Miscellaneous Category - Page 2

We’ve heard people telling government to get out of their bodies, their bedrooms, their houses and everything in between, but the city of Cleveland looks to take a bold step by being the first government everyone there wants out of their garbage.

It isn’t exactly hard, anymore, to set up a basic ordinary webcam and keep track of your house while you’re away. Some cell phones will even let you hook into the feed remotely. But the resolution isn’t always the greatest, and the really good systems cost an arm and a [...]

General Electric may be working on a collection of smart appliances, but the Italian appliance maker Indesit just might end up beating them to market with their ZigBee-compatible washer.

It used to be that the toilet was strictly a waste disposal operation–but now thanks to a British advance, hitting the restroom can produce power for the rest of the building with the HighDro Power toilet system.

Steam cleaning of clothes isn’t really anything new, but with this exciting concept, it’s about to get a whole lot easier. It’s called the Washing Box, and it’ll make short work out of your clothes.

Inception has just hit theaters today, folks, and seeing as how it revolves all around the nature of sleep and dreaming, and of course, stealing information out of that dream, it seemed like a great time to hit you up with a list. Today we’re going to give you the [...]

I don’t know about you folks, but I’ve definitely wished my thermostat were a little smarter on occasion. I spend a lot of time out of the house and would love to heat or cool a bit less when I’m out but come home to perfect temperatures. And that’s just [...]

You’ve got to love USB devices, folks, because it seems like there’s just no end to the sheer amount of preposterous and amazing devices coming out around that little plug. And now, we’ve got a real winner–the USB Controlled Power Strip.

Let’s face it, folks–most of our gadgets will not run without electricity. Even the battery powered gear requires a plug-in at some point to recharge unless it’s solar, and those are few and far between. That’s why I was so amazed by the Wet Circuits power strip.

I’m sure we’ve all been there; power outages don’t understand clocks, so they can often hit in the middle of the night and leave us stumbling for our flashlights. And heaven help you if the batteries in your flashlight of choice have gone dead; trying to reinstall batteries in the [...]