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Loft Wing Ceiling Fan Sweeps The Air To Blow Cool Winds Your Way
Electric fans are nice, but hand fans are magical. Especially when it’s someone else swaying the thing to cool you down, making you feel like a ruler of lands in days of yore. The Loft Wing is like a cross between two, using an electrical mechanism to gently swing a large swath of fabric that blows comforting winds your way.
Technically a ceiling fan, the new creation gets rid of the high-speed rotary mechanism, replacing it with a large wing that sweeps across the room to deliver a light and natural breeze. Sure, it’s not as fun as having slaves fan you with palm leaves all day long, but it will do.
The Loft Wing uses a 9.6 x 4.6 inch fabric wing (available in many custom colors), held up by tapered, high-strength carbon fiber rods that sway it over and over while suspended in your ceiling. A German-made electric motor powers [...]
Ariete Auto-Lift Iron Pops Up Little Legs To Keep From Burning Your Shirt While You’re Distracted
Ironing is so two decades ago. Wearing your clothes all wrinkled and crappy-looking is the only way to dress up. If you don’t buy my anti-ironing manifesto, then you need this: the Auto-Lift Iron from Italian appliances company Ariete.
Why do you need it? Because it does one thing no other iron can do – it actively keeps your clothes from getting burned. It doesn’t do it because it’s smart either. In fact, it’s just really, really attentive, closely monitoring when you have your hands on the handle and when you’ve let it go.
As long as your hands are wrapped around the grip, the Auto-Lift Iron does its job normally, straightening out those wrinkled areas of any fabric you put under it. Once you let it go, however, it immediately assumes that your attention is elsewhere. To ensure you don’t char that overpriced $70 T-shirt, it props itself up using two [...]
Dyson Air Multiplier Fan Blows Air, Will Blow Your Mind
To put it bluntly, the Dyson Air Multiplier Fan should not work. It’s a ring around a gaping hole. Yet, every publication that reviewed it says it performs as advertised and they have no idea how it does either.
What the heck is the Dyson Fan? It’s James Dyson’s (yes, the guy who updated the vacuum cleaner and the hand dryer in the same awesome manner) take on the electric fan, removing the blade and leaving nothing but a ring and a base.
Looking more like a giant Fruit Loop than a home appliance, the clever fan manages its wind-blowing ability using some clever engineering tricks. According to the press release, the fan draws air from the base of the machine, forces it up into the loop amplifier and accelerates it through an annular aperture, creating a jet of air in the large loop-the loop. Then, this jet of air pulls more [...]
Hourglass Brewer Takes 24 Hours To Make Your Coffee – Better Be Damn Good
Anytime you leave coffee in the pot for a couple of hours, it usually tastes like stale crap. That’s why the Coffee Hourglass is so odd, as it promises great-tasting coffee that “brews” for up to 24 hours.
Using an unusual hourglass frame, the contraption is designed to coax pure, concentrated coffee from coarsely-ground beans over that time. As it uses no electricity, the whole process happens naturally and very…..very…..slowly.
Each Coffee Hourglass weighs just under 2lbs. It measures 14 inches tall, with a 5.75-inch diameter. According to the instructions, you’re supposed to combine 2.25 cups of ground coffee with 3.5 cups of water on the brewing chamber (one end of the hourglass). Leave the concoction to mix and soak between 12 to 24 hours (the longer you leave it, the better it’s supposed to taste). After that, you’ll need to turn the hourglass over to get to the 16 ounces of [...]
