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Last Chance to grab this tiny forest-powered natural air purifier at a discounted price!

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With over 80% of briiv Air Filters delivered to loyal Kickstarter backers, the all-natural forest-powered air-cleanser is beginning its transition from a crowdfunded product to a retail product… which means you’ve got a limited window of time to buy a briiv of your own at its 28% discounted crowdfunding price.

Designers: Sean Sykes & James Whitfield

Click Here to Buy Now: $344 $477 (28% off). Hurry, only 5 left! Raised over $1,000,000.

Made from 90% natural and sustainable materials and 100% biodegradable filter materials, briiv is the most sustainable natural air purifier there is. Designed to look like a tiny terrarium, briiv ditches those non-biodegradable HEPA filters for a natural kind of filtration that does the job of 3,043 houseplants, purifying a standard 6m x 6m room in just 1 hour. It does so while consuming negligible amounts of energy (5V) and generating zero waste. All those features combined together, briiv’s gone on to receive international recognition and a seal of approval from numerous organizations including winning the prestigious 2021 Red Dot Award and also being named the WIRED ‘Gear of the Year’ for 2021.

While the pandemic has practically created a boom for the air-purifier industry, its clean air has an incredibly dirty secret behind it… HEPA filters aren’t recyclable and they don’t biodegrade. 6000 tonnes of HEPA filters find their way into landfills each year and they take millennia to decompose. While using them in medical equipment and PPE makes sense, briiv aims to shift the perception that human-manufactured plastic filters are needed in domestic air purifiers. Unlike artificial plastic-based HEPA filters, briiv utilizes nature not only in the elephant grass-based bioplastic but also the filters themselves, which are derived from lichen, coconut, and ahimsa silk, that are extremely effective at tackling air pollution but need absolutely no maintenance or watering. They generate zero artificial waste, are completely biodegradable, and offer a healthy, natural, and aesthetic alternative that’s as good as having a mini-forest in your house.

With a design that looks like a cross between a terrarium and an Apple Homepod, the briiv is a modern-looking air purifier that adds a touch of green to your apartment. The filter comes with a special, sustainably-grown, dried moss on the inside that naturally purifies the air by trapping harmful particles, killing microorganisms, and releasing clean, fresh air. Sitting underneath the moss are multiple bio-filters, including one made from loosely woven coconut fibers, another filter comprising reconstituted and recycled coconut waste material, and a proprietary bespoke material created combination filter made of silk and activated carbon that together combines to filter particles as small as PM 0.3 while also trapping and neutralizing bacteria, molds, and other volatile organic compounds to give you air that’s been freshened naturally, in a filter that’s designed to be the equivalent of as many as 3000 house plants in one device.

Ultimately, briiv is a winning combination of nature-inspired design and consumer-tech. The purifier comes with smart features that let you power it with your voice, allowing you to either use your smart speaker to perform a deep-purification cycle, or use the briiv’s app to set on and off timers on your phone. A simple 1-hour run-time on the briiv does the job of a miniature forest, rapidly cleansing the air you breathe by helping trap microparticles, microorganisms, and odors. briiv doesn’t need to be watered or kept in the sun, and the replaceable filters can easily be composted instead of being thrown in the trash. It does the job of a well-engineered air-purifier, while all along being bio-friendly and adding a beautiful touch of greenery and nature to your space!

The road to providing homes with filtered air has been a rather winding one for briiv. While the pandemic and a need for cleaner air helped briiv cross the $1 million milestone, the designers also had to overcome challenges presented by halts in the supply chain brought about by several lockdowns. briiv is now delivering to backers (with over 80% of commitments fulfilled), and its crowdfunding campaign officially ends on the 1st of November. Go ahead and grab your own forest-powered air filter while it’s still running a crowdfunding discounted price of £249 ($344) before you end up having to pay its full retail price of £349 ($477)!

Click Here to Buy Now: $344 $477 (28% off). Hurry, only 5 left! Raised over $1,000,000.

