If I was one of those people who liked peanut butter - and I'm not - then I'd be all over this kitchen gadget like, well, like peanut butter on toast. Stick your peanuts in, select whether you're a crunchy or a smooth (but never oily or dry - wait was that the Kraft Peanut butter ad from years ago coming back to haunt this post? Anyway...) kind of guy and then blend away.

The best part is that it's not just peanuts that can be butterised - stick in macadamias, sunflowers, cashews... whatever nut job you want, it'll handle.

Of course, it's a $US50 US-only product at the moment, but one day we'll get the freedom to make our own nut butter down under.

Damn that sounded wrong...

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I don't know what you thought "the great swallow project" was (actually I do), but I can tell you what it's not. It is definitely not the act of a sane, rational person. For some reason or another, artist Benjamin Verdonck built a nest hanging high on the Rotterdam Weena Tower in the Netherlands. Apparently he has been sitting in the nest for a few days now, acting like a bird and gazing longingly at pedestrians and the giant egg he placed in the street. If you can't actually make it to see this installation in person, you can still get a feel for the weirdness in the video after the break.

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Who says Hillary's a ballbuster? No, she's a nutcracker. Here's proof. Just in time for the Christmas season, shell out $29.99 and remove the shells from your walnuts with style. When she's done cracking nuts, Hillary stands up on her own, lording over you as she awaits her next opportunity to bust a few nuts. And if you don't like it, well, you can just sleep on the couch, buster. [Teptronics]

Leave it to the commenters to make the nut cracking jokes, but this design concept could be a serious ballbuster. Consisting of two aluminum tubes, it's sized to fit a walnut inside, and all you need to do is twist, and the nut is cracked right in two by the nutcracker's ridged edges. Seems pretty simple. Created by German industrial designer Christopher Kuh, his idea was to craft a minimalist design that was not only simply functional but would be a decorative item when you're not using it to crack a few nuts here and there. To us, leaving this thing lying around would look like someone absentmindedly left the hub of the toilet paper holder in the kitchen. [Yanko Design]