Tag: kickstarter
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Why-Tech Wednesday: Flatev Can Make Fresh Tortillas Like Kuerig Makes Coffee, But It’s Not Worth $199
For this first installment of Why-Tech Wednesday, I want to go back a bit to last year, to the first product that has been stuck in my mind like a bad tumor. It’s an appliance that uses dough pods to produce fresh tortillas, it’s the Flatev. It’s a simple concept, but suffers from an unreasonable…
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Kniterate Brings Industrial-Style Personalized Knitwear To The Home
It’s one thing to learn how to sew, and it’s quite another to be able to customize the fabric with which you put your garments together. Up until now, if you wanted a particular pattern of material, you’d either have to crochet the darn thing, or pore over heaps of catalogues in the hopes to…
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The HeatBuff Keyboard Hand Warmer
Gone are the days where you have to do your typing with cold, rigid fingers. The HeatBuff Keyboard Hand Warmer uses infrared light to warm up your digits, while presumably leaving your keyboard and mouse cold enough to touch comfortably. The beams can be repositioned, so you can point one at your mouse and the…
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Mindset Headphones – Help For Your Work/Study
Are you a student? Do you work from home? Do you have trouble focusing when there’s too much going on around you? There’s a solution for you! These headphones will maximize your productivity. They are mega comfortable and are wireless. They cancel out the noises around you. BUT WAIT! There’s more *laughs*.There are EEG sensors located…
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Stagg EKG Electric Pour-Over Kettle Does Temperature Control
Every morning I make coffee in a French Press by boiling water and immediately pouring it over the grounds; this tastes fine by my unrefined standards. However, more discerning coffee enthusiasts might prefer a different and more specific water temperature; apparently some beans are better enjoyed when brewed at lower temps. The 1-litre Stagg EKG…
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Special Wine Glass Lets Your Nose Get All Up In That Wine
We’re sure you’ve seen it: wine snobs sniff their wine. There’s a reason for that, of course, but if you’re the type to buy $5 twist-offs, you might not care. That’s fine. The more discerning folks however might actually take a liking to this Wine Glass Mask, a wine glass designed specifically to enhance the…
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Fret Zeppelin System Teaches You How To Play A Real Guitar
Learning how to play any instrument is hard, but luckily we are now starting to see products like the Fret Zeppelin, which should go a long way to make things a bit easier, at least for guitars. It’s a set of thin LED strips that fit right next to each fret on a guitar’s neck,…
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This Lamp Has The Coolest Switch
Look, we’re actually getting excited about the switch on a lamp, which might sound sad until you realize it’s actually really cool. The Heng Balance Lamp doesn’t turn on like a regular lamp: “HENG lamp has a switch structure of two balls inside the wooden frames with embedded magnets. By moving them, these magnets will…
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This Duvet Cover Makes Itself
There’s now a duvet cover that can make itself at the touch of a button. Yes, that’s the kind of world we live in. The SmartDuvet is a $269 system that automagically straightens your duvet flat by inflating a lattice-shaped bladder at a preset time. The system connects to your smartphone and allows you to…
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The Foldscope Is A Legit Paper Microsope That Fits In Your Pocket
There exists and entire world at the microscopic level that we never get to see outside of pictures in textbooks and online. But there’s something really cool about being able to check out the inside of a cell you just scraped off the walls of your own mouth, or being able to examine the bulb…