Category Archives: Other Stuff

Don’t you sometimes feel that there is something evil about TV cooking show hosts? That may seem a tad too extreme! But I can’t help thinking that there is something unnatural about how they make everything look oh so very easy; and yet when I try the same recipe at home it is nothing short of a disaster! Thank god for small mercies like this Cake Divider from Animi Causa that can help you achieve your goal of Stepford-esque perfection. For your next dinner party, when you bring out all your inner baking skills and manage to create the most perfect looking cake, you can be sure that all your guests will be blown away with your skills when you serve them perfect little slices of cake. This cake divider lets you easily portion your cake into either six, eight, ten or fourteen perfect little pieces; that too, all with just a single click! Depending on the size of your cake, you can get any number of symmetrical pieces. The next time you are serving cake at home, let it be nothing short of French Bakery perfection!

Love love stories? Well there are love stories and then there is the love story of a wonderful man and loving husband Pedro Ureta. Not only does he love his wife dearly even after she’s gone he has actually planted a forest that looks like a guitar. His wife Graciela, was very fond of nature and often spoke about beginning work on such a project but before she could realise her dream she passed away leaving that dream to be completed by her husband. Making sure that the area mimics a guitar in every possible way was an ordeal but the results are fantastic.

The Camera Cooler Bag makes sure all your favorite things stay together and allow you to have the time of your life. It does so thanks to the camera bag with slick vintage style and insulated walls that double as a beverage cooler. You can also take the liberty of carrying some snacks to your camp site if you don’t wish to carry the camera; all you gotta do is remove the insert to reveal insulated temperature-locking walls. For trips to potentially dull locations the Camera Cooler Bag can hold a phone in the front and an iPad in the back.

Nothing has captured our imaginations in recent times quite like Instagram has. We use it almost obsessively. Why confine your beautiful pictures to Instagram’s mobile apps and permalinks? The people over at D2M have created the Instacube, a digital photo frame that displays a live feed of your Instagram photos. All you have to do is connect it to your home wireless network and then log in with your Instagram account. It so easy! You can bypass a photo or freeze the screen on a favorite using the 6.5-inch touchscreen. There are only three simple buttons – a power, a favorite, and a feed toggle button. They have made sure to develop Instacube with a 600×600 LCD touch screen display, so that you will not lose any picture quality when it blows up to fit the large frame. It is truly wireless in that it works on a rechargeable battery, which means you can take it anywhere with you. It currently runs on Android; however, D2M plans to potentially open it up to developers.

It is one of the worst, most embarrassing situations of all time! You have just been on the most romantic date with the person you have been dreaming about for the longest time, you lean in for that perfect first kiss, only to have your date pull away, shake your hand and walk off! Did you forget about all the garlic from dinner? To save you from these kinds of mortifying situations is the ingenious Bad Breath Odour Tester from play.com. Testing the freshness of your breath is now just a task of ten seconds! All you have to do is breath into the tester for three seconds. It uses an advanced semiconductor gas sensor, which is sensitive to different odors, to generate the results. Your breath is ranked from very good to very bad, from 0 to 4. To emphasize just how bad your breath is, they even have little cartoons making faces at you!

What does a perfect salad comprise of? Some greens, spice and all things nice! Not really, it also requires the right salad dressing. If you are someone, who have more discerning tastes, and prefer to blend some dressing up fresh, the Prepara Dressing Whiz can be your new kitchen friend. The Prepara Dressing Whiz is a a miniature blender, which effortlessly mix salad dressing with the push of a button. It comes in an easy-fill container, with 8-ounce capacity, and is bpa free.

Marriages are made in heaven but the world gets to know about them on Twitter. Case in point, the wedding of Cengizhan Celik and his lovely bride Candan. Had you been invited, you would’ve been curious to see the two people in question clutching onto their iPads like their life depended on them, well it did! The couple got hitched by Tweeting their I Do’s. That’s sweet as you declare your togetherness to the world and share the greatest moment of your life.

The Ultimate Pregnant Mother Costume makes me barf. I just find it way too repulsive looking though people with a wacky sense of humor may dig this. All said and done its a weird idea that we would like to share with our readers especially cause it makes for a good Halloween Outfit; ask the lady who wore this on halloween and became a celebrity of sorts in her neighbourhood with the little baby hands craving for chocolate from, well, inside the womb (how freaked is that?).

