Save a slice or two using this banana slicer when you are making a dessert or snack. This spring-loaded banana slicer makes it easy to get six uniform slices with one squeeze of your hand. Desserts, recipes, drying fruit snacks — whatever it is that you do with a banana, you’ll never slice the same way again.
Another one of those ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ moments. A vendor has taken a novel product, put a story behind it, and now they are selling. These seat savers discourage others from taking your seat, and make you laugh, too.
Bodum, known for its innovative product design around the kitchen, has ventured outdoors. Onto the patio to be exact. This new line of FRYKAT picnic grills are as simple as can be, and they come in a variety of vibrant colors.
These double walled ice buckets are an example of timeless product design, with a splash of color and a see-through design.
Tea For One, this all-in-one glass and strainer has just enough color to show off the product while displaying the tea inside.
These spiral paper note pads called Bloc Notes are a real fresh approach to office supply design. The pear and apple shaped notepads make up in detail what they lack in flavor; the seeds, stems and flesh of the fruit make each very appealing to the eye… maybe not as functional as Post-Its, but definitely more fun!
It doesn’t matter if it’s coffee, hot cocoa or tea that you need this winter, as long as your mug keeps it hot and looks good doing it. Submitted for your approval: the best designed cups and mugs for 2009.
This holiday season has consumers searching for a variety of gifts, including kitchen gadgets. Take a look at some of these red and green gadgets, all designed to be the perfect holiday gift.
This may look like an electronics device, but it definitely isn’t. It is a wallet that secures your personal items from being compromised electronically. RFID theft, or radio frequency identity theft, can happen without you even knowing. This clamshell of a storage space blocks any person who may try to grab your information from the Visa, Mastercard, and American Express cards in your purse or pocket. Now you can forget about hackers in crowds electronically taking what is your’s.
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.
