You know the scenario; you’ve just wiped over the kitchen work surfaces and have swept a mass of crud and crumbs into your hand. All you need to do now is open the dustbin lid and deposit said crud into the trash. Aarrgg! On opening the bin, you’ve now lost most of the muck onto the floor and all around the bin. Much cursing then begins as you re-start the process of cleaning up the crud off the floor!

Well, help is now at hand (pardon the pun!) with the automatic Hands Off Garbage Can. The bin is fitted with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) smart-chip which opens the lid on sensing your approach. Therefore no need to juggle with hands full of trash anymore.
Read the rest of this entry »

It is Monday, and there is nothing quite like starting the day off with a hot cup of freshly brewed coffee as you get back to the gruelling weekly torture ritual we call work. Why not use technology to your advantage by purchasing the Melitta ME1MSB Smart Brew coffee making machine? This nifty smart device does not only mix a mean cup of coffee, the Melitta Smart Brew is also capable of telling you region specific weather thanks to the LCD display, courtesy of MSN Direct. Since the information is transferred over via FM signal, there is no need for you to pull another line into the pantry just to know whether the evening weather is suitable for a round of golf.

Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to cooking I’m a bit impatient and always cook on maximum heat assuming it will cook faster. I get bored very quickly when it comes to stirring, which tends to mean half my meal is welded to the bottom of the pan. This contraption could be the answer to us lazy blokes, the Stir Chef.

The Stir Chef attaches to the top of a pan and can be programmed to do continual or occasional stirs. So I now have another solution to avoid pan destruction, though it doesn’t beat my preferred solution of pizza menu and phone :).

The Stir Chef is available from Dynamic Living. Thanks to sbarber77 from our forums for the suggestion.

Mmm, chocolate, terrible for you health wise, but delicious nonetheless. You could always melt some chocolate for yourself in the microwave or on the stove, but most of the time it ends up half cooked or burnt, and cleaning it up is a painful process.

Meet the Deluxe Chocolatiere, a compact chocolate melter. You won’t have to worry when to turn the stove off, or for how long to set the microwave, this thing eliminates all the guesswork. Just put your chocolate in and wait.
Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve got a dishwaher you’ll know how irratating it can be to take the mugs out of the top shelf and splash water on all the clean plates below (or is this just me). Ikea has come up with a really simple solution to the problem, a mug with a notch in the base, the TROFE mug.

The notch gives water an escape route from the bottom of the mug. As ideas go you probably can’t get much simpler, so I wonder why it’s taken so long for somebody to come up with it. Well done Ikea.

The TROFE mug is available from IKEA, found via Gadget Venue and Oh Gizmo.

We all know how specific ingredients can be when it comes to recipe books - a quarter tablespoon of salt, seven pinches of sugar, a teaspoon of olive oil. Only experienced hands in the kitchen are good enough to go about cooking by the Force feeling, and these people won’t need any technologically advanced aids to know how much more salt is needed in the chicken paprika that you are making. Unfortunately, there are more average cooks than good ones available, which is why this concept Cutting Board ought to make the perfect wedding gift for couples who are starting out a brand new life together. That, or either your kid who is off to college and living on his/her own.

Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine a stove that won’t burn you when you brush up against it, or touch it out of pure curiosity or when you’ve been dared to. (I know everyone has done it) Thanks to Science, this isn’t years into the future, just a couple of months.

The Electrolux Infinite Cooking System uses something we’ve all heard of in Science class, but don’t exactly remember what it is: induction. Instead of the stove being hot, the pot is.
Read the rest of this entry »

This was nearly too romantic soppy for me to post but I guess we have to keep our lady readers happy :), the Sweetheart Teacup.

Simply fill the cup with your favourite beverage (probably not suited to beer mind), and it will form a lovely heart shape, ahhh.

Available in a set of 2 (obviously) from Keith + Lottie [found via Gadget Candy, soppy thanks:)]