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  Stash Shorts Feature Waterproof Pockets

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  No one likes leaving their valuables at the beach when they jump into the water.   Phones and wallets left on your Bodacious Beach Blanket are easy targets for petty thieves, after all.  Carrying your stash straight to the water, however, isn’t exactly feasible either.  Unless, of course, you’re wearing the Stash Shorts. While styled to look like regular beach shorts, the garment comes with a twist: waterproof pockets that let you keep your phone, wallet and other valuables inside without [...]

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  Cool Invention Of The Day – Glowing Plant Illuminates Your Garden Without Lights Or Electricity

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  Apparently, you can now bioengineer a plant to glow like alien flora species.  And it’s awesome as heck.  Finally, you can turn your garden into a scene straight out of an alien movie with these creepy-but-real Glowing Plants. Billed as “the first step in creating sustainable natural lighting,” these are real plants fashioned in the laboratory using synthetic biology and Genome Compiler’s software.  Real, as in you receive them as seeds that you can plant in a pot, in the [...]

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  BoatPack Is A Car Roof Box That Doubles As A Dinghy

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  Every time you hit the lake, you bring a boatload of gear along with you.  Might as well house all that gear in an actual boat, right?  That’s exactly what you can do with the BoatPack. Instead of hauling a roof box for your gear and a boat separately, the space-optimizing solution combines them into one, using the boat as a top lid for the roof-mounted container base.  It comes with four hinging points, so you can secure the boat [...]

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  Yoga Sak Is Perfect Backpack For Yoga Classes

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  We’ve seen bags equipped for specific activities before, from holding DJ gear to protecting photography equipment to stealthily carrying a stash of cold beer.  If you spend your afternoons posing in awkward positions while trying to breathe really calmly, the Yoga Sak just might be the perfect backpack for you. Designed to hold your full set of supplies for yoga class, it saves you from having to cram all that stuff into bags that weren’t exactly built for them.  That [...]

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  Loopwheels Are Bike Wheels With Built-In Suspension

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  We’re pretty sure there’s no need to reinvent the bicycle wheel.  That, of course, won’t stop anyone from trying to and the Loopwheels definitely seem like a nice upgrade. Designed by Jelly Products, it’s an erstwhile standard 20-inch bicycle wheel with a twist: it comes with a suspension system built into the wheel itself.  Switch them in place of your bike’s standard wheels and enjoy the most stable ride you can imagine.  Or, better yet, use them for your folding [...]

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  Kids Rule Is The Giant Wooden Ruler Of My Childhood Fantasies

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  Want a giant ruler?  Of course you do.  Who doesn’t want a giant ruler?  If you have little kids, you can use that as the perfect excuse to get the Kids Rule.  Made by Lovestruck Interiors, it’s a growth chart for measuring how tall your young ones are getting, just like those cardboard, canvas and plastic charts you can get from children’s supplies stores.  Instead of sporting cute kiddie graphics, it’s done up like a giant vintage wooden ruler — [...]

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  Mojo UFO Cuben Fiber Tent: Ultra-Light Shelter With Carbon Fiber Strength

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  The Mojo UFO Cuben Fiber Tent is far from the prettiest portable shelter I’ve ever seen.  In fact, it looks a little too much on the side of industrial, looking like the kind of temporary lodging guys will put up in digging and construction sites than the pop-up shelter of a worldly outdoorsman such as yourself. Don’t let the boring looks fool you, though.  Unlike most any tent in the market, it’s skinned using cuben fiber (floor and fly, with [...]

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  Luminair Tree Tent: Forget Cabins, Get A Tree House Instead

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  You just bought a sweet piece of property by the lake a couple hours off city limits.  And you’ve been thinking of using it as your hiding grounds in case of an apocalyptic event.  While you can always buy one of those pre-fab Bunkies for that, we’re thinking something like the Luminair Tree Tent will be plenty more appropriate. Just don’t confuse it with Cocoon tree hanging tent we covered in the past. If you’re hiding from threats, a tree-mounted [...]

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  Bootlegger Modular Bag Is Like Having 3 Backpacks In 1

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  At first, the idea of a modular backpack sounds a little too much design.  I mean, it’s not like shoulder straps raise the price of pack in exorbitant ways.  The Bootlegger Modular Pack System, however, offers a good argument for a modular pack: it lets you adjust the suspension in ways other backpacks probably can’t. The heart of the Bootlegger Modular Pack System is the Triple-Tramp Suspension, which consists of a comfy backing for the bag and all the straps [...]

