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Random Stuff
How Do You Clean The Tallest Building In The World?
2:20AM Jesus Diaz
Things in Dubai get dirty pretty fast with the sand from the desert. But how the heck do you clean the 818-metre Burj Dubai? What about a SWAT team rappelling down its surface with high pressure water guns. More »
Gadgets
BucketVac Turns Any 20-Litre Bucket Into A Wet/Dry Vacuum
6:20AM Sean Fallon | The BucketVac snaps on to just about any standard 20-litre bucket and converts it into a receptacle for whatever wet or dry crud you happen to be sucking out of your filthy car seats. More »
Gadgets
The Dustbuster: Cleaning Up After You Since 1979
2:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Unveiled in 1978 but released in 1979, the Black & Decker Dustbuster was a revolutionary home-cleaning device, and the only power tool a parent was likely to let a children play with. Vroom! More »
Peripherals
10 Ways To Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting
12:00AM Matt Buchanan | Your keyboard is probably a SuperFund site waiting to happen—luckily there’s more than one way to skin a biohazard. Inc.com has 10 ways to clean your keyboard, blow dryer being their wiliest, if lightweight, method. [Inc.com via Lifehacker] More »
Gadgets
Toto Neorest Toilets Now Clean Up After Your Chili and Cheese Nightmare
7:40AM Sean Fallon | Toto toilets are world-renowned for their high-techitude, but a new upgrade takes things a step further. Their Neorest toilets are now self-cleaning. More »
Games
The Official Wii Lens Cleaning Kit Is Here
11:50PM Mark Wilson | Formerly a Japan-exclusive, the Wii Lens Cleaning Kit has Godzilla-crawled its way across the Pacific Ocean floor to the US. More »
Robots
‘Tenth Floor Please’ Says The Japanese Janitor Robot Stepping Into the Elevator
4:20AM John Mahoney | Fuji Heavy Industries (very heavy) and Sumitomo have introduced the future of industrial cleaning automatons–a beefed-up Roomba-like bot that not only cleans a Japanese office tower’s filthy floors, but takes the elevator to cover the whole building all by itself. More »
Gadgets
Wireless Wipes Rid Your Filthy Touchscreen Phone of Staphylococcus Aureus
6:00AM Jack Loftus | If you, like me, do unnatural things with your iPhone, go pick up a 10-pack of Wireless Wipes. Why? Because touchscreens are apparently hotbeds of scum and villainy. And germs, which is what a British study discovered when it found they carry “tens of thousands of bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus.” Another study, conducted in Arizona, randomly tested 25 mobiles and found staph on nearly half of them. Staph, in case you didn’t know, causes everything from pimples and boils, to pneumonia and meningitis, which explains the chronic headache and hallucinations I’ve had for the better part of the past week. Wireless Wipes cost $US2 for 10, are fast drying, non-streaking and—most importantly—non corrosive. [ChipChick] More »
Gadgets
Smudge-Resistant Film Breaks Down Your Gross Fingersweat With Chemistry
11:00PM John Herrman | Japanese company Tsujiden has presented a new protective film that diminishes fingerprints in a matter of seconds, breaking down the oily residue using a simple property of chemistry previously utilised in soaps and detergents. The company claims that the lipophilic and hydrophilic properties of the film cause the grease to be “obscured” by allowing it to “become flat” against the treated surface. More »
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