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Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler Hoses Down Garden Trespassers

Dogs and cats are adorable, As long as they’re yours. Your neighbors’ pets however can be quite annoying, peeing and pooping in your yard like it’s the city’s designated dump. The Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler doesn’t only keep that from happening, it looks awesome too, looking more like a robot bird head than a tool that just sprays the lawn.
Designed for humane but effective animal deterrence, you can finally get rid of the electrocuted traps you’ve set up along the yard. Make sure you inform the neighborhood association, so they can retract the complaint too. And tell the mailman he’s no longer going to be fried when he tries to walk on your grass. Just really, really wet, but you can hold that part back. Tee-hee.

The Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler is a motion-activated watering device, measuring 24 x 7 x 2.5 inches. Not only does [...]

Place Setting Placemats Are Here To Save The Day


I have no idea what’s supposed to go where on the dining table. As long as the food is on my plate and not anywhere else, I’m set. Of course, that doesn’t inspire much confidence when you’ve got guests you’re trying to impress coming over for dinner. Fortunately, you can practice with the Place Setting Placemats, which draw you an outline of where everything goes when hosting a formal dinner.
You may not care where the dessert fork should sit in relation to the soup spoon. Others could, however. When you’re trying to butter up the boss for a promotion and decide to invite him and the wife over, the least you could do to ensure best results is to cover all bases.
The Place Setting Placemat is a linen napery that measures 65 x 60 cm (L x W). It’s all white with black diagrams [...]

CD Wall Tiles Let You Decorate The Wall With Album Cover Art

We know you’ve got all of Celine Dion’s albums. Even those recorded in foreign languages. Why hide the Celine love when you can show it off with the CD Wall Tile, a wall-mounted CD case that can turn your beloved collection into a guaranteed date killer – unless you’re dating that chick from the Celine Dion Fans Club, of course. If that’s the case, then someone’s getting action tonight…yeehaw.
Since you can get most any music you want off iTunes and other digital sources, people who still buy CDs either love the medium or love the accompanying sleeve art. Either way, there’s no better manner of showing off a collection than hanging the whole thing up a wall for all your guests to enjoy. You don’t only maximize shelf space, you get to decide how you want your walls to look too. Even better, it [...]

If You Can’t Stand Tall, Then Sit Tall With The Brobdingnagian Chair

Who’s the real master of your domain? Doesn’t matter what your wife thinks when you’re the one sitting on the Brobdingnagian Sports Chair, a ridiculously huge folding chair fit for a king.
Tired of tall people always blocking your sight while sitting in the bleachers? Not anymore. With this chair in tow, you’re guaranteed to be the biggest douche guy in the stadium and you don’t even have to look like Kanye West to do it. Sexay.
The Brobdingnagian Sports Chair measures 5.5 feet tall and 5 feet wide, with a massive 9-foot seating area. Made from reinforced powder-coated steel frame and 400-denier rip-stop canvas, it can handle fat asses up to 400lbs and actually has enough space to accommodate two people, so you don’t fell lonely up top all by yourself. Amazingly, the whole thing folds to just 8.5 inches wide for [...]

Piano Dining Table Can Entertain While You Eat

Do you like to be entertained while you eat?  Put a piano in the dining room and pay a local musician to provide the melodies.  What, you don’t have the space to fit a piano with the dining table already in the way?  Not a problem with the Piano Dining Table, a concept furniture/musical instrument that combines both.
Created by Georg Bohle, it’s actually just an electronic keyboard that you can access from the side of a dining table.  Pretty clever.  I don’t see where the music is supposed to come out (or the cables for that matter), but it’s probably somewhere sly, like underneath.

With its oak wood construction, the Piano Dining Table should serve as a nice area to share meals with the entire family.   Good food goes better with sweet music?  Just squeeze in and let Junior play his recital piece from last week.  Oh wait, Junior sucks at [...]

How To Sleep Next To Your Beloved Firearm

Afraid of zombies coming out of the shadows while you’re sleeping?  Or maybe just threatened by a recent string of burglary in the neighborhood?  Don’t get scared, get ready with the Shotgun Backup, a firearm rack designed to sit right at the side of your bed.  That way, all you have to do is reach out, cock and fire when you hear rustling at 3 in the morning.  Then, you can go back to sleep and worry about what you just shot later.
Most people rightfully keep their shotguns at less conspicuous places – under the bed, inside the closet or right on top of a shelf.  That keeps nasty accidents from happening, especially when you have kids around the house.  However, it also makes your double-barrel harder to access when you’re in bed, which is when burglars, aliens and werewolves normally perform their nasty deeds.

