News, reviews and articles about home and kitchen products.
There’s nothing world-changing about the Harbor Breeze Brushed Nickel and White Pull Chain set, but it will make it plainly obvious to everyone in your family and to visitors which chain turns on the light attached to the ceiling fan and which adjusts the fan speed. The brushed nickel chain pulls look like a tiny light bulb […]
This simple doodad can make using a ceiling fan easier Read More
This Kickstarter project gives you the tools to turn any dimmable light bulb into a WiFi-controllable bulb. You don’t need hubs, and getting your house connected is as easy as signing the bulb into your router. The emberlight is a screw-in base that you can use with any of your current light fixtures or lamps
Turn any light bulb into a WiFi-connected bulb Read More
My fascination with tiny houses and micro houses continues, and I saw a home theater system in one of the small homes that would work equally well in bigger spaces. I was watching a video made by Derek Diedricksen for his Relaxshacks website in which he toured the small house built by Chris Haynes of Tiny
Replace your big screen TV with a tiny black box Read More
The Happy Sunflower Wall Lamp will add whimsy and light to your child’s room. The kit consists of a circular 10.8″ wall lamp with a face design on it and a collection of stickers to form the petals to turn the lamp into a potted sunflower. (The stickers are easily removed.) The fixture uses E14
Add a little bit of sunshine to your room with the Happy Sunflower Lamp Read More
I’ve avoided playing with “home” monitoring cameras because (1) I live in a tiny condo in San Francisco, and (2) my son is 8 now and we’re past the baby monitoring stage. I do have friends and family with small children, so I figured I owed it to them to stay on top of this
Belkin NetCam HD+ Wi-Fi Camera with Glass Lens and Night Vision review Read More
Most air filters are designed to clean the air in an entire room, but the Satechi USB Portable Air Purifier and Fan cleans your personal space at home or in the office. When collapsed (bottom, left image), the fan “removes ultrafine particles to provide a clean personal environment. Unpleasant odors are removed, as well as small
Breathe clean, cool air in your personal space Read More
We live in a gated community and just a few years ago, things were stolen out of our car while it was parked in our driveway in broad daylight (we had forgotten to lock it that day). We never found out who had perpetrated the crime, but I remember wishing I had some kind of
Zetta Z16 HD Wide Angle Intelligent Security Camcorder review Read More
We live in a high-rise condo building, and the main hallways and stairways are all interior and windowless. The building does have emergency lighting, as we found out during a recent power outage, but those are only in the public areas of the building. Most of the rooms in our condo have floor-to-ceiling windows, so
Eton Blackout Buddy emergency lighting and LED flashlight review Read More
What is a ShaveMate? It’s a 6 bladed disposable razor that has a shaving cream dispenser built into the handle which holds enough cream for a week’s worth of shaves. That’s right, everything you need to feel smooth is in one easy to use item. Razor + shaving cream = genius. The ShaveMate is available
ShaveMate is a razor with a shaving cream dispenser in the handle Read More
I am fascinated with looking at pictures of those tiny, under 200-sqft houses that some people live in. While I was looking at information about one of them today, I saw a sofa that would work well for anyone living in a small home without a guest room, or for vacation homes, or maybe even
You’ll be able to rack ’em and stack ’em with this sofa Read More
A couple of days ago I took us on a trip down gadget memory lane when I remembered the Ronco Buttoneer button fastener from the 1970’s. Today Luis Reyes left a comment that there’s a new button fastener in town and it’s called Tic. Designed in Sweden, Tic lets you permanently fasten shirt buttons without using
Is Tic the future of button fasteners? Read More
As any parent knows, there’s a bit of danger associated with very young children trying to wash their hands on their own. When my daughter was very young, we had to keep a footstool in the bathroom so she could reach to wash her hands – so there’s a falling danger. There’s also a scalding
Now your child can wash her hands without climbing or needing a stool Read More
Tragedy struck this morning when the button fell off my pants and I’ve been walking around all day hitching my pants up every so often just because I’m too lazy to go searching for a needle and thread. The situation caused me to remember a gadget from my childhood – the Ronco Buttoneer. Does anyone else remember this
Gadget memories – Ronco Buttoneer Read More
A few weeks ago, the nice folks at NuNaturals sent me an email asking if they could send me a sample of their latest stevia based product – NuStevia Cocoa Syrup. Stevia is a natural plant based sweetener that has zero calories and zero carbs. Since I’m a diabetic, I was very excited to try a
NuNaturals sweet giveaway! Read More
In my research of dorm fridges, I’ve seen quite a few styles of small fridges. This little Koolatron Coca Cola Can Fridge is one of the cuter models I’ve seen. It’s not practical as a dorm fridge, but it would be cute and useful in your office or rumpus room at home. It stands 17.75″
Coca Cola fridge gives keeps your Coca-Colas cold Read More
It’s early in the morning. You have mouths to feed. The first round of toast comes out perfectly, but the second round? Burned! Grrr! Dualit has solved this problem. The Dualit 2 Slot and 4 Slot Lite Toasters are made with Dualit’s patented Climate Sensing Toasting Cycle technology. This technology detects the temperature of the
Smarter toasters are hitting the streets – no, not the Cylons (at least not yet) Read More
Earlier this year, we told you about a wood-fired pizza oven for your backyard that promised to make great pizza but cost $2700. You like pizza, but you don’t have that kind of cash to dedicate to a large piece of equipment that can only make pizzas, you say? What about a piece of equipment that
Turn your kettle grill into a pizza oven with the KettlePizza Read More
Houses, even new ones, just don’t come with enough outlets. Our house was built only five years ago and we constantly need power strips to provide enough outlets to power all our various gadgets and appliances. I recently bought a surge protector that I thought had rotating outlets to accommodate the various sizes of AC adapters
Revolve+ Surge Protector with 4 Rotating Outlets + 2 USB review Read More
If you really liked the Dyson DC65 Animal vacuum cleaner Julie reviewed in April of this year but were put off by the $600 price tag, then today may be your lucky day. QVC has the DC65 Animal as their Today’s Special Value deal, and they are offering it in red, blue, or purple for
Dyson DC65 Animal vacuum for less than $500 Read More
This Interactive Cloud Lamp is more of an art piece than task lighting. It looks fluffy like a real cloud and hangs from your ceiling like a small thundercloud. It has interactive, color-changing Philips lights inside and a speaker system that can stream music from any Bluetooth-enabled device or produce the thunder that goes along
You might not be able to control the weather, but you can control this cloud lamp Read More