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Eco Dryer Removes Shoe Moisture
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Wearables, Design, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
Your shoes get suddenly soaked on your lunch hour and you are at work. What to do? You reach out for your handy LID Eco Shoe Dryer, plug it in to charge it, and let the silicon gel inside absorb the moisture in any type of shoe. As the humidity is sucked out, the indication color goes from blue to pink. The company claims it will also work in closets and shoe boxes. This is definitely a fine alternative to tossing them into the oven for a few minutes and having to endure the results of dry on the outside, soggy on the inside. Made of ABS resin and polycarbonate, the Eco is available for $30.00.
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Gallery: Eco Dryer Removes Shoe Moisture
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For Ladies Only: The Miss Macgyver Tool Set
Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Accessories, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
With so many women living on their own or with female roommates, we’re surprised this wasn’t invented sooner. The Miss MacGyver Tool Set is a cleverly-named collection of 5 tools, each in a pretty pink color, that perform a total of 45 functions! Includes a hammer, two sets of pliers, wire cutters, knives, screwdrivers, scissors, openers and much, much more. Plus, you get not one, but two pink tool belts! The set is lovely, feminine and means business—just like you. Available for $46.45 USD.
Read More | Latest Buy via Nerd Approved
Gallery: For Ladies Only: The Miss Macgyver Tool Set
Ever been too tired (or too drunk) to shake a martini, but wanted just one more fine shaken drink in the spirit of everyones espionage hero James Bond? The Perfect Temperature Martini Maker comes to the rescue. The automatic martini shaker features a temperature gauge to shake your martini to a perfect 34F without over shaking (and thus diluting the delightful concoction within.) The dream of drinks at the push of a button might finally be here.
Does it take some of the showmanship out of crafting the perfect drink? Yes! Does it add a touch of techno-gadget perfection to an otherwise gadget barren wet bar? HECK yes! Pick one up today for about $100.
Read More | Hammacher Schlemmer via Shiny Shiny
Gallery: Automatic martini shaker comes to your rescue
Most fast food places already allow pre-ordering, so Papa John is trying to one up the competition by offering texting for pizza. Launched a couple of months ago, it is available in about 3,000 of their restaurants and came about after they found that approximately 20% of its sales comes from ordering online. Registered customers can save up to four “FAVS” and text that and the number on their cell phones. Considering that you could have always done this with a land line, and as technology becomes more advanced every day, we figure it will just be a matter of time before we can all text our fave fast food joints to “HTP” (hold the pickles.)
Read More | CNN
Gallery: Papa John Learns to Text
Toilet Tunes Makes Music in Your Bathroom
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Music,
If you like music while you are spending time in the bathroom, the Toilet Lid Tune automatic system will provide the entertainment. Place the player on the top of your tank, then choose from specific soothing jazz tunes or nature sounds, or let the device pick them at random. At a size of 7 x 5 x 2-inches, the TT plays when the lid is up and automatically shuts off when it is down. Its peel-and-stick plastic sensor is waterproof and washable and the gadget requires 1 C and 3 AAA batteries (not included.) At a price of $29.98, we are not sure this will work with most of the guys we know, but it’s a welcome respite from the worn out copies of People Magazine that we keep in there now.
Read More | Random Good Stuff
Gallery: Toilet Tunes Makes Music in Your Bathroom
Custom neon signs on the cheap - DIY neon sign kit
Posted by Sparky Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
Finally a way to add a touch of bar room class to your home: the custom blue neon sign. Rather than relying on expensive custom glass blowing and neon sign fabrication processes these ThinkGeek DIY Neon signs are made of multiple letter segments which are pre-formed at the factory which the buyer can snap together. The power supply is a hair under $30, but each individual letter is a mere $6.99. It’s not the cheapest decoration you will likely ever put in your house, but certainly cheaper than the hundreds of dollars a normal neon sign would cost.
We are thinking of picking up a ‘Gadgets4Life’ sign to adorn our wall. What will you have yours say?
Read More | Thinkgeek via Coolest Gadgets
Gallery: Custom neon signs on the cheap - DIY neon sign kit
HomeHero Improves Fire Extinguisher Look
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
It’s about time somebody decided to update fire extinguishers. The white HomeHero is not only nice to look at, but is ergonomic with its single-handed deployment capability. It features an obvious safety pin, rubber grip, feet for protecting surfaces, and can be used for liquid or electrical fires. The HomeHero comes with a bracket for mounting and a 6-year warranty. Contact Home Depot for information and price or wait for its imminent arrival.
Read More | HomeHero Product Page
Gallery: HomeHero Improves Fire Extinguisher Look
Need your Starbuck’s fix every morning despite the cost? Their Sirena can make you an espresso in the comfort of your own kitchen. At 15-inches tall, it features a back-pressure adaptor that will automatically adjust to the coffee’s grind and a portafilter. The Sirena works with a simple one-touch button and has an LED water tank indicator light. If the highly caffeinated cup of java doesn’t get you motivated enough, the $599.99 price tag certainly should do the trick.
Read More | Starbucks Store
Gallery: Starbucks Caters at Home with Sirena
Pro Snow Maker Creates Winter
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Science,
We were all set to blog about the cutesy Snow Blowing Snowman which seemed a welcome relief from all those blow-up snow globes that constantly leak, when we came across this deluxe model. Used in movies by Thomas FX, you can bring winter home with the professional machine that features a 600 watt motor and fan that will shoot out up to 30 feet. At a size of 21 x 9 x 11-inches, it runs for about one hour and can adjust from light to heavy flakes. The machine comes with 8 oz. of snow solution, with additional bottles available for $124.94. At a price of $1499.95, we can’t imagine wanting to do anything with that much snow except making it go away.
Read More | Hammacher Schlemmer
Gallery: Pro Snow Maker Creates Winter
Moon in my Room mini-moon nightlight
Posted by Jenny Lewis Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Science,
Have a future astronaut at home? Or maybe you just like the, um, “comfort” of a little extra moonlight in the room with you at night? Check out Moon In My Room, a remote controlled nightlight with a detailed lunarscape that displays 12 phases of the moon. The light sensor makes sure that there’s always a little moonlight around, and the three hanging angles make sure that your view is perfect. Included with your purchase are lunar phase calendar and an audio CD with a lesson in moon-ology and space. The lamp measures 10” in diameter and requires 4 AA and 2 AAA batteries (we’re guessing the AAAs are for the remote).
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