Tag Archives: household

Optical illusions can be fun. Messing with the human senses is always a good time. But when it comes to our green, the last thing we need is to think it’s in danger. The Micro Bank optical illusion does exactly that. When you put a coin into the slot, the Micro Bank gives the appearance of becoming impossibly narrow at ...

Bean bags can be found in college dorm rooms around the world and yet the darn things are usually not even that comfortable. Ever try getting out of one of those things? The Buddha Bag on the other hand, looks like something that would make your body melt into the cushioning. The Buddha Bag basically looks like an oversized bean ...

We’ve seen a number of overbox solutions for watching pictures on TV, we have products from giants like Sandisk and Iomega, the problem with these products is that they don’t support HD resolution, and you need to walk over and plug your memorycard in physically. Sharp seemed to have gotten it right this time with the HN-IR1 wireless photo adapter, ...

If you happened to be away for the whole day, leaving your cat at home alone, whether you leave a full dish of food or just a few pieces of snack, chances are by the time you come back they’ll all be gone, and the cat will be hungry again. So there’s always a danger of either starving or overfeeding ...

Thinking about all the delicious Asian cuisine we could cook with a Wok makes our mouths water. If you’re going to Wok at home, why not have a Wok that will last a life time? This All-Clad Copper Core Round Bottom Wok (sounds sexy) brings the strength of aluminum coated copper core cookware to your home. All polished off with ...

The Cyclone Firetube from Heat N Go is one of the cooler household gadgety objects that we have ever seen. The Cyclone is ACTUALLY a tube of fire in your room of choice. Since it is incorrect to refer to this as a fireplace, lets just call it “fire art”. Heat N Glo offers both custom made Cyclones and system ...

Not a lot of people use shoe horns nowadays, a lot of people don’t even know how to use one (they don’t have to). Supposedly they’re invented in the 15th century, it’s a tool (first class lever) that holds the end of the shoe open for your heel to slide in more easily and smoothly. The Japanese use shoe horns ...

This unique wine opener was designed by Jonathan Sabine for his Vest Collection. The integration of the brass knucks looks like they were what the weapon was made to do. It looks like it would make things a lot easier to pop the cork. The brass knuckles are meant to add some dark humor, we guess in light of the ...

Ever seen one of those shows on the Discovery channel when they go into hotels or other grungy places and put on a UV light to illuminate all of the bodily made spittle? Yeah, ew. The UV Disinfectant Wand projects intense UV rays that kill 99.9% of all germs in less then 10 seconds. Since this is radiation we’re talking ...

Robot manufacturer tmsuk teams up with Kyushu University and the Kanazawa Institute to create Ubiko, the Smokey the Bear equivalent of office robots. The 132-lb Ubiko was originally designed to serve as a temporary receptionist, equipped with exclusive sensors to sniff out ash and smoke. When Ubiko wasn’t receptive to its bosses sexual advances, the reception duties were taken away, ...