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Puzzle-Cutlery to Solve While You Starve

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:09:29 +0000

JOIN is a notion cosmetic cutlery set that is both overwhelming and irritating, in equal measure. A blade, fork and ladle have been joined during a waist, intersecting each other as if they were in a teleportation experiment left wrong. This is clearly a win from an cultured point-of-view, as well as keeps a business finish of a cutlery off the unwashed table next.

But Konstantin Slawinski’s design also forms the puzzle, one that could take a frustratingly prolonged time to compromise as your food gets colder and colder on a image. Like any puzzle, this one is easy once you know the resolution, though getting there may drive you crazy (and make you the little inspired.

It additionally has one alternative rather than niche advantage. In Spain, you can eat menú del día. This is a poor, fixed-price lunch served in most restaurants. One “feature” of menú is which you have to keep your cutlery and re-use it for a first dual courses. This inevitably means putting unwashed knives and forks onto the list. The JOIN would solve this, instead letting you get sauce and pieces of paella on your fingers as you attempted to reassemble it after the appetizer.

JOIN product page [Ding 3000 around Yanko]

Touch-Screen Faucet is the Scary Mix

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:58:28 +0000

Who pronounced electrical energy and water don’t brew? Non-dead people, that’s who. But what do those stick-in-the-mud, vital people know about modern convenience, huh? Not much, if the Sunrise Faucet is anything to go by.

The faucet, which fast brings deadly current as well as promiscuously conductive water into dangerous vicinity, is fully sealed and tranquil by mutli-touch, the modern-day homogeneous of putting the minute “i” in front of your product-name. Tap the rather oddly-labeled “standby” button to start as well as stop a h2o, as well as daub a other 4 switches to regulate flow and temperature.

The controls actually seem a little peculiar: why not appropriate to make things occur?

Aside from a obvious Darwinian dangers of electrocution, I remain questionable of fancified faucets in general. The elementary twist-top pattern is a wonder at of morality, as well as the mixer-tap, with a single push determining upsurge and temperature, is a modern wonder. Automatic taps that use light-beams and alternative gimmicks, on the alternative hand, roughly regularly destroy to work, or during the very slightest frustrate with dribbles that would make the prostatic hyperplasia sufferer feel positively intemperate in their outpourings.

While the Sunrise Faucet is the notion, and expected to sojourn so, it can’t be long prior to something similar appears in the restroom of the posh hotel club near you. Not that I caring. I never wash my hands in public anyway. Who knows who’s been there before you?

Touchscreen Interface Water [Yanko]

SideWinder, the Cord-Wrangling Power-Plug

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:05:33 +0000

Regular readers will know which I’m the sucker for a nifty twist upon the plain old power-plug, or the clever cable-management gadget. Imagine, afterwards, my joy when I found out about a SideWinder, which is not usually a power-plug and cable-manager in a single, though is additionally named after the frikkin’ lizard.

Like any good device, the SideWinder is passed elementary. It plugs henceforth into an existent double-socket and duplicates the dual outlets. It also adds a little abyss, and has the “waist” around which you can wrap stray cords. A mouth behind the front-plate allows you to tuck any charging-plugs out of site.

The SideWinder attaches with the screw – unscrew the the a single that binds your existing hollow to the wall as well as use a one supposing with a SideWinder to repair it in place. This screw also makes the belligerent tie.

Simple, ingenious, and not quite nonetheless ready. The plan is looking for appropriation on Kickstarter, as well as $20 will get you a SideWinder if a plan takes off.

SideWinder product page [SideWindMe]

SideWindMe Cord Organizer (Kickstarter)

Water-Bottle Filters As You Drink

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:58:49 +0000

Are you the bottled-water unreformed alcoholic? Do you feel guilty about destroying the universe? Do you ever think about a fuel used to ride the complicated glass, or a unconstrained dull plastic bottles you callously toss in a trash (1.5 million barrels of oil worth)? Why not do something great for once, as well as switch to tap-water?

If your tap-water tastes good, and your bottled-water-habit is purely since you’re too quiescent to fill your own enclosure, then contrition on you. If its since your local water tastes tainted, then we have an answer: The Bobble Bottle.