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  Rinse & Chop Plus Combines Cutting Board And Colander

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  We’ve seen a lot of awesome chopping board designs, from an OCD Chef Board to one with multiple compartments.  And we don’t mind finding a few more.  This Rinse & Chop Plus Cutting Board definitely belongs in our list of favorites. Made by Joseph Joseph, it’s a chopping board that folds into a curved colander with a perforated end for rinsing and subsequently draining all the meat and vegetables you chop in it.  That way, you go from chopping your [...]

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  Chill Puck Keeps Your Beverages Colder For Much Longer

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  Once you take a beer can out of your stealthy DQM Chinook Cooler, there’s no choice: you either chug it down or it gets warm soon enough.  And warm beer really isn’t my cup of beer.  Doesn’t have to be that way, though, if you have the Chill Puck. A modified ice pack, it’s designed to attach to the bottom of a can, cooling down your booze long after you take it out of the chiller.  According to its creators, [...]

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  Crovel Extreme II Brings 13 Survival Tools In One

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  Combo shovels and crowbars have been around a while.  If you’re going to use one, though, might as well be the same one that military forces use for survival purposes when they’re in the field.  That would be the Crovel Extreme II. The latest version of the survivalist multi-tool, it improves on its rugged predecessor, all while retaining the superior usability of every tool in its arsenal.  Just like the original Crovel Extreme, it helps you eliminate the need for [...]

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  Stone Drink Dispenser Lets You Squeeze Booze From A Stone

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  Your watermelon keg is fun and all, but you have to admit: it’s a lot of hard work to hollow that thing out to turn it into a proper drink dispenser.  Save yourself the hard work without giving up the awesome with the Stone Drink Dispenser instead. Designed by Jeff Henderson, it’s a big lump of stone that’s been handcrafted to serve as a tap system for bottled beverages.  Kind of like the kegs we imagine they used in the [...]

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  Lugcup Adds A Cupholder Wherever You Need One

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  As much as you’d like to carry a travel mug anywhere you go, it just doesn’t make sense in many situations, like when you’re riding a Zuumer or hauling a luggage trolley, especially when you’re not sure you’ll have a convenient place to hold it in.  And things will remain that way until you get yourself a Lugcup. An add-on cup holder, it can easily strap onto a variety of objects, allowing you to equip them with a proper receptacle [...]

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  LumiLor Turns Everything Into An Electroluminiscent Object

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  Electroluminescent (EL) wires make for some amazing light displays.  While there is plenty you can do with them, those thin strands do put a lot of limits on what you can turn into a glowing mass.  The LumiLor changes that. Made by Darkside Scientific LLC, it’s a coating you can layer on any object to give it an electroluminescent surface.  Like EL wires, the coating will illuminate with a glowing light when a current is passed through, making it possible [...]

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  Sober Up Helps Get Rid Of Hangovers With A Shot

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  Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen plenty of solutions for preventing horrible hangovers associated with Friday night’s heavy drinking, so there’s no shortage of stuff, from multivitamins to candy to energy drinks, you can try to spare you from the agony.  Finding one that works for you, however, is a whole other story.  Sober Up is the latest in the growing line that you can try.  Maybe, it’s finally the one that kicks away all the nasty side [...]

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  Smart Design: C-Pump Single Hand Soap Dispenser

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  Sensor-activated automated soap dispensers are a godsend.  If you feel like all that electronics is overkill but still cannot stand regular soap dispensers, maybe you’ll find yourself smitten with the C-Pump. Made by Joseph Joseph, it’s a pump-based soap dispenser that reimagines the traditional pump design (like the ones used on the Jack Daniel’s Soap Dispenser). Instead of a pump you press on with one palm while the other palm waits for the soap to pour or a pump-nozzle that [...]

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  BB Billosaur: A Piggy Bank For Grownups

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    Once you’ve grown up, keeping a piggy bank around just feels silly.  Even a more adult coin bank isn’t all that flattering.  I mean, do you even online bank, bro?  Still, there’s a certain joy in physically inserting money every day into a figurine with a hollow interior.  Maybe the BB Billosaur will let you enjoy it without feeling totally childish. Made by Lemouton Noir & Co, it’s a piggy bank for adults.  Well, adults who like to keep [...]

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  Compact Chopsticks: Reusable, Collapsible And Ready For Sushi

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  Slipping a spork (or a spork multi-tool) in your backpocket is easy enough.  If you want to act like a stuck-up foodie, though, a spork is way too amateurish.  Arm yourself with these Compact Chopsticks instead. Made by Integral Design, it’s a pair of reusable chopsticks that you can stuff into your pockets to keep you ready for feasting on a platter of sushi any time.  Why not just use those disposable wooden chopsticks that they give you with your [...]

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