Whenever I see clips of a bold female newscaster doing post-game interviews in a male pro athlete locker room and maintaining her professional composure, I always think that she's probably not struck by the men walking around in various states of undress; she's probably reeling from the unfamiliar smell.

Not sure why sweaty guys smell so bad, but we do, can't help it. Industrial designer Rahim Bhimani's entry in the James Dyson Awards is aimed at this problem: His Ultraviolet Sports Pack is a bag containing two ultraviolet wands that the user inserts into their kicks to burn off that funky odor.

Almost three years ago to the day, I was at the Designersblock exhibition in London's East End covering the Design Festival for Core when I clocked Nicholas Roope navigating his way through the crowded room with a step ladder to casually install a last minute prototype of the very first Plumen Bulb. After several more prototypes and iterations, it's great to see Hulger's Plumen Light Bulb launch today!

At first take, this might seem like a radical departure from the retro inspired mobile and skype handsets Hulger launched in 2005, but the Plumen bulb embodies the same playful subversive spirit, it's just a little more grown up and serious in nature.

The handsets were never seen as a long term proposition, they knew the novelty factor alone meant it had a life span but saw great potential in applying this approach to other product categories. The concept of using Hulger as platform was always a notion, even back in 2006 when they ran a workshop at St Martins for the final year Industrial Design students called Hulgerisation. Students were challenged to go beyond the social, economical and technological drivers that push product development and ask how can a product not only be made more useable, but also more enjoyable.

I'm soooo digging the Match votive candleholders designed by Stockholm-based Form Us With Love, which features a slit running down the side you you can insert a match to light the thing without having to invert it and light upwards, an act that in my klutzy fingers usually ends with dripping, burning hot wax.

I came across FUWL while checking out another of their neat projects, the convenient-to-ship Unfold pendant lamp, made from silicone rubber.

Both the Match and the Unfold are in production by Danish company Muuto.

New media studio Zeitguised released these renderings a few days ago, dubbing them Boolean Taxidermy. Apparently, they showcase a method called Kontaktschmelze, described as follows by the studio:

Kontaktschmelze (contact fusion) is the first work using our concept of the 'boolean camera'. To make use of 3d cg space in a uniquely digital way, space is not cut by a projection of a plane onto a 2d screen anymore: instead, we 'look' through the cutting shape of a 3d object to realise the shape of another."

As much as we'd like to, it can be tough for designers to do work for the causes we care about. There is always a lack of time and money available to put toward working on projects "that matter" and have to be done pro-bono. One unique grant program, Sappi Fine Paper's Ideas that Matter, is in its 11th year of helping make this problem a little easier, having given over $10 million to designers and their favorite causes thus far. Today Sappi announced the 27 recipients for its 2010 Ideas that Matter grants, a terrific and unique funding program that simultaneously supports both great design work and meaningful nonprofit causes.