Category: Home Appliances
Battlestar Galactica Cylon Toaster is not quite the best frakkin' thing since sliced bread
The Sci-Fi Channel has created a special limited edition run of Battlestar Galactica toasters for the San Diego Comic-Con. The smooth lines and shiny silver finish tie in neatly with the re-imagined series’ Cylon concepts, and it sports the Battlestar Galctica branding. However, the lack of a red light slowly panning from side to side accompanied by a sinister hum feels like a very serious oversight. Come on, how much extra would a few red LEDs have cost?
Tetris comes to an exciting new format – ice cubes
It’s one of those ideas. One of those ideas you look at and think “Gosh, what a clever idea!” and possibly even wish you’d thought of it yourself.
You then also wish you had the Photoshop/Illustrator skills to knock together a concept image of your amazing idea, because you could then put it…
The Tech Chair deck chair looks ill-equipped for British summers
Experts from the computer retailer PC World have created this concept of a new breed sun longer; one designed for the modern gadget-dependent consumer.
Pop-O-Matic Juke Box swaps sweet, sweet music for sweet, sweet (or savoury) popcorn
The Pop-O-Matic Juke Box Popcorn Maker yearns for a time when music was not delivered via BitTorrent websites and portable MP3 players, but instead streamed directly from coin-operated machines housing individual records. Apparently that’s no longer considered a practical way of doing things, so the Pop-O-Matic opts to deliver delicious movie theatre style popcorn instead of vinyl.
Stay home for the ball game: Giles & Posner Hot Dog Rotisserie
Imagine kicking back in your leather armchair with an ice-cold beer and a hotdog – perfectly cooked on your own mini rotisserie.
Klimatic Base 1 AirWater Machine: Extract water from the stinky air around you
The concept is good, but I’ve gone and spoilt it by talking about stinky air. The Klimatic Base 1 AirWater Machine is a water cooler with a difference – instead of having to plumb it in or lug water bottles around, it can generate up to 20 litres of water every day straight out of the air.
It’s fairly obvious that air contains water, and this machine takes advantage of that. Really, it’s a glorified dehumidifier, but as it’s for human consumption, it goes through several filtering processes, including an active carbon filter and a UV light chamber, to get rid of solids, oxygenates, odour, and bacteria.
Then it’s yours for the drinking. Whoopee!
DT08 see-through slide toaster – no more burnt toast or burnt fingers
Now this transparent toaster makes a lot of sense and it won’t cause the Dyson PR to go absolutely nuts either, unlike some other models we’ve seen. Better still is that the see-through DT08 slide toaster looks it may actually work too…
Amana Jot Dry Erase Fridge – scrawl on your kitchen units and wipe them clean
The Amana Jot Dry Erase fridge puts my old magnet covered efforts to shame. Useful if you want to leave notes for your fellow householders with such classics as “Your turn to clean the mould off the inside of this thing”, good for prettying up your home appliances with a little creative and interchangeable artwork but…
Work from your bed like the fatty you are, with the Boom Arm Starbase Workstation
Nobody actually buys these workstations, do they? I mean, the only reason companies create treadmills-cum-workstations is for laughs, right?
This one really takes the cake, and err, will ensure you always have cakecrumbs littering your bedsheets. Roll it over your bed, pop your laptop on the mechanical arm, and you can stay in bed doing…
Lamp made from cassette tapes manages to look awesome and help environment
Here’s what I call a lamp! Throw out the IKEA free-standers, and buy yourself one of these limited edition cassette tape lamps from Transparent House.
Each lamp is hand-made using 140 actual tapes, which cast surprisingly pretty shadows onto the surrounding walls. Before you ask whether the bulb might melt the plastic tapes, don’t fret, as the designer…
