Home Appliances
Cook Top: Cook Food Via Magnetic Induction!
By Rizmyn | August 26, 2008
The many uses of magnets have been discussed ad nauseum! And yet, not and then, we find some cool uses for huge blocks of magnets that practically make us jump up and kiss them- if we had one at close distance. Magnetic induction is a new technology in which the magnetic energy or magnetic field is used to generate other types of energy. Still with me? This means that with magnetic induction, cars can run sans fuel, beds may hand in midair and you may even be able to charge your laptops. Now use the Cook Top and cook food with the help of magnetic induction.
Space invaders glowing pillows
By Cheryl | August 23, 2008
For those who are used to counting sheep on those sleepless nights, would love this novelty in the old way of spending sleepless nights. Instead of counting sheep now go the hi-tech way and start counting space invaders on these comfy Space Invaders pillows.
The pillows are created as a part of Taito’s Space Invaders 30th anniversary celebration and are an apt gift for the gaming geek. To add some techno variety to your bed, the pillows offer two designs including one with a couple of large pixilated invaders, and the other featuring a harrowing attack of tons of smaller alien. Now comes the zing-y factor! I hope you don’t have a problem with lights at night as the aliens give the special effects by glowing in the dark!
So if you are game to put your heads on on of them, HURRY- UP! As they are available for a limited time only for a price of $29.90 a pillow.
Via: Technabob
Luxury Gadget of the day: Gumavir’s Swiss System Royal bed
By Cheryl | August 23, 2008
Futuristic concepts and designs are a rage. The latest in the category is the “Bed of the future”. If you are thinking that it will be loaded with high-tech speakers and LCDs, you are wrong. Instead of all those techno-features the is futuristic in a different sense. It basically targets your comfort levels.
It works on a technology that makes it an adjustable system via 8 built-in motors that help you adjust the bed in hundreds different positions to give you the most comfy position.
It also brings along an infrared remote control with which you can modify the positions of the bed.
Not just this, the bed also features spacious storage system like the regular double beds and a elegantly designed headboard upholstered in elegant napa leather and is available in a variety of colors adding into the lavishness. Talking about the price, the futuristic Swiss System Royal bed will cost you a crisp $8000 USD and to bring it in your bedroom you’ll have to head to Isreal where it is being sold currently.
Convert waste food into new veggies with Green Cycler
By Cheryl | August 22, 2008
The way food shortage and inflation is embracing the world, no wonders food wastage will become the major concern of the economies world over in some time. So if you are an aware mind, who doesn’t mind your personal bit of help to make the existing scenario better, here’s your way to go ahead. Sang Hoon Lee’s latest invention called the, called the “Green Cycler,” will be an aid to you in solving some problems.
In a layman’s language, “Green Cycler” is a food recycling mechanism that converts the wasted food into fertilizer for reuse. So, to get started all that’s expected out of you to do is add waste food to the plant.
Once you do this the food starts decomposing and becomes a fertilizer for the plant. If you are thinking that decomposition will give out odors, then don’t worry, the air and the water absorption helps eliminate the odor.
Gradually you’ll notice growth in the plant with nutrients supplied to it from your food wastage and as the light reaches the bottom the vegetable is ready to eat. Must say – a noble and a simple gadget it is!
Via: Coroflot
iBasket, futuristic washing machine: Doesn’t need a human touch
By Cheryl | August 20, 2008
Failing to manage laundry and piles of dirty clothes is one of the many daily chores that are left unattended by so many busy people, whose jobs doesn’t leave them with time to take care of them. So with a view to offer a little help to such souls Guopeng Liang brings iBasket – an automated washing machine.
By making it to the top nine Electrolux Design Lab ’08 finalists, iBasket is sure to catch some fancy with the laundry maniacs.
With a transparent cylindrical body made of acrylic glass, engineered plastic and recycled aluminum, the washing machine is pre-programmed to start off the washing spree only after collecting a specific weight of clothes. Once done. It washes the dirty lot for a selected duration, while the built-in air refresh system gets of the smelly odors. And once the washing is over, the LEDs fixed at the bottom flashes out to give you the signal. Not just this, it will also give you a ‘work done’ message on your cell phone and computer via a wireless so that the busy bee that you are, don’t forget that your cleaning business is done! We hope the concept gets real too soon!
Via: Alienhome
Not so great Kayak speakers
By Cheryl | August 20, 2008
As far as I understand a ‘Kayak’ is a small boat but the ‘Kayak Speakers’ as they call them don’t resemble a boat at all still christened like that…any answers?
