House Blend

Load up on creative home goods without leaving your actual home by shopping MyHabit, Amazon's take on the flash sale craze. You know the drill: hefty discounts on brand-name merch for a limited time. The Amazon innovations include a fuss-free interface, integration with your existing Amazon account and free shipping, at lightning speed. Launched with an impressive assortment of fashion brands, the site continues to build up its home and design section. Recent sales have ranged from cult brands (Lexon, MIU France) to oddball treasures (a robot lamp made from industrial pipes, an iPhone cover printed with axes).

Put your money where your eye and your heart is by shopping at Design with Benefits, a new online store. “We partner with companies, promote design efforts, and sell products that embody design activism and ethical values at the core of their businesses,” says Florida-born, Chile-based architect Tania Garbe, whose motivation to found the site was the challenges she encountered while working on design projects overseas. Purchase products such as handcrafted wooden radios, elephant art created to benefit endangered Asian elephants, and copper jewelry made from a salvaged Frank Lloyd Wright roof confident that each month, a percentage of Design with Benefits' net profits is donated to a remarkable public interest project.

First came the tablets and then came the deluge of options for toting them around scratch-free. Our favorites come from Italy, where Pijama designs and manufactures soft cases for sleeping devices and "people who love and hate technology and are bored of anonymous folders." Free of zippers and handles, the Velcro-close cases are made of neoprene, combined with a selection of fabrics that range from wool suiting fabrics in plaids and checks to vintage hand-printed cotton. Your iPad will thank you for swathing it in a "dandy red herringbone" sleeve.

Finally, a way to swiftly and safely dump all of the stuff you've hoarded away with the best (albeit vague) recycling intentions! Load up everything from spent printer cartridges and mystery cables to dead cell phones and fried laptops into a Technotrash Can, then send the collection box back to GreenDisk. The Sammamish, Washington-based company will responsibly recycle all of your e-waste and take care to securely dispose of any private information. Want proof? Upon making your computer-related junk disappear, they'll send you a certificate of destruction supported by an audit trail report.

What do you get when you combine graphic design, the tarot, numerology and Gestalt psychology? Intùiti, a new approach to creativity that takes the form of a deck of 78 illustrated cards, each matched with its own inspiraional "tale" in an accompanying booklet. "There are no rules," says Milan-based writer, designer, and artist Matteo di Pascale, who is seeking backers for the project via Kickstarter through March 12. "It's a tool for creative thinking based on visual and imaginary associations, so you just have to shuffle the deck, pick a card and 'let it speak.'"

Double letter score? Triple word score? The elusive "Z"? Everyone wins with this edible take on Scrabble. Andie's Specialty Sweets bakes up faux-woodgrain letter tiles and tile racks that are flavored with pure vanilla and real chocolate (a set is $115.99 on Etsy). Bring your own game board -- they also look great on cakes and make sweet placecards. So how do they T-A-S-T-E? Expect "kind of a mellow chocolate, with a punch of pure chocolate at the face of the letter," say the Dallas-based candymakers.