Housewares

Cordless OneTouch Can Opener: Look Ma, No Hands

Open up a can of whoop-ass with one hand, where all you do is push a button and the Cordless OneTouch Can Opener by Daka Designs walks around that can, opening it up in seconds flat. Originally designed for senior citizens, you don’t need to apply any hand pressure to get it going. The company…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 19

DuPont Self-Charging Smoke Alarm

If you’re not one to regularly replace your smoke alarm batteries, or are just tired of messing with it, the DuPont Self-Charging Smoke Alarm eliminates that hassle by recharging itself. Mounted into a ceiling-mounted light socket, it automatically charges up whenever the light is turned on. To test the alarm, simply flip the light switch…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 6

Portable Bed for Those on the Go

Livin’ that vagabond lifestyle? Here’s an idea from Swiss designer Kurt Thut whose benefits become immediately obvious. Just don’t sleep on it without a mattress. If you like this, there’s also a bookcase that carries on the same collapsible porto-theme. Foldable bed and shelf [swissmiss]

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 5

Aqua Glow Tub Light: Chromatherapy for $20

Adding a little color to your bath just got a lot cheaper. Until the $20 Aqua Glow Tub Light became available, if you wanted to enhance your bathing experience with chromatherapy you’d have to pay $8900 for the Kohler Sok chromatherapy bath. The Aqua Glow Tub Light is a waterproof fixture made of ABS plastic…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 5

Glide Shower Rings Solve an Everyday Problem

It’s those little annoyances that, bit by bit, diminish your quality of life. Here’s one of them: shower curtain rings sticking to the shower rod, sometimes even requiring so much effort that you eventually tear the shower curtain. Glide Shower Rings solve that problem, with concealed brass ball bearings at the top, letting the chrome-plated…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 5

Grass Armchair

Put together this corrugated cardboard frame, add 63 gallons of soil and a pack of grass seed, and before you know it you’ll have a grass armchair. Gives new meaning to the term “your ass is grass.” It’s $114 from the oddly-named British housewares store Purves and Purves. Grass Armchair [via Treehugger]

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 4

Sommelier Wine Glass Plays Down Your Hoity-Toity Instincts

There’s a bit of subtle humor in these hand-blown Sommelier Wine Glasses, replicas of those everyday plastic cups that are handed out at keggers and beer bashes in trailer parks and college campuses all over the world. Only difference is, these have a stem, and they’re intricately crafted in Czechoslovakia the Czech Republic of artisan…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 30

All-Seeing Recordable Reminder Doorbell Plays Back Greets

Here’s a device category that’s been left largely untapped: the doorbell. The Recordable Reminder Doorbell uses a motion sensor to either sound a conventional chime or play back your own recorded greeting. Movement within six to 12 feet of this voluptuously-shaped device triggers your choice of chime or greets. Say hello or tell ’em to…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 20

Kitchen Collapsables from Normann Copenhagen

If you’re living in close quarters, or if your kitchen drawers are so filled to the brim that you can hardly close them, you might be looking for something like these collapsible measuring cups from designer Boje Estermann and other in-house designers at Normann Copenhagen. These measuring cups, funnel and colander are made out of…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 17

Living Floor Reacts to Your Steps

b.Lab Italia brings you Living Floor, interactive floor tiles that react to your steps, letting you leave disappearing footprints all over the room. Available in a variety of colors and metallic finishes, these PVC tiles are made up of a non-slip clear covering with an underlying interactive fluid layer. It’s like beach sand, moving and…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 10

Modular Bed System

This Modular Bed System by Maude can be changed and adjusted to your liking, and it can be quickly put together by just one person. It has tiltable tablets to add a headboard, a shelf or a reading light at either end of the bed. Take your pick of a king- or queen-sized coated birch…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 17

Look Ahead: Here’s Your Washer, Shoes and Fridge in 2020

Think ahead 14 years and imagine your home in 2020. That’s what the Electrolux DesignLab competition asked designers to do in the Imagine the Home in 2020 design competition. The first prize winner was Air Wash, a waterless washing machine that does its work with negative ions, antibacterial deodorant, and a lot of hot air.…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 16

Piripiccio Clothes Shaver

If you’re looking for a close shave for your clothes, the Piripiccio Clothes Shaver, available in sprightly primary colors, aims to take those annoying pills off your sweaters and knitted fabrics. Sure beats pulling a stray thread from your sweater and then discovering much to your chagrin that the whole thing is unraveling right there…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 8

Sfera Alarm

For those who have a hard time getting up in the morning, here’s a sadistic new way to assure that they ll pay heed to that blaring alarm clock at the crack of dawn. The Sfera Alarm hangs over your head, and each time you press its snooze alarm but fail to turn it off,…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 6

Teastick: Loose Leaves Loosely Joined

Much to the chagrin of tea-snobs everywhere, I’ll admit to using tea bags to brew tea. Yes, I know loose tea leaves are superior and more flavorful, but tea bags are just so much more convenient for a single cup of tea — brewing loose tea leaves usually require a large tea pot, and is…

Tech News Gizmogo Jul 19

Cordless OneTouch Can Opener: Look Ma, No Hands

DuPont Self-Charging Smoke Alarm

Portable Bed for Those on the Go

Aqua Glow Tub Light: Chromatherapy for $20

Glide Shower Rings Solve an Everyday Problem

Grass Armchair

Sommelier Wine Glass Plays Down Your Hoity-Toity Instincts

All-Seeing Recordable Reminder Doorbell Plays Back Greets

Kitchen Collapsables from Normann Copenhagen

Living Floor Reacts to Your Steps

Modular Bed System

Look Ahead: Here’s Your Washer, Shoes and Fridge in 2020

Piripiccio Clothes Shaver

Sfera Alarm

Teastick: Loose Leaves Loosely Joined

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