In this hub-bub fast pace of 21st century living, most of us don’t have a lot of time to gather information in the morning. We have to shower, eat, dress, and check whatever little news bits and emails that we can on the way out the door. It’s too bad we can’t combine any of [...]
The Breville BKT500 Combo Appliance is an all-in-one appliance that doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to figure out. This toaster and kettle combination will allow you to do two things at the same time, saving some of those precious minutes as you prepare for work. It features a stainless steel design for that [...]
Microsoft is on the lookout for hobbyist developers who want to create embedded software. The SPARK Your Imagination program uses Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Microsoft hopes to attract developers to code for “smart, connected, and service-oriented devices” ranging from ATMs and barcode scanners to industrial controls and intelligent appliances. [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show, AKA CES, is less than a week away, so expect to see a lot of new technology in the coming days. An example of that is the HydroPak, a generator that uses a water-activated cartridge system to provide power. It features the following: Provides infinite shelf life and enough energy to [...]
Filing for a patent is newsworthy enough these days, particularly if it’s a new product from a tech company. The patents also give you some insight on what the company’s working on, and it can get pretty exciting if it’s a device that other people are already speculating about, like a Zune phone or Google’s [...]
I’m a total sucker for great design. Even something as mundane as a laptop computer which for the most part is much like the bicycle in terms of its lack of ground-breaking innovation over the last decade or so. So when a big company like LG wins a Red Dot design award for a creative [...]
You fret over every design detail in your home and yet when it comes to buying a refrigerator the style choices are oh so mundane and minimalist. From the garden variety whites and blacks to the fingerprint-nightmares of stainless steel the refrigerator was clearly in dire need of a style lobotomy. To the rescue comes [...]
Best Buy Co. Inc. will be entering China, much like it entered Canada, by buying an existing company. Best Buy bought Futureshop a few years ago, and is now buying China’s fourth-largest retailer of appliances and consumer electronics, Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co., Ltd., which includes 136 stores. The US$180 million transaction will give Best [...]
The kitchen is the activity hub in most abodes, but finding space for everything in compact, modern living spaces is no easy task. The answer? Literally turn your kitchen’s most vital components into a lazy susan. The Circular Kitchen was created by Circular Concepts and has recently won a 2006 Red Dot Design Award for [...]