Remember those vintage sci-fi movies. The future always involved brightly shining weird objects, and for some reason, bald men dressed in unitards! While we can’t promise the bald men, we do have something that reminds us of these movies with their bright LED light. The hi-Cable lighting from hi-Fun is an awesome new iPod, iPhone and iPad charging cable. It is a sensational new Dock/USB charging cable with an electroluminescence LED. This special LED goes on when you are charging your device, and makes the whole cable light up in a soft glow. From what we can understand, there is no functional quality to this extra light, except to make everything look oh-so-pretty! The idea is that it is “simulating the energy flux moving from the power source to your device”.

Designed by Steve Hollinger, in Boston, the Squito is a patented ball that includes multiple cameras. With the color pattern of the Chinese Yin-Yang, the ball can take both video and still images and the pictures can be stitched together to form a seamless image thanks to its multiple cameras. Hollinger is hoping to make use of this for reconnaissance and search and rescue. But at the same time, maybe this technology can also be used for balls that are used in different sports to give that extra edge to your watching experience.

Have you ever dreamed of taking a photo of the top of a tree, the inside of a bird’s nest, the smoke rising out of a chimney, or the girls’ bathroom on the second floor (you naughty pervert!)? Taiwanese gear manufacturer Fishbone has launched a crazy new tripod that will actually make all your dreams of scaling new photographic heights come true – literally! The Tree-pod, also known as the Zhezhi tripod, is designed for capturing photos or videos from way above the ground. It can reach 3.3m high, weighs about 13 kg and folds to about 90 cm long. It is made up of a durable aluminum alloy. Thank god it is so strong; as to get your camera up there and position the tripod head, you actually have to scale it like a ladder. It comes with attachable rungs that allow you to climb it. Try not to kill the birds in the sky in the process of capturing your “bird’s eye” shot.

Casio’s G-Shock is one of the most popular lines of watches in the world. Casio announced a new addition to its G-Shock range, a watch made exclusively for iPhone! This advanced model, the G-SHOCK GB-6900AA, incorporates Bluetooth v4.0 which is capable of pairing and communicating directly with your iPhone. It uses the same low-power Bluetooth 4.0 technology which is also built into the iPhone 4S. All you have to do is download the accompanying G-Shock+ App for the iOS platform, and you can receive notifications of incoming calls, control your iPhone alarm and vibration functions, and even be informed when you have left your iPhone behind by letting you know it is out of range. It will also automatically adjust its time to different time zones by synchronizing itself to data received from the iPhone. It boasts the signature round-shaped design with a high-brightness LED display.

We all have moved on to the digital way of writing, however, if you want to mesmerize the olden days and pen down your thoughts, here is a cool notebook for you. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the compact audiocassette tape; Moleskine is releasing a line of notebooks featuring debossed color graphics on the cover making them look like tiny recorders. The Limited Edition Audio Cassette notebook is a large-sized notebook, which features a black hard cover with themed silver and green debossing that resembles a cassette tape. It has rounded edges with cassette-themed endpapers, a sewn-in ribbon bookmark. The 240 unlined pages notebook includes a set of Limited Edition audiocassette stickers too.

I can’t believe my eyes! Ladies, who would have thought the day would come when we would witness the unholy marriage of two of our favorite sins – bags and wine! Imagine walking into a boring get together with a chic little bag in your hand. Except you have a little secret – the purse is actually a wine container! Swedish company Vernissage has designed boxed wine packaging, aptly titled ‘Bag-in-Bag wine’, designed to look like fashion handbags. This ingenious idea has been around for a while, in Sweden, Japan, China and parts of Europe, but is only just making its way to the US. Luxury wine expert Takis Soldatos paired up with the bag designer, Sofia Bloomberg, and came up with the Vernissage brand. While boxed wines generally have a bad rep for being “cheap”, these bagged wines are a classy little twist on alternative packaging. They include a little tap on the side which dispenses the elixir.

It doesn’t really float; more of a suspension, but it creates an amazing optical illusion and gives a surreal floating impression. The floating bed in Wang family’s home is something that the kids really enjoy. Although it is unclear what is used to hold the bed in air, it could be some sort of a retractable pillar, or pole, or even some sort of a rope. The bed can completely be hidden saving space on the floor. The bed neatly slides into the ceiling and looks extremely elegant with the blue upholstery and ceiling lights. Parents would however be skeptical of standing right below it and considering it carries the Made in China stamp.