Heating

Heat Your Home This Winter Without Burning it Down

Winter’s coming and it’s getting cold. Time to dust off the ol’ heating unit and get your home all nice and toasty. But before you strike a match or turn a dial, make sure you’re doing so safely. Before we get into individual heat sources, let’s replace the batteries in those fire alarms. A good…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Nov 7

Portable “Snail” Cooking Device Clamps Onto Sides of Pots or Mugs to Heat Them

Every year Electrolux’s Design Lab competition throws up some amazing inventions, but sadly most never make it further than the designer’s CAD program. This year’s winner is a nifty portable magnetic induction heater for heating up pots, pans and mugs. It could save money in the home, by cutting down on electricity or gas when…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 24

Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo’s new weekly column on words—the ones you’ve heard, but can’t quite define, or the ones you haven’t, but might like to hear about. This week’s lesson: Thermocouples! (Huh?) You almost certainly own a thermocouple. You probably have at least a few, and may well command a small army of them,…

Space & Spaceflight John Herrman Aug 19

Wall-Mounted Wood Stove: Cool Enough to Make Wood Stoves Viable Again

Who cares that wood stoves are environmentally-unfriendly and are heavily regulated in some areas? This one hangs on the wall, people! [Caminetti Montegrappa via Appliancist]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 28

How Well Do You Think This Walnut Pause Heater Works?

We’re always intrigued when a gadget tries to execute its function while simultaneously looking like it doesn’t. This Walnut Pause Heater, which uses IR to heat your body, also has built-in speakers. It’s unclear how the IR heating works. Does it heat everything around the unit? Just bodies? Just water-filled bodies? How about a glass…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 9

Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality

Don’t get me wrong, the Poseidon is probably the coolest looking patio heater I have ever seen, but the media player? The unit is 6.5 feet tall, and It looks like someone duct taped an iPhone to it. The product page doesn’t mention the actual size of the screen, but you would surely burn to…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 9

Sweden’s New Green Tech: Heating Homes With Bunny Corpses

“It sure is warm and toasty in here! Is that a wood stove?,” I asked. “Why no,” she replied. “I’m burning the corpses of thousands of bunnies.” Then there was an awkward silence. Why rabbits? The fuzzy critters have actually become a bit of a pest in Sweden; wild and stray pet rabbits alike have…

Biology Adam Frucci Oct 15

Room to Room Fan Helps Cut Down on Your Energy Bill

Heating and cooling costs can be a real drain on the bank account, especially when money is tight. This simple $30 door fan helps push warm or cool air into neighboring rooms. Obviously, it’s just a fan—but the fact that it can be installed in the corner of a doorframe means that it will be…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 20

Vent-Miser Freezes Out the Guests On Schedule

File these under “new to me” category, but while I’d seen programmable thermostats before, I’d never encountered a vent that opened and closed on a timer. The battery-powered Vent-Miser features a clock that opens and closes the vents at programmable intervals, completely independent of your thermostat’s settings. So if your A/C doesn’t need to keep…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 29

USB Monkey Hand Warmer Is For Your Hands, Not A Monkey’s

So many options to describe this product: “stick your hands up a (USB) monkey for warmth” or “cheat the chills with chimp USB mitts.” I’m sure you can do better. It’s a pair of monkey-shaped USB hand warmers, for when you’re typing in the cold, or you’re a sufferer of chilly hands. They get up…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Coiled “Garden Hose” Radiator is Versatile, Mobile

Generally, I don’t consider radiators to be all that interesting (unless it is shaped like a Lego brick), but this coiled radiator design from Ciussai is definitely an exception. The metal wire tubing can be wound and stretched much like a garden hose, which gives it far more functionality than simply heating a room. For…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 29

Thanko Heating Cooling Keyboard Is Ready For Any Weather

Sure, that Thanko cooling fan keyboard was a great addition to your desktop for the summer, but temperatures have gotten chillier now and we’re all wondering how to keep our wrists warm. Why, with Thanko’s upgraded heating AND cooling keyboard, of course! The wintertime edition has three different warming spots that’ll make your hands all…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 29

