Kevin Kelly’s CoolTools is an indispensable resource for discovering crucial form of gadgets of all: practical ones. Listed here are a number of the site’s best recent finds.
Hand Lights
Headlamps are great for when your hands are tied and you desire to see what’s in front of you, but what concerning the times if you have to cast some light on what’s keeping your hands tied firstly? Hand lights! an affordable DIY project that’s actually quite DIY-able.
Banana Guard
Toting a banana would be dangerous business; they crush easily and once they do, they crush messily. The Banana Guard, a $15 plastic container custom built for the friendly yellow fruit, will keep your ‘naner fresh and firm. One size, they promise, fits all.
Cuisinart Smart Stick Hand Blender
Last week after I visited my Mom she said, ” wait until you spot how easy it truly is to make a smoothie with this thing. Even you want to do it.” She was talking in regards to the Cuisinart Smart Stick Hand Blender, and it’s true that inspite of my total culinary ineptitude, it did indeed look easy enough for me to exploit. The Smart Stick allows you to do your basic blender jobs with far less bulk (and clean-up’s way easier, too).
Quick Snap Ice Tray
You know what’s dumb? That we’re still using ice cube trays that jettison the cubes all around the floor whenever you attempt to snap them out. You know what’s smart? Any ice cube tray that may solve that problem. This $8 tray gives each little ice cube cubby a plastic tab for popping out the cube you would like, and only the cube you need.
Ikea Dave Laptop Table
At this point, the secret’s out: laptops are deceivingly named. They’re too hot to your lap, and I’m quite sure I’ve read some reports that argue that every one those radio waves can’t be good in your boy parts. Or your girl parts either, for that matter. This $20 Ikea laptop table will keep things cool.
Pocket Kite
OK so maybe not a tool-tool, but this neat pocket kite could definitely be considered a tool for making you cheerful. Because what’s more enjoyable then flying a kite on a windy day? Flying a kite without breakable wooden parts which you can keep to your pocket, that’s what. And only $5.
Coin-sized Pocket Screwdrivers
There’s nothing worse than not having a screwdriver if you really want one. And there’s nothing worse than having a pocketful of change that you should’t buy anything with. So what if all those coins were…screwdrivers? At $9.50 for a dozen, it’s cheap enough to test.
Kuhn Rikon Safety Lid Lifter
I still have trouble opening cans with a can opener, so I’m glad to determine that there’s a better choice. This $20 safety lid lifter cuts below the can’s rim, separating lid from can without any sharp edges. Now that’s magical.
Mini Measure Shot Glass
Sometimes recipes require tiny little measurements. That’s what I hear, anyway. I do know that typically shots require tiny little measurements, so keeping this type of $5 mini measuring cups accessible sounds like really helpful.
Cord Pro
Where there are gear lovers, there is gear. And where there is gear, there are cords and cables. A good number of them. Cord Pro is a straightforward, tried and true mechanism for keeping tubular things-from hoses all the way down to ethernet cable-nice and tidy.
Kevin Kelly’s CoolTools is an excellent resource for finding gear if you want to be useful once it actually shows up in your doorstep. The location’s continually updating with the most recent and coolest tools, so go try it out.
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