I don’t quite understand my particular fascination with toasters — I rarely eat toast — especially since I’m comfortably of the school that specialized gadgets have no place in a proper kitchen. Still I haul my Back-to-Basics toaster from under the counter from time to time, hoping the collected dust and hairballs on the unused [...]
We demand a lot from our kitchens these days, and appliances are starting to feel the heat (heh) and lose their cool (heh) and… um… sink. And why should we settle for boring old uni-taskers when we can buy things like this toast-o-wave?
LG’s LTM9000 (9000 being the best version of anything) pumps 900 watts into [...]
The next time you break into someone’s home or office and notice an adapter plugged into the wall that’s missing a cord, you might want to think about stealing that too. Why? Well, because there’s a good chance it could be this fake AC adapter from Ajoka that’s recording your every move. Not surprisingly, the [...]
Bonsai trees are generally a sign of peace and tranquility. Some people spend countless hours taking care of them and making sure they are perfect. So what would happen if a miniature care spun out of control and wrecked into your precious tree? It wouldn’t be very zen, that’s for sure.
If you think it’s amusing [...]
Japan Trend Shop is now selling a black tissue box that comes complete with… wait for it… black tissues! Apparently items like black cotton swabs and black toothpaste are catching on in Japan, since black has a clean and sophisticated feeling to it. All I know is that they look a lot cooler than the [...]
Bradbury and Bradbury wallpapers do a really excellent line of atomic age prints — and the deco and mid-century stuff is pretty sweet too.
U.S. banks are foreclosing on crappy, formerly overpriced sub-prime housing and then not taking title to it, in order to avoid the taxes. This could create suburban abandoned zones of boarded-up houses,where the local tax-base is depleted, undermining schools and services.
From the Article: “The local market conditions are what seems to determine the abandonment decision. [...]
Harry White designed this measuring cup with units of measure like “tyrannosaurus rex brain,” “vol. of body cells that die on a good day,” and “enough plutonium to make a bomb.” He also has a cookbook with recipes that use these measurement units.
Trademork is reporting that Twentieth Century Fox, rights-holders to the Futurama brand, has trademarked “Slurm,” the once-fictional monstrously addictive beverage made from the secretions of a giant worm Slurm Queen harvested by singing Grunka-Lunkas.
The trademark covers, “carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; fruit drinks; fruit juices; mineral and aerated water; bottled drinking water; energy drinks; syrups [...]
LiveJournaller Capt. Sideburns has posted the results of his experiments in making a Space Invaders pixel-art cutting board — it worked superbly, as you can see. He’s promising Zelda next.
Are you one of those people that needs all of their appliances to be as high-tech and powerful as possible? When I first saw this 1200 watt toaster from Philips, I immediately pictured Tim Allen pushing down the lever and grunting something about more power. Seriously, I don’t think my microwave even has that much [...]
It’s not on sale yet, but “Choplery” (from designGO! in Brooklyn, NY) will give diners at Asian take-out joints an easy choice between chopsticks and Western utensils. The only way these could be better is if they worked in reverse: starting with chopsticks, then fusing together into a fork when you’ve realized the error of [...]
I really dig this hamburger-shaped lunchbox from Happy Trails. Each level of the plastic burger lifts off, revealing itself to be a neat little tray for a different kind of food — everything goes in, nothing touches.
I wish this was a joke, but it’s not — it really is a cheeseburger in a can, complete with all the fixin’s. I’m going to make a totally unfounded assumption that whatever comes out of the can bears little or no resemblance to the tasty burger shown in the picture above. Even though I’m [...]
What, you don’t like The Cars? Well, perhaps you’ll like this instead… The “I Am Not a Paper Cup…” is a double-walled porcelain mug with a silicone lid, giving you the feel of those disposable paper coffee cups without all the waste. It’s not on sale until February, but should cost about $20.
It reminds me [...]
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