We asked 10 designers "What product do you wish YOU had designed?"



Art Lebedev: Griffin Technology's PowerMate is something I want to be the author of. It's an extension of my left arm.



Brave Space Design: We're bigtime fans of the Bodum hollow walled glasses. They're pretty great. Jesse says the idea of selling a cup of coffee for a dollar when it costs 3 cents to make. He's a little jaded.



Big-Game: The Bic® Cristal® ball point pen.


Florian Krautli: Uh, I can't think of a specific one just now. But there are often very simple ideas in products which make me go "Great! Why didn't I think of that!"



Robert Langhorn: This might seem odd, but I recently bought a cat toy called the ‘Cat-Dancer’. It’s made from thirty inches of piano wire that has five tiny pieces of rolled-up paper attached to it which you wave about and it drives cats crazy. Everybody I know with a cat swears by it. I admire its economy and that it transcends the usual aesthetic values that we place on things. The enjoyment I get from playing with my cat with this toy is such that a critique of it as an object becomes irrelevant. There are a lot of over-designed pet toys available, but I’ve never seen anything as affordable, obvious or as effective as this one.

More wishful thinking tomorrow.