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Chop Sabers – LightSabers War on Your Food

Ken Xu — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:10:37 +0000

Funny, the mighty lightsabers from Star Wars has been minimized as a chopsticks so you can let them war on your food. Perhaps they should start another series with “Food Wars” as their title because this chop sabers is really funny and cool. Provided up to 3 color to choose from, RGB or Red Green Blue, pick a pair of them and do your Food war over your Chinese food / Japanese food. Unfortunately, you can’t pick it up now since there is no release date reveal yet. Price is also unknown.

(via 2DayBlog, CraziestGadgets)

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Cooper Cooler

Ken Xu — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:22:51 +0000

If you haven’t figure out the best and fastest way to cool down your beverage, there are two way which proved to be the fastest of all. The first is to expose and dousing the beverage with fire extinguisher. Yes, you got it. That red cylinder tube is one of the best and fastest cooler.

The second one is of course without exposing to chemical material like fire extinguisher. A cooper Cooler will do and it can cool down your drinks in sixty seconds!

Of course, it’s still require some help from ice and water to achieve the maximum cooling down effect. You will need to fill the compartment with freezing ice from your fridge and add some water then close the lid to let the machine do its job.

Cooper Cooler will rotate the beverages (preferable a Canned beverage) while dousing them with the ice and water. According to the fact, this type of technique will allow 40 times faster than the conventional cooling with fridge.

Well, if you don’t want to waste a tank of fire extinguisher just to get a chill canned beverages, you really should consider this cooper cooler as your only solution.

You can check it out at Amazon if you are interested. It’s only $59.99.

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Floppy Disk Coasters

Ken Xu — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:05:36 +0000

Floppy disk is the oldest disk format for storing data. I remembered the first time playing that retro game space invaders using this floppy diskette to boot up the game. really sounds a far age ago. Though it’s now useless because of the “very small” storage space. We still can use it for other purpose, such as this colorful floppy disk coasters by thegeekery.

Floppy Disk Coasters

The set comes with a wonderfully sturdy and repurposed Minikas-Ette Library Case to store and display your coasters. The case comes in grey, yellow, red, blue and green. (Sorry, the black case is no longer available.)

The majority of the felt used to make this unique coaster is EcoSpun felt. I favor EcoSpun felt because it’s made from recycled plastic bottles. The inner gray portion is a regular synthetic felt and includes a used CD that I’ve stitched inside in order to make the coaster more durable.

Floppy disk coasters is available in 17 different type of bright color, and you can order it just for $28 a set.

[via OhGizmo]
[Find More Coasters at Amazon]

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Tire Bowl – Free from Tire Smells

Ken Xu — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:08:42 +0000

This tire bowl is a little bit maniac, but it is in a good shape and I bet those Car Guys (souls who love cars) will fall in love in the first sight.

This tire bowl looks real enough and nobody would know it is your cereal meal bowl if you keep your mouth shut. It also comes with a realistic looking chrome hubcap lid to mask your meal inside. Just a little bit of prank, you might want to surprise your mates by serving them your food using this tire bowl with lid shut tightly. See how is their reaction and make fun of them!

Let the men be boys with this completely functional Tire Bowl. This bowl will be the centerpiece of your man’s table! It is so realistic looking the boys will feel as though they are in the pits of the Indianapolis Speedway or just hanging out in the garage.

“The Chrome Hubcap Lid” snap-locks on with a twist to keep everything from nuts to cereal fresh. It measures 6″ in diameter and 2 1/2″ deep with rubberized tread.

Tire Bowl is available for $17.99 at PerpetualKid. You might want to get some if you really love about car/racing/tire.

[via Hardware Sphere]

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Alessi Orientales Banana Bros Salt and Pepper Set

Ken Xu — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:39:25 +0000

Salt and pepper is the legendary best friend in Food. So is Monkey and Banana. They are un seperatable, just like the earth and sky. Always together.

This design of Salt and pepper express out the sweetness of nature harmony. They call them the Alessi Orientales Banana Bros Salt and Pepper Set, designed by Stefano Giovannoni and Rumiko Takeda.

Both have an identical design, with a banana kayak as their seat position. Very Sweet and very suit.

This Banana Bros will cost you $36 a set. Don’t underestimated the value, this salt and pepper set might bring a good, warm and priceless smiles from your family and friends.

(via NerdApproved)

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Shuriken Magnet: Ninja Style Magnet Toy

Ken Xu — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:58:37 +0000

Ninja is one my childhood superhero. They can jump high and dissappear in the very moment. They harakiri when captured, and very loyal with their master. I really like their weapons. Especially shuriken or Star shaped weapon that will make a good kill if you throw it to your enemy’s head.

