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Great game for spending time with family or friends. It is easy to learn,  and gets the thinker thinking, all fun!

It isn’t easy to find a game that everyone loves to play. From grandma, to teenagers, to 7 year olds. Qwirkle includes the perfect blend of luck, strategy and competition to keep games close enough to be interesting for all from start to finish. 

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Cole LOVES his magic mouse, but he HATES the way it sucks through batteries. He has owned the Mobee Magic Mouse Charger for about a year and a half - and swears it has paid for itself twice! :) Awesome. #Swell

http://www.playswell.com/mobee-technology-magic-wall-charger-retail-packaging-white-x8z586

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The Aeropress gives you intimate access to every facet of coffee-making. Water to coffe ratio. Fineness of grind. Water temperature. Steep time. Etc. Etc. At the same time, it is fast and easy. With the right equipment, you can get a stellar cup of coffee in under 90 seconds from grind to sip. It takes a commitment to get it right. But once you do, you will unlock a completely different relationship to coffee.

http://www.playswell.com/aeropress-coffee-and-espresso-maker-j1ywo3

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Is it Gridit or Grid-it or GRID-IT ? Who cares really, LOL! If I told you that for under $10 you could have all the little stuff in your briefcase or backpack organized and handy forevermore, that would be cool right? 

Check this very awesome product shared on Swell (playswell.com)

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Awesome gift for kids. Perfect for introducing them to the incredibly intuitive, creative world of felting for the holidays.

Joe Bezdek learned about Woolbuddy's products at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010. He said, "there's something warm and cute about all of their designs", and he admired the passion and care they've put into packaging. But what really sold him on them was the way his daughters took to making Woolbuddy toys (Woolbuddies?) as gifts for their friends.

He tells us the friends LOVED the gifts, and his daughters LOVED making them. Creating things by hand, and taking care in making a gift for someone else, is fulfilling. He called it a talent being lost in our 1-Click(R) world. Woolbuddy brings that back.

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Super cool camp stove, charges your phone while you boil water. Perfect for camping. Check out the awesome video at Swell, we love the part about how these stoves are being used in Africa!

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What is Swell? Fundamentally, it is a new way to do business...

Business itself (and even the etymology of the word ‘business’) stems from the simple state of being busy: literally busy-ness. Sometimes for fun we call it Bizness. It is a framework for managing resources and productivity by means of control-structures (e.g. bureaucracy, hierarchy, etc.). Simply by looking at the origin of the word, we get the overwhelming sense that business involves the feeling of supervision, of ‘looking busy’. Again, straight from the etymological dictionary: the sense in Old English was ‘anxiety’.

It feels like people are increasingly looking for another way, a values driven way. They are attempting to perform a deep transformation on the way we manage and exchange our resources (and how we cooperate together to do that). It is not busy-ness as usual. The idea is foremost to be productive, generative, useful, rather than ‘busy’.

The orientation of business is first to ‘make’ money (in the case of the financiers this is taken quite literally), and no matter really if anyone else is helped or hurt in the process. So-called ‘bean-counting’ can only make sense in the context of business: if the net-profit from doing good outweighs that of doing harm, then business will do good, but only insofar as the calculus holds.

An alternative orientation is first to create value, then if by that virtue money is generated, that is taken merely as a sign of the value being created. Money becomes one signal used to keep your efforts focused and to give you an empathetic grounding: if people find your efforts valuable, money will be generated. This is a simple and nuanced, but profound shift.

We viscerally understand that our scarcest, and therefore most precious and most valuable resource is not money, it is our attention (the resulting human undergoing of which we call simply Experience). At a basic level, the most valuable things we can do orient around giving other people more and better experiences. Time well spent. 

So, why do people do business? Historically, business has been motivated primarily out of fear (e.g. of material deprivation, change, power, etc.) or out of greed (e.g. to ‘make’ money).

We propose an alternative: love. We do it out of Love. We do it for other people — out of empathy. We do what we do to entertain, to enrich, to help, and to heal. To give other people good Experiences. We believe that this way of getting things done is as much Art as it is Science because it is necessarily performative. It is the fusion of Productivity (value creation) and Play (pleasurable worthwhile experience).

So, we are here to play for (and with) you ;-)

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everything is better when it’s made by someone who cares

Imagine a place where people only share the things they love. Awesome everyday products made and shared by people that care.

No ads, no noise. An uncluttered community where it is easier than ever to find, consume and share wonderful things. A place where creators and makers inspire advocacy and prosper through increased awareness, web traffic and sales.