Gizmodo: cleaners

Restore Your iPod's Shine With iDrops

Gizloco — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:00:27 EDT

IDrops, get it? It's like "eye drops" but with an iPod "i" instead. Genius! Anyway, PodShop's iDrops is a special cleaning fluid designed to restore your iPod's once glorious luster and shine. Since iPods pick up fingerprints and grime faster than the US' World Cup exit, keeping it nice and shiny is a often an exercise in futility. While you can buy abrasive cleaners like Brasso to polish the metal on the iPod, iDrops is intended to be used on the plastic (or polycarbonate or acrylic, depending on your iPod model). IDrops is compatible with all models of the iPod, from the Frankenstein-like first generation to the fifth generation iPod with video. The cleaning solution can also be used on other electronic gadgets, like GameBoys, iBooks and CDs.

IDrops retail for $14.95 per bottle on PodShop's eye-pleasing Web site. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page [PodShop via Ubergizmo]

Yoga Mat Cleaner

johnb — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:04:48 EDT

With all the sweating, farting, and exertion of a regular yoga session, you'll probably want to pick up some sulfuric acid rather than this Jo-Sha wipe stuff. However, if you want to be a hippie, go ahead and buy these biodegradable wipes in flavors like peppermint, lavender, and tangerine.

The wipes are completely organic and come in recyclable packaging. Great for improving the karma after buying a big-screen TV, a bottle of Glenfiddich, and yelling at your kids.

Product Page [MatsMatsMats via TreeHugger]

PixelClean: Clean Your Screen

johnb — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:29:20 EDT

We're going to hope and pray that there's something in this PixelClean juice than just water, because believe it when we say that dried blood and vomit are hard to wipe off of a glossy screen. That said, whose laptop couldn't use a quick swipe with some strange liquid that removes fingerprints and smudges and comes in a little plastic bag for travel. $19.95 for a full set of towelettes, rags, and two bottles of spray.

Product Page [PixelClean via MobileMag]

CeBIT '06: LensPen Laptop Cleaner

johnb — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:30:30 EST

I just lost my lens cap so I wanted to try out the LensPen, which we've seen before. Luckily, they also had a brand new laptop screen cleaner which was very cool. There are three functions here—a keyboard brush, a screen brush, and a carbon black cleaner for the screen. You brush off debris then rub the screen with the carbon black cleaner to get rid of dirt and oil. The kind man at the booth put his own nose grease on a laptop screen to prove it works.

They also have a television cleaner and a mini-screen cleaner for cellphones and camera LCDs.

Product Page [LensPen]

Get Your Crap Off My Table

gizmodo.com — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:56:20 EST

This one is real cute, a table that clears itself off. The Katazukue table is a basic table with two powerful conveyor belts built-in. Throughout the day, the table will get sick of you being such a slob and piling your cereal bowls, porn mags, and panties on top, so it will clear itself off by moving the conveyor belts until everything falls off the edge. The idea behind this is that we spend a lot of time at our table for multiple things such as breakfast or work and never get around to cleaning the table off sometimes. With that in mind, Katazukue thinks for itself and involves itself in the process of work by cleaning its surface off. You can check it out if you're in Japan at the BankArtLife show in Yokohama this winter.

Katazukue, the tidy table [WMMNA]

Gizmodo Japan: Automatic Human Washing Machine

jmanzone — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:07:20 EDT

Those who see showering as an inefficient process in obvious need of technical innovation should be delighted by the Avant "Santelubain 999" automatic personal washing machine. Upon slipping inside the clamshell-chic device, users will find a variety of functions at their fingertips including everything from "Body Shampoo & Shower," and "Sound Therapy," to the decidedly Japanese "Seaweed Pack."

Japanese beauty and health site iSpot.jp has published a first-hand report of the washer which, when run through google translate, results in a perfectly appropriate engrish account of the experience: "The ah which is true. The smut it is, don't you think? it is is. The ho it is with the washer we would like to see!" -JM

iSpot.jp Report (Google Japanese to English)
Avant - Santelubain 999

ClearShot Lens Cleaner

johnb — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:19:42 EDT

I saw this last year at CES and kind of forgot about it. i4u made me remember. For that I thank them. Essentially, it's a little lens cleaner for digital cameras and camera phones. The tip is small enough to get at the smaller lenses. I handed over my cellie at the booth and this thing cleaned off all the gross hairs and stuff quite nicely. Now my cell is all dirty again. Now that I've seen it again, that same urge is back again. I will try to fight it off.

Dirty Camera Phone Lens? Take ClearShot [i4u]