Home and Kitchen

News, reviews and articles about home and kitchen products.

Electricity trickling is a sad thing

tricklesaver

I’m a big fan of green devices and ways to save electricity and money. I currently use a Belkin Conserve power strip and love it. The PC and TV TrickleSavers from TrickleStar are similar products, but in addition to the US, there are also versions available for Australia, New Zealand, UK, Italy, Denmark, Germany and

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Be prepared for emergencies with an Ice-Qube kit

ice qube

Do you have a readily available collection of supplies in case of an emergency? Ice-Qube emergency kits are the first such kits that make a great gift. All Ice-Qubes are organized in a cube to ensure easy access and maximum support and relief when difficulties occur. Many Ice-Qubes are small enough to store in your

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Capture all those special moments with your flowers

gardenwatch cam

Here’s a gadget for all of the wacky garden people out there. You know who you are. You have flowers planted in containers all over your front porch in the summer and house plants all over your living room in the winter. Now you can obsess even more (if that is possible…) with the 1.3MP

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Clever kitchen tool that is better than a spork

taster

I keep discovering all kinds of cool things at unicahome.com. The latest item that I stumbled on is a stainless steel food tasting utensil. On one end it’s a spoon and on the other end, it’s a fork. But the clever part of this kitchen ‘tool’ is that the fork side has a little hook

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Juno LED Downlight (aka recessed canned light) Review

juno ledcanned 1

I do my best to be a steward of the environment through recycling, reusing, composting, minimizing fuel and electricity use when ever possible. As the story goes, this past year we purchased a new home in need of much updating and remodeling. My wife and I have taken it upon ourselves to integrate as much

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A can opener for your gadget clamshell packages

zipit

Ok, it’s not really a can opener, but it looks like one. Sorta. Kinda. The Zipit is a motorized plastic clamshell package opener from ThinkGeek. It’s an interesting concept, but I think I still prefer the manual Zibra Open It shears. These might be good for people with poor hand strength though.

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