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Get The Most Out Of Your Home Appliances (Without Taking Them Apart)

When was the last time you had to salt your perishables, got dishpan hands or beat your laundry against a washboard? Chances are not recently. Your home appliances do so much for you, shouldn’t you return the love? Here’s how to keep your domestic machine in peak condition without putting on a tool belt.


How To Clean Out Your Overflowing Hard Drive And Get Your Space Back

Hard drives get messy. You save files and forget them, download huge chunks of data that pile up, and change your naming schemes a hundred times. It’s time to do a little tidying up.


This Clever Spray Scrubber Almost Makes Up For Not Having A Dishwasher

Are you dishwasherless and trying to find a way to streamline meal cleanup without resorting to paper plates and disposable cutlery? If so, your search is over. This easy to use kitchen accessory from Jokari snaps over your sink’s sprayer, adding a ring of stiff bristles letting you scrub and blast dirty dishes clean.


DIY Cleaning Products? All You Need Is This Bottle

There’s so much brain-melting, fish-mutating crap in the products we use every day to clean things. Natural products tend to be pretty expensive, but not if you make them yourself with this clever cleaning bottle.


Weaponised Toilet Brushes Wipe Out Zombies And Hard Water Stains

Zombie or not, it’s a good idea to never get on Joerg Sprave’s bad side. Our favourite slingshot auteur can weaponise pretty much anything he gets his hands on. From ashtrays, to Oreos, to coins, to what is probably one of the most inane household objects you could think of: a toilet brush.


Ultraviolet Lamp Keeps Your Dishwasher Clean No Matter How Dirty The Dishes

There’s a good chance your dishwasher fills with nasty, dirty dishes well before you get around to doing a load. And that breeds bacteria that can lead to an awful smell in your kitchen; a consequence of laziness that this UV disinfectant lamp promises to eliminate.


Hack A Can Of Compressed Air So It’s Refillable

It’s useful for blasting dust, crumbs and other crap off your keyboard and electronics, but those overpriced compressed air cans are almost as big a rip-off as printer ink. So here’s a brilliant and relatively simple hack that makes a compressed air can refillable with a standard tyre pump.


The Cheap Roomba Alternative That Doesn’t Suck

If the Roomba’s price tag is too rich for your blood, but you’re still on the hunt for a lazy way to clean your floors, OCedar’s roving, spinning O-Duster might just fit the bill.


The Tongue Toothbrush Is The Grossest Way To Be Hygienic

Toothbrushes haven’t changed much. Sure, some fancy tech wiz brushes spin the bristles themselves, but at the end of the day, after centuries of use, we still have to hold the damn thing. Not anymore. The T2T is a hands-free toothbrush that you slip onto your tongue to do your teeth cleaning. It’s the grossest way to be hygienic.


Electrolux’s New Vacs Compress The Dust To Boost Their Crud Capacity

Suction power has become an important bullet point when it comes to selling vacuums. But what really matters to consumers is how easy they are to empty. The annoying bags of yesteryear have been replaced with easy to use trapdoor canisters, which now see further improvement with Electrolux’s new UltraCaptic cleaners that compress the dust into an easily disposable disc.


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