household

Stop Zooming In On My Rug! It’s Already Pixelated

While pixelated images make me cringe, I think that the playful pattern of this wool rug is absolutely lovely. Prices are only available on request and the matching pillows are unfortunately sold separately. [Nanimarquina via BLTD via Unplggd]

May 18, 2010

Beautiful Air Purifier Doubles As A Smell-O-Vision Display

The Twilight air purifier concept design has a slender, sheet-like OLED display which allows you to view videos or images while your air is cleaned of impurities, cooled down, and filled with a pleasant fragrance to match what you’re watching.

March 13, 2010
Geek Out

This Power Strip Has An Entire Miniature City On It

As part of a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, students built miniature cities out of common household objects—including this power strip. They’re just missing mini-people. [Spoon Tamago via Crib Candy via Boing Boing]

February 19, 2010

This Pot Holder Will Prevent Burns When You’re Baking

It’s not always about high-tech. Sometimes it’s the simplest of things that make our lives better and less painful. Like pot holders which keep our delicate fingers from getting burnt as we giggle over cheesy puns.

February 12, 2010

The Ekokook Kitchen Actually Makes Me Want To Cook

Somehow it’s just not fun to work in a messy or disorganised kitchen – or at least that’s my excuse. The Ekokook kitchen concept is neither though. It’s organised, clean, ecofriendly and oh-so-gorgeous.

February 10, 2010

This Bladeless Fan Makes Me Wish For A Hot-Hot-Hot Summer

Hate having a bunch of blades whizzing in circles above your head? Yeah, me too. That’s why I love the idea of cooling off in the gentle breeze produced by the bladeless LoftWing ceiling fan.

Home Theatre Under The Stairs Makes Perfect Sense

There’s nothing fancy about this idea for a home theatre, but it’s a very clever way to save space in a small house, using the dead space under the stairs to store a ton of tech gear.

February 6, 2010

Dry Erase Bamboo Panel Might Kill Those Reminder Apps DEAD

Who needs apps telling them to pick up a pint of milk on the way home, anyway? This bamboo dry erase comes in two sizes, with a bunch of assorted accessories like magnets, a letter holder and hooks.

February 4, 2010

ChiliBed: World’s First Heating And Cooling Mattress

I’d probably never use an electric blanket – I’ve just heard too many horror stories that include elements like burn marks and houses transformed to ash. But a water cooled/heated mattress? That sounds downright brilliant.

January 29, 2010

Wall-Mounted Wood Stove: Cool Enough To Make Them Viable Again

Who cares that wood stoves are environmentally unfriendly and are heavily regulated in some areas? This one hangs on the wall, people!

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