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Sears Canada recalls Cool Touch toasters for fire hazard
Sears Canada is recalling its Kenmore Cool Touch two-slice and four-slice toasters because they may overheat, creating a potential fire hazard. The products were sold in Sears Canada stores, through the company's catalogue and online from January ...
Gadgets add hundreds to electricity bills
ENERGY-GUZZLING gadgets are costing households hundreds of dollars a year, yet most people have little idea of the cost.
The Top 5 Laziest Inventions
Brilliant scientists and tiny overseas hands work eighteen-hour days to produce 5 devices that can make you even lazier than a stereotypical American!
The World’s Most Annoying Alarm Clocks
The climbing clock: Certainly the work of evil geniuses, the climbing clock hangs above your head and starts climbing while it rings. Don’t wake up fast enough, and you won’t be able to shut it up without a ladder.
Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice
Yuki-taro is a Japanese robot built to quickly clear roads after heavy snows. It is about 5 feet long and 2.5 feet tall. Yuki-taro processes the snow by taking it in its 'mouth', compressing it and stacking it in two-foot-long bricks on his rear ...
Starbucks Unveils $599 Espresso Machine
Bryant Simon, author of the upcoming book Consuming Starbucks, believes that your daily fix of Starbucks coffee is a gift you give yourself. And the more expensive the gift, the more you love yourself. With high hopes that you love yourself very m...
Designer Binary Clock
In the future everyone will wear identical white lycra jumpsuits and eat three course dinner pills. Well they will according to old episodes of Tomorrow's World. They will also do away with old-style clocks and tell the time by glancing at a few f...
Eva Solo Magnetic Kitchen Timer
If you're looking for a kitchen timer that has both elegance and great utility, don't let the Eva Solo kitchen timer pass you by. Just stick the timer on to any steel surface (it has a magnetic side covered by rubber that prevents your kitchen sur...
The Designer Emulation Kits (DEK’s for short) are meant as the sincerest homage to some of the greatest modern designers of our time. The lamps and designers being “emulated” have a particular importance. They are represented in countless design t...
Lightning Alarm Clock
This alarm clock features a hand blown glass tube that fills with electricity when the alarm sounds. The buzzing of electric charges will certainly wake you from your slumber, while the clock will keep you on time and ready to go!
Pool Protector is an electronics monitoring system that automatically sounds an alarm when children or pet fall into your unsupervised pool. POOLPROTECTOR is a portable, self-contained, light weight unit that is safe and simple to operate.
Beauty tools for gadgets lovers
Beauty routines have come a long way since pink rollers, poodle-curl perms and Pond's Cold Cream. These days, beauty seekers can, among other things, turn to infrared light and negative-ion technology to style their strands, and lasers and light-e...
The Analog Projection Clock is pretty cool as it is one device that acts as a bridge between the old and the new. It doesn't do digital numbers, but relies on the analog face of a clock instead to tell the time in old school style, Roman numerals ...
Your Personal Moon
Some Russian designers have started a production of a big, moon-shaped light-box calling this project a “Your Personal Moon”. Now anyone can get his own moon right in his apartment or his backyard.
Park these Capsuli rechargeable LED emergency lights on their miniature solar-powered charging station, and when havoc strikes and all the lights go out, you can pass these around to all the occupants of your darkened abode. A quick twist turns on...
The Esquire North in NYC is being touted as the ultimate bachelor pad and is packed with technology and gadgets. The recently developed tri-plex penthouse apartment, built by “Esquire” magazine, overlooks Central Park in New York City and is wort...
Using Your iPod... to Whiten Your Teeth
Here's how it works. First, you attach peroxide-loaded whitening strips to your top and bottom teeth. These are self-adhesive and dissolving, so there's no plastic left in your mouth after each treatment. With the strips in place, you put a custom...
Zyken NightCove Alarm Clock
No one’s gonna argue about the importance of a good night’s sleep but I have to raise an eyebrow when I see someone selling a $2,500 alarm clock that claims to give you a better sleep but isn’t covered in valuable gemstones. The NightCove from Zyk...
Stop Your Dog's Annoying Barking
Control your dog's excessive barking in a humane way that actually teaches him not to bark. The Bark Smart system uses an ultrasonic tone triggered by your dog's barking that corrects him instantly and consistently. It will even work on your neigh...
The newest Whirlpool Espresso refrigerator is the first ever side-by-side fridge-freezer which has a coffee maker and an integrated water filter meaning you can make your coffee and espresso, and add the milk all in one place.