The Bobble Bottle is a recycled plastic water bottle with a filter in the lid. This activated co filter acts just like the a single you might have in your filter-jug during home, clearing out any crap which the municipal processing facility might have left behind (or even added, like chlorine). You fill a bottle, screw on a lid as well as that’s it. The cap is a sports-style representation, so you flip a top as well as sip by it. The h2o is filtered upon the approach out as it drops sweet hydration into your parched mouth.

Bobble claims the two-month life for any filter, and replacements price $7 each. That’s reduction than a couple of bottles of Poland Spring. Bottles run from 13oz ($9) to 34oz ($13), as well as additionally come in kids’ sizes (with multi-colored filters).

The thing I similar to most about this is which you can refill anywhere. I make use of a Brita jug at home to fill h2o bottles with a differently undrinkable Barcelona tap-water. This is excellent until I run out. With a Bobble, I could fill-up from the numerous travel water fountains around a city. Nice.

Bobble Bottle product page [(Warning: Flash) Bottle via OhGizmo]

Cir-Cruet Breaker: A Switchable Salt as well as Pepper Shaker

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:27:38 +0000

Convergence isn’t just for cellphones as well as cameras. The mania with cramming ever more functionality into a single device has right away taken over the kitchen and the dining room. No, it’s not the combination food-processor / dining chair. It’s a singular shaker containing cooking’s bitterest enemies, a Tom and Jerry of the tabletop: Salt’n’pepper.

This unholy cruet-combo is a work of Fred, purveyor of home accessories to the nerd-about-town (Fisticups or Salad Tools, anybody

The Switch, as it is called, features the vast switch upon a top to flip in between the stream of savory belligerent stone or the dried as well as powdered ripened offspring of the piper nigrum. Both exit through a same hole.

Now really, you should never buy such a thing. Fresh-ground peppers from a indent is so discerning as well as easy, as well as so full of a prohibited, tangy flighty oils which have prolonged since left a harshly-spiced dried of pre-ground peppers which you should never consider the dusty version. On a alternative hand, it’s so lovable!

Side note: If you’re thinking of shopping a salt-mill, don’t. The plastic millstone will wear out in no time, and because a ruin would you grub your own salt anyway? It’s a rock. It can’t dry out, or spoil. Just buy a few different sizes from a store as well as keep them in tiny bowls. Or buy the Switch, I theory, as well as keep the peppers side empty.

Pricing TBA, accessible in a 2011 “collection”.

Fred store [World Wide Fred via Oh Gizmo!]

Stool-Chair Hybrid Swings into a Office

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:00:19 +0000

Driven funny by the work colleague who all the time jiggles as well as shifts in his chair? Then don’t let them see the Muvman, because if they ever lay on one, they’ll jiggle the hell out of it.

The chair/stool is more of the comfy thing to lean on than an actual chair to sit on. You adjust the height, only like you would with an office chair, in between 51cm and 84cm (20-33-inches) or 60cm and 93cm (24-37-inches) for a high model. Lean behind and playground yourself in a contoured seat as well as you have been supported, though a shaft can swing around, as well, pivoting from a bottom. Thus you are always on the pierce, that keeps your red blood pumping as well as your muscles moving as you work. It also stops you from hunching your behind.

The Muvman looks like the really nice compromise in between the spine-folding evils of the chair and a vegan, wholemeal choice of a standing desk. Available right away for around €400 ($550).

Muvman product page [Swopper]

Molecular Cuisine Starter Kit

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:08:56 +0000

This is the Molecular Cuisine Starter Kit. Welcome to culinary hell.

During a 1970s, The French grown Nouvelle Cuisine, easier, fresher meals that were a reaction opposite a heavy, overwrought, cream-laden excesses of classical French cooking. The fashion widespread, as well as by a time it strike England, Nouvelle Cuisine was the tainted word, with crappy regional hotels serving hulk plates with diminutive portions. The name became the fun.

And with a Molecular Cuisine Starter Kit, a latest food conform can be equally mauled, in the remoteness of your own home. The set is more like chemistry kit than a in progress pack, containing sachets of agar-agar, calcium lactate, sodium alginate, soy lecithin and xanthan gum. In short, it’s the same as a list of mixture you’ll read upon the behind of any pack of processed food. You additionally get silicon tubing, pipettes, the syringe along with alternative less uncanny collection, and the DVD with recipe demonstrations.

Molecular gastronomy is a smashing thing, bringing vicious scientific meditative to the superstition-laden universe of in progress. But it is additionally the fashion, with freeze-dried raspberries looming in a salads of otherwise normal restaurants. Can it be done in a home with a simple kit of chemicals? We should probably leave it to a professionals, like Ferran Adrià and Heston Blumenthal.

