Handy robots are like the cute puppies of the world. No-one wants a stationery ‘bot, as much as they don’t want one of these. *shudder* Surely the golden retriever of the robot world is one that actually does household chores. More »
A towel is about the most massively useful thing you can have. This particular one though, does things no other towel does: It guides you through the mysteries of measurement conversions and even has built-in rulers. More »
Just the other day I was thinking that I spend entirely too much on paper towels—but I refuse to buy a ShamWow from Beavis. This kitchen towel sanitising machine just might be the answer.
Sorry, Brawny man. Your paper towels were always handy in a pinch for the occasional Coke-on-keyboard spill, but they fall apart when held up against this incredible nanomesh towel from the folks at MIT. Designed with the environmentally unfriendly act of oil spills in mind, this recyclable towel’s potassium manganese oxide fibers absorb up to 20 times their weight in oil (which can then be recovered, for future oil spills).
Who but the greatest public-restroom aficionados knew that the “final touchless restroom frontier” was the electronic toilet-paper dispenser? I for one am surprised that no one has tried to market this already. But sure enough, I just heard from public-restroom mainstay Kimberly-Clark, who announced the JRT* Electronic Coreless, the world’s first touchless electronic bath-tissue dispenser. As Richard Thorne, director of Kimberly-Clark’s North American washroom business put it: “The electronic revolution has entered the bathroom stall.” The following is all true. More »
newVideoPlayer("dyson_comeback_gawker.flv", 475, 376); We have it on tape. Today, James Dyson (whose friends call him Sir) told us that Airblade would stomp the crap out of Mitsubishi’s Jet Towel in a hand-drying face-off. Those are our words; you’ll have to watch the video to see how the charming and diplomatic Englishman puts it. But while you watch, make sure you pay attention to the fire in his eyes. – Video by Richard Blakeley More »
Is there a worse combination than being cripplingly lazy and a total germophobe? You live in fear of situations like when you drop your sandwich on the floor, don’t want to eat it, but just can’t handle the thought of going through the effort of making another one. My God, your life is a constant struggle.
Well, this automatic paper towel dispenser should make your life at least a little easier. It’ll hand you paper towels automatically without you touching it, which will appeal to your lazy self as well as the part of you that worries that germs are coating the dispenser. $66 might seem a lot for a simple device such as this, but it’s cheaper than a psychiatrist. –Adam Frucci
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