Get a grip! Inspired by the way painters hold their palettes, this silicon strap helps you not drop your expensive device. Nice hack: you can put a tennis ball (or similar) between the strap and the device to turn it into a stand.

I've been a paying user of Droplr for a few years now, but Dropshare looks like a great alternative with a low, one-off fee instead of an ongoing subscription. What is Dropshare? It's is a so-called menulet that enables you to easily drag 'n' drop files, folders and anything else to your own server, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Backblaze B2 or Google Drive. Once uploaded, the app copies the link to the file to your Mac's clipboard, ready to share.

The design of this watch is as elegant as it is brutal. Designed in collaboration with the blind, The Bradley by Eone Time is a timepiece you can touch and see to tell time. I've never seen anything like it and going through the different colour/material options I'm now seriously considering spending a few hundreds dollars on this beast...

If, like me, you often work across many different time zones you'll like this widget for your iPhone: slide down from the top and have instant access to this well-designed time zone converter. Neat!

Ok, so this is perhaps not a shelf you'd install at your office, but LiliLite is such a beautiful little product, I had to give it a shoutout. Install LiliLite over your bed to store your favourite books on one end and rest your current read (open) on the other. When you're ready to get into it, the light turns itself on automatically!

The problem with emails isn't just the amount we have to deal with, it's also the quality of the content: generic, impersonal, unimaginative. This site offers a simple collection of well-worded email copy. Would love to see this grow!