I was finally able to kick my daily 20 oz Diet Coke habit several months ago by using a 24 oz. Bubba Brands Hero insulated steel bottle. I fill with 5 ice cubes from home and when I get to work, I fill it with cold water and 2 Twinings Cold Brew iced tea bags. [...]
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If you dislike the greasy, sticky fingers that go along with eating BBQ ribs, wings, corn on the cob and other foods, consider using a pair of Trongs next time. Trongs are made of food-safe polypropylene and have been designed to help you grab food with your fingers, without actually touching it. These one-size-fits-all flexible [...]
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Just as the title says, you can turn almost any empty bottle into a USB-powered LED table lamp with this kit from Satechi. The Touch USB LED Lamp allows you to save two ways: by recycling a bottle for the lamp base and by using LED lights that consume only 1.2W of power. They don’t [...]
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I work in a corporate office (Cummins Inc.) with 100′s of other people. It was once common to see people carrying around soft drink bottles to and from their meetings. But in the last few years, soda has mostly been replaced by water. Where people once carried around Coke, Pepsi and Mt. Dew bottles, now [...]
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If you are bored with your daily cup of Darjeeling and are looking to add new flavors to your morning tea routine, check out these fun Fandoms Sampler Sets from Adagio Teas. $39 will get you 10 one-ounce metal tins filled with themed signature blends of teas. Sets include Dr. Who, Harry Potter, Potter’s Potions, Sherlock, [...]
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I’ve seen lamps with built-in speakers before, but they aren’t usually the type of lamp you’d want in a formal living room. With The Invisible Speaker from Hammacher Schlemmer, you can add a speaker to most any shaded lamp. You remove the harp (the metal piece that the shade sits on) from the lamp, then [...]
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So you have the espresso machine, portable hand pump, stovetop brewer, demitasse cups, thermometer, all forms of sweetener, and a refrigerator full of milk. But something still appears to be missing: a worthy bean for all those new toys and accessories. (By the way, check out the Related Links at the bottom of this post [...]
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I don’t consider myself a true photographer, but I love taking pictures and every so often I manage to snap one that I’m really proud of… like the one above, which I captured last year on a vacation to Lake Michigan. When London based Photo-Canvas.com asked if I would be interested in reviewing their photo [...]
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Unless I’m in the car, I don’t listen to terrestrial, broadcast radio anymore. At work I have satellite radio, and at home it’s an iPod in a dock. I haven’t had a dedicated “AM/FM” radio in ages, but since I live in earthquake country (San Francisco Bay Area), I’m overdue. Thank goodness the Eton FRX3 [...]
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Last month I posted a review of the Click & Grow Smartpot flowerpot and had a positive experience with it except for one important thing… Trying to grow a plant in Southern Indiana during the winter months, even with an auto watering flowerpot, just doesn’t work that well due to short sunlight hours. The folks [...]
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Tired of pesky rings when you set your coffee mug down on your desk and forget to use a coaster? The Floating Mug Co. has set out to make a mug that is a coaster and coffee mug all in one. Modeled after a banana holder, the Floating Mug is simply a coffee mug that hovers [...]
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The title of this article is Cree‘s slogan for their newly released LED light bulbs. These bulbs look like the normal incandescent bulbs we’re used to seeing, so your light fixtures will look like they have normal bulbs in them. Cree says their “innovative bulb is illuminated by Cree LED Filament Tower™ Technology and provides [...]
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If you’re a coffee person, chances are you’ve owned a Krups product over the years. They run the gamut in small appliance product offerings from toasters and blenders to juicers, panini presses, and high end pump espresso machines. It was a Krups drip coffee machine that got me through my college years, and although I [...]
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If you use your tablet in your kitchen while making recipes, watching cooking lessons, or just listening to music, you are aware of the challenges of using it while keeping it protected. Williams-Sonoma offers three items in their Smart Tools line which they have designed to make it easy to use your tablet in a [...]
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Any cook worth his/her sea salt knows that weighing ingredients results in better, more consistent food. It’s a pain, though, to have to drag out your digital kitchen scale, tare the cup, measure the ingredients, then start again for the next ingredient. With the Taylor Digital Scale & Measuring Cup from Williams-Sonoma, you won’t need [...]
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“If a picture speaks a thousand words… Aluminyze leaves you speechless!” announced the Aluminyze website. It is precisely what you think: your photos are printed on a sheet of aluminum. Huh? Why? Aluminyze says that their aluminum prints are durable, beautiful, and make great gifts. I had a corner of my office that needed some [...]
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I saw the HoodiePillow Pillowcase pitched on ABC’s Shark Tank last Friday and thought the idea of a hood built into a pillow was a pretty silly idea. I still do. But the same company has another product that isn’t so silly and one that I would even use. It’s their Travel HoodiePillow. It’s a [...]
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