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The PocketBand is THE solution for those times when you don’t feel like carrying a wallet or your keychain. Perfect for the beach, going for a jog, swimming, or other activities, each stretchy silicone band features a secret pouch for money, keys, or other small belongings. Just turn it inside-out, put the item in the waterproof pocket, flip it back, and wear it! Whether you’re OCD, a fashionista, or just forgetful, you gotta love this fun accessory!

Designer: PocketBands

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(Wear Your Secret Stash was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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When you own one of the most beautifully designed smartphone, the iPhone, in your hand or use the intelligent Samsung Galaxy Note series, you want to ensure you treat it right with the best accessory possible. red dot award-winning studio LAB.C has a range of options, but today I want to focus on three of them; the USB Case Lineup, the Smart Wallet Case Lineup and the +D Project Lineup. My favorite is of course the +D Project.

The USB Case Lineup

The USB Case for the iPhone 4 / 4S and iPhone 5 is quite an interesting cover. The mobile phone case features an integrated USB stick that is only 2.4mm. It is the thinnest USB and you can easily attach and detach from the case. The case holds your transportation card, credit card, or any other cards that you use frequently. If you are worried about the electromagnetic waves from interfering with the card, no worries because Lab-C has created an anti-electromagnetic card that blocks it.

 

The Smart Wallet Case Lineup

LAB.C Smart Wallet Cases features pockets for your cash, credit card, and other cards that you use frequently. You can also use this case as a stand for your phone in 90 and 180-degree angles. People generally assume that magnets could be harmful to our cell phones, but after going through their special evaluation, LAB.C created a case that is not affected by the magnetic rays.

Available for: Galaxy S3 (3G/LTE), Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note2, iPhone 4/4S, iPhone 5

 

+D Project Lineup

My absolute favorite, because this project promotes the individual creative works of select designers, the +D Project Lineup is super cute and absolutely the best! The LAB.C +D Project phone cases include matching home button stickers and a free wallpaper application, so that you could match everything. You can download the +D Wallpaper App for free for both Android and Apple app stores.

Available for: iPhone4/4S, iPhone5, Galaxy Note, Galaxy S3 (3G/LTE), Galaxy Note 2

 

Designer: LAB.C [ Available Here ]

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This versatile utility bag, called Shirrley, is composed of just one piece of mesh fabric and a single string. It’s deceivingly strong and the flexible nature of the material accommodates a variety of objects. When fully collapsed, it looks like a shirred handbag but when stretched it becomes a full-size grocery bag. The space-saving design can be crumpled and easily stored in the car, closet, or another bag.

Designer: Yuree S. Hwang

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After graduating from Pratt with a degree in Industrial Design, Matthew Burnett landed gigs designing watches for Diesel, DKNY, Izod and Marc Jacobs. Eventually he broke off to set up his own watch operation, Steel Cake, with a buddy. “The only manufacturers I knew of at the time were overseas,” Burnett writes, “so that’s where we decided to start manufacturing.”

Burnett discovered that his professional experience aside, a small start-up simply didn’t have the juice of a Marc Jacobs. “[We] wouldn’t receive the same red carpet treatment I was used to when designing for larger companies,” he explains. “The time difference made it so that we had to set alarms to wake up in the middle of the night for correspondence.” Add to that “high-production minimums, low-production quality liability, and long product shipping timetables” and the venture became untenable.

He started over by founding The Brooklyn Bakery, a vintage revival accessory line encompassing watches, jewelry, wallets, phone/tablet/laptop sleeves, and even pet accessories. And the key back-end difference between this venture and his first is using local manufacturing.

Burnett explains:

Finding a manufacturer in the US was a long process, but once I found the right factory, the opportunities seemed endless. I could now make quick visits to the facility and oversee the manufacturing of my product line. I befriended many of the factory owners I dealt with as they were willing to take the time to help me manufacture the best possible products. If they couldn’t produce what I had in mind, they would reach out to their local community to see who could. It was these personal connections that helped me build a dependable network of manufacturers.

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A secure loop that doubles as a charging cable.

We all know that it takes more than 24-hours to create a fully realized product, but in what might be the world’s fastest product launch, Quirky teamed up with Fab to host a 24-hour iPhone 5 Accessory Design-a-Thon. Although some of these ideas could use an extra 24-hours or more, the suite of accessories will go from concept to market in less than a week with the winning designs available to consumers beginning on Wednesday, September 19th on Fab.com.

Things kicked off last night as 53 potential products (culled from an initial batch of 1,750 ideas from the Quirky community) went through a rapid-fire evaluation at Quirky’s New York City offices. Panelists included Ben Kaufman (Quirky Founder and CEO), members of the Quirky team, Lukas Thomas and Devin Guinn (both buyers from Fab).

With the clock ticking, the panelists quickly narrowed the accessory options down to 18 products and set varying design teams to hammer down the design details and packaging options to ready the products for manufacturing. By 2AM, the teams presented their sketches to the broader Quirky community via livestream to narrow the feature set and details for the final products. See the Quirky blog for more info about the 24-hour Design-a-Thon! We’ve always been a cheerleader of prototyping fast and early so to go from concept to the factory in 24-hours is pretty remarkable. If only all our products were manufacturer-ready after the first prototype!

As of press time, the design teams were busy prepping the final CAD files for manufacturing. Here’s a snapshot of some of the accessories we’re most excited about seeing in their fully realized state (click the image to go to the product page):

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