Garden Gadgets

Trash compactors aren’t exactly new in public places, but how many of them are actually environmentally friendly like the BigBelly? This solar powered trash compactor might look like a standard issue trash can from the outside, but in reality, it is more than capable of holding anywhere between 4 to 6 times as much trash as standard units. In addition, the BigBelly is less prone to the overflow problem which translates to less food for our avian friends such as seagulls. As a consequence, there will definitely be a decrease in bird droppings (good news for folks who tend to wash their car every other day) that ultimately is the main contributor to high levels of deadly E.coli bacteria in the water.

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Back in the old days, if you wanted to clip your hedges, you used an over sized pair of scissors to do it. Often times, you left them out in the rain and they got a tad rusty. But they still worked with a little 3-in-1 oil. But then you had to bend over and pick up the clippings and toss them in the garbage.

And Inventor Graham Wilson got tired of not only cleaning up the mess, but of the risk in accidentally electrocuting oneself on a clipped powerline. So he came up with the The Garden Groom Pro, a high tech hedge clipper that also shreads and collects the trimmings. With an innovative safety feature which requires the user to use both hands to operate, and powered by a 430 watt engine, this gadget uses a concealed rotary cutting blade (designed to protect against accidental cutting of electrical cording), hedge clippings are not only cut, they’re shredded down to a 10:1 volume ratio and then deposited into the onboard collector container.

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Developed by California architect Gregg Fleishman comes the DH1 Disaster House, a shed that can be put up in an afternoon. It’s a deceptively simple idea. Create a house that one doesn’t need a single nail to build. That’s because the home was designed with tabs that make it more a 3D puzzle to put together.

Initially designed to aid hurricane victims who have lost their homes, this alternative is designed to be a 14′ square shed built about 30″ off the ground. All one needs to do is unpack the stack of European birch plywood, put them together via the slots, and in about an hour, you have an instant place to hang your hat – porch included.

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I don’t think there’s anyone that can stand the incessant buzzing of flies, whether we’re trying to sleep or doing any other activity. There’s an assortment of ways of getting rid of them. The most popular is the bug spray: toxic, smelly stuff.
There are also various electric devices, but they all look like boring bluish lamps.

Here’s an electronic device that will add style to the fly killer. It’s an electric version of the Venus Flytrap, the best known carnivorous plant.

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For the classy garden, the farting gnome.

He looks cute enough, but when you pass by this Farting Gnome lets out unexpected gassy explosions along with a series of several seam-splitting comments sure to stun his victims. Hidden motion sensor is sure to surprise all that cross his path.

Available from things you never knew for $14.98.

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Cookouts in the summer as an inevitable as getting bitten by mosquitoes, but that is part and parcel of a BBQ. What happens if your little ones at home are hankering for some good, old fashioned hot dogs but you do not have the time to set up a BBQ? Why, there is always the Barking Hot Dog Cooker to come to your rescue. This unique home appliance will use steam to cook those wieners to perfection, whipping up a wholesome meal within minutes minus all those oil and grease that come with BBQ territory. A special selling point of the Barking Hot Dog Cooker is its ability to bark steadily whenever the sausages within are ready for consumption. It takes less than 10 minutes to roll out half a dozen dogs. Interested moms can pick this up for $34.98 a pop.

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While the summer might mean plenty of fun under the sun, complete with BBQs and poolside trysts, this season also comes along with a whole bunch of bugs and insects to irritate anyone frolicking outdoors. How you would like to stay outdoors without worrying about pesky insects flying irritatingly around you and your loved ones? Instead of using a rolled up newspaper or magazine that have a 10% success rate, why not pick up this Insect Killer from Gizoo instead? It will send insects to their respective heavenly mansions without having you to lift but a finger. No, it doesn’t use voodoo rituals or black magic to snuff the life out of insects, but good old electricity that administer a high enough voltage to fry these six legged bugs into oblivion.

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Summer is in full swing and one of the drags about having a pool is to constantly balance the ph and chlorine content to keep your pool from turning green, or from causing swimmers to have itchy skin due to too much cholorine.

Often, using those little tabs to dip in and devine what color means for ph balance is iffy. As such, there has to be a hi tech way to check and be sure your pool is healthy, isnt’ there?

Yes, there is. Wirelessly, no doubt! It comes from our friends at Hammacher Schlemmer, of course, the same company that offers the Remote-Controlled Pool Skimmer shown here a few weeks back.

Using a remote floating pod that measures water temperature, pH, and chlorine level, the wireless system transmits its data wirelessly to the display 24 hours a day and automatically notifies you when to add chlorine. The free floating sensor pod takes these measurements at the 18″ depth recommended by the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals.

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