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.
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]
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).