfully ingenious clock by Dutch designer Christiaan Postma. He explains “The starting point with this project was a personal study about form & time. I put together more than 150 individual clockworks and made them work together to become one clock. I show the progress of time by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks.”

The clock was on show as part of the annual Design Academy Eindhoven student show at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. It’s a very engaging clock, one I could happily watch for quite sometime, which I suppose is the point - this clock makes you think about time and it’s passing, rather than just remember you’re running late for that meeting.

Speaking of which…

Water Lilies brooch, inspired by the painting of the same name by Claude Monet.

Then Register Hardware brought the Mobile Watch - complete with camera, Wi-Fi, 512MB memory card and GPS satnav - to my attention too:

As a result I had to spend a few minutes quietly repeating to myself ‘there is a big difference between wanting and affording’ before I could be trusted near the computer (or my purse!)
I think the major problem was that with these items combined my latest desires would have allowed me to feel like a bond girl and the agent himself simultaneously - a very tempting combination!

Fortunately Susie over at Style Bubble has bought a more affordable temptation to me - the East End Thrift Shop - and Dezeen have given me another affordable distraction by bringing the Rolf Sachs ‘ Take2′ exhibition to my attention and, thanks to the clever Mr Clayton, I have The Cans Festival to check out too!

So much to see but not to buy…

Last Friday we had the pleasure of some of the UK’s top tech and style bloggers at an exclusive event at London’s May Fair Hotel to have a look at the new LG Secret (KF750). A good crowd turned up, and as well as meeting us in the flesh, they got a chance to hear from Jeremy Newing, UK head of marketing for LG Mobile.

Jeremy first went through the phone’s features with a presentation, and then he fielded a really engaging Q&A with the audience, talking about the progress LG Mobile have made, LG’s plans for the future, including more open development for our phones, collaborating with users more, and designing phones with “Web 2.0″ in mind. After that our guests got a chance to try the phones hands-on.

I won’t go into to too much detail, as I think it’s best to read what the bloggers there thought instead, so why not check them out - from SMS Text News, Gaj-It and one part truth. There’ll be more to come (including video of the event) over the coming week, so keep an eye out for more…

Today in London, we revealed the name of the third in the LG Black Label line of phones - the LG Secret. The Secret (KF750) is a slender & stylish handset with a slew of enriched technological features, including a 5MP ISO 800 camera, a 120fps QVGA video camera and DivX-certified recording and playback. The camera also boasts a range of filters and modes, as well as on-camera photo editing.

The phone has a touchscreen and an accelerometer motion sensor. It also has auto luminance control, adjusting the screen brightness automatically, saving both battery life and making it more comfortable for your eyes. Inside, the phone boasts an MP3 player and FM radio, a reader for Word, Excel and Powerpoint and is loaded with a specialised Google Package that with a dedicated interface for Google services such as GMail, Google Maps, YouTube and Blogger. It also has Bluetooth AutoSync to synchronise data seamlessly with your PC, and on the fun side a range of games that hook into the motion sensor.

With the philosophy of “style that lasts”, it’s been made out of some of toughest materials around, including carbon fibre and tempered glass, with neon touch navigation buttons that gently light up the interface.

For more information, you can download the press release or the feature list. More photos and coverage can be found in our sneak peak post from a couple of weeks ago, or on the dedicated microsite at secret.lgmobile.com

Update: We have some video of the phone too. Enjoy:

Laptop pillows are nothing new - PCWorld blogs about a nice design for those laden with accessories - you can pop your mouse or external drives & cables into the pocket beneath. Of course you don’t have to splash the cash - you can go with a DIY approach instead - the comments section on this Lifehacker post is a great selection of homebrew laptop rest solutions. So whatever you want, if you’re suffering from a hot or heavy laptop on your knees, there’s no reason to put up with it at all.