Laser Air Quality Monitor
We tend to assume our indoor air quality is good. But is it really? You may be surprised at what you find out if you have an indoor air quality monitor. We spend most of our time indoors, so making sure we are breathing healthy air is critical. Often times, indoor air can be more […]
3D Printed Houses
The houses in this video were printed with a giant 3D printer that uses construction waste and cement as the medium. The houses in the video were printed in Shanghai. They managed to print ten houses in 24 hours. The roofs, however, were built using traditional building materials. The inventor behind this 3D house printer is Ma […]
Video Of A Torch Melting A MasterLock… Why Not?
You have to love the false security that we constantly wrap ourselves in. Who has a glass window in their locked front door, or on both sides of the door? Yep, not very secure whether it is locked or not. For that matter, any house with windows is a big sense of false security. A kid […]
686 Snow Toolbelt
Strange name – cool product. The 686 Snow Toolbelt starts off with 100-percent full grain leather and a brushed nickel buckle. Nothing amazing there, but wait theres more. There is also a built-in #2 Phillips and flathead screwdriver, a bottle opener, and 8/10/11mm wrenches.
IconSpeak T-Shirt Helps World Travelers Communicate
Traveling is awesome. Trying to communicate in countries where you don’t speak the language is a bit less awesome. Time to put on your IconSpeak T-Shirt. The front of the IconSpeak Shirt ($17) has a grid of 40 icons. Simply point to the icon that is closest to what you are looking for. For example […]
SWIZA D04’s Twist On The Classic Swiss Army Knife
Start off with the classic good looks, and functionality, of the Swiss Army Knife and give it a few updates. The SWIZA D04 does just that and packs in a flat-head / Phillips screwdriver, a 5-turn sommeliers cork screw, bottle opener, can opener, tweezers, and reamer/punch. The blades in every SWIZA Swiss Knife are forged […]
Stratasys J750 3D Printer Can Print Full Color Multiple Material Prototypes In Single Run
Imagine a 3D printer that could print prototype objects in complex shapes with different materials and textures while matching exact color selections. Imagine no more, the Stratasys J750 can do just that. The J750 3D Printer can mix materials for items that are both hard and soft and/or opaque and transparent. The Stratasys J750 uses Polyjet […]
Modular And Much Improved Garage Door Opener
The team at Ryobi, known for tools, has focused their design chops on the boring garage door opener. They took something that was generally ignored and expected to “just work” and massively improved it. A bit like the Coolest Cooler. The Ryobi Modular Garage Door Opener starts off by improving the obvious features. There is […]
Disposable Toilet Plunger Sticker
Until yesterday, I have never heard of the Pongtu Toilet Plunger Sticker (3 for $28). Watching the video of this crazy contraption blew my mind. I kept flipping back and forth from “this is amazing” to “this is disgusting”. I am still on the fence. Either way it is an interesting approach to plunging a […]
Black+Decker BDH2020FLFH Max Lithium Flex Handheld Vacuum
The Black+Decker BDH2020FLFH Max Lithium Flex Vacuum Cleaner ($79) wins in two categories. 1) It is currently one of the best battery operated handheld vacuums and 2) it has one of the worst names. With that said, I have renamed my new handheld vacuum. It is now affectionately known as “Flex Armstrong”. The Black+Decker BDH2020FLFH is […]