Some clothes aren’t meant to be tumble dried in an ordinary dryer. Sure, you can set up a clothes line in your backyard to drip dry your precious and delicate garments, but you risk the chance of them getting stolen (hey, not all of us live in safe neighborhoods), or worse, getting bird poop on your wool sweater. Not any more with the Maytag Drying Cabinet. Featuring three racks of hanging space (equivalent to 16 meters of clothes line), the Drying Cabinet constantly provides a stream of warm air allowing your clothes to gently dry. Its got hanger racks and prongs to hold your coats, sweaters, scarves, gloves, ties, and hats. You can even dry your shoes and boots. Maytag claims the Drying Cabinet is easy to use thanks to its “rotary controls”, allowing the user to set three possible drying temperatures. Drying time is up to 4 hours.
I can’t find details on pricing or availability. Product page is here. [Maytag]
Nothing is better than Mommy’s breast milk. With the Handheld Breast Pump you can now bottle it for later drinking. Okay, probably intended for the newly born, the Breast Pump is pivot-able and said to fit all sizes and…err, ‘nipple arrangements’. Simply place the device over the breast, select the pumping speed (three different settings), and start “milking”. The milk is then collected in a bottle.
Genius, no? The Handheld Breast Pump is designed by Miji Rhoe and Solbi Lim.
Erbert and Gerbert’s is a sandwich shop chain in Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota. To celebrate their 20th anniversary of feeding people sandwiches, the company decided to have a little fun with a big-ass air cannon. They use the cannon to blow the cake. I’ll say no more. Enjoy the vid. That sandwich cake looks mighty delicious, by the way.
Visit Erbert and Gerbert’s promotional website here.
Sushi chef, Ken Kawasumi, showcased his version of Vincent van Gogh’s “Vase with 12 Sunflowers” oil painting. However, Kawasumi’s version is of the more ‘edible’ type, using sushi to create the replica.
For reference, Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ looks like this:
Researchers in the UK are developing a method to “paint” solar cells onto buildings as if you were applying a traditional coat of paint on steel. The group hopes to develop a technique that allows them to apply the solar-power paint as the steel sheets pass through rollers, which would allow them to apply photovoltaic paint at up to 40 square meters per minute. To save costs, they plan to use dye-sensitized solar cells, instead of silicon to absorb the sunlight - like conventional solar panels. By using dye molecules attached to particles of titanium, it gives electrons an energy boost which transfers from the dye into a layer of electrolyte. This then transfers the extra energy into a collecting circuit, before looping back again. Though less efficient, the dye-sensitized approach is less expensive and can be applied as liquid. Researchers are estimating two-and-a-half years before commercially available.
So, does this mean I can apply solar-power paint to my iPod in a couple years? Probably not, but I can dream, can’t I?
HP Blackbird what? Yeah, this Alienware machine puts the highly buzzed Blackbird to shame. Adding to the ALX line, Alienware’s Area-51 ALX CFX machine comes fully decked out, even at it’s base configuration. Quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor (45nm Penryn) - which have been overclocked to 4GHz, 4GB RAM, 2 pairs of ATI Radeon HD 3870 (2 GB of GDDR), up to 1TB HDD (or 128 GB SSD), DVD±R/W Drive with optional Blu-ray drive, Wi-Fi 802.11n/g/b, and optional 28-in-1 digital media reader/writer are among its specs. AMD and ATI promises that the Catalyst software will allow users to “unlock their GPU controls to manually set the engine and memory clocks for overclocking and dramatic performance boost.” Sounds good.
The Alienware CrossFireX starts pricing at an astronomical $5,149. That’s without a damn monitor or speakers.
The Nokia 6650 is heading to T-Mobile’s camp. It features a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, music player, FM tuner, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, microSD slot, and built-in GPS. The phone’s GPS uses T-Mobile’s NaviGate software which uses Bluetooth to connect to a GPS receiver installed inside, say, a vehicle. The phone is then able to download destination routes transmitted over T-Mobile’s GPRS network. The Nokia 6650 itself looks pretty decent especially with its stylish and flat numeric pad. The phone is also web-enabled (3G, HSDPA 2100 - 3.6Mbps) and features services such as MyFaves and Mobile Jukebox.
The Nokia 6650 should hit Europe in Q3 2008. No pricing details announced.
One more pic, press release, and more specs after the jump.
Made from biodegradable plastic and bamboo, the “Bamboo Phone” is a rather simple looking phone. However, this one isn’t your ordinary battery powered cell phone. A ‘rotational ratchet motion’ is all that is required for the Bamboo Phone to work. By simply opening the phone and rotating the back plate (which appears to house the numpad) for three minutes, you’ll earn enough power to make a single call. Though, I’m not sure if all that muscle power is worth it…but at least you’ll never run out of power.
Designed by Dutch designer, Gert-Jan van Breuge, the Bamboo Phone is biodegradable after you remove the phone’s battery, antenna, and printboard. To further maximize the battery-life, a monochrome screen is used. I wouldn’t expect Bluetooth or 3G on this thing.