The adjustable wrench gets a glorious redesign after nearly 130 years

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In our pursuit to relentlessly fix stuff around the world and make them better, we designers often forget to look at the very tools we use to create, repair, and redesign our lives. The adjustable spanner/wrench, a pretty standard part of every toolkit, was designed by a certain Swedish man called Johan Petter Johansson. The patent for his design (which looks exactly like the adjustable wrench we see today) dates back to 1892, and hasn’t seen much change in years. In fact, just 30 years later, it was redesigned by Edwin J. Evans, but the new format never caught on.

The MetMo Grip builds on Edwin J. Evans’ redesign, which now exists in the public domain. There’s something extremely simple and sophisticated about the MetMo Grip’s schematic. The wrench’s jaw is operated using a single metal piece that slides up and down a threaded column with varying pitches. Long-story-short, move the metal piece up and down and the jaws of the wrench open and close. The entire tool comes fabricated from stainless steel, with incredibly low tolerances that result in a smooth movement of parts. The wrench’s innovative mechanism makes it much easier to open and close as compared to the conventional adjustable wrench you’ve got in your toolkit, while ensuring that once opened, the jaws of the wrench are incredibly secure, allowing you to tighten or loosen screws with ease.

That, however, isn’t all that the MetMo Grip has to offer. Its robust design even integrates a box-cutter and bottle-opener into it. Its small, effective design makes it the perfect upgrade for every toolkit, allowing it to be used in workshops, repair centers, garages, and if you plan on carrying the MetMo Grip outdoors, an integrated belt hook loop allows you to secure this innovative EDC tool around your waist.

What’s really remarkable about the MetMo Grip’s design is the fact that its schematic existed over 90 years ago, but never really reached its full potential. With over a 1000 backers since the project’s launch, the MetMo Grip hopes to fix that discrepancy, and give the world a wrench that’s efficient, delightful to use, and is so buttery smooth, it could even serve as a fidget-toy!

Designers: Sean Sykes & James Whitfield

Click Here to Buy Now: $129 $142 (10% off). Hurry, only 5/70 left! Raised over $220,000.

MetMo Grip – A Piece of History Re-engineered

The MetMo Grip is both a fidget toy and multi-tool, keeping you satisfied for hours on end either fiddling with it or using it to clamp the life out of something.

Why MetMo Grip?

The team found a patent of an early 20th Century variable grip wrench and immediately fell in love with the concept. MetMo Grip is a tribute to the furious innovation at the start of the last century that lead to an overhaul in the means of production and design of everyday tools.

Made using modern methods from contemporary materials, MetMo Grip is an engineering oddity and marvel that’s as comfortable as a fidget toy as it is clamping together steel.

Who’s it For?

Made for designers, engineers, thinkers, and anyone who wants to just take a moment to focus, relieve stress or just play around.

A Fidget Toy That’s Also a Handy Tool

From a standard 1/4 inch bit holder to a handy box opener, the MetMo Grip is ready to tackle your daily tasks with ease.

Simply sliding the jaws open and closed is satisfying. The weight feels reassuring in the hand and you know that if you do ever need to get a grip on something, MetMo is there for the job.

No more fiddling with your adjustable wrenches, spinning the gear over and over til (maybe) you fix it in the right place. The MetMo Grip design is snap-able in a second and securely locks in place so you get it right first time, every time.

What is MetMo Grip Made Of?

MetMo Grip is machined from solid stainless steel, with a hard anodized 6061 aluminum adjuster. Stainless steel components form the body of MetMo Grip with a precision formed solid rod and CNC machined jaws. The helix shaft is machined from 1020 carbon steel that’s ready to take on the rigors of any tough job.

6061 hard anodized aluminum is the chosen metal for the adjuster. Lightweight and durable, aluminum adds function without adding extra weight.

Precision manufactured using five axis CNC machinery puts the grip a cut above the rest. With the precise tolerances achievable with modern manufacturing, their re-imagining of this grip is more fluid and satisfying than the original, as well as being stronger and more reliable.