On a other palm, personification with this stuff is substantially overwhelming fun, as well as even if it doesn’t taste so good, at least you get to eat a formula. $70.

Molecular Cuisine Starter Kit [ThinkGeek]

Raindrop Mini: A Urinal-Shaped, Self-Filling Watering-Can

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:23:48 +0000

Then Raindrop Mini is the watering-can that sits in a purpose-built bulge in any water drainpipe. As a rains gushes from your gutter to a drain next, a small can drinks the fill as well as sits ready to h2o your plants.

The urinal-shaped bulge in the siren is actually a small hermit of the Raindrop, also designed by Bas outpost der Veer. The Raindrop is much larger – seeking similar to the swell of a profound hulk – and features a water fountainhead with a faucet as good as the same Raindrop Can as used by a mini.

Both the Raindrops have been made from recyclable PE, manufactured in Holland and sold in garden centers, ready to be commissioned on whim balconies across Europe. Just make certain not to install them during ground turn, or anywhere that the inebriated open might find them at night, or they may good finish up getting filled with something other than pure rainwater.

Raindrops Mini [Bas van der Veer via Core77]

Insect-Like Desk-Lamp With Sliding Abacus-Style Lights

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:02:47 +0000

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Like a spindly steel insect, a Rima Light from Dreipuls stalks your table and plants the legs amongst the detritus weakly strewn thereon. Unlike an insect (unless it’s the hulk, adjustable firefly), a Rima Light also offers ingeniously adjustable enlightenment.

The four legged structure suspends the semi-cylindrical “bulb” that runs the length of your table. This tuber has 4 rings circling it, and these rings form a end of a lit part of the blood vessel. Thus you can slip them to light up a whole length of a Rima, or you can have two any-sized sections. Thus you could equivocate shining light onto a super-reflective shade of a MacBook, or only opt for tiny pools of light when operative into the night – only sufficient to spotlight your potion of blockade as well as your ashtray, and no some-more.

The Rima has picked up a Red Dot design award, that pretty most regularly means that the product is both great-looking and works good (I have the Red Dot-winning food-processor from Kenwood as well as it kicks donkey and takes names).

The aluminum and cosmetic flare uses 65 LEDs and sucks 10-Watts of power (on a 220-Volt supply). It weighs in at the satisfyingly stable 750-grams as well as measures 800 x 410 x 130mm (that’s 31.5-inches prolonged. It is also, criminally, not yet for sale.

Rima Light [Dreipuls around FastCode]

IChef Oven Offers Multi-Touch, Multi-Stage Auto-Cooking

admin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:39:01 +0000

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Don’t consider of the iChef as an automatic oven. Think of it as an oven with the cookbook built-in. And also as an automatic oven.

IChef is the touch-controlled computer-brain that comes installed with ovens from Gorenje, a European appliance-maker. Much similar to a automatic controls upon the camera, it doesn’t essentially do anything you couldn’t do manually, but it certain creates things the whole lot simpler.

To begin, you touch a time as well as the icon-driven touch-screen fires up. From here, you can go simple by only finding a food you’re about to cook, estimating the weight as well as pressing “go”. Or you can gat whim with a MyBake, ProBake and StepBake modes.

These let you module up to 3 cooking steps into the appurtenance so you could set a cake to initial defrost, afterwards bake, then reason comfortable until you’re ready. Or you could bake and afterwards finish underneath the prohibited grill, or only make use of multi-stage temperatures. Several presets have been available, or you can dial in your own (temperature as well as time are set upon dials just like clocks in iOS). These modes also work with the examine thermometer, so you can start to see a possibilities.

Even improved, you can save your own “recipes”, so you no longer have to remember which a inner heat of that square of beef shouldn’t go above 140ºF. Instead, you could have a roast-beef setting that would begin comfortable to prepare a beef uniformly, go high to brownish-red it and afterwards cut the oven when the probe thermometer hits 130ºF and allow a meat to rest. Neat!

The initial iChef ovens will ship in European this open. I started understanding a press release as well as figured iChef for a gimmick. Now I’m perplexing to work out how to fit something bigger than a toaster-oven into my little kitchen.

iChef+: Revolutionary Oven Touch Control [Gorenje. Thanks, Greta!]