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A Fly On The Wall That Can Save Your Life. Lento, The Award-Winning Smoke Detector From Jalo.

Lento is an unexpectedly whimsical but safe and effective photoelectric smoke alarm designed by Finnish designer Paola Suhonen for Jalo Helsinki.

Lento will not only enhance the safety of your home, but you will also add a touch of originality. Forget the boring and unattractive smoke alarms on the market – with Lento an essential everyday object such as a smoke alarm will become an original piece of design for decorating your home and keeping it safe. Installing Lento will take only a few seconds thanks to its 3M tape and there will be no need for screws or a power drill.

The whole surface of the smoke alarm acts as a test button, so there are no tiny push buttons, but the whole external casing acts as a press switch for silencing false alarms and testing the performance. Lento has been developed and manufactured according to the requirements and standards for smoke alarms. Lento is lightweight and has a 5 year battery life time.

Available in pink, green, grey, white or black, Lento was awarded the Red Dot Design Award 2011.

Manufacturer: Jalo Helsinki
Design: Paola Suhonen

Accessories: 5 years
Warranty: 5 year battery life time
Size: Length 188 mm, width 184 mm, height 50 mm, weight 200 g
Colors: Green, Pink, White, Grey and Black
Notes: Operational temperature 0-45C, humidity 0-90%

You Can Buy it here

KUPU - Photoelectric Smoke Alarm, Design by Harri Koskinen
If you'd prefer a smoke alarm that is not quite as whimsical, Jalo Helsinki also manufactures the KUPU, another Red Dot Design Winner that is a square photoelectric smoke alarm available in multiple colors:

You can also purchase the KUPU here

Finland's Powerful Ad About Parental Drinking Turns Mom and Dad Into Monsters.

As a general rule, I'm not a big fan of using 'scary' tactics in advertising to make a point when it comes to public service announcements for things such as child abuse, smoking and the like. But this minute long spot for Fragile Childhood, an organization in Finland that encourages discussion about and prevention of parental drinking is incredibly powerful.

Created by Euro RSCG Helsinki & Grillifilms together with Sauna International & Studio Arkadena, the spot illustrates the painful isolation that children of alcoholic parents must contend with on a daily basis.

By placing the 'monster' of a parent (represented as a dark clown, the grim reaper, a scary Santa, an evil Easter Bunny, a Zombie Mom, etc.) in everyday childhood situations and seen only by the affected child, the fear and loneliness of living with such a 'monster' is powerfully demonstrated.

The Fragile Childhood activity begun in 1986 and has been established as a well-known organization in Finland.

Fragile Childhood activities are designed to encourage people to participate anonymously in discussion and to share their thoughts about responsible parental drinking on a dedicated platform: http://www.facebook.com/lasinenlapsuus

The campaign activities also highlight the fact that it is still not widely understood how much harm parental drinking causes children. Previous research has shown that every fourth Finnish child has suffered some harm because of his or her parent's alcohol usage.

The "Monsters" film was created and produced by Euro RSCG Helsinki & Grillifilms together with Sauna International & Studio Arkadena.

Thanks to Joe Berkowitz at Co.Create for bringing this to my attention!

Product Pick Of The Week: think/thing's Nestt Child Car Seat

Let me start off by saying I have spelled the name of this product correctly. Sadly, in some other articles and press, the product has been misspelled as "nesst".

Apparently the Nestt by think/thing is presently in production and has been approved by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. It must be expensive because it's falling into the 'luxury' category as stated by both the designers and other reviews.

In addition to its organic modern egg design, the Nestt uses a steel safety cage in its skeleton with memory foam cushions that clearly provides enormous side-impact protection for young children.