Doesn’t it always seem like when you need a good nights sleep the most, someone is going out of their way to keep you awake? If you have ever been plagued by noisy roommates or neighbors than the Revenge CD is a must have.
With the new Revenge CD you will finally be able to prove that sometimes two wrongs do in fact make a right. For just $7.99 you will be armed with ear piercing tracks like drill, train, orgasm, screams, high heels, cat in heat, door banging, violin practice, garbage truck, and much more. They even throw in a pair of earplugs to make sure you don’t have to be subjected to the same torture as the people around you.
Merging a great love for imported beers and a delight in confounding friends, the Pop Up Bottle Opener is a surefire way to throw one more wacky looking gadget into your kitchen that’ll impress your guests. Designed by Giovanni Alessi Anghini, the opener seems like nothing more than a stainless steel egg sitting on your countertop til you plunk it atop your capped bottle and press down — the interior workings transform that pressure to mechanically lift the cap from the bottle and hold it tight with a magnet, thus magically lifting free of the bottle with the cap seemingly disappeared. We’re a sucker for fantastically functioning design, and this doesn’t fail to disappoint. Available for pre-order at Unica for $47.
While the world soldiers on to treat and purify our tap water, let’s face it — they’re not doing a real bang-up job. If they were, we’d all still be drinking straight from the faucet instead of mounting water filters and buying bottled H20. But you’ve noticed the difference, don’t like the way that tap water looks or tastes, and have decided to do right by your body and consume the cleanest water possible. Here’s the thing: your hair and skin are just as delicate as the rest of you and would LOVE the same level of TLC.
The Wellness Shower Filter is touting itself as an “anti-aging shower system”, but that’s not the real selling point: it’s that the same sort of system you’ve got hanging from your kitchen sink can now take out all of the harsh toxins from your shower, too — the chlorine, harsh metals and free radicals that dry out your skin and can even cause breakouts. The filter even goes one better by putting a little love back IN to the water — utilizing rare volcanic minerals, water is effectively “softened” and can help contribute to a more hydrating experience by increasing the residual moisture content of your skin and hair. Plus this purified water contributes to reducing the bacteria and fungal growth in your shower, so it may even speed up your bathroom cleaning. At $249 it’s a bit of an investment, but for healthy skin — and maybe a few less bottles of moisturizing lotion in your lifetime — it seems a decent trade off.
Brookstone and Sharper Image have long reserved the entrances of their shops for massage chairs — it’s the perfect way to lure tired shoppers in and convince them that yes, you DO need a full-body vibrating massager in your home. But this? This puppy just body slammed all of their old recliners and plug-and-rub mats: the OSIM iDesire is designed to hit up your ENTIRE body in a delightfully creepy way.
Taking on the oft forgotten limbs, movable cuffs squeeze and release your arms to release tension while air cushions literally surround your lower legs to relieve pressure in your feet and ankles (plus the tried and true vibrating mechanism for the arch of your foot). Built in optical sensors (oh yes, optical sensors) for acupressure point detection inform rollers that automatically glide along your back and features five types of upper body massage: kneading, rhythmic pressure, tapping, rolling and then a one-two punch of kneading and tapping together. Plus there’s a built in remote that lets you select from 9 massage actions and save programs for up to 4 people. And it’s all yours for $4,495!
When you’re really, really into fish (or having amazing stuff in your place to keep guests gobsmacked), a standard pet store aquarium just won’t do. Straight out of France, Octopus Studio has come up with the Silverfish Aquarium, essentially an assortment of high-quality PMMA globes connected by hamster-like tubes so your fish can roam from one pod to another; you can even go crazy and create little themes within each, a whole fish-y world at your fingertips. Available with a black, cherry wood or carbon base (you can order it without, but the stands are well designed, and intentionally made to conceal all of the heating, filtration and lighting elements), the aquarium literally comes with everything you need to get started, short of fish and gravel — filtration, heating, and aeration parts, lighting, silk plants and cleaning equipment, plus assembly and maintenance instructions in case you’re a little overwhelmed by the kit.
Because each kit is built to your own specifications, pricing varies (which is a nice way of saying “this is so not your bargain basement aquarium and they don’t want to scare you off by putting pricing on the site”), but you can contact Octopus Studios directly through their website for a quote.
There’s something about winter, with its late sunrise and layered blankets, that makes it near impossible to scoop yourself out of bed in the morning. I’ve got one friend who’s currently employing 4 different alarms in the morning to get up and still can’t seem to make it into work on time — tv timers are easy to tune out after a couple of minutes, and cell phone/alarm clock beeping is quickly snoozed with a push of the button (sure, you have to do it every ten minutes, but somehow it’s still better than actually getting up).
