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What: Speakers
Product: Cubo 2010
Made by: Filini

UAE online furniture and lifestyle store Filini has unveiled the latest addition to its growing catalogue of products, the Sonoro Audio Cubo 2010. Designed and crafted by Germany’s Sonoro Audio, the Cubo 2010 is a sleek and stylish CD/MP3 player, clock radio and iPod dock. The product offers a smooth curved-corner design, available in four shades, and is fitted with a full-range speaker integrated with a bass-reflex tube.

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What? Book
Product: Constructing a New Agenda for Architecture: Architectural Theory 1992 – 2009
Made by: Princeton Architectural Press

This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt’s best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the approaches adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era.

What? Desk
Product: Mosaico
Made by: Coinma

Mosaico, a range of office desks from Spanish company, Coinma, answers calls for practical yet stylish workplace solutions. It combines C-shaped legs, a wooden top and an effective wire management system to create a lightweight, sculptural element. The contemporary desking solution was designed by up-and-coming Spanish designer, Mario Ruiz. “We gave him 100% freedom to create something different,” said Inazio Eguskiza, Coinma’s export manager. The end result is “light, fresh and different – a breakthrough in office furniture”.

What? Computer
Product: Eco-friendly monitor
Made by: BenQ

Forget buying solar panels or offsetting your long haul flights, now you can save the world by surfing the web. Digital manufacturer BenQ has introduced a new, eco-friendly range of computer monitors to the Middle East. The company’s LED monitor range boast higher energy savings than traditional monitors, mercury-free engineering and an armful of environmental credentials.

BenQ claims that some of its new models can save up to 70% of the energy of a normal monitor, while maintaining one of the highest dynamic contrast rations in the world. The monitors save power by using energy efficient backlighting panels, which consume almost 40% less power.