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Digital BBQ Tongs With Thermometer


Cut three grill gadgets down to one with these handy tongs and get the perfect piece of meat every time.

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An Electronic Tongue That Knows Its Sweeteners!


It's a sweet tongue not a sweet tooth but, after all, it is the tongue and not the tooth that contains one's taste sensors.  The new electronic tongue has taste buds that biomimic our own but, so far, it only tastes sweets.  What a lucky tongue!

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Where's Mom? Robots Prepare, Cook Food & Even Feed You!


With the recent robot factory layoffs, the Japanese are again using their ingenuity to retrain robots for household jobs.  For example, here is our chef robot...

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Fruit4Thought: Fruit Delivery Service For Toronto Office Workers


The need for convenient healthy snacks, often delivered to homes or offices, has bred a large number of businesses because let's face it, people like things better when they're easy! Well, there's a new one on its radar, and this one hits close to home for me, coming to your from Toronto, Canada.

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Habanero Cream Puff Puts Desert Heat In Your Dessert Treat


Habanero Cream Puff Puts Desert Heat In Your Dessert Treat
The Habanero Cream Puff snack from Japan's Kyoto Habanero combines rich sweet custard cream with searing hot habanero pepper pastry - it's a match made in Hell!

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Cookie Café Markets Its Brand By Notifying Patrons When Cookies Are Hot!


Some of the most successful businesses are those that take their common concepts to new levels with simple marketing concepts. Specialty's café and Bakery certainly has been taking notes, because they've added a unique service to benefit those who frequent their chains.

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Great News For Chocolate Lovers: New Study Tells All!


You've heard that chocolate looses it's flavonols, or antioxidants, when cooked.  I've reported that myself.  But a new study says that's not necessarily true.... and here's why....

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The Elegantly Simple Wine Wedge Keeps Wine Stacked In Your Fridge


 Seldom do you see a simply designed, inexpensive gadget that's easy to use and functions perfectly... But here we have the Wine Wedge, which is all of the above, plus it's easy to keep clean!

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Lack Of Sleep Can Contribute To Diabetes Risk


Have you ever noticed that your appetite, particularly for sweets and comfort foods, increases when you haven't had enough sleep.  Well, new research suggests that lack of sleep may be another risk factor for diabetes, in addition to unhealthy eating habits and sedentary life styles.

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Read And Drool: Addiction Pet Foods


Yes, I'll admit that reading the labels on Addiction Pet Foods made me hungry, and I did have to take a  snack break to eat before I came back to writing this column. Yogurt... The problem was that I didn't have anything nearly as appetizing as Addiction Pet Food to eat!

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Sizzling Customizable Bacon Shoe From Keds


We've seen the bacon bra, the beef jerky brief, and now food that meets fashion is going mainstream with a customizable, sizzling slip on from a popular shoe company. Keep on reading to find out where and how you can get your feet into these meaty shoes!

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10 Creepy Commercials to Tickle Your Funny Bone


Sometimes advertising agencies unintentionally (and intentionally) produce some very creepy commercials. Join me in a glance at some of the most bizarre examples of product pitching ever committed to film.

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Table Tap: For The Lazy Drinker, Self-Serve Bars Are At It Again!


We've seen Minibar, a self-serve drinking establishment that gives patrons access to their own mini bar, so they never have to worry about waiting around for a server to bring them their next drink. But that business model came with one fatal flaw; in order to get their next drink, bar patrons needed to get up in move. So now there's a new style of drinking establishment more in tune with the lazy drinker.

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Portable Potty Makes Fresh Drinkable Water


In an attempt to help people in countries in dire need of fresh drinking water Argentine designer Leonardo Manavella has invented a portable potty/water fountain.

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A Primer For The Newest Health Food Craze: Raw Chocolate!


So you've been eating 73 percent dark cocoa bars every day thinking that their antioxidant power will add 10 years to your life.  Well stop.  Because the latest health craze is raw chocolate not dark, processed chocolate.  In fact raw chocolate, aka raw cacao, contains five times more antioxidants than the Acai berry!

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Twihotels, The Twitter Hotel-Finder Launches


Twihotels.com - Twitter hotel finder
The difficult thing about traveling is finding the right hotel in the right city at the right price! But equally important is securing a hotel you can trust - one that has been recommended by others.

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Company Destined To Reveal Caffeine With Test Strips For Coffee


Those who turn to decaffeinated coffee just can't rely on someone's word that it's what they're getting, and let's be honest here; it was policy when I worked in my first job as a teenager in a coffee fop that if the decaf was out, you top it off with regular. In order to fight off misleading teenagers like I was, Discover Testing has created a product that allows people to test the caffeine content of their beverages.

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Mad Men Use Social Media To Promote Old Media


Remember the days of 'push marketing', when the Mad Men of Madison Avenue monopolized what messages were beamed out to the public. Feeding us manageable morsels of propaganda about the brands they represented, they controlled a lot of what we ate, drank, and yes... even what we thought.

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Delicious Food Fashion: Crocheted Wearable Art


Generally when you talk about people wearing their food, it's snidely after a meal that results in remnants being visible that were not appropriately devoured. However, with the delicious food fashion designs by Joy Campia, it's food that's good enough to wear, in a good way.

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Baseball Bat Pepper Mill Adds Some Heat to Your Meal


More of a ninth-inning novelty than a functional kitchen accessory, the Baseball Bat Pepper Mill works just like the one the waiter brings around at your favorite restaurant--only it looks like a full-size Louisville Slugger.

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