Gadgets

Jura Signature serves coffee in skintight leather

September 5, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: coffee maker, home, Jura, kitchen, Sugnature

The Signature coffee maker has donned tight fitting leathers for its latest limited edition outing and it’s joined on stage by four other special editions. One encrusted in Swarovski crystals and another clad in real wood.

R2D2 projector clock tells time with sci-fi style

September 4, 2008, 4:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: clock, R2D2, star wars, Toy

There are reincarnations-a-plenty of Star Wars’ most famous droid, a silly money home entertainment system and a quirky RC amongst them, but the merchandising machine knows no boundaries and is as ruthless as Darth Vader when it comes to using the force against your wallet. Now there’s this: an R2D2 clock.

iRobot Roomba Pet Series: A fur fighter’s best friend

September 4, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: 562 Pet Series, cleaning, floorcare, home, irobot, roomba

The latest robot vacuum cleaner from iRobot could soon become man’s best friend. Roomba is obedient, cleaning up whenever programmed to, has a glossy black coat, always finds his way back to his charging bay and in his 562 Pet Series edition, Roomba can clean up the hair shed by your other pets.

Philips digital beer pump pulls the perfect pint

September 4, 2008, 1:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: beer dispenser, home, kitchen, PerfectDraft, Philips

This portable pub from Philips was a big surprise, buried among Philips’ latest range of health and beauty products. Its clean metallic lines and the orange digital readout are typical of the giant Dutch brand though and it promises to pull a perfect pint of Heineken.

Hi-tech electric cigar dodges smoking ban

September 4, 2008, 10:10 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: ban, cigar, cuban, nicotine, smoking

We are a law-abiding lot here, people that anyone’s great aunt would be proud to take for tea at the monthly W.I. meet so when we suggest a flouting of the smoking ban, be assured we’ve a trick up our sleeves.

Bosch Tassimo LED machine lights up your coffee

September 3, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill 2 comments

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Bosch, coffee maker, home, kitchen, LED, Tassimo

The fastest pod coffee machine on the block is back with LED lighting and a digital display and if you don’t like coffee, the T65 will now do you a hot milk chocolate or Twinnings tea instead thanks to a new selection of Tassimo capsules.

Gorenje fridge is the world’s largest iPod dock

September 2, 2008, 1:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Gorenje, home, iPod fridge, kitchen

And being a fully functional fridge freezer, it’s also the coolest. The glossy black finish looks sharp, but the blatant addition of an iPod hi-fi in the door is a stroke of genius that’ll have you moon walking around the kitchen in your jim-jams.

Hidden Radio is too cool for buttons

August 28, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Hidden Radio, home, kitchen radio

Buttons? Pah! The Hidden Radio doesn’t have a single one. Instead, you twist to tune and lift or push to change the volume. A control panel would just ruin those clean lines.