Home and Kitchen

News, reviews and articles about home and kitchen products.

Kuna announces new Maximus floodlight camera

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Kuna has recently announced a follow-on to their Smart Security Light (that I reviewed a few years ago), the Maximus Floodlight Camera. The new Maximus Floodlight Camera can detect motion in a 270-degree arch within a 70-foot range. It has 2400-lumen floodlights (5000K color temp) and a 1080p HD security camera (H264) built into its […]

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Flip-It caps let you use every last drop from bottles

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Whether it’s lotion, ketchup, syrup, or something else, we’ve all experienced that moment when we squeeze a bottle and nothing comes out of the spout even though there’s product still left inside the bottle. So what do we do? We shake it, bang it on the counter, or if we’re ultra thrifty, we might actually

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IQAir Atem personal air purifier review

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I suffer from seasonal allergies and live in an area where avoiding the trees and grasses that are the catalyst for my symptoms is impossible.  The dry air in Colorado also makes for a very dusty indoor environment so between the great outdoors and the dusty indoors, my stuffiness and irritated eyes are on round the clock.

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Jigger Bottle Stoppers are the perfect gift for the home-bartending chemist

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As a chemist, I have a weakness for laboratory glassware or items that even mimic labware.  This set of Jigger Bottle Stoppers caught my eye, because they combine barware shapes – whiskey glass, snifter, hurricane, and martini glass, respectively – with a labware feel.  Measurement markings both add to the lab feel, and they serve

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Ditch plastic wrap and use this glass spatter guard in your microwave

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If you’re anything like me, your microwave is used daily to reheat leftovers. And the interior of your microwave might look like you nuked a small animal if you don’t regularly cover your plates while you’re reheating your food. Or maybe your microwave is clean, but you use plastic storage containers with plastic lids when you

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Star Shower makes Christmas decorating easy!

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With Star Shower, you’ll be able to decorate the exterior of your house without requiring ladders or risking a trip to the ER.  Shown in the above image is the Window Wonderland.  Apply the adjustable 4ft x 6ft easy-fit screen to the inside of your windows, position the old movie camera-styled projector in your yard,

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MeshCanvas adhesive custom prints hang without nails

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MeshCanvas allows you to have your favorite photos custom-printed, but this is nothing new.  What is new is that MeshCanvas photo tiles come with special adhesive hangers that attach to most non-laminating hard surfaces so you can hang them without putting nail holes into the wall.  The adhesive removes easily without damage to the wall,

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Add a decorative “nest” for your Nest thermostat

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If you’re replacing a big, clunky thermostat with a Nest, you may find yourself with a patch of unpainted or un-wallpapered wall that the Nest isn’t going to cover.  If you aren’t aware that Nest comes with a rectangular white plate to cover up such things ( ahem…) or you want a different look, perhaps

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Samsung’s Chef Collection proves that the future of kitchens is customizeable

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Samsung has been making a name for themselves lately by taking kitchen appliances and transforming them into essentially gigantic gadgets – for example, their Family Hub 2.0 smart fridge has a large touchscreen display at the center of it which helps transform the fridge into the center of the kitchen. Their new Chef Collection however

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Chamberlain MyQ Wi-Fi hub and Home Bridge Review

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If your home is anything like mine, we don’t use our front door much. More times than not, we come and go through the garage door, even when not using a vehicle. Inevitably, the door gets left open, creating an ideal habitat for many friendly (and not so friendly) woodland creatures. This doesn’t happen much

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Harness the power of the Dark Side to vacuum your living room!

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I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of dust bunnies under my couch cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…  Just in time for holiday shopping, Samsung brings us their POWERbot robot vacuum in a limited edition Star Wars theme! Available in either a Darth Vader or Stormtrooper design, the

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Prevent socks from going MIA with the SockDock

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Can I see a show of hands… how many of you have socks with missing mates? We call them stragglers at my house, and it seems to be a widespread issue that affects countless families throughout the world. How can we solve this horrible tragedy? Well, there’s a gadget for that, and it’s called the

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