Tools, DIY, Home, Office

Sharpie’s Non-Smudging Pencil uses Liquid Graphite

Sharpie Liquid Mechanical PencilLike writing in pencils but don’t like the hassle of their breaking leads? Sharpie’s Liquid Mechanical Pencil is the answer. The tool, looks, feels, and writes like a pen, but it’s actually liquid graphite that’s coming out of that tip. No more need to sharpen pencils or replace leads in propelling pencils. …

GE MoodCam App Helps You Improve Your House For Free

GE MoodCamOK budding interior designers, listen up. GE Lighting Style offers an online lighting system tool called GE Mood Lighting Cam (MoodCam for short) that allows you to find the perfect type of lighting to change the mood of your whole house. Simply take some photos, answer 8 questions and it helps you choose the lighting that will change the atmosphere of your rooms.

Now, this has been altered into an iPhone app so you can take a snap of your room and play around with a simple slider to try and alter the mood of the room, taking it through Cozy, Creative, Intimate or purely Relaxing. …

Honeywell TE923W Deluxe Weather Station for Serious Weather Geeks

Indoor personal weather stations are nothing new, but they never really seem to make any spectacularly accurate conclusions. All you did was run a little wire through your window out to a box on the roof and the receiver would give you some information about the weather.

Honeywell offers the serious (or budding) meteorologist a chance to get some accurate data with its deluxe weather station. …

Stargate Coasters

Stargate Coasters If you’re a Stargate fan, you have to check out this set of four Stargate coasters. The coasters are meticulously detailed and the manufacturer promises that they will actually not create wormholes. Personally I’d test the wormhole theory with some soda before using the coaster to hold a glass of your finest Scotch though.

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Price: $29.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

VectorX Launch Monitor is Under Par for Accuracy

VectorX Launch Monitor“Under Par” Get it? Well you would if you’re a golfer!

And if you’re into your golf in a big way then you may have considered, or even used, launch monitors to try to sharpen up your performance. These can often mean lugging around heavy and fragile equipment, including laptops.

AccuSport is looking to change that with their VectorX all-in-one launch monitor; no laptop required. The VectorX is also designed with its target environment in mind so it will withstand the many hazards on a golf course; your laptop’s OLED screen won’t look too good after being hit by a golf ball at 100mph would it?!

AutoChron Offers Smart Home for $30

Autochron Wall Switch TimerOne of the things I feel is holding back the ‘smart house’ revolution is that (many times) to install all the proper gadgetry you would need to get your house rewired and re-plastered – not a cheap option by all means!

AutoChron seems to have come up with a solution to this by offering an automatic and programmable timer that can be slipped on over your existing wall switches and be used to control them without having to do any messy and invasive work to your walls. You can therefore use this piece of hardware to control anything with a switch from your lights to your fan. …

Black & Decker Revinvents the Shredder with the iShred Vertical Shredder

Black & Decker iShred Vertical ShredderShredding your sensitive documents is always the best thing you can do, and a large proportion of households invest in shredders to help reduce the risk of identity theft in this modern world. The only problem with shredders is that their design hasn’t really altered from when they were first brought to the personal and home office markets many years ago; no one ever thought that shredders could ever become anything beautiful – they were always destined to get shoved under a desk, all alone. …

Sticky Notes that look like Floppies

sticky notes for floppy disksNo, wait! We’re seriously not featuring floppy disks. It’s a bit hard to tell, but these are actually sticky notes, made to look like floppy disks. Kinda cool, right?

Yes, you can write all over them or if you’re a bit uptight, just in the little area that you would have normally stuck to on a real floppy! Comes in a 3-pack of assorted colors.

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Price: $9.99
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Bring TIM! calculates your dollars burnt at meetings

Meeting Cost Calculator - Bring TIM!Ha! Love this. Bring TIM! is an office clock that calculates how much money you’re burning in your meetings. Just enter your average hourly rate for your meeting participants and the number of folks and hit Start!

Of course, TIM stands for “Time is Money”. Not sure I love the entire name of the product, but in an age of having your domain name match your product, I get it.

Great (gag?) gift/message for the boss. 😉

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Price: $25
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

LED World Map

Do you or your family like to keep track of where you go while learning a geography lesson? If so, check out the LED World Map or LED USA Map for a fun and interesting new way to keep track of your travels with technology.

The framed maps are 35.5″x 25.5″x .5″ with a 9′ long Power Cord. The markers come in 8 brilliant colors and include 100 LEDs and 2 blinking home-base markers.

This is just one of Hi-Tec Art‘s “fun with technology” products.

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