Sep 03

Robomop Mopping Robot

Are you a busy people? No time for, um, mopping? Value your time very highly? Life should be enjoyable and not the opposite. But you still have to clean you’re the floor of your home, right? No sweat, here is your ultimate solution for your home floor cleaning, Robomop Softbase.

This is how to use this little gadget, just put Robomop on the floor, turn it on, then go shopping or surfing the internet or play with your kids or chatting with your neighbors, whatever enjoyable for you. Robomop will run across your floor and clean for about 60 square meter surface with 98% accuracy in 1 hour. The 8.5 centimeter low mop even cleans areas that is hard to clean, like under beds, sofas and cupboards (hey, those are where all the dust are hiding for years). It’s working for all kind of hard and flat surface, but it’s not yet designed for carpets.

Robomop use electrostatic pad that will be charged up when it’s doing her job. That’s why this gadget is sooo effective in collecting all of the dusts. Did you know that 98% of the dusts are, um, human dead skins! Yuck. And lucky for us, human dead skins are easily attracted to electrostatic charge.

Robomop comes with 5 cleaning pads (free). You can buy extra pads if you want (available at the ParamountZone).

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Sep 01

Portable Water Purifier

You’re in the middle of nowhere at the Yellow Stone National Park, your drinking water supply has been exhausted. Lucky, you find a pool of water, you then take a glass of water, and the question is: will you just drink it? What happen if the water contains some unknown microbes? You’ll not have to worry if you have this gadget, SteriPen Portable Water Purifier.

Only 225g (8 ounces) with batteries, this indispensable gadget will purify 0.5 liters (16 oz) of water in less than a minute. It uses ultra violet light (UV-light) to kill all the microbes, viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and all the miniscule evil things. Very easy to use, just push the button and wait for the green light. Other than for preparing drinking water, this gadget also perfect for purifying water to wash an open wound if you accidentally have one.

This gadget has passed many laboratories test, e.g. the University of Arizona, University of Maine, University of Oregon, and The School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University in Canada. SteriPen exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for safety.

ThinkGeek Electronics

Aug 29

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Floating MP3 player, listen to soothing music while you’re relaxing in your comfortable bathtub, Victor XA-AW33-W from JVC.

This gadget is designed to be used in the bathroom. Water-proof (IPX7-standard; water-proof in 30 min under 1 m depth), float-on-the-water design, with cool blue light following the music.

This MP3 player has 256MB memory and can play MP3, WMA and WMA-DRM. Mono speaker with internal amplifier. Connect to your PC using USB 1.1. Using 4 AA batteries (alkaline recommended), it can play for approximately 15 hours. 12 cm x 8.7 cm and 260g. It has stand attachment, and if plugged in you can use it as ordinary audio player of the room.

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19,800 YEN.

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Aug 29

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Effective cure for you who have a bad habit to turn off your alarm in the morning. This crazy little bugger will leap off your night stand right to the floor and then will make random turn all around your bed room racing away from your grasp. Guarantee will give you a good morning workout just to chase and turn it off. Very funny. A perfect gift for your lazy friend :P

Feature:
Snooze time, 0-9 min
Snooze once before it runs away
Choose 0 and he runs right away
Jump from up to 3 feet
Moves on wood and carpet
Press snooze to view time at night
Screen flashes when beeping/running
Alarm beeps in random pattern
Size: 5.25″ x 3.5″ x 3.5″
Wheels can be disabled to make it stays put.
Low battery warning
Available in almond white, aqua and mint (coming up: mustard orange)

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ThinkGeek Electronics

Aug 28

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Hi couch potato ;) want to go to the beach, but don’t want to leave your couch? Here is the solution: Fatboy Outdoor. This is an ingenious couch design from the famous Fatboy. It’s specifically designed for outdoor use.

Fatboy Outdoor is made from heavy polyester fabric that has been UV treated. It’s also fade resistant and water resistant, thanks to the PVC coating.

You can manipulate it into a choice of different styles with the help of the carry straps, which double as an aid to give you an upright position. You can sit it, recline it, roll it up, lie against it, perch on it, even sleep on it (it’s big enough). It’s also very easy to clean, just use a damp cloth to make shine like new. And, more importantly, it’s very comfortable.

Fatboy Outdoor available in Black, Lime, Orange, White, Red and Turquoise.

Product page: DesignPublic.