Ardica-Heated Jackets Also Juice Your Gadgets on Long Winter Trips

If you’re planning on a long distance ski trip or a mountain climb this winter, check out Ardica’s new power and heat platform for outerwear. Not only will Ardica-enabled jackets charge your gadgets (up to 11 full charges on your cellphone and 20 on your iPod), it’ll also keep you nice and warm for either…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 29

Ecobee Smart Thermostat Can Adjust Home Temps Online

Winter is just around the corner and, with gas prices still unstable, it’s now even more important to monitor your thermostat. That’s tough and annoying though, which is why gadgets like Ecobee are coming out on the market. Ecobee has an integrated programmable smart thermostat with a WiFi-enabled touchscreen that automatically sets your household to…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 16

Octocube: What the Heck is This?

If you can guess what this is at first glance then you’re a better man than I … At second glance you might wonder about those pipes. And then you might realize it’s actually a radiator, built entirely from 90-degree pipe pieces. It’s designed to be a sculptural heater that fits in with any interior,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton May 8

Swiss Swimming Pool Warmed by Surplus Server Heat and Alliteration

There’s clearly something going on with the Swiss and hot water: first “extreme jacuzzi-ing” on top of Mont Blanc, and now they’re going to use waste energy kicked out by servers to warm a swimming pool. It’s a simple concept: take the heat from the server room air-conditioners at a new data center, and direct…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Apr 3

Electroscape LED Fireplace Brings the Aurora Borealis to Your Crib

The Electroscape fireplace from Platonics has a remote-controlled LED lighting system built in. Ahh—nothing warms you up on a frosty 21st Century morn better than some funky LED lights that you can mix, from single color to multicolored, from the cozy comfort of your armchair. You can even specify what arty “fire” objects are displayed…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 22

Thanko USB Heating Pad

The Thanko USB Heating pad has the unique position of being potentially useful as we enter the colder months. Then again, there’s no way this thing puts out more heat than a modern CPU/GPU combo. Just put your notebook on your lap, and watch your man-bits. [Akihabara]

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 15

Kenwood Response Kettle Changes Color As it Heats

Being as into tea as the British folks this Kenwood Response Kettle was made for, we’re definitely looking forward to marveling at its color-changing capabilities. Not only is it a container to keep water from spilling all over the place while you heat it, the exterior actually shifts from blue (cool) to red (hot) while…

Gadgets Jason Chen Oct 2

Warm Sewage Keeps your Bottom Toasty on the Concrete Bench

Unlike the Turd Twister and Bathroom Louie, this fecal idea is pretty useful. A Quebec design student has created a concrete bench that heats by pumping water heated by warm sewage through the bench. In Montreal the sewer temperature stays at a toasty 60 degrees Fahrenheit most of the year. This bench uses pumps connected…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 4

Heat Your Home This Winter Without Burning it Down

Portable “Snail” Cooking Device Clamps Onto Sides of Pots or Mugs to Heat Them

Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

Wall-Mounted Wood Stove: Cool Enough to Make Wood Stoves Viable Again

How Well Do You Think This Walnut Pause Heater Works?

Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality

Sweden’s New Green Tech: Heating Homes With Bunny Corpses

Room to Room Fan Helps Cut Down on Your Energy Bill

Vent-Miser Freezes Out the Guests On Schedule

USB Monkey Hand Warmer Is For Your Hands, Not A Monkey’s

Coiled “Garden Hose” Radiator is Versatile, Mobile

Thanko Heating Cooling Keyboard Is Ready For Any Weather

Ardica-Heated Jackets Also Juice Your Gadgets on Long Winter Trips

Ecobee Smart Thermostat Can Adjust Home Temps Online

Octocube: What the Heck is This?

Swiss Swimming Pool Warmed by Surplus Server Heat and Alliteration

Electroscape LED Fireplace Brings the Aurora Borealis to Your Crib

Thanko USB Heating Pad

Kenwood Response Kettle Changes Color As it Heats

Warm Sewage Keeps your Bottom Toasty on the Concrete Bench

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