This Shuriken Magnet for your metal board/fridge is kinda the same concept as the real Shuriken. It has a powerful magnet attached to one of the sharp edge and when you stick it to your fridge, It will looks like a real shuriken stabbed into your fridge.

Shuriken - Star Shaped Weapon as Magnet Toy

The Shuriken comes in a unique, ninja design package possing a jutsu calling. Well, you’ll know what I mean if you have watch the popular Ninja Anime, Naruto!

It makes leaving a notes using this shuriken on your fridge looks like a dead or alive challenge from an assassin. Very funny and cool to decorate our kitchen.

The price is $19.00 for each Shuriken. If you are interested, head to ePauletShop for more information.

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ON/OFF Mug – Reacts to Hot Beverages

Ken Xu — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:13:16 +0000

ON/OFF Mugs? Sounds like a lamp switch to you, right? I do thing so, at least until I saw the the mug. It’s not about a switch to turns on and off. It’s about the chemical reaction to hot temperature to changing the color and wording.

On the default state, you will get a black mug with white letters “OFF” imprinted. But when you pour your favorite hot beverage, let’s say Coffee to this ON/OFF mug, you will see the mug will slowly turns to white color with black letters “ON” imprinted in the mug! Magic!

At first glance it’s simply a standard black mug with big white letters that say “OFF”. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color to white and in big black letters it states: “ON”.

A fun way to brighten up Monday mornings, and a great gift for students, professionals, or anyone whose brain needs a caffeinated kickstart in the morning. Dishwasher-safe, of course!

Looks pretty interesting for our morning tea. Unfortunately, ON/OFF mug is not currently available. It’s been sold out and no word when it will become available again. If you like it, you might want to queue an inquiry or contact the maker at WishingFish.

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Flat Soda Prevention with Fizz Soda Dispenser

Ken Xu — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:28:12 +0000

Do you like to drink some flat soda?! Oh, I guess no one would love to! It’s just not fun and kinda break the enjoyment to drink flat soda, especially the one that stored in the bottle. Once we opened the cap and you’ll find out the soda will flat out in a couple of days, or even hours.

That’s a headache if it’s only you who have to enjoy the whole bottle. At least, until now. This Fizz Soda Dispenser will solve your problem and offer a good features to drink your Carbonated drinks without the need to twist and open the cap of the bottle!

You just need to open the bottle cap for once, then install this dispenser by twisting back to the cap position and invert the position like in the picture. Now you’ve got a personal soda bottle dispenser which is drinking made easy solution. You can really pour the soda through the dispenser head until the last drop of your soda in the bottle. it’s a best stuff if you want to using it at camping, or even at your office.

[via DVice]

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Alphabet Ice Tray

Ken Xu — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:38:34 +0000

Here is a cool, very cool ice block art that you can DIY. You just need this mold tray for your ice with alphabetic character from A to Z.

It’s not limited to ice block creation. You can actually pour a jelly or pudding to the tray to get a different and unique foods for your party and family events. Here is some example:

Alphabet Ice Tray: Jelly and Butter Mold

Very smart ice tray and you can have it for $30 at CharlesandMarie.

My 8 cents idea:
You may use it as a little love confession to your beloved one by getting I, L and U alphabets and put it together inside her drinks! You’ll know what I mean.

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Alessi Kettle: Playing Melodies When Water Boiled

Ken Xu — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:38:49 +0000

I’ve a seen the old times whistle kettle and my neighbor use it everyday. To tell you the truth, my neighbor is my loyal servant who will wake me up on time each morning. She boil water with an extra large whistle kettle which will make a huge sounds each day, early in the morning.

That kind of sounding system has become my perfect morning alarm, without the need for me to buy any type of alarms to destroy my sleep. That extra long whistle has the best “annoying” kind of whistle that often let me send a kick to the wall to ask for a “stop”!

Well, that’s our old whistle kettle. Luckily, I’ve met with a good new whistle kettle. It seems the problem will be solved properly if I pack a Christmas gift with a content of this Alessi Kettle – a Melodies whistle kettle.

Yep, it looks normal. Awfully normal. Nothing change on the kettle design. Only the Whistle part got renewed and added some type of harmonica-like whistle. But that’s the real life saver! I won’t hear any long and awful screams of the morning anymore.

Instead, I will hear a nice tune of melodies whistles. although it will be a random melodies, I can somehow accept it. But the effect might be the reverse and will send me deeper to my sleep! Oh, Now I’m in need of an Alarm Clock to wake me up!

[Price: $265 a kettle]
[Source: Fitzsu via SlipperyBrick]

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