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The Lect-Utopia bed.
The Lect-Utopia bed. Photograph: Lect-Utopia

Ever go to bed angry?

The Lect-Utopia is an Austrian-designed bed that splits in half, with breakfast tables and storage units as buffers. It might be practical, but it sure isn't romantic.

Tech support

Marks & Spencer has launched a wire-free bra that includes a bagged-out wing, reinforced cradle and a flexible support channel. What do any of those things actually do?

Shop 'til you drop

Join a "cash mob": groups organised through social media who spend money in small businesses to help them survive. Flash mobs are so last year.

Fifty more …

Diary of a Submissive, In Too Deep and Fifty Shelves of Grey (yes really) – all titles jumping on the bandwagon of the Fifty Shades of Grey success. Prepared to be deluged.

Riding high

Bike sales are booming. But we fear the Olympic fitness legacy will head the way of new year's resolutions. Abandoned in a week.

Quote of the week

My hair is a banner on wide plains

And I am Louise of the City of Glass

Louise the dreamer, the shaper of worlds.

Lines by Louise Mensch, soon to be former MP and winner of young poet of the year in 1989. We're hoping this wasn't the winning entry.

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