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Aluminium Speaker Dock Looks Right At Home Under Your iMac

10:30AM Yesterday | Andrew Liszewski

Another day, another iOS device dock designed to compensate for their unimpressive built-in speakers. Today it’s Philips with its elongated DS6100 featuring an aluminium housing that’s designed to perfectly complement your iMac. More »


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How Does This Tiny Wood Grill Reach 590C?

5:00PM February 9, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

A uranium core? A miniature sun? Molten lava? None of the above I’m afraid. Like the blacksmiths of yesteryear, the Cook-Air uses bellows, or in this case a fan, to provide an ample source of oxygen to fuel the flames. More »


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Celebrate Valentine’s Day With This Heart-Shaped Spork

1:30PM February 9, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

A picnic in the park is a lovely way to spend Valentine’s Day if you live somewhere warm. And imagine how enamoured your true love will be if you break out this adorable heart-shaped and eco-friendlier Heart Part cutlery. More »


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Braun BNC400 Alarm Clock Review: How To Ruin Good Design

1:00PM February 9, 2012 | Matt Buchanan

I have something of a sleep problem. Or I guess, more accurately, a waking up problem. And my alarm clock died. So I bought this re-issue of Braun’s Dietrich Labs and Dieter Rams-designed BNC004 travel alarm clock. You should not. More »


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Stop Mangling Your Goggles And Behold The Power Of Magnetic Lenses

2:00AM February 9, 2012 | Roberto Baldwin

After a few seasons on the slopes, you realise that having a set of goggles with interchangeable lenses is a must. Then you realise that changing the lenses on those goggles is a huge pain in the arse. Well magical magnets are once again the answer to all of our troubles. More »


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Award-Winning Smoke Alarm Sounds Like A Bird

12:00AM February 9, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Smoke alarms may be essential life-saving devices, but they aren’t exactly the most aesthetically pleasing electronics in your home. At least until now, that is. More »


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Another Reason Your K-Cup Coffee Machine Is A Terrible Thing

6:30PM February 8, 2012 | Matt Buchanan

I think the coffee that comes out of single-serving coffee pod machines is not very good. But, putting that aside, it’s obscenely expensive, as Oliver Strand points out in the New York Times: More »


Geek Out

The Softer Side Of Chainsaw-Accentuated Rifles

6:00PM February 8, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

Rifles augmented with chainsaws designed to cut through zombie hordes are old hat, so when Guns & Gardens set about making theirs, they wanted it to be different. Cuter, more adorable, and more appealing to your stereotypical tweenaged girl. More »


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DigiTech’s iPhone Guitar Pedal Lets You Shred Without Your Phone

4:00PM February 8, 2012 | Mario Aguilar

The Digitech iStomp isn’t the first iPhone-controlled guitar effects pedal, but it’s the first one that feels more like a legit guitar accessory than an iPhone toy. More »


Computing

Logitech Cube Review: This Is Not A Mouse

1:30PM February 8, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Logitech arguably make the best mice you can buy. I guess it tires of doing so, as the Cube mouse-plus-PowerPoint-clicker is an ergonomic war crime and peripheral abomination. At least it’s small enough to purge from memory. More »