The Coffee Joulies will cool down your coffee three times faster than normal, and will keep it at optimum temperature twice as long. The bean-shaped stainless steel shells contain a proprietary phase change material that is solid at room temperature. Once submerged in hot liquid, the material melts, absorbing heat in the process and cooling your drink. It gives this heat back out over time as it re-solidifies, thus warming the very drink that it cooled in the first place. Each Joulie will work with 5 ounces of liquid, so you have to figure out how many to use depending on the size of your drink. Should they rupture for some reason, the material inside is non toxic and “food grade”.
It’s an ingenious process and the Joulies are not currently on the market. But they’re about to be, as they’re a project on Kickstarter. The founders needed $9,500 to get off the ground and as of this writing, they’re at $76,142. It’s not too late to get in on the action and get a 20% on the $50 price tag on a personal set of 5.
Some watches use radio signals to calibrate the time. While these work, they’re not perfect systems as the further away you are from the broadcasting station, the poorer your reception will be. But Citizen’s recently announced Eco-Drive Satellite Wave watch gets its sync data from any of 24 GPS satellites constantly orbiting earth. Since the entire point of the GPS system is to be able to geo-locate anywhere on the planet, you’ll be able to tell what time it is even if you’re stranded in the arctic.
The price has not been announced yet, but since this is a limited edition run and it has a part ceramic case, we’re expecting it to not tread on the side of cheap. We do know that it will be available in Fall 2011.
Your computer mouse probably makes a clicking sound… every time you click. A Dutch company called Nexus has patented a mechanism that removes the sound. So what you have is a silent mouse. They figure you don’t really need the auditory confirmation that you’ve clicked, since you can see (on your computer screen) that you’ve done so. There’s a small one called the sm7000, meant for traveling. And now there’s a large 5-button sibling, called the sm8000. All 5 buttons are silent.
Uses for a silent mouse?
- Late night gaming.
- Late night… fapping.
- That’s it, really…
They’re $30 each and if you hit the jump, you can watch a video of the mouse not making any sound. And the links.
We live in an interesting age where the technological innovations of the past are becoming increasingly commoditized. Although, really… this isn’t limited to this time period, I guess. It’s the way of the world. Still, digital storage and digital camera sensors are two perfect examples. They’re becoming so inexpensive to manufacture, you can find them just about anywhere and on anything. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone to hear about the Fuuvi Pick camera. It’s basically a USB card reader with an attached digital camera. You insert your own MicroSD card (up to 16GB) and you have a keychain-sized 2MP camera which you can keep in the change pocket of your jeans for instance. It’s 35 × 70 × 15mm and weighs 24g. Oh, and it takes 720 × 480 video at 30fps. Sure, the quality will be crap but it’ll do in a pinch.
It’s a well known fact that cereals are better for you in liquid form: cold and carbonated. The traditional way of consuming this breakfast of champions has inevitably started with a reluctant trip to the local Seven11 for a six-pack of whatever’s cheaper. Right? Well, no more. Drop a cool $1,900 and you’ll be able to make your own swill fine malt liquor in the comfort of your home. Sure, this system from Synergy Brewing Systems looks like three simple stainless steel cooking pots, welded to a metal cart with dials and tubes sticking out. But there’s a lot more going on.
The basic Brewing Stands house two 155,000 BTU propane burners, with separate needle valve controls, plumbed into one 20 PSI high pressure regulator for quick heat and great fuel efficiency. All Kettles, pipe nipples, ball valves, false bottoms, strainers, hose barbs and thermometers are type 316 or 304 Stainless Steel. All brewing stands and kettles are completely, professionally TIG welded and refinished to perfection. We do not use, or condone the act of using weldless fittings. The 15 and 26 Gallon brewing stands are made with 1″ square Type 304 brush polished Stainless Steel tubing. The 40 gallon stand is constructed of 1.5″ square Type 304 brush polished Stainless Steel tubing…
40 gallons? Yeah, one of the options. And there are TONS of options. As it turns out that $1,900 tag is for the very basic kit and as you can imagine, it goes way, way up from there. Still, if you’re serious about brewing your own beer, this looks like a great place to start.
The video above is really sort of mind bending. It features a Japanese robotic spatula called SWITR, which actually stands for Special World Idea Technology Revolution. We’re not certain how the name relates to the product, but the device really is sort of revolutionary. As you can see, it’s able to pick up gels, ketchup and other sticky substances and drop them back down without even so much as disturbing them. A close inspection of the video shows that the process seems to involve a thin film material that is wrapped once around the leading edge of the spatula. As this edge extends, the upper side of the film remains in place while more comes out from underneath. What this does is allow for the stuff that is being picked up to not have to slide on the spatula; there seems to be no lateral surface-to-gel movement. Of course, the material of the film itself has to be incredibly non-stick, since even with this method, some gel would remain even on something like Teflon.
This is not a consumer product, at least not yet. It’s being used in production lines, and the company can probably make you a customized solution, at least if our understanding of the Google Translated page is correct.
Unless you’re trying to save a few bucks by picking up an older model, no one wants to buy a gadget that will be outdated or replaced sooner rather than later. So while Jawbone’s new ERA Bluetooth headset doesn’t appear to be a giant leap forward over their previous model, the ICON, it’s one of those rare gadgets that has the potential to be something even more useful and functional down the road, even if out of the box it doesn’t blow you away right now.
While groundbreaking and innovative, the original iPhone didn’t really live up to its full potential until the App Store was up and running, at which point people saw what the phone could really do. And I think a similar situation exists with the ERA. It’s obviously a brilliant Bluetooth headset as Jawbone has already proven themselves to be experts in that field time and time again, but their latest model packs just enough new technology to make you excited about what else it can do, even if you have no idea what that is right now. More after the jump.
I guess there’s nothing wrong with a little background music while cooking, and no one likes a unitasker in the kitchen, so Frieling, makers of some clever kitchen scales we’ve brought you before, have recently introduced the JOY to their lineup.
As kitchen scales go it’s pretty run of the mill with the ability to display weights in ounces or grams, but in terms of design it scores some high points. The weighing surface is made of stylish, see-through safety glass which exposes a fairly large speaker sitting underneath. I’m a little worried about food stuffs dripping down below though, or into the iPod/iPhone docking port, and it looks like it gobbles up quite a bit of counter space when not in use. But if your kitchen is the center of high-techery in your home, you can get one from Amazon for $99.99.
It probably won’t help keep them awake, but Bell & Ross appears to be targeting the nation’s air traffic controllers with a special edition version of their BR 01-92 Radar watch. (Which it itself was a limited edition of just 500 pieces.)
First unveiled at Baselworld, Bell & Ross’ Red Radar edition is designed to look like the bona-fide radar screens used in air traffic control towers, submarines and other movie locales where tensions run high. But as you can see in this video shot by Hodinkee at Baselworld, the analog watch cleverly uses red tinted crystal and a disc system to recreate the sweeping arm-look of an electronic radar display.
Like the original Bell & Ross BR-01 92, the Red Radar edition will only be available in a limited run, though 999 pieces this time for around $5,500 each.
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