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Tag Archives: Household

This Is A $40,000 Fridge

For the same amount of money that buys a pretty nice car, you can get a fridge instead. Of course, when fully decked out at $40,500 the Meneghini La Cambusa refrigerator does a few more things than to keep the turkey frozen until Thanksgiving. Looking nothing like a fridge, the modular design lets you customize the various options to your heart’s content. With the “all-dressed” option, aside from a gigantic fridge and freezer compartment, you get “space for a coffee maker, a fitted pantry or a double pantry, an ice-maker, a microwave oven, a steam oven and multi-function oven.” The exterior surface is “treated in 3 aniline colours (ebony effect, pomegranat and colonial), [and is an] ash dyed aged oak or a lacquered ash in various Ral and Woodcolor Sayerlack colours.” We… don’t understand what any of that means, but hey, solid wood doors! The La Cambusa is 8ft. across and a little over 7ft. tall, and heaven knows just how heavy.

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Portal Companion Cube Ice… Cubes

Last time we featured something Portal related you guys didn’t seem to much care. That’s ok, we understand. So of course, we try again. How about some ice cubes? Like the companion cubes in the game, only with 100% more ice… A tray makes 10 of these, and costs $13.

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

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.

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Ninja Star Fridge Magnets

This is as old as the world… if the world was magically created in 2008. Still, we stumbled on them, and thought you’d like them. Not going to spend much time on it. Hit the jump for another pic and purchase info.

$17.

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Mr. Tea Infuser Is Just Chillin Out In A Cup Of Hot Water

Mr. Tea Infuser shown above reminds us a little bit of Mr. P Tape Dispenser. He’s a relic from 2005! But Mr. Tea is pretty awesome, because he looks like he’s just taking a little dip in a hot tub there, when he’s actually infusing your tea. Cute.

It’s $10.

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Why Should Grown Ups Have All The Fun? There’s A Jacuzzi For Babies Too!

Because giving your newborn a bath in the sink like a regular person isn’t good enough for some people, Italian design firm BluBleu went and created the MagicBath. Yeah, it’s pretty much a fancy jacuzzi that fits your baby… but only for the first 12 months. After that most babies will be too large, and the luxury tub will then be relegated to bathing your Pomeranian pup, or similarly sized pet. Aside from being small, the acrylic tub is specially shaped to hold babies lying down in one end, and 6-12 month olds sitting up at the other end. Precisely controlled water temperature, as well as 10 bubble jets will send your child on “a fabulous journey of sensory experiences.” Underwater LEDs even provide some mood lighting. Of course you see, your kid is very likely to remember these experiences later on and thank you profusely for having thought it a good idea to spend $2,100 on a fancy tub for them when they were young. You just know they will, right? Right? Otherwise, what would be the point?

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Compact4All Appliances Are Perfect For Cramped City Living

Sometime in 2007 we reached the tipping point where the world’s urban population was higher than the rural, for the first time in history. By 2050, it’s projected that 70% of the world will live in cities. As we cram more and more humans closer to one another, space is going to become increasingly scarce. Better we start getting used to the idea of an efficient use of this space, from now. The Compact4All appliances, created by designer Jan des Bouvrie, are 20cm (7.7 in.) cubes that can stand alone, or stack up efficiently. There’s a toaster, a juicer, a kettle, and a coffee maker. They are meant for the single life, seeing as the toaster only browns two slices, the kettle only holds half a litre, and the coffee maker only brews two cups at a time but that should be enough. At $52 per appliance, efficiency is a little expensive but not out of range of the discerning urban dweller.

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VinOice Wine Chiller Also Has Drip Free Spout

Almost one year ago we featured the Corkicle, a cooled, icicle shaped rod that was meant to be inserted into a wine bottle to keep it at ideal drinking temperature. The idea was that you’d normally cool a bottle of white anyway, then open it, pour some out to drink and insert the Corkicle into the half empty bottle to maintain the right temp longer. The VinOice pictured above does the exact same thing, except it one-ups the Corkicle in that it also features a drip free spout. That… is pretty much it.

It’s $30.

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The Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

Heard a pretty funny joke the other day.

“There’s this weird new trend at the office. People are naming their lunches. Today I had a sandwich named Kevin.”

It’s funny because it’s true; you leave your food in the fridge at your own risk. Bag your sandwiches in these anti-theft bags that make it look like your stuff is mouldy, and there’s a bigger chance the thieves will just skip over it.

It’s $8 for 25, but they’re currently sold-out.

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