Having trouble keeping your plants alive? …Yup, me too. So Michael Kritzer has invented the Herbi Smart Hydroponic Garden, which is a sleek countertop herb pot that tracks water levels, PH levels and nutrients. Add water and fertilizer to the device and they’ll automatcially be distrubuted to the plants for up to a month. When…
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Scarf for Tech Addicts
This has to be one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen… These privacy scarves were developed by grad student Joe Malia. They prevent glare, but promote suffocation. (Then again, they’re probably very warm in the winter.) The problem is that, while you’re in your little techie cocoon, pickpockets can totally have their way with…
Sound Machine (…not from Miami, but from CucumberLab)
CucumberLab‘s Sound Machine combines an audio player with a wine rack–all in a cool retro-looking package. (Sort of an iVictrola, if you will.) You can either: dock your iPod (on the inside, where the up-to-12 wine bottles go), or play a record with the digital record player, or use the 5-disc CD player. So many…
The “Light Pick”: Guitar Pick with LEDs
Santa Cruz Light Wells has created the Light Pick, which houses 8 LED lights and is powered by a watch battery. The pick–which includes three interchangeable tips for light, medium, or heavy picking action–also functions as a metronome / “rhythm aide”. The pick is available in right-handed and left-handed versions and the case and lights…
The Ex 5-piece SS Knife Set with Unique Holder
If your still a bit peeved at your ex then I’m thinking that you shouldn’t own one of these knife holders. This cool looking gadget is called The Ex. As you put away your knives you can have the pleasure of imagining that it’s your ex being impaled over and over again. It costs $159.99…
MySpace To Make Changes
MySpace has come under fire in recent months because of stories involving child predators and teens meeting or trying to meet older men they met at the social networking site. Included in the changes is that anyone older than 18 cannot request to be added to a child’s friend list unless they know their email…
Was The Porn Worth It?
A worker at Oregon Department of Revenue was busy surfing porn instead of working this week and a trojan snuck onto the computer and stole more than 2,200 taxper ID’s and other information. Included with the identities were social security numbers, addresses and names that got into the hands of who knows who and who…