The trick seems to be engaging your whole self — more than just the physical movement of thwacking at a device, there’s something to be gained from dragging your brain into the process, maybe even triggering a bit of panic. Which is why I’m adding the Danger Bomb Clock to my friend’s birthday list, perhaps singlehandedly saving a career. This limited edition alarm shocks you awake with explosive sounds and a randomized code that’s refreshed each morning forcing you to work some mental muscle and disable the proper connectors before the thing will finally shut up. Stick it on the other side of your room and voila, you’ve got yourself a huge pain in the ass first thing in the morning… but you’ll get out of bed, so mission accomplished. The Danger Bomb Clock is available from GeekStuff4U.com for $36.63.
Live like an adult, play like a kid! A ton of us fondly remember the tabletop arcade games of the 80s and have probably entertained the idea of having one in-house now that we’re all grown up. Of course, much like action figures, the classic arcade table would stand out like a childhood dinosaur in a room of adult decoration (and may be a hard sell for your Crate & Barrel loving girlfriend). Someone over at Surface Tension likely had a similar thought and put the ingenuity forth to create a modern styled coffee table with arcade games — and more! — delightfully hidden inside.
With the Arcade Coffee Table built exactly to your needs delivery may take a couple of months, but it looks to be worth the wait. Each arcade game table is fully equipped with solid retro-gaming components (fully customizable in any colors you’d like), ready to go for both one and two players (and if your buddy isn’t around, you can always look for a second player online) and stocked with 29 games; if the bundled bits aren’t enough for you, the table is MAME-compatible so you can add whatever retro games you’d like!
The table conceals a Dell PC to power all of your favorite goodies — including iTunes (ready to stream wireless to your speaker system with AirPort), Firefox for web surfing, Apple QuickTime to view movies, Windows XP Picture Viewer to flip through all of your photos, and ports to connect all of your peripherals.
The table comes in three different finishes — brushed, glazed and grain — for a hefty £3295 directly from the manufacturer (for Americans, basically double that price for the dollar conversion with the exchange rate as it is these days) you can add one of your own to the living room. What price making your friends green with envy, right?
Forget everything you thought you knew about mixing light fixtures and water — sure, your vanity light in the bathroom exploded in a million fantastic jagged arcs when a splash of water hit the bare bulb, but you were dealing with conventional, store-bought, sad little bulbs; the Xenon bulb laughs at your iridescent clunkers and takes a deep dive into an orb of water with the WET Lamp.
The designers haven’t gone into a ton of detail about the magic inside the box (when you see something that doesn’t immediately make sense, first instinct is to ask a million questions), but have offered some information on how the WET Lamp works: with the 10W Xenon bulb submerged into a sphere of hand-blown borosillicate glass, by sliding a thin silver rod into the water the light bulb is brought to life (and, the further submerged the rod, the brighter the light). Available in 3 different sizes (4″ - 8.5″ wide) and both frosted and clear models, you can pick up this oddity for yourself at Generate, starting at $199.
The guys over at iRobot aren’t just cleaning floors anymore, they have now figured out a way to solve one of life’s worst chores as well. The Looj gutter cleaning robot will clear out a 60 foot section of shmoot clogged gutters in just 10 minutes.
No longer will weekend warriors have to precariously hang from roofs or repetitively climb and move their extension ladders. With the help of iRobot all they have to do is simply climb up once, insert the robot, and sit back while it flings leaves and pine cones at 500 RPM’s.
The price of this tank treaded beast ranges anywhere from $99 to $169 and works with any standard K-style, aluminum, copper, metal or vinyl gutters. Now if iRobot could just come up with a robot to clean up all of the crap the Looj just flung from our gutters, I would really be impressed.
[Via Coolest-Gadgets]
Is there anything better for the die-hard Simpsons fan? Toss your Foreman Grill and get with the true hero: the Simpsons Doughnut/Donut Maker. Now you can make mmmmmmmmm donuts right in the comfort of your own kitchen with this non-stick countertop donut maker — and since it doesn’t involve deep frying you can almost convince yourself that it’s a healthy alternative to Krispy Kreme. With it’s easy temperature indicator (and perfect Simpsons yellow housing), get ready to cook up a flawless set of 6 donuts anytime the hunger strikes. The kit also comes with its own recipe book for whipping up batter and toppings, or you can go nuts and start coming up with flavors of your own (you know, like purple, it’s a fruit!). Available from Gadget Shop for £24.95, get it quick before Hawking steals it!
