These dorm room speakers say they will pack a punch, using a pop out accordion design to expel superior sound. A nice addition to an MP3 player or laptop computer. Any electronic device that clicks, slides, pops out or transforms grabs my attention.
Apples are at their prime this time of year, and there are countless ways to enjoy this delicious, healthy fruit. But preparing apples for snacking and baking can be a chore if your tools and utensils are outdated. Here are a few gadgets and tools to make it easier to prepare, store and enjoy the year’s best apples, whether picked fresh at a local orchard, neighborhood farmer’s market or corner grocery store.
This apple slicer adjusts to a variety of widths to get the most wedges from each of your apples for snacking, or to cut a few thick ones for baking a recipe.
Coring your apples can be a big task when baking; you might as well do it in style with this stainless steel version.
Thinly sliced, uniform twists make this spiral cutter unique for serving up fresh apples this Fall.
Some picky eaters have to remove the skin before they eat, and this hand-cranked countertop contraption will do the job (it also cores the apple simultaneously). The design is very industrial, implying a perfect peel every time.
For those of you who like overkill and all-in-one machines, I think this may be the one for you. Formerly marketed as the Spirooli, this shredder, slicer, chopper claims to maim any vegetable or fruit you can stuff into it.
Why not have your apples and eat them too? The design of the dehydrator is simple, and it makes storing foods for later use so easy to do.
I will argue with anyone who disclaims the validity of culinary creations as art. Having said that, here is a great way to prepare your fresh apples after you have cored, skinned and sliced them to enjoy.
You are probably gazing at your screen thinking this is the next Apple product. You think this is a pre-pre-release image, leaked out to verify the latest rumor. Well, this just happens to be a TV tuner plug-in for your iPod Touch or PC. The Seg Clip, from Japan, for Japan, is due to come out later this month, in Japan. I hope this makes its way across the pond because it seems to be a cool idea for a low price of $70.
With summer coming quickly to an end, packed lunches are just around the corner. So for those of us working class who pack year round and kids looking forward to a new school year of brown bagging it, take a look at a few well-designed ways to take your food with you on the go.
For those of you who are not familiar with bento boxes, it’s about time you have a look at what it’s all about. Here is a three tier bento box set with a lid and fastener included as well. Definitely a cool way to sit down to a lunch.
This lunchbox gets the kids familiar with the Apple brand at an early age. Staying on brand includes the familiar Apple logo, mirrored steel casing and overall plain and simple design. Is there anything that Apple hasn’t branded?
Food For Thought has devised a way to keep fruit in the lunchboxes of young ones. This durable design protects fruit from bruising with its hard shell structure, and it’s marketed to keep those not-so-cool-to-eat fruits covered and out of view from other school children.
Maybe eating lunch is more of a show to you. What better way to display your lunch and have an impromptu lunch demo than to use this cooler/ table/ bag combo? You better have a full hour lunchtime if you plan on packing your lunch in this bag for all to see.
This Jazz speaker lunch box lets you sound just as good as you eat. Uniquely designed to not only store your food, but provide enough speaker power for listening as you lunch. And don’t worry, the speakers are water resistant.
Just like a model airplane, all of the parts and pieces of this snap and dine set come in a single inject mold unit for you to disassemble. The novelty of this dining set might have you asking your lunch lady to serve you on your own tray.
You can never go wrong with an oilcloth lunch bag. Designed to take spills, this fabric is great for soup and salad dressing containers that might tip over on your commute (and the link above goes to a site that provides a pattern to use with your favorite print).
This always worked for me as a young one; the brown bag. Neatly folded and with my name written in big black letters, a packed lunch never tasted better. Hey, an old-school brown bag lunch is always in style!
Apple has dominated the multimedia market with laptops, phones and MP3 players so much that they have opened the doors to a lot of new products and accessories, many of which are carriers, cases and applications. But once you have that protective cover, you buy that favorite song and and want to share that video, where do you go? What do you do to take your media to the next level? Here are two well designed, innovative devices that do just that.
For the video portion, I love this Pico Projector design. With 12 lumens, up to 60” image projection, 1 GB flash drive and being pocket sized to boot, this is the ultimate iPod accessory right now, as far as I am concerned. It seems to be the perfect accessory to the iPod Touch and iPhone for viewing slideshows and movies. So, if this is the bees knees for watching video from your iPod, what about listening to it?
PodXtreme claims that they have the boost to boast. This lithium battery-operated gadget can produce a sound from your iPod like no other. The speaker charges via USB connection and operates the same way as a quality sub-woofer. Ideally, you could plug in and pound out some loud beats for all to hear, virtually a 21st century boom box.
With the Apple brand designing so many gadgets for the i generation who want to keep their media to themselves, it is nice to see some crowd-pleasing accessories like these. Sharing your video and audio has become easier, cheaper and more accessible to the masses more recently. These two gadgets are good examples of that.
