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The Flap clock from the designers of British company Habitat harks back to train station timekeepers with it’s flap date calendar with auto function and swiss-style analog clock. Your office’s stark white walls will never look better and telling time will never be smoother. What this means to you: You’ve finally got an office at [...]

This is what a man’s blender should look like. Square, simple and die cast. The 67 ounce polycarbonate jug with soft grip handle will hold any mixed beverage or concoction you put in it and the 1000 watt variable speed motor will blend (or obliterate) it in less time than it takes you to think [...]

You know what’s better than having a Maserati parked in your garage? A Maserati lamp in your home or office reminding you that there’s one parked there. What might otherwise get chocked up to cliché, the officially licensed Maserati lamp by Lumina, designed by Marco Morosini, is actually an elegant piece that only an Italian [...]

Green or not these are pretty damn cool er, hot. The English company IDC announced in a recent press release that they will be mass-producing an inflatable solar panel and make it available for roughly $200. Called the SolarStore, the panel will inflate into a 2 meter rectangular shape from a backpack and have the [...]

[click on image to enlarge] I read magazines back to front. It’s a peculiar quirk of mine and there is no explanation. Sometimes it yields surprises – like the arrival of this month’s issue of Men’s Vogue. When I opened the back cover I was greeted with a fold out of the Massimo Vignelli designed [...]

At it’s core, the Cobb Premier Grill is an 8.5 lb grill that uses 8-10 charcoal briquettes for three hours of cooking. Yes, cooking – not just grilling. The Cobb Grill can roast, bake, smoke and fry anything you throw at it put in it using a design that retains and transfers heat like a [...]

Oak, just like men, tend to look better with age. The Karoo is perfect evidence of that. Each of the distressed natural finished 4-inch thick aged oak planks can be arranged to create an endless variety of forms ensuring a perfect fit wherever you place it. Coffee table Legos, if you will. Cost: Call for [...]

What better way to entertain than offering a bevy of beverages? Use the Electrolux Beverage Center to store your chilled drinks in an under-the-counter solution that’s perfect for your wet-bar, kitchen or game room. The Beverage Center will keep an interior temperature within 1° of your setting ensuring no Wine, Soda or Beer go improperly [...]

De-stain your carpet, rugs. Dog stain? Ciao. Soda spill? Au Revoir. Hungover buddy’s remains? Adios. The Bissel SpotBot has both hands free and manual cleaning tools. Using a unique spiral brush design the Bissel SpotBot will remove stains nearly as fast as you can make them. For those extra stubborn stains there’s also a manally [...]

Look under your desk. Do your cables look like a complete mess? Mine do, so a few weeks ago my obsessive need for organization got the better of me and I procured a Complete Cable Manager from a place called Cable-Safe (after looking at a few dozen options). The Complete Cable Manager is a kit [...]

There is no finer way to keep track of the date than a Pirelli Calendar. Unfortunately, the calendar has never been an item your mere dollars could purchase as it’s never been sold commercially. So your hopes of replacing the corporate gift 365 day golf tips calendar are far from being realized. For the lucky [...]

A little while back Charles & Marie sold (they still do) a clever mug aptly named the On Off Mug. It was a beverage mug that changed in color depending on the temperature. Basically, if the mug was full of hot java it showed ON, progressively changing into OFF as the coffee disappeared or cooled. [...]

The Quiver will instantly catapult you into women’s “make my girlfriends jealous with the story about my date” category. Next time you’re heading out to the park, an early spring shore visit or just relaxing in the comfort of her patio use the Quiver to bring along a bottle of wine. Working just like a [...]

One tool. Total Destruction. Or so that’s what we imagine could also be the slogan for the Stanley FatMax Xtreme FuBar Utility Bar, a one piece forged bar from select steel that will break apart anything you swing it at. The textured grip will hold tightly even when wet and tempered steel means no chipping. [...]

Kobalt is a new generation of tools that set function first never forgetting durability or aesthetics. I’m a bit of a do it yourself kind of guy and a good set of power tools never sets me off in the wrong direction. The 26-gallon compressor from Kobalt gives me 15mps and 3,900 RPM worth of [...]