Gadgets

Award-Winning Smoke Alarm Sounds Like A Bird

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.


July 15, 2011
Gadgets

Bird-Shaped Smoke Alarm Better Not Tweet When The House Is On Fire

I’m torn: On one hand I hate the blatant pandering to the millions of Twitter-users products such as this birdy smoke-alarm obviously involve, yet… it’s a bird-shaped smoke alarm! €50 ($67) to you, you and you. [Design3000 via RandomGoodStuff]


February 24, 2010

Change A Smoke Alarm’s Batteries With A Broomstick

Not sure why it took $US2500 and a student design competition to come up with this, but Trevis Kurz has invented a smoke alarm you can change the batteries for with just a broomstick (and your arms).