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Calling All Inventors! Your Home Space Saver Products Are Wanted

by Myra Per-Lee

Have you come up with a new way to stack your shoes, line up your tools, or bunk your junk? Karl Champley, the home improvement guru, is looking for new space saving products that help folks organize their stuff and give them more room in their own homes. So through Edison Nation, he's asking you to submit your ideas.

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High-Tech Locators Find Keys, Glasses... Even Your Cat!

by Boomer Babe

Find One, Find All® (FOFA®) Locator

There I go! Can't find my keys again. Just when I think I'm ready to hop in the car for another day's commute, my car keys, mobile phone, wallet, purse, reading glasses, and/or sunglasses can't be found. Whoops, where did I leave my coffee thermos? read more »

The disappearing act those slylies pull every day has been a source of needless frustration in my life, and I finally decided I had to stop them. I checked into several locating devices and found two locators I'd like to share with you, as each has appealing but different features for different needs... the FOFA® and the Loc8tor.

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What the World Would Be Like Without O-Rings

by Gadgetry Inc

O-rings. They're those small, looped elastomers that mechanics and photography hobbyists always seem to say they need when they're in the middle of some project. I was pretty much blown away by how useful these little buggers were, which led me to think about what the world would be like without o-rings--and let me just say, it wasn't pretty.

How to Select a Home Automation Provider, From Vivint to HAI

by Gadgetry Inc

If you've taken all the information we covered about home automation earlier and decided that you want to install one in your home, then the next (and obvious) thing you need to do is figure out which provider to go with. Vivint appears to be a prime contender, seeing as they've just recently got the Central Station of the Year Award.

Can Nature's Forms And Sounds Help The Sleepless?

by T Goodman

We know that art has been inspired by nature at least as far back as the Cave Man. Technology too has had a love affair with nature for thousands of years, though we are just recently experiencing a resurgence with a new 'biomimicry' movement. But besides biomimetic art and technology, there are biomimetic exercises, such as those we find in certain yoga positions... and now, an NYU design student and insomniac, has employed the shapes and sounds of nature to help the sleepless sleep.

Sleeping With a Smartphone: The iPhone 3-Piece Bedding Set

by China.new

Are you sleeping on the Jobs again? Ordering “Enter Sandman” for your ringtone? The iPhone 3-Piece Bedding Set from China satisfies all your phone-y hang-ups, though excessive tossing and turning could result in unintended 911 butt-dials.

Door Handle Cover Keeps Klutzy Kids From Kabob-in' Their Noggins

by Steve Levenstein

The puzzlingly named “Waffle Handle” stops evil doers, er, evil doors, from inflicting pain, injury and subdural hematoma's on your precious snowflake's pristine forehead. If you don't have them, shame on you: you're a bad parent who's bad and should feel bad.

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Self-Stirring Pot Puts New Spin on Stove-top Cooking

by Steve Levenstein

Is stuck pasta your kitchen nightmare? A Japanese dentist has created a stir with Kuru-Kuru Nabe (“Round and Round Pot”), a cooking pot with sculpted sides. Turn up the heat and watch basic thermodynamics go to work so you don't have to!

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Ramos Alarm Clock: Get Up Or Get Up!

by Must Love Gadgets

Alarm clocks are a pain in the butt. No one wants to get up in the morning, or they wouldn't need an alarm clock, would they? That's why we all have snooze buttons on our alarm clocks, because we need one more chance to be late. Ineffective as snooze alarms are for many, engineer Paul Sammut has created a new version of the alarm clock, one that never shuts up!

Melty Chocolate USB Lamp Pours Out Calorie-free Illumination

by Steve Levenstein

Hot chocolate just got hotter... and lighter, too! The Melty Chocolate USB Sweets Light pours out warm, comforting, calorie-free light while avoiding what would appear to be a sticky mess in the making.

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