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R2-D2 preps your laundry for washing
R2-D2 seems to be everywhere these days, and this time he even keeps you dirty laundry organized by virtue of being a laundry basket.
Does your laundry have a nasty habit of piling up on your floor when you least expect it? Luckily these stylish Star Wars R2-D2 laundry baskets are imported from Japan and are here to assist. You get a set of two; One classic blue R2-D2 and one red R2-D1 (R2-M5 for you purists). These handy droids do all the work. Simply remove your laundry from the floor, and sort into light sides and dark sides (we prefer R2-D1 for the darks) by opening each droid’s head and dropping in your clothing. When a droid is full, take the contents and dump it in your washing machine with some detergent. Now press “start”. Voila! amazing mechanized laundry service at it’s best.
He retails for $39.99, and the pricing structure doesn’t really care whether you’re on the light or dark side of the Force.
CableOrganizer helps geeks out this holiday season
CableOrganizer knows what a mess things can be in your home and office, especially where cables and wires seem to have a life of their own when it comes to getting themselves all tangled up. They have come up with a holiday season guide to help you get your life in order, and if you’re still hanging onto an archaic wired mouse, using cheap headphones for your iPod or even have a plethora of charging devices to manage, this holiday gift guide is just the thing for you. They aren’t only good for Christmas, but would make a very prudent and practical purchase all year round.
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Toilet Tunes – Music for your throne
When you’re in the bathroom doing your business, sometimes it’s nice to have a little extra noise. Lets be honest, now and then things can get a bit noisy. Sure, you can put a radio or CD player on the back of the toilet, but that wouldn’t be nearly as interesting as Toilet Tunes.
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Toshiba lays claim to thinnest LCD TV
At least for the moment – the Toshiba 40XF355D LCD TV measures no more than 23mm thin, bringing 1,920 x 1,080 resolution to your living room. Looks extremely fragile to me – I’d say get this only if you do not have any wild kids running around the house and love nothing better than give the ol’ pigskin a toss, particularly in the living room. This Toshiba offering comes with a trio of HDMI ports for all your High Definition needs, an integrated digital TV tuner and Toshiba’s proprietary picture processing algorithm, all of which retail for £1,197 in Europe.
Source: Slashgear
Christmas tree ornament gets teched up
Who would’ve thought the humble Christmas tree bauble would end up with an LCD display? Well the future has already arrived, and this interesting Christmas tree decoration (I sworn I’ve seen it sometime before somewhere…) houses a 1.5″ LCD display with enough internal memory to store up to 50 different pictures – surely this is more interesting than the tangled mess of glowing bulbs. Each of these baubles will retail for $34.95 and run on two AA batteries – talk about chalking up a large investment if you’ve got say, 50 of these on your tree!
Available from First Street Online, found via Everything USB
Grow your own stuff
So you think you’re a hidden green finger at heart? Why not prove it with Grow Its!
The Chilli Kit comes with five different varieties of chilli seeds, including Tepin, the world’s hottest for the truly brave. The Herb Kit comes with basil, parsley, chives, rosemary and thyme, so you can get a proper mini kitchen herb garden going, and the Bonsai Kit too has five different varieties of Bonsai Tree seeds, all ready for you to grow a Lilliputian forest. Each kit comes with five organic coconut husk growing pots and compost discs, your seeds, wooden plant markers, and of course comprehensive growing instructions.
Choose from Herbs, Bonsai and Chilli kits for £12.99 each.
Glowing Globe lights up room and mind
This Glowing Globe ain’t your grandpappy’s antique piece as it not only feature all the countries in the world along with night constellations.
…this beautifully detailed globe has a fabulous trick up its sleeve. When it gets dark, a light sensor transforms the globe from a map of the world to a magical and brightly illuminated map of the night sky. It shows 88 constellations all with their common names (far easier to remember), so not only is it fascinating and educational, it also makes a great nightlight. Beautiful by day and magical by night, the Glowing Globe is the neatest globe we’ve ever seen. This is two globes in one.
Sounds pretty neat eh – you get to kill two birds with one stone by lighting up the room while learning more and more about the world around you. The Glowing Globe is powered by a mains adapter and retails for £49.99.
Rouge 02 Stainless Steel
Getting your wine bottle to breathe can be quite a hassle, and with the holiday season just around the corner you can be sure that you’ll be popping more bottles open in a month than the entire year.
With the Rouge O2, you can breathe life into your wine in just one minute – for real. Transform your wine by simply popping the Rouge O2 into your open bottle and turning it on – it’s automatic, so you don’t even have to time the minute. It gently bubbles air through the wine bringing out its full bouquet, and ensuring you taste it at its very best not in an hour, but in just a minute. One of the very few wine gizmos that’s actually approved by the Wine Industry, the Rouge O2 will ‘breathe’ 230 bottles on a single set of AAA batteries, is simple to use, makes a great present, and ensures you’ll never be caught on the hop and have to serve a strangulated wine!
You can pick up the Rouge 02 Stainless Steel device for £22.95.
