This is a very easy and affordable way to have motion-sensing lights in your house which make life easier and would probably impress guests as well .

It’s a very simple system to use as the motion sensor attaches directly to the light bulb. To set it up all you have to do is screw the motion-sensor into the light socket, then plug the light bulb into the motion sensor! You then don’t need to control the lights with light switches anymore as the fixture does it for you!
Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a cat owner but you’re too lazy to empty the litter box very often, there’s no more reason to have a smelly house! The Scoop Free Automatic Cat Litter Box is the gadget way of maintaining a clean litter box for your cat with minimal work!

With this amazing gadget you can leave your cat’s litter box for up to 30 days with no maintenance whatsoever. When the cat leaves the littler box the litter box sets a countdown to automatically sift out all the waste into a separate litter cartridge. It’s all done very quietly as well so you don’t get woken up in the middle of the night by the litter box.
Read the rest of this entry »

Why Washing your hands isn’t hygienic:

• Finish on the loo
• Turn on tap (faucet is one of those words that just sounds odd to me) leaving germs on the tap in the process
• Wash germs off hands
• Turn off tap wiping germs back on to hands

Not ideal but a solution is at via the DIY Automatic Water Faucet. Read the rest of this entry »

We don’t really have mailboxes in the UK (letterboxes work absolutely fine and paperboys need the extra exercise anyway) however if we did I’d want one of these, the Wireless Mail Alert. Read the rest of this entry »

This helpful bit of software isn’t exactly a gadget, but more of a gadget controller. The Home Control Assistant gives you the ability to control many devices in your home such as lighting and appliances through one easy to use application.

Very simply, the software communicates with items in your house that are plugged into receivers that are compatible with the software. The receivers are then plugged into a normal wall plug. The software requires your computer to be integrated with your home’s wiring, and thus can control any item that is attached to a receiver.
Read the rest of this entry »

This gadget would be perfect for anyone taking a trip or is just forgetful and owns a pet. The Automatic Pet Feeder is programmable to certain times so your pet can be automatically fed when you choose.

There are 8 compartments in the circular device, each able to hold about 96 ounces of food. This is perfect for setting 8 days of feeding times or more than once a day for a number of days.

You don’t have to worry about the type of food you’re serving either. Beneath the food tray there is another tray for ice packs so you can feed your pets wet food without letting it go bad.
Read the rest of this entry »

Too lazy to take the time to vacuum your house, or just want to confuse your pet? Dyson’s robotic vacuum just might be the thing for you.

Featuring more than 70 sensory devices and three on board computers, this machine is only 5% vacuum, and 95% robotic intelligence. It requires no human input or training to completely clean an entire area. It learns the layout of a room and uses all of its sensors with incredible accuracy to cover every inch of a room without ever repeating a section to ensure that no power is wasted and it doesn’t annoy you, zipping around the house for too long. In fact, it makes 10 decisions per second!
Read the rest of this entry »

The shining promise of robotics is that it will eventually free us from all forms of drudgery. It only follows that as technology progresses our definition of what drudgery is will become a sliding scale, a moving target. Have we come so far already as to define the noble pursuit of tending bar “drudgery?” The RoboBar from the Motoman company answers this question with an emphatic “Yes!”
Read the rest of this entry »