The Shotgun Backup looks to remedy [...]

Zombie Shadow Cast Puts The Living Dead In Your Room

Ever took a candle-lit bath and muttered to yourself, “Man, I wish there were zombies here in the room with me?”  If you have, then you might want to consider talking to a psychiatric counselor.  Before you do, however, best get yourself a Zombie Shadow Cast and make that wish come true.
Now, it won’t really put brain-eating living deads in the same room with you.  That’s just silly.  The creators can get sued, after all, when your family comes home and finds you torn from limb to limb with your head sliced open.  Nobody wants that kind of trouble.
Instead, it’s just a small candle holder designed to cast shadows when you light up the wick.  In this case, the shadows will be of two zombie figures in suspended animation that look way, way creepy.
The Zombie Shadow Cast is made from 1/8-inch thick mahogany ply, with laser-cut figures of two outlines [...]

Lazy Days Hammock: Because Being Lazy Has To Be Easy

Hammocks are wonderful.  They hang on trees, they rock back and forth, and they make lounging in your backyard feel like a holiday in the tropics.  However, actually setting up a hanging bed of canvas sounds like hard work that defeats the very idea of spending the day idly.  The Lazy Days Hammock dispenses with all that difficulty.
Styled like a folding bed, it can compact into a portable bundle and collapse into a complete hammock, ready to lull you into a relaxing sleep.  No need to rope it around a post, find two perfectly-spaced trees or learn high-level knotting skills – just set the whole kit down and you’re ready to let the world pass you by.
The Lazy Days Hammock sports a soft but durable nylon bed attached to a collapsible steel frame.  It folds up to fit into a handy rucksack and weighs a mere 22lbs, allowing you to [...]

Wall Clips Help Control Gaming Room Mess

So many controllers, so little space.  If you have nowhere to park your mass of console gaming peripherals, then Wall Clips has a clever idea – hang those piles of plastic on your wall.
Designed to go on any vertical surface (such as walls, cabinets and doors), the space-organizing product is basically a hook made from bendable wire.  The bendable part is key, because you can shape it to fit any kind of controller you want it to hold on to, including DualShocks, nunchuks and even those never-ending supplies of Wii peripherals.

Wall Clips let you securely mount your devices using heavy-duty, bendable wire material.  You can literally twist it in any direction, clamping the hold as tightly or as loosely as you’d like. It comes with protective skin that both looks pretty (comes in a wide range of colors) and keeps your controllers unscathed.

A neat-looking gaming room sure sounds awesome, doesn’t [...]

Stack Chair Designates A Reading Area In Your House

Sick of your husband turning the bathroom into his own private library?  Put an end to it with the Stack Chair Wall Sticker, a decal that turns an erstwhile useless wall into your home’s designated reading corner.
Created by Florian Kremb for his AMPLIFIER studio, it puts an image of the rear part of a 78 x 36 cm chair on your wall.  Yep, just the rear – the backrest and the back legs.  Paired with a stack of magazines, it turns the space into a functional seating fixture that actually looks like one.
Finally found the time to enjoy that magazine you picked up last week?  Simply park yourself on the pile of reading materials, reach out for the one you want (it should be somewhere in the stack below) and commence reading.   Once you realize what a boring conglomerate of crock you just wasted money on, just reach for a [...]

Portable All In One Chair Is A Tote Bag, Magazine Pouch And A Beer Cooler

Can’t find a quiet spot in the house to sit back, read a magazine and drink a couple beers?  Hit the local park with the All-In-1 Chair and find some peace.  The multi-function seating equipment integrates a folding chair with cup holders, a wheeled tote bag, a cooler, a side pocket for magazines and a storage compartment in a single stash.  Yep, all that.
A versatile gear for folks who like spending lazy afternoons being.. uhm… lazy, it’s got everything you need to enjoy the urban outdoors all by your lonesome.  Load it up with beer and ice, stick a few reading materials in, haul it down to the beachside and park your ass down.  Good cheers.
The All-In-1 Chair is a sling-style folding chair made from 600 Denier polyester with a steel frame,  two armrests and integrated cup holders.  With reinforced stitching at stress points and durable piping around the edges, [...]

