Category: Home Appliances
Beer dispenser can chill your lager, be disguised as blender
Easily hidden from your disapproving estrogen-laden other half, this beer dispenser has been disguised to look just like a blender.
Simply fill up the chiller compartment with ice-cubes, and then you can decant four pints’ worth of beer (or whatever alcoholic beverage you’d prefer to get you in the mood for a Club Tropicana singalong). Just…
Drink Starbucks at home with Bosch's Tassimo coffee machine and 'bucks flavoured pods
Is it wrong of me to admit to loving Starbucks? I’ve noticed many of my friends on Facebook have joined various anti-Starbucks groups, so I’m guessing I should probably keep my adoration down to a minimum.
I can’t help but get all hot under the collar though, when reading that Bosch has collaborated with the coffee chain for pods for their Tassimo machine – what a wonderful idea! Just in time for Christmas apparently, they’ll offer Starbucks-flavoured Kenco T capsules, plus the Tassimo…
DIY wax, bulb-shaped night light – actually easy enough to do
Not one for children or the clumsy with all the broken glass involved but as hacks go, making a wax bulb-shaped night light is actually pretty doable…
Tidy your gadgets' cables away with West Elm's lacquer docking station
Docking stations, for the uninitiated, are like small draws or cabinets that you can thread your various gadgets’ power cables through, for clutter-free charging.
This lacquer dock from West Elm is one of the nicest I’ve ever seen, with the white high-gloss finish matching your iProducts perfectly. The hinged back has a secret compartment for holding cords, plugs and a surge protector, with the cutout at the back snaking the cables through. Also available…
Sharp's 108" LCD actually out to buy – should you have 11 million yen knocking about
11 million Japanese yen is about £52,000. Plus the shipping for a 108″ LCD TV from Japan is likely to be another £52,000, so it’s probably best to stick with that 28″ CRT of yours for a little while longer yet.
The Sharp LB-1085 – which we first revealed back in our coverage of CES 2007 – will be buyable in Japan this July. Theoretically buyable, should you be in Japan and have a van big enough…
Souped Up John: Techo-toilet extraorindaire
This shit is unbelievable! That’s what you’ll be hearing from behind your bathroom door when you friends come to visit should you install the Souped Up John aka the world’s geekiest toilet…
Coffeetime (or teatime) – hot drinks made according to colour
I’m a tea man but I don’t suppose the technology behind this concept coffee maker is much different. The point is that I’m beginning to feel anal having to describe to people in detail how I like my tea, only for them to bring back something that looks like it’s had a tea-bag waved somewhere near it and then put back in the box.
The idea behind this machine, the “coffeetime”, is that you press the button that matches the colour of liquid you’d like in your cup…
Transparent toaster – a non-crumby concept
I’m not sure if it’s normal even for a tech blogger to get excited over a toaster but after peering down the cooking crevice at a seemingly raw bagel this morning only to find that the bottom was burnt, I feel completely at one with the idea behind this concept Dyson transparent model…
Solar powered lawnmower – if you're cutting grass, make sure it's green
I’m not convinced I need a solar powered lawnmower…
LG SolarCUBE: A microwave/oven in the trueist sense
I don’t have a microwave and I regretted it on Monday morning as I sat in my dressing gown eating the cold left-overs of my Char Siu (not a dog). If I did buy one (not a dog), it might look a little like the LG SolarCUBE. On the other hand, it might not.
The SolarCUBE actually looks quite good. It’s basically a top of the range light oven or microwave with actual oven cooking facilities…
