My grandma just cleaned 10 years’ worth of useless magnetic crap off of her fridge, revealing its marbled surface for the first time I can remember. The Endo magnetic clips make me wanna cover it in crap all over again. They only support a pound, so you can’t string up a small child, or anything with real heft, unless you grab like 50 of them, which is pricey at $10 for a pack of three. [Endo via Gadget Lab]
This USB Geek mini fridge and heater may look like the USB mini fridge we’ve seen before, but it’s got a whole 100% more functionality—namely, heating. Not only can you keep your already chilled drinks from warming up slightly slower, it does the same thing in reverse for hot drinks. If only all our gadgets could perform their functions in reverse, we’d be able to blow the dust in our living room instead of just sucking it. [USBGeek]
It may be a bit too early for freshly drafted beer from a HomePub fridge, but it is never too early for caffeine. Thanks to Whirlpool’s Espresso refrigerator, you can now get your xanthine alkaloid-based fix any time of the day or night, fresh out of your fridge. The multitasking food cool closet boasts Whirlpool’s 6th-sense technology, which means it is a dab hand at keeping food cold as well! Is there anything this device cannot do?
The inventor of the HomePub, a fridge freezer with built-in draught beer system, is, it goes without saying, a genius. Designed with special people in mind, the kind who like to pour beer on their cornflakes or drink their coffee with beer and two sugars, there’s designated space for two five-liter kegs.
Digital-picture frame pioneer Ceiva is jumping the gun on Whirlpool’s latest refrigerator announcement, called “centralpark” I believe. The concept has been shown off before, but this is its first production application: it’s got a modular interface at the top, and Ceiva (and presumably others) have built something to fit the module. Why did Whirlpool go with a Wi-Fi-enabled LCD frame first? Because the #1 complaint is that magnets no longer stick to modern fridges, and people want to look at their damn baby pics! [Ceiva]
Yes, fridges can hold any bottles and cans, but if you find one camouflaged as a photocopy paper box in the office supply room, you know that it can only hold one thing: beer. Or in my case, Guinness. And tequila, Cointreau and limes as well. Next: an ice box posing as toner. [Dethroner]
After almost a decade of waiting, Smeg’s Fab28 fridge is coming to the USA. It comes in all sorts of colors, and has 9.22 cubic feet of space. Available in the UK as a giant Union Jack, what’s the betting that if it’s a success, the Fab28 will come in a Stars ‘n Stripes version? Full specs below.
This Norcool fridge does away with the traditional idea of the singular, monolithic fridge, instead tucking your cold food away in drawers. And it’s not a concept. Norcool’s production Drawer Fridge system is not only real, but it could be extremely efficient, too. Top loading fridges and freezers, as Treehugger notes, don’t spill cold as like front door traditional models do.
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This Ionic Fridge Freshener looks to be the same size and shape as a garden-variety soda can, but it’s festooned with evocative imagery, perhaps in an effort to convince you that it will actually get that horrible smell out of your refrigerator. What are you storing in there, anyway? Dead bodies?
This concept of ionic deodorization sounds mysterious and scientific, sure to convince the innocent that it will certainly do some good, maybe even kill a few of those horrible germs in the process. Maybe it does. We’re big fans of that fresh, wonderful smell after a severe summer thunderstorm, and that’s related to ions, isn’t it?
This is what every al fresco party needs – a cooler that plays tunes and lugs your beer to the pier without you needing to see a chiropractor. There’s an AM/FM radio to fiddle around with, a jack for your iPod or MP3 player into. And if all that wasn’t enough, it also looks like a Transformer.
The 40-quart cooler holds 58 16-oz cans, and is tall enough to carry two-liter bottles upright, and Igloo claims that its Ultratherm insulation will help keep your booze cool for up to 51 hours. The two speakers are 3 watts each and run on four AA batteries. The cooler measures 20″L x 17-3/4″W x 18″H and costs a shade under $150.
Product Page [Hammacher Schlemmer via Book of Joe]