Technical Data

Weight: 300g
Size: 180mm x 60mm x 13mm
Finish: Sandblasted stainless steel
Grip Force: 1.2Kg (2.6 lbs)
Materials: 304 Stainless Steel – 6061 Anodized Aluminum – 1020 Carbon Steel

Built-in automatic locking – Simply adjust to a size and the jaws will hold firmly in place.

Why This Design?

Design Team: We found the original tool and immediately fell in love with just how satisfying it was to use and fiddle with. We found ourselves constantly playing with the mechanism whilst at our desks. It was so fascinating watching the motion and feeling the weight of such a well constructed tool, it left us feeling that this was something we just had to share with the world!

So we set out to recreate this ancient design with the focus on making it useful as well as enjoyable, to have and to hold even when it’s not being used as a tool.

We wanted it to stand out against modern tools by keeping its vintage design roots, resembling the trusty engineers precision calipers.

We also wanted to honor the legacy and impact of the Wrench Wars. Without this period of rapid innovation, we’d likely have much fewer options in terms of the tools we have today. Necessity begets invention, as they say, and though now a half-forgotten relic, the Grip style can make a comeback in the 21st Century.

Click Here to Buy Now: $129 $142 (10% off). Hurry, only 5/70 left! Raised over $220,000.

This natural Air Purifier uses a miniature forest to rapidly clean your atmosphere!

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Well, if you can’t go to the forest to breathe clean air, how about you bring the forest to your house?? The Briiv is a household terrarium, but more importantly, it’s a fresh take on air-filtration that ditches those HEPA filters and UV lights for something more natural.

Here’s a fact not many people know; HEPA filters aren’t recyclable and they don’t biodegrade. 6000 tonnes of HEPA filters find their way into landfills each year and they take millennia to decompose. While using them in medical equipment and PPE makes sense, the Briiv aims to shift the perception that human-manufactured plastic filters are needed in domestic air purifiers. Unlike artificial HEPA filters, the Briiv uses plants and plant-based filtration systems that are just as effective at tackling air pollution, but need absolutely no maintenance or watering. They generate zero artificial waste, are completely biodegradable and offer a healthy, natural and aesthetic alternative that’s as good as having a mini-forest in your house.

With the design that looks like a cross between a terrarium and an Apple Homepod, the Briiv is a modern-looking air purifier that adds a touch of green to your apartment. The filter comes with a special, sustainably-grown, dried moss on the inside that naturally purifies the air by trapping harmful particles, killing microorganisms, and releasing clean, fresh air. Sitting underneath the moss are multiple bio-filters, including one made from loosely woven coconut fibers, another filter comprising carbon-infused hemp, and a woolen microfiber filter that together combine to filter particles as small as PM 0.3 while also trapping and neutralizing bacteria, molds, and other volatile organic compounds to give you air that’s been freshened naturally, in a filter that’s designed to be the equivalent of as many as 3000 house plants in one device.

The Briiv, ultimately, is a winning combination of nature-inspired design and consumer-tech. The purifier comes with smart-features that let you power it with your voice, allowing you to either use your smart speaker to perform a deep-purification cycle, or use the Briiv’s app to set on and off timers on your phone. A simple 1-hour run-time on the Briiv does the job of a miniature forest, rapidly cleansing the air you breathe by helping trap microparticles, microorganisms, and odors. The Briiv doesn’t need to be watered or kept in the sun, and the replaceable filters can easily be composted instead of being thrown in the trash. It does the job of a well-engineered air-purifier, while all along being bio-friendly and adding a beautiful touch of greenery and nature to your space!

Designers: Sean Sykes & James Whitfield

Click Here to Buy Now: $316 $380 ($64 off). Hurry, less than 72 hours left! Raised over $180,000.

