I love the minimal elegance of this Kairi Eguchi-designed collection of modular organisers. Together, these trays and stands form a minimal, aluminium grid for desktop organisation. The only problem: they're far too pretty to sully with actual stuff.

Kuvva's app streams illustrated wallpapers by the likes of Oliver Jeffers, Cristiana Couceiro and Jean Jullien straight to your desktop (iPhone version also available). You can sit down to a fresh backdrop every day – a simple way to constantly reframe your working environment – or just stick to a handful of your favourites.

As more and more of the traditional desktop accoutrements get absorbed by the screen, you'd better make sure that the few physical tools that remain are the very finest. These brass-finish scissors look great and have a satisfyingly crisp ker-chop to them. Every cut feels like it means something.

Zapping lengthy documents from the real world into your computer can be a bit of a chore. This mobile app is surprisingly effective at scanning – just point and shoot. With some minor realignments and contrast adjustments, you can put a PDF together in no time. I haven't used my desktop scanner in months.

Originally intended as storage for bricks or Halloween treats, this modern memento mori is also a rather handy place to shove receipts. Other heads are available, but there's something nicely uncanny with this one, like it belongs in the lab of some mad scientist experimenting on human-minifig hybrids. Stare into the depths of its black hollow eyes and contemplate the inevitability of death, taxes and Lego.

Just tell @binnightbot which day of the week your bins are scheduled to be collected, and every week you'll get a handy reminder to put them out. That's what it does, that's all it does. A great example of how automated tweets can be used to offer simple solutions to small problems. Never let your IRL trashcan overflow again.