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Monthly Archives: April 2013

The Prepara Herb Mini-Savor Keeps Things Fresh A Little Longer

By David Ponce on 10/30/12 • Leave a comment!

We’ll be honest, the last time we bought some herbs for cooking, we ended up throwing most of them out after five days. Why? Well, watching cooking shows convinced us “fresh is best”, so instead of buying the easily kept dried herbs, we bought the live ones. Used them in the recipe once and then… just put them in the fridge. You can guess the rest. Had we bought the above Prepara Herb-Savor, it would have given us a three week window in which to think of another meal to make. The little herbs would have had their bases soaking in fresh water, all the while looking like we had some futuristic space pods in the fridge. And that’s a win for everyone.

Made from BPA-free plastic, the Prepara Herb-Savour is $15 for 1 and $30 for three.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Gear Patrol ]

Deal Of The Day: $125 Off On Sony VAIO S

By David Ponce on 10/30/12 • Leave a comment!

It used to be that the Sony VAIO line of laptops was considered worthy of lust. That was before Ultrabooks, and it was before other manufacturers started catching up in terms of design and performance. Now it’s just a nice laptop, but not one deserving of premium prices. Good thing too, then, that it’s seeing a $125 price drop to end at $725. For that amount, you get a Core i5-3210M 2.5GHz Dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive.

[ $125 Off On Sony VAIO S ] VIA [ LogicBuy ]

Yo Mama Toilet Roll: Because Nobody Should Be Sad While They’re Doing Their Number Two’s

By Hazel Chua on 10/29/12 • Leave a comment!

Yo Mama Toilet Roll

Normally I find ‘Yo Mama’ jokes a bit too crude for my taste, but I know a lot of people who love them and find them hilarious. People are finding more and more absurd things to print on toilet paper (like, I don’t know, origami directions and measuring tape). The latest one, however, is the Yo Mama Toilet Roll.

It’s offensive, it’s crude, but it’s also strangely appropriate for the bathroom. How many times have you gone there to bawl your eyes out over some guy (or girl) who dumped you? How many times have you taken a dump while you were sad or depressed about something? (Because, you know, sometimes you get some time to reflect on stuff while you’re on the loo.) Now picture yourself grabbing for some tissue to wipe your tears (or your dirty behind) and reading one of the Yo Mama jokes printed on them instead.

Ka-boom. Instant smile, instant chuckle. Temporary relief but a pretty effective one at that. This is probably toilet humor at its very best. Each roll of the Yo Mama tissues costs $4.91.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Gadgets Matrix ]

Button 2.0: Genius Or Stupid?

By David Ponce on 10/29/12 • 1 Comment

Why re-invent the wheel, right? Well, we’re not sure, but we sort of want to like the above Button 2.0. It’s a lowly button, unchanged in millennia, only this time it’s been “re-engineered” for the 21st century: it now sports a groove on its side that allows it to fasten an earbud cable, preventing it from swinging around.

At the same time, we’re thinking that it seems to be trying too hard. Is it really solving any kind of problem? By adding $3 to any garment, is it worth it?

We… just don’t know how to feel about it. Maybe you guys can opine? In any case, Button 2.0 seems to be the latest example of a thriving 3D printing market, where objects are now available for purchase at the whim of anyone with an idea and some time to develop a simple 3D model. Whether this is good or not remains to be seen, though we suspect that consumer interest will eventually settle the marketplace and weed out the losers from the winners.

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The Fibonacci Cabinet Tickles Our Math Bone

By David Ponce on 10/29/12 • Leave a comment!

The Fibonacci Sequence or the Fibonacci Numbers are arguably one of the most significant series not just in mathematics, but also in the natural world. If you’re uninitiated, the series goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… Each successive number is arrived by adding the two preceding it. And it’s important because it surfaces time and time again in nature, such as in the “branching of trees, the arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke or an uncurling fern, and the arrangement of a pine cone.” The cabinet you see above is inspired by the Chinese medicine cabinet, only instead of having drawers all the same size, each of the seven drawers here is sized after a number in the sequence. Made of bamboo, each drawer is independent and the entire cabinet can be rearranged at will.

We love it.

We don’t know how much it is, but it apparently can be bought and is made to order. Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures and links.

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3D Printed Success Kid Can Be Yours

By David Ponce on 10/29/12 • Leave a comment!

Incorporates popular Internet meme? Check.

Related to trending field of 3D printing? Check.

Can actually be bought? Check.

Our ability to turn all that into a funny two-liner that works with Success Kid? Well… we’re still working on it.

No need to wait for our sense of humour to develop to buy 3D Printed Success kid, though. Parting with $13 at Shapeways will do the trick.

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ResQMe Keychain Could Save Your Life In Case Of Accident

By David Ponce on 10/29/12 • 1 Comment

This product’s been around for a few years, but we’re sure some of you would still love to know it exists. It’s a very special keychain that serves two purposes: to cut your seatbelt and punch out a window in case of a car accident. It’s a horrible thing to think about but it’s entirely possible that after a wreck your seatbelt refuses to detach. Or your door to open. If you have to get out of there fast (sinking into a river, for example), the ResQMe could save your life. The window punch is activated simply by pressing the device against the window: a spring loaded mechanism triggers and launches a carbide tip into the glass, shattering it. Cutting the seatbelt involves inserting it into the slot and pulling across your chest. Easy.

It’s $11 and tiny enough that unless you’re really in love with your current keychain, there’s no reason not to get it. Just in case.

Hit the jump for links and a video featuring a terrible computer animation from the 1920′s or something…

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You Snooze, You Lose–Your Head, That Is! (Don’t Worry, It’s Just a Prank)

By Hazel Chua on 10/26/12 • Leave a comment!

Head Fall Off

Have you ever sneezed so hard that your head fell off? No? Well, here, let me show you.

Looks horrifying, doesn’t it? But don’t worry. As we’ve said earlier, it’s just a prank, and a pretty well-executed one at that. The guy you see who loses his head literally is a magician named Rich Ferguson, who was entertaining scaring the crap out of the passersby at Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California. As expected, some people freaked out, others screamed, and a couple of them actually ran for dear life.

It’s pretty hilarious and it’s a fun way to cap off the week–especially if you had a stressful one. Hit the break to check the video out!

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World’s Awesomest Mom Mods Her Kid’s Push Car into a Time-Traveling DeLorean

By Hazel Chua on 10/26/12 • 1 Comment

Kid DeLorean

When I was a kid, I wished everyday that I’d get a DeLorean for my birthday. Instead, I got a Barbie doll, but I was still happy anyway. Regardless, I’m still bowling over with envy at little Cooper because he’s going to be riding around in a smashing DeLorean this Halloween, all thanks to his awesome dad mom* named Cory.

Cory probably wanted to make her little boy something extra this Halloween, so why not a DeLorean sort-of replica from Back to the Future? It might not be able to travel back through time, but it has the power to make everyone who sees it (aka. you and me) to go back in time and remember the good old days. And what good old days they were.

Hit the break to check out more awesome pics of Cooper’s modded push car!

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