Briiv – World’s Most Sustainable Air Purifier

Powered by NASA technology the Briiv uses 100% renewable and natural materials to filter the air in your home or office environment, creating clean, safe air so you live healthier, sleep better and breathe easier.

What Causes Poor Indoor Air Quality?

Pollutants don’t just come from traffic and factories. Tiny particles and harmful gases are released into your home every time you cook, light candles, use cleaning products and even play with your pets. Briiv helps to remove these so you can enjoy life to its fullest.

How Does Briiv Compare to Using Traditional House Plants?

Plants are amazing, there’s no denying that, however, Briiv is as powerful as 3,043 medium size houseplants. So you can enjoy the benefits of having plants in your home without the hassle.

The Problem with Current Filters

15,000,000 air filters were purchased in 2019 and the filter needs to be replaced every 6-8 months.

Briiv is Designed to Return to the Earth

Using four fully biodegradable filters, Briiv uses the natural micro-structures of moss, coconut, carbon and wool to filter air, the way nature intended. These filters are all plastic free and degrade in a matter of months into harmless soil.

Feel Closer to Nature

Inspired by the British countryside, Briiv uses natural colors, textures and materials to connect you with nature, whilst hidden within, a wealth of features works hard to keep your air clean:

Internet of Things

Optional integration for Alexa and Google Assistant if you’d like to integrate Briiv into your smart home.

Control on the Go

Briiv has a smart, simple app, so you can set timers and turn Briiv off remotely. Briiv is a smart device for a modern home and is compatible with IOS and Android devices.

An intelligent app that tracks your filter usage as it runs, so you don’t have to estimate or worry about when it’s time to change it.

Filter Stages

Moss: Natural dried moss captures large particulate matter like dust and animal dander from the air.

Coconut: The humble coconut provides us with a bounty of uses and its husk traps harmful substances from the air.

Carbon: Activated charcoal pulls odors from the air, so Briiv not only cleans the air, it smell better too.

Sheep: Briiv’s secret weapon. Developed to be used by NASA as air filters in the Orion capsule, this wool filter is as effective as a plastic HEPA filter but its 100% biodegradable.

The wool is sourced from New Zealand, from an amazing breed of sheep called Astino. They are very well cared for and all of our farmers practice safe and humane shearing to keep the sheep happy and healthy.

Briiv wool filters have been scientifically tested by Nelson Labs in the USA, using the following tests:

Particle Filtration Efficiency – Results: Filter captured 99.85% of 0.1um latex particles.
Bacterial Filtration Efficiency – Results: Filter removed 99.99902% of the bacteria.
Cytotoxicity – Results: Test gave a pass.

The manufacturers of the wool have also put together a video using a test rig showing the effectiveness of the wool that can be viewed on Vimeo here.

Briiv will effectively improve the air quality in a 36m² (387ft²) living space in just one hour.

Replacing the Filter

To replace the carbon and wool filters, simply lift off the glass with the coconut filter in place. It’s as simple as that.

Rethinking Plastic

Instead of opting for oil-based plastics, Briiv uses a new bio-plastic derived from elephant grass which is grown where agricultural crops can’t be. This crop captures carbon in the process and fully biodegrades.

This is seen as far superior to recycling as standard plastics can only be reused a few times before so they have to be put to landfills.

The power of the humble coconut. The fibres are from the outer husk of the nut and have been used since ancient times, reformed into a patented structure to make an environmentally friendly filter that easily returns to nature.

Parts that are not biodegradable, such as the glass, can be easily recycled. This leaves only the electrical components. They hope to be able to replace these in the future with more sustainable alternatives when technology allows us to do so in a safe way.

Click Here to Buy Now: $316 $380 ($64 off). Hurry, less than 72 hours left! Raised over $180,000.

This RFID-blocking key-fob case works like a faraday cage to protect your car from theft

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Just like your contact-less payment cards stand a chance of being tapped into by a miscreant with a POS device, your car’s key-fob stands a risk of being hacked into, its signal being boosted or duplicated, and used to unlock your car. Ever since the introduction of remote-controlled key-fobs, car theft hasn’t decreased, but rather has seen a 56% spike according to the office of national statistics.

