FreshTrend: The design of this carafe actually keeps liquid cooler the warmer it is outside, making it completely self-cooling. No high-tech gadgets are involved, just simple science. The clay terracotta that makes up the carafe uses natural evaporation, keeping your drinks cooler longer. Self Cooling Carafe [FreshTrend]
Cool Drinks with Simple Science
Smart Camera
Nadia from Andrew Kupresanin on Vimeo. Ubergizmo: Ever wanted someone to give you a second opinion on that amazing shot that you just took? If you don’t have an experienced photographer friend to follow you around the whole day, the Nadia camera concept might be of interest to you, as the design will take the image that you’ve captured and […]
Multifunction Lid
Swissmiss: One of the many perks of doing a houseswap is that you get to try other people’s stuff. Take the kitchen for example. During our current amazing stay in Switzerland we get to use different kind of coffee makers, toasters, blenders, pots and lids. And yes, this post is about a multifunction lid. The Lekue Suction Lid has won […]
Freshly Baked Rice Bread
Gizmodo: If you want to make delicious bread out of rice, you normally have to get rice flour and work from there. But with the Sanyo Gopan rice bread machine, all you have to do is pour in handfuls of rice. Of course you need to pour in the other bread ingredients too, but the point is that the Gopan […]
Team Toasters
MLB.com: Everyone seems to be talking about these new toasters at the MLB.com Shop. They are hot. They toast your bread, your English Muffin, your frozen waffle – and the best part is that it produces your favorite Major League Baseball team’s logo on one side. “You don’t have to be a fan to love this,” said Josh Fink, CEO […]
Weigh it Right
Walyou: When you think of weighing your ingredients the first think that come to your mind is the bulky weighing scale or those hard to read weighing needle. However, with the new Joseph digital scale weighing your ingredients will become quite easy. The sleek looking, stylishly designed digital scale will add an entirely modernized tint to your kitchen. The digital […]
Salad Spinner that Saves Lives
Inhabitat: When’s the last time you heard of a salad spinner that saves lives? Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobbled together using a salad spinner, some plastic lids, combs, […]
MoviePeg for iPhones
Forget awkwardly propping up your iPhone with your bag or that complicated tripod contraption. Add MoviePeg to your iPhone, adjust the angle and like magic you’ll be in relaxed viewing heaven. And it’s not just for movies; use it in the kitchen when following recipes, with the guys watching sports, as a night-stand for your alarm clock, in the garage working […]
Social Networking Dogs
CNNMoney: In its first-ever toy created for the canine community, Mattel is introducing a product called “Puppy Tweets” that meshes the hugely popular Twitter with consumers’ love of pets. Puppy Tweets is a plastic tag with a sound and motion sensor that you attach to your pet’s dog collar and connect its USB receiver to your computer. Then you create […]
VHS Hard Disks
TrendCentral: Bored with the sleek contemporary facade of your external hard drive? Etsy shop CentennialMerchant upcycles discarded VHS tapes into hard drives that can be displayed with geek pride, or camouflaged in a row of other tapes to keep your top-secret information under wraps. Offering up to 640 GB of unique storage, currently the hard drives are available in Star […]