This tape can be used whenever you want to reduce friction between two surfaces. Like drawers, for instance. The tape is transparent, and is promised to be very tough, so it will not wear down any time soon. The slippery-tape is USD 11:70 per roll of 18′. That should be enough for all the drawers in an average home.brbr
Safe Turn is an Australian invention aimed at improving safety for cyclists. It is a small automatic turn indicator to be attached to a sleeve or glove with a clip or an elastic strap. It is completely automatic; a tilt switch reacts as you raise your arm to signal a turn (you do signal your turns, don’t you?) and starts the flashing light. As you bring your arm down after the turn, the switch turns the indicator off. Pretty smart. It is AUD 19:95 (about USD 18:-) a piece.brbr
The pot to the left is the Eco-Cook, a concept for a new cook-pot insert by French designer Camille Kechenyi. It is not yet in production, but we guess one or other of the world’s cook-pot manufacturers will adopt (or steal) the idea pretty soon. By cooking more than one food in the same water you will not only save time, but energy, too. As a comparison, we offer the triple-partitioned pot on the right, that we ourselves found in use at a street restaurant in Thailand recently. The Thai pot has permanent partitions, which of course allows simultaneous cooking of foods whose flavors are not supposed to be mixed.brbr
Smooth and soft. I have launched a new theme on iGoogle. The theme changes based upon the time of day (every 4 hours), and is based upon a series of strokes I drew by hand and a simple algorithmic…
On the ride from Tokyo to Narita Airport, a co-worker from my past escorted me to say goodbye. He related how his professor at Tokyo University (sort of like the Harvard of Japan) was probably the #1 or #2 people…
Muji is one of our favorite stores, and has been for years. Their simplicity and no frills attitude to the products has great appeal to our inner minimalist. Muji has sponsored an international design contest where the entries of course all have been in the Muji spirit. The first prize winner was this idea for a towel, called towel with further options. It begins life as a large bath towel, but as it gets worn it can be cut down to face towel, bath mat, wash cloth, cleaning cloth and dust cloth. The ready made cutting grid means there will be no fraying along the cut edges. More on the prize winners on Muji’s competition pages.brbr
Anyone who works from home, and do not have a spare room to use as an office, may find this idea appealing. It is a swiveling mounting wall for a flat-screen tv combined with a fold out workspace. You work on one side and when it is time for play you just swing the leisure side forward. Come to think of it, it could be just great for people with lots of space, too. Then you do not swing the thing, but let it be a room divider between the home office and the living room. From Gruber+Schlager.brbr
There seems to be no end to the uses people can think of for our everyday used PET bottle. Here is one we have not seen before. For those occasions when you cannot use a rope to tie down a tarp, fill used PET bottles with water or sand, screw on the special cap, and attach the clamp to the tarp. USD 2:40 at Lee Valley.
Large PET bottles can be a pain to carry around. This simple carrier handle addition to larger bottles (like 1.5 and 3 liters) makes them easier to carry. We have never seen it before now, but it is no doubt available in lots of places. we found these in Hanoi, and they were put in place after purchase on the bigger bottles. Unfortunately the handles are not removable once they have been pushed in place. Re-use would of course have been preferable…brbr
Anybody who watches television with any kind of frequency may recognize the glasses. You can for example see actor Robert Joy wear them as a forensic doctor in CSI New York. If the producers of the series thought these frames enhanced his geekiness, or if it is a simple product placement, we do not know. The frames, however, seems to have become quite popular lately, with the smart magnet on the bridge to make them easy to put on and take off. More info on Clic’s own web site.brbr
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