The problem with key-fobs is that security for this is easy to compromise. People have been known to use jammers, replicators, boosters, and other easy-to-make devices that capture the codes your key-fob sends to the car, allowing hackers to replicate it to gain access of your vehicle, a practice known as key-fob spoofing. Now while automobile manufacturers are only catching up to these hackers, there’s a simple way of mitigating this problem entirely. A good old Faraday Cage.

Designed to protect your key-fob from physical damage as well as digital theft, the KeyBlock is an RFID-blocking case that you can store the fob and keys in. The fob sits inside a compact, specialized hard-case enclosure, while the keys hang from it. Practically the size of your key-fob itself, you can carry the KeyBlock around with you. The RFID-blocking housing prevents spoofers and hackers from replicating the signature key-code your fob generates, and therefore denies them access to your car. When you DO need to use the fob, just open the box and slide it out using a slider built right into the KeyBlock’s side. An internal spring mechanism keeps your fob in place, preventing it from sliding out if held upside-down, and a small leash holds your keys too, letting you open your car the old-fashioned way, should you choose.

Designed to be compact, the KeyBlock fits right into the palm of your hand, and can slide right into your pockets without adding any bulk. Crafted from fine leather, the KeyBlock can be customized to match your car style, allowing you to choose between different tans, finishes, from Tesla’s signature blue, to Aston Martin’s carbon-fiber print. It even comes with a customizable base, letting you engrave your name and phone number into the base of the KeyBlock, if it ever gets lost or left behind!

Designers: James Whitfield & Sean Sykes

Click Here To Buy Now: $39 $46 (15% off). Hurry, for a limited time only!

About KeyBlock

KeyBlock is the world’s ultimate RFID case for your keys! KeyBlock not only keeps your keys safe from hackers, it prevents damage, keeps things together, has free personalization and will instantly upgrade any car key.

Protect

Two thieves with commercially available transmitters can boost the signal from your key inside your house and gain access to your car in under 60 seconds.

More Than Just a Key Safe

You wouldn’t buy a car that barely held together. Or shoes. Or windows. You lock your house door at night, not just roll a boulder in front of it. This is an elegant solution to an increasing problem.

Push Button Ejector

Unlocking your car at a distance is a convenience we don’t want to deprive you of. KeyBlock is easy to use single-handed, leaving your other hand free to carry the shopping, open the door for your partner or keep your child close.

Carbon Leather

Why settle for some plastic or polyurethane cover? They have the actual leathers used in Aston Martin and Tesla models to cover your keys. You don’t compromise on security, so why compromise on looks?

Composite Construction for Maximum Signal Blocking

Multi-layered RFID shielding within a modern polymer housing, wrapped in wear-resistant leather. Security that doesn’t sacrifice style.

Keyless Ignition

For keyless ignition the key is ejected and held halfway with our patent pending internal mechanism. The single-button operation makes it a dream to use, so you can get on the road quickly and easily.

Buttoned Cap

They have incorporated a leather cap to hold your key secure. Simply pop it open, use the slider button and your key fob is there. Stainless steel as well, so it isn’t going to wear out.

Split Ring

But what about your other keys, the ones that can’t be scanned (as easily, anyway)? A built-in split ring allows you the option of keeping all your keys together.

Stands Up for You

They wanted this to look great even when on the side board in your house, so they designed it to stand wherever it was placed, keeping your keybowl organised.

Personalised

Put your name on it, phone number, a message or a date. Whatever you like. Probably avoid your registration though. Gives the game away too easy.

Mint Condition

Now you can keep the key in as good condition as the day you bought it, all while keeping it safe.

Pocket Sized

KeyBlock is sized to fit neatly in any pocket, whether suit, trouser or otter.

Click Here To Buy Now: $39 $46 (15% off). Hurry, for a limited time only!