towels
Design
Useful Towel Knows How Many Pecks Are In A Bushel
5:00PM Rosa Golijan | 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 »
Design
Kitchen Towel Sanitising Machine Says ‘Suck It’ To ShamWow
4:40AM Sean Fallon | 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. More »
Design
Ideos: The Future Of Towel Warmers Is Here…Today
4:40AM Sean Fallon | I can’t say that I’m all that into radiators—but if I ever needed a cool looking towel warmer, the Ideos from Kermi would definitely fit the bill. [Kermi via Trendir] More »
Science
MIT Nanomesh Paper Towel is the Last Quicker Picker Upper You’ll Ever Need
5:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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). More »
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Kimberly-Clark First to Elusive Hands-Free Toilet Paper Dispenser Market
10:45AM Seamus Byrne | 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 »
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Battlemodo: Dyson Says Airblade Would Beat Mitsubishi Jet Towel
7:20AM Wilson Rothman | 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 »
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