By David Ponce

I’m a big fan of the painting The Scream, from Edvard Munch. Yeah, the one that was stolen and recovered two years later. It’s an icon, and now you can put a little sliver of anxiety and fear in your drink, in the form of some The Scream ice cubes.

It’s a novelty item, sure, but could still spark a conversation or two. It’s $9. Hurry up though, there are only 14 left.

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By David Ponce

Induction ranges are nothing new. These are the stoves where nothing gets hot until the pot is placed on it, and then supposedly only the pot heats up. It works by running a copper element under the surface and passing an alternating current, which creates an oscillating magnetic field, which in turn creates a current in the pot, whose electric resistance causes it to heat up. That’s the science behind it. In regular inductive stoves, you have to place your pots in designated areas. The Freedom range from Thermador does away with this and offers you a “full-surface induction appliance with the flexibility of a natural-mapping user interface that intelligently recognizes cookware size, shape and position to deliver heat without boundaries.” This lets you do some serious space management, choosing the most efficient way of placing your pots and hopefully making your cooking a little more efficient. And a little geekier.

In practice however, induction ranges suffer somewhat from the fact that once hot, the pots themselves transfer heat right back onto the stove through conduction. So you can’t really place your hands on the range right after you’re done cooking. Still, having the entire surface available for cooking is pretty nifty though I’m not sure it’s $4,949 worth of cool.

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By David Ponce

You can’t buy these anymore, it looks like. And even if you could, you probably wouldn’t want to spend the $317 they used to cost. But these cereal bowls that show the silhouette of an animal only when filled with mils (or any opaque liquid) sure are pretty. They were made by one Geraldine De Beco, but there seems to be no way to purchase anything on her website. Or at least, not these.

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By David Ponce

Getting up in the morning is all fine and dandy, but not when it also involves waking up the entire house with you. With the Chirp alarm clock currently in pre-production at Quirky, you simply attach the vibrating click onto your pillowcase and hope that the little rattling is enough to wake you, and only you, on time. From my understanding, the clip stops vibrating when you insert it back in its base but the nice thing about the setup is that if you fail to do so within a certain time, an actual audible alarm will sound as backup.

This product has been upcoming at Quirky apparently since September and we still don’t know when it’ll be available. But its projected price when it is will be around $18.

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By David Ponce

This should help out with those new years’ resolutions. Until you smash it to the ground in frustration, of course.

$10.

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By David Ponce

Sometimes it’s products that solve the smallest of annoyances that we find the most appealing. Like that flustercuck of cables under your desk. Look at it right now. You find that pretty? Admittedly this is not a huge problem, although for the tidier amongst us it can be quite the nightmare. That’s why we like the Plug Hub. It’s a plastic case that features three winding posts to wrap excess cable around, a base to accommodate a power strip and a door to hide all that business from sight. You can leave it right on the ground or even screw it to a wall. It’s an elegant solution fully deserving the $29 price, at Quirky.

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By David Ponce

Working on stuff without sticking your fingers on a live wire or cutting them with something sharp is easier to do when you can see what’s going on. Worklights come all manner of shapes and styles but we really like the FLEXiT light. It’s basically a flexible silicone mat with 16 Lumen Tech™ LEDs embedded. The mat contains a frame (which the company calls Shape-Loc™) that holds whichever shape you give the mat in place, letting you create either a broad or focused beam with ease. There are three intensity settings and the base contains neodymium magnets to make it even easier to find the perfect spot for it.

Best part is the price: $30.

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By David Ponce

Putting delicate wine glasses in the washing machine can be a risky proposition. Secure them with these cheap and elegant flexible plastic tethers that tie to the stem on the one end and attach to the washing machine on the other.

They’re $15 for a pack of 4, from Quirky.

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By David Ponce

This is not a new product, but it’s one we think our readers ought to know about. See, zip ties are great for bundling cables and tidying the inside of a PC case for example. Or arresting people. But while you won’t be arresting anyone with the Q-Knot rubber ties, you will be able to re-use them, unlike traditional plastic zip ties. Their rubber construction means that if you pull hard enough, the teeth will go through in the opposite direction, releasing the band. This could be handy if you forgot to bundle a particular cable and don’t want to have to cut the zip tie. Yeah, you could argue that the regular plastic ties are cheap, so what’s the issue? And that’s true but hey… the environment and all that stuff? Not to mention that $10 for a pack of 25 isn’t all that expensive either.

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