the recently wrapped up 2013 International CES is not just about gizmos and gadgets, it is also the stage for advanced home appliances such as the Samsung Smart Tango Corner Cleaner Robotic Vacuum. like all robotic vacuum cleaners, the Smart Tango still maintains the ‘traditional’ circular design but adds…
after invading your pad’s floor and gutter, iRobot is unleashing yet another robotic janitor into our homes: the iRobot Mirra 530 Pool Cleaning Robot. a robotic pool cleaner is not exactly the newest innovation but nevertheless, part of the Bedford, Massachusetts firm’s plan to stuff our lives with robotic helpers. as with most…
do Bruce Wayne read books? if so, he probably would not have The Dark Knight Bookshelves in his opulent pad to give away his alter ego (well, maybe he would but in his other pad – the Batcave) but lucky for us, mere mortals (btw, we know Batman aka Mr. Wayne is also a mortal but a filthy rich mortal), we can have this made-to-order, unofficial…
we try to stay clear of extension cables as far as possible, simply because they are downright unsightly but if there’s one that looks as good as the Anouk Extension Cable By Christopher Thetard, we wouldn’t hesitate to locate our electrical powered devices away from the wall outlets. of course, we wouldn’t do that on…
who doesn’t love a game of (sometime violent) foosball? we know we do and as you may have guessed, as a slave to style, a classic foosball table that’s predominantly wood is not going to cut it unless you have a hillbilly pub set up in your pad but that’s beside the point. the point is, a contemporary home deserves a foosball table that matches it and as such, going with a stainless…
usually kids outgrow their toys pretty quick but there are some toys that just wouldn’t let that happen. case in point: LEGO bricks. these myriad of tiny blocks offer kids to adults endless construction configurations and when you finally outgrown it, it came back haunting you with functional home goods like these table lamps made by Sean Kenny, a “professional kid” who happens…
as far back as the late 1800s, flashlight’s design has been largely cylindrical in shape and that design hasn’t changed much since, albeit modern day equivalents are more industrial-looking with aluminum or even titanium construction and uses more powerful LED elements. and hence, as sophisticated or how ever expensive they are, these lights-in-tube are pretty much still the…
remember the good’ol floppy disk – specifically the 3.5″ format? for us, we fondly remember them not so much as a storage for our then puny digital contents (fuzzy jpegs and gifs, along with wav files) but the fun we had in sliding back that metal slip and letting it go with an addictive ‘tack’ sound while we were waiting for our favorite game, Decathlon, to load up. years after it has…
let’s be honest, at some point in time we are all a bathroom singer. it’s ok to admit it cos’ it is human nature to love to sing. if not, what else could possibly made X-Factor and American Idol so huge? instead of crooning out tunes unplugged (which might be a terrible idea), why not sing to the tunes blasting out from the…
lighting used to be limited to recessed cans (don’t know what those look like? just look at Pixar’s logo) but thanks to the advancement of LED technology, lamps have never been sleeker and the Harvey LED Task Lamp you see here, is one such sleek example. conceived by Brit designer David Oxley, the Harvey drew its inspiration from surgeons lamps and features super bright…
if you haven’t join the all-things-Bluetooth or the ‘iHealth’ fray, then the Wahoo Balance Smartphone Scale could be a good place to start with. like all good, dutiful wireless-enabled bathroom scale, the Balance Smartphone Scale tracks your weight and BMI over time and sends weighting result to your iPhone or iPad instantly (via an App, naturally). instead of being WiFi-connected…