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Candle That Doubles As Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

Smoking is terrible, we all know that. But it’s terribly addictive and… disgustingly stinky. Your fingers reek, your clothes are tainted and the air, oh the air. This candle ashtray tries to make it a wee less smelly.


December 22, 2007
Gadgets

10 Gadgets You Need For Global Orgasm 2007

At 6:08 AM GMT on the 22nd, activists Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell hope you will join them in their quest for world peace—by having an orgasm. Yes, the two have organised Global Orgasm 2007 with the hope that through “the largest possible instantaneous surge of human biological, mental and spiritual energy” we can “effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth”. Since manual stimulation is so 2006, we’ve rounded up ten gadgets that will help you contribute to the cause:


November 15, 2007
Gadgets

PAT Pocket Ashtray, a Smoker’s Requisite From Start to Finish

We’ve shown you all manner of ashtrays around here, including a couple of portable models, and even one that looks like you’re gagging some poor hooker or worse with your spent suckweed. But now the PAT (get it? Pocket Ash Tray?) accompanies your smokeage from start to finish, because this airtight closeable pocket ashtray has a perfect little holster for one of those mini Bic lighters. Useful. So without criticizing smokers who are already downtrodden, second-class citizens in our total-safety-first idiocracy, might we gently remind our beloved nicotine-enslaved readers that cigarette butts are litter, too. [Lucky Minds (.pdf)]


July 27, 2007
Uncategorized

Tar Ashtray Concept Measures Your Dwindling Lifeforce, Smokers

Anthony Voz, of London, designed this concept ashtray which would measure the ash in its base to guesstimate just how many minutes, days, weeks, and years you shave away with every puff. Could be time to pick up that $200 anti-smoking cigarette. Or lose the preachy friends. Just saying. galleryPost('tarashtray', 4, 'Tar Ashtray'); [Imovate IDG via Yanko]