Give your outdoor dog clean drinking water. No more stagnant, and potentially unhealthy, drinking water. The WaterDog is an automatic outdoor pet drinking fountain. WaterDog works by activating a stream of water when your dog gets within 3-feet of the fountain, and turning off when your dog walks away. All you need is an outdoor faucet and 4 C-batteries (up to one year). Video of the WaterDog automatic pet fountain after the break.
I love riding my bike around the lake listening to some motivational tunes from Mickey Avalon and 2ne1 on my Yamaha ear buds. The problem is, all I can hear is Mickey Avalon and 2ne1, and even thought that’s pretty cool, it creates a certain lack of ambient awareness. I mean, the entire world is blocked off and all I am hearing is Mickey Avalon. I am not hearing people honking at me, hot chicks calling out for me, and some dude yelling “Yo buddy is that really Mickey Avalon?!”. Who knows how much social content I am missing out on… To solve my lack of ambient awareness, while in the depths of the Avalonian groove, I discovered the alternative ear bud attachments called the Airbudz from SafeSound. Read on for details about the Airbudz earbud attachments after the break.
For as long as I can remember I have been addicted to all things coconut. I used to eat shredded coconut right out of the bag as a snack. I have no graduated to coconut ice cream and coconut laced chocolates. Heck, we even cook with coconut oil. I thought I knew about every coconut based product. Turns out I was wrong. Ever heard of coconut charcoal? Me either.
Koko Charcoal is made of 100 percent coconut fiber and has no chemicals or nitrates added, letting your food’s true flavor come through. Koko Charcoal burns hotter, longer, and cleaner. It is in fact, 50 percent more efficient than standard charcoal briquettes. You can get a 24-pound box ($63) or a 4.5-pound box ($13).
For only $139 you can have a 5-star rated yard umbrella that not only looks and works great… but also has 40 LED lights and runs off of batteries that are charged from a tiny solar panel. The LED lights will run for 9-12 hours.
The Solar LED Umbrella comes in a bunch of colors, has a 9-foot diameter, aluminum pole, and a hand crank system for opening and closing the umbrella.
What to get the gadget person in your life that (thinks) they have everything? You know the guy/gal that always manages to top your latest gadget. The conversation goes something like this, “Check out my new Swiss Army Knife, it has 20 tools built-in”… and they say, “cool, check mine out, it has 30 tools built-in”. You know this person… we all have one in our life. Now that I think about it… you probably don’t want to buy them anything this year. Save your money, or buy this insane 100+MPH remote control car – the Traxxas X0-1.
The Traxxas X0-1 RC car is not for young kids or the faint of heart. Not only is it going to be incredibly hard to manage (= amazing) at 100MPH or even 50MPH for that matter… but it is quite expensive at $999. The Traxxas X0-1 is a 1/7th scale (27 inches long) RC with two big Lithium-Ion Polymer (LiPo) batteries rated at 5,000 mAh, a bank of capacitors, and a huge brushless motor. The 0-60MPH time is a blistering 2.3 seconds… and the 0-100MPH time is 4.92 seconds. You have to see it to believe it, video after the break.
Ever been stuck in the dark with a dead flashlight? I have. What I do recall is having every size and style of battery but the one that the flashlight needed. Panasonic has a new flashlight, set to hit the shelves on the 24th of this month, that will make it almost impossible to be without the right battery. The “Panasonic Any Battery Light” will run on any combination of D, C, AA, or AAA. You can fill the Any Battery Light with batteries or run it on just one AAA. Pretty clever.
Available in Japan only at the moment… with a few resellers in the US like this crafty fellow.
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This amazing bit of building technology was inspired from medical casts used to immobilize limbs. This Concrete Canvas Shelter shows up packed flat in a waterproof plastic bag. You simply fill the bag with water, soaking the concrete infused canvas, and then inflate to make a permanent structure. This concrete tent hardens in about 24-hours and is then strong enough to stand on, is fireproof, waterproof, and possibly zombie-proof.
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As you may have noticed, we like the idea of using old shipping containers for new purposes, mainly building homes. Makes sense considering they show up on our shores full of Chinese trinkets and tend to be shipped back empty. May as well keep some here and repurpose them.
The WFH House is a modular prefabricated system designed by Arcgency. One of the coolest parts of designing the WFH House is the fact that clients get the chance to pick layouts, facades, and interiors via an online configurator. More details and pictures after the break.
If you own a bicycle, and plan on riding it, you should have a good flat tire repair kit. While you want good tools for changing a tire, size and weight are equally important.
Lunar Levers ($5.01) are a good solution for packing on your next bike ride. Lunar Levers are small and lightweight. Inside the two levers you will find the glueless patches and sandpaper.
Luckily water is relatively easy to find in most places. Unfortunately, most water is not suitable for drinking. In fact, less than 1-percent of the Earths water is drinkable. In other words, don’t drink from that river, stream, or rain barrel without some serious filtration. Or a LifeStraw.
The LifeStraw is an small and portable water filtration that works in a way that most humans are already familiar with. You simply use the LifeStraw like a regular straw. The LifeStraw removes 99.9999% of water bacteria and can filter particles at the 0.2 micron level.
Each LifeStraw water filter will work for about 1000 liters of contaminated water. There are no batteries to charge, no moving parts, no chemicals, and while it is made of plastic there is no BPA. And, this water filter which is perfect for backpacking is only $23 here.
The only downside is that you have to suck pretty hard and takes about 3-5 seconds before the first drop of water makes it through the straw. Video of the LifeStraw in action after the break.