Aspiral Clock Puts Time On A Dizzying Spiral

Want a clock that can hypnotize you?  We’re not sure how well the Aspiral Clock can put you in a trance, but its swirly face looks like it can leave you dizzy if you stare intently while it’s moving fast.
Yes, it’s supposed to be a clock.  Don’t worry, it won’t require Tokyoflash-level nerdery to read the time.  In fact, the mechanism is rather straightforward – the ball pops out at 12, then moves its way through the succeeding hours and minutes.
The Aspiral Clock is a self-spinning timepiece, whose movement drives the ball along the spiral ledge until it reaches the center.   You tell the time by looking at the position of the ball.  If it’s at the center point between 2 and 3, for instance, then it’s 2:30.  Once it reaches the center, it drops into a hole and comes out of the same opening where it originally started.    Very [...]

Ham Dogger Gives Your Burgers And Other Foods That Beloved Hotdog Shape

Hate hotdogs, but love the long, phallic shape?  Make every food you prepare look like a wiener with the Ham Dogger, a kitchen mold that lets you turn a whole slew of ingredients into a nine-inch sausage.
The retail page is extolling the virtues of using it to stuff a pile of ground beef into a burger-dog, although you can, realistically, dump anything into that slab of tube.  Put diced and ground spinach mixed with flour, for instance, fry it and enjoy your very own crunchy Popeye frank on a hotdog bun.  Sure, that sounds terrible, but it’s hella different.
Ham Dogger is as simple as it sounds. Just a 9.5 x 5 x 2 inch plastic mold that lets you fill the slot with up to a quarter pound of ground beef and other equivalent food items.  The result is a magical, hot dog like form to all your food – [...]

Fatboy Metahlowski, A Beanbag Chair For Grownups

Like most of us, you probably left the beanbags in the dorm room when you finished college, resolved never to let them into your adult life ever again.  That won’t be the case if the Fatboy Metahlowski, a line of bean bags that marries sophistication with comfort, can help it.
While classier than your usual Fatboy fare, the Jukka Setala-designed chair is as lazy as the same beanbags that you rolled around in during college.  The only difference is, it probably won’t be as embarrassing when you bring home a date you met at a business convention.  At least, that’s what they’re hoping for.

The Fatboy Metahlowski upgrades the humble yet iconic beanbag with fine Italian fabric and sophisticated colors, such as gold, silver and titanium.  Shape and measurements (55 x 70 inches), along with the cylindrical EPS fillers, remain the same as regular Fatboy floor loungers, but the resulting look is [...]

Baby Bunk Lets You Keep Your Newborn Within Arm’s Reach When You Sleep

When your newborn cries in the middle of the night, you wake up.  It’s non-negotiable.  However, finding the legs to get up and the head to make your way to the little tyke’s crib can be a little tough. The Baby Bunk, an infant sleeping area that can be attached to your bed, should help ease the difficulty, allowing you to tend to the baby while staying comfortable in your own bed.
Suitable for newborns up to six months, the co-sleeper puts the child within your arm’s reach at all times.  That means you can simply reach out to feed and comfort the little lad once the ear-shattering crying starts.
The Baby Bunk latches onto your bed using two support arms that sit under the mattress and the boxspring, with two adjustable wooden legs providing support from the bottom.  For futons and platform beds, optional lip clips and customized legs can also [...]

Mandles: Because Relaxing Candles Can Soothe Tired Men Too

Men don’t use candles unless there’s a power outage.  Never mind the fact that it can change a room’s ambience with little effort – we don’t need it.  If we want to influence a room’s atmosphere, we’ll either spray an air freshener or we’ll just fart, thank you very much.
Gross bodily functions aside, don’t think it’s beyond your manly sensibilities to appreciate a good scented candle. Especially when the olfactory pleasures are made especially for men’s tastes and the candles are hoisted inside recycled beer bottles like the Mandle.  Yep, it’s the kind of candle even the least-cultured caveman can appreciate.  Okay, maybe just slightly more cultured than the lowest common denominator.

Created by Koi Kouture. the “man-candles” use 22-oz beer bottles from Rogue Brewery as candle holders, filling the room with an aroma that they claim will appeal to the less-prettier sex.   With fragrances such as Hippie Girlfriend From College [...]