Any way as they say, what’s in a name? Let’s get ahead with other specs of the speakers from the house of Sonance. With quite a unique design they can be a sure shot attention grabber in a living room. They are designed by the minds at NACSound and boast to offer stereophonic sound from a single speaker with the help of an acoustic reflector suspended in the center. (What’s new?) The speakers churn out 60W of sound with a sensitivity of about 86dB. Talk about placing them and you get the liberty of installing them horizontally or vertically as per your requirements.
Not very great features and a little cool looks seem to les to pay a whopping amount of $2900 for the Kayak features…what do you say?
Via: Gizmodo
Air Conditioned Bed
By Cheryl | August 5, 2008
It seems heat is actually roasting people coz every new day we are coming across a new and innovative air conditioner to keep you cool. If earlier it was the USB shirt AC to keep you chilled in Office, now it’s the turn of an air-conditioned bed that’s perfect to give you some cool sleep.
Coming to the functionality of this bed. It is quite simple. All it does is puts the dual fans featured in the bed pad to use. Cool air is pulled in from behind your head and circulated through the soft membrane which also acts as an air-cushion to support you. Don’t woory the fans are extremely quite, won’t disturb your sleep at any cost.
Available in the measurements of 92cm x 200cm (36in. x 79in), the bed features 3 speed levels with the fan power of 4.5w. Best of all, the bed uses extremely low power, costing only $.24 per month if used eight hours a day!
Price: $399
Via: GadgetGrid
Draw your furniture mid air with Front Design
By Cheryl | August 5, 2008
Looking forward to replace furniture at your home with something that’s not just new and innovative but speaks of your personality as well? Get Front Design at work. They aim to add a new dimension to customized furniture.
How? They just ask you to let your imagination go on a creative spree and draw the design/shape of the chair or for that matter any piece of furniture the way you want it to be ‘in the air’ and they’ll give the furniture a shape furniture on a digital screen. This happens when you draw sketches on virtual memory and they get recorded onto a digital screen with the help of Motion Capture technology. This creative procedure leaves you with the option of altering, changing and even playing with your creations till you are not absolutely satisfied with the final outcome, which will be definitely be better than what you drew roughly with your hands. Sounds cool and pretty interesting too…specially for those who always look forward for a touch of their own identity in every part of their home.
Via: EliteChoice/ Walyou
Tanning Beds Get Glamorous With Hapro’s Glamour Editions of Luxura X7 and V7
By Cheryl | August 2, 2008
If getting that ‘oh-so-in’ tanned look is on your mind and some crispy moolah is what you are ready to shell out, Hapro’s Glamour Editions of Luxura X7 and V7 tanning beds can be your perfect picks. The uber-cool and utterly stylish tanning beds come embellished with dazzling rhine stones and jazzy violet top lighting, good enough to give a glowing look to the interiors together with your bod.
The lavish tanning bed comes to you in pearly white color and is decked up with some ultra snappy features apart from those droolworthy looks. Talking about the features one can’t afford to miss the biggies from the likes efficient Maxlight tanning lamps available in horizontal X7 and stand-up V7 that give you a glowing gold tan. Want some more? Check out technical excellence summerised in Contour Plus, SoundAround & MyMp3, Smartvoice, Xsens, Qsens and Climax on the horizontal X7…that are some crazy accessories to keep you entertained while your bod is getting the desired glow.
If your jaw is already dripping, you must hold your breath for the the Vertical V7 model that also gives you the option to adjust the body cooling, comes fitted with loud speakers and also seeps in a variety of aroma options with Xsens to make the complete experience holistic and soothing.
Voice Recognizing Alarm Clock
By Dynamic | July 31, 2008
The advanced speech recognition tools permit you to give shout a control and the clock functioning is right at the stop of your decision. It has the capability to distinguish ten vocal commands which is coming from person throat, allowing person for giving full control over the set of the time, the alarm they use to wake up, the date on they make any important meeting, the alarm sound which enable you a make a work and along with other cool and latest such as phone dairy, voice dairy along with stop and snooze for at least five minutes.
Something surprising with the new and brand Voice Interactive Alarm Clock is that each and everything can be restricted by your voice or by through the touch screen available on the clock front side. The two inches LCD screen allows the time to see, the date to view and the temperature to check around in room. It also has some extra feature such that helps you to fall asleep: you just need to plug and enjoy the new digital voice clearness and wake up from your dreamland. It can be powered by both an AC adapter and via three AAA batteries.
