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  The Windcatcher Will Change How Inflatable Stuff Works

  FURNITURE, LATEST

  Inflatable stuff, from giant couches to blow-up waterparks, are awesome.  And if they can have the same superpowers as the Windcatcher Air Pad, they will likely be even more awesome. Created by Portland-based Ryan Frayne, it’s an inflatable mattress that’s designed for blowing up by simply puffing into it.  Yep, no pumps necessary.  You don’t have to blow into it till you’re red in the face and your jaws hurt, either — just three puffs of air and the thing [...]

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  Xistera 8 Bundles iPhone Accessories And Other Tools In One

  GADGETS

  Buying a lot of accessories for your iPhone is par for the course, so a multi-tool that performs different functions you’d otherwise have to buy individually makes perfect sense.  That’s exactly what the Xistera 8 brings to the table. Designed to work with the iPhone 5, it’s a multi-function contraption that looks like a slightly more elaborate kickstand from the picture frames of old.  It’s compact and sized to fit into your pocket, so you can carry just one extra [...]

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  Stash Shorts Feature Waterproof Pockets

  FASHION, SIMPLY COOL

  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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  Othermill Desktop CNC Mill Is Perfect For Making Custom PCBs, Jewelry And More

  GADGETS

  You already make a whole load of original stuff with 3D printers.  Next step: turn those same objects into smart objects of sort.  If the kind of things you design, however, aren’t quite sized to hold conventional circuit boards that will let you turn them into self-functioning automatons, you’ll need to make your own.  The Othermill is designed to accomplish that. Made by Otherfab, it’s a desktop mill that lets you make custom circuit boards cheaply and quickly (1,000 mm/min [...]

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

  HOME, SIMPLY COOL

  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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  BBQ Dragon Readies Your Charcoal Grill 4X Faster

  GADGETS, HOME

  The more convenient the grill, the less it’s able to produce that smoky flavor in your favorite barbecue dishes.  As such, charcoal grills remain a popular option among the grilling faithful.  If you’d like to spare yourself some of the usual hassles that come when cooking on your Fold Flat Grill, though, the BBQ Dragon can help. By far, the biggest problem with charcoal grills is just how darn long they can take to start up.  It’s not uncommon, in [...]

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  Loopwheels Are Bike Wheels With Built-In Suspension

  SIMPLY COOL, WHEELS

  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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  Siva Cycle Atom Is A Kinetic Power Generator For Bicycles

  GADGETS, WHEELS

  Taking your Glow-in-the-Dark Bicycle to work is one of your smartest ideas ever.  It helped you get in better shape, saved you a small fortune in gas, and allows you to act like a stuck-up treehugger while only feeling half-pretentious.  Now, if only it can get you laid, too, it will be your smartest idea ever.  While the Atom can’t help with that, it will let you reap one more benefit from your daily bicycle runs: using all that pedaling [...]

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  Would You Wear A Shirt That Can Be Worn For 100 Days Without Washing?

  FASHION

  All clothes should be like denim jeans, so you can wear them unwashed for weeks without looking and smelling like you just plucked it out of a garbage dump.  Wool & Prince claims their button-down shirts can do just that, allowing you to wear it for 100 days straight without costing you any style points. Yes, I’m skeptical of that 100-day claim, too.  I mean, this isn’t the first time somebody created wool clothing before and while I do understand [...]

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  ONDA Cycle Brings Drifts And Spins In A Tiny Recumbent Trike

  WHEELS

  You know those tricycles designed for kids aged 3 or 4 years old?  Yeah, that’s, pretty much, what the ONDA Cycle is, except it’s for grown adults. Well, that’s not exactly a fair comparison. Although it does look like a child’s trike, the unique contraption is actually an incredibly versatile stunt trike that should make it an entirely new experience of fun on wheels.  The team even goes so far as to claim it can be used to commute to [...]

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  Bootlegger Modular Bag Is Like Having 3 Backpacks In 1

  FASHION, SIMPLY COOL

  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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  Blue Laser Lamp Illuminates Your Room With Hundreds Of Shooting Lasers

  GADGETS

  Want a fancy lighting system that turns your room into a moody scene straight out of a horror/sci-fi flick?  The Firefly Blue Laser Lamp is your best option for doing just that, dispersing hundreds of blue laser lights flying around you. A portable lamp, it comes shaped like a giant dice out of a role-playing tabletop game with over two dozen sides, allowing it to spread the lasers in all directions from where it sits.  The result is a bunch [...]

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  Chill Puck Keeps Your Beverages Colder For Much Longer

  SIMPLY COOL

  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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  Grip Clip Puts Storage Slots On Your Glasses – We Don’t Mind At All Actually

  FASHION

  Real nerds don’t wear pocket protectors anymore.  I mean, who wants to dress like a stereotype from the 80s, anyway?  If you’re going to go full nerd, you need something way more outrageous than that: we suggest the Grip Clip. When you go full nerd, glasses (make that GI Joe glasses) are mandatory — no contacts allowed.  And when you rock glasses, this little accessory adds a storage clip right on your glasses’ temples, allowing you to hold pencils, markers, [...]

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  Blackprints: Stylish Vehicle Prints For Classy Gearheads

  ART, HOME, WHEELS

    Looking for automotive prints to hang on that blank space on your wall?  Skip the gawdy poster prints and grab yourself one of these stylish Blackprints from Sabrina Chun. Designed to adorn your wall without the usual gearhead aesthetic, the photographic prints use inverse black and white imagery to capture a minimalist visual.  None of the loud colors and tacky flashiness of the supercar posters that adorned your dorm room back in the day; instead, these prints will look [...]

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  Vamp Makes Any Speaker Wireless By Adding Bluetooth

  ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

  You invested a small fortune in your audio system from back in the day.  That’s why you still use it even as everyone else in the neighborhood have upgraded to wireless streaming set ups.  If you’d like to bring some of that wire-free modernity into your entertainment gear without investing in new hardware, you need The Vamp. A small device, it’s designed to magnetically attach to the speakers, so you can put it on top, on the side or on [...]

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  Smart Design: OpenFrame Mounts Artwork On Walls Using Magnets

  HOME

  Putting up your kids’ drawings on the fridge door using magnets is a great way to show off their kiddie doodles.  Once your little art prodigy graduates to doing sketches a little too advanced for his age, though, you’ll definitely want to show them off someplace other than the fridge door.  These OpenFrames offer an ideal solution. Unlike traditional frames, these wooden display panels don’t have an inner slot where you can slip in your pictures and prints.  Instead, it [...]

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  Mr. Davis Claims To Be The World’s Best Undershirt

  FASHION

  Labeling yourself to be “the world’s best” anything is ballsy.  Which is why I reserve a modicum of respect for anyone who boldly makes that claim.  And while I’m not a fan of hyperbole for products as simple as a shirt, there might be some actual merit to Mr. Davis’ claim. What makes these undershirts the best in the world?  According to the product page, they offer “comfort like you’ve never felt from a shirt,” a fit that’s “snug without [...]

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  Bartendro Is A Precision-Mixing Robot Bartender

  GADGETS, HOME

  Cute bartenders are a thing because how else will you get me to sit in a bar and pay for overpriced drinks all night long?  That’s why I’m suspicious about the potential for success of robot bartenders — they are just not that hot looking!.  Still, if you’d rather have automatons pouring drinks in your party for whatever reason I can never fathom, now you can with the Bartendro. A robot drink dispenser, it will make every drink exactly the [...]

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