Smoke Glasses to help smokers lacking dexterity |
These funky shaped glasses were originally designed specifically for smokers who liked to keep their cigarette and drink glass both in one hand which is apparently a tricky feat, leaving their other hand free for gesturing or maybe doing the Saturday Night Fever dance to the Bee Gees.
Nowadays there are quite a few less people smoking (and dancing to the Bee Gees) so these glasses have lost some of their earlier market share. Due to this the company is still trying to find ways to unload some of them, not by suggesting that everyone start smoking but they are marketing these Smoke Glasses as cool, ergonomic and “transcending their original purpose“. They do look kinda’ cool and if you do decide to take up smoking you wouldn’t have your drink glass getting in your way.
What Hello Kitty fan’s kitchen would be complete without having a Hello Kitty toaster? Not only does this thing bring the annoyingly cute Hello Kitty brand into your home but the toast that’s created also bears the Hello Kitty face outlined in burned bread on one side of each and every piece. 
This Triple Timer kitchen timer has a very familiar look to it; if I could only put finger on just what it is. This timer gets its name from its ability to have three different timers running simultaneously allowing you to keep track of cooking times for your multi-course meals. It also houses a clock which is all viewable on a large backlit LCD display. Below the display is a circular set of navigation buttons to control and set the timers and clock. The multi-timer comes in a white color which rounds out the familiar aesthetic features of this iPod look-a-like.
This high-end corkscrew from Sveid uses a neat scissor action mechanism to easily uncork your bottle of wine or champagne instead of the usually twisting or prying action needed to get the cork out. And it should be easy if not completely effortless for the $71,000 price tag that comes with it. 
Nothing wrong with mixing a little bling with your espresso. These Mini Verticale Elektra espresso makers are pure eye candy, and sport a beautiful steampunk design. The shiny caffeine demons will literally smack down every other appliance in your kitchen, and make them worship at their metal feet, just by their mere presence.
That’s a mouthful. You know the lines on the butter wrapper that you never pay attention to? Well, they are important. Just ask the baker in your home? Sure, you enjoy the taste of butter, but have you ever stopped to think about what goes into measuring it out just right, so you don’t suffer a stroke while eating your muffins? As it stands now, (since the actual stick of butter itself is not marked) you have to cut butter with the wrapper on. 
This is for the gadget lover that enjoys food a little too much. It resembles a cloth lunchbox, but don’t let that fool you. This foldable new “easy bake oven” is perfect for the outdoorsman who absolutely must bake a small cake while enjoying nature. 
We’ve seen additions to your tap that will illuminate a colored light so you can visually distinguish between hot and cold running water before but Kenwood’s 21st century breakfast set takes things a step further. 
Maybe it’s because many of us geeks heated up wires with electricity to create a make-shift toaster as our 5th grade science project, or possibly it’s that toast is one of the tried and true breakfast foods that we have trouble screwing up? Whatever the reason toasters seem to be a popular item with gadget lovers everywhere, despite a limited variety of designs available to consumers.
If you’re wondering what happened to all those bricked phones that used to have the 20 foot coiled cord in your kitchen before everything went cordless, you’ll be happy to see that some of them have been put to good use, maybe. It appears that at least a few of them ended up in hands of Netherlands designer Henk Stallinga where he turned them into salt and pepper shakers.
Gone are the days where you had the daunting task of writing the date on an open container in your refrigerator and then being forced to conjure up the current date and calculate the difference between then and now. The DaysAgo Digital Day Counter now counts the days for you to end all question about just how old that casserole is.
One thing that really makes it difficult when trying to rough-it in a camp site is the noticeable lack of frozen drinks. Sure you have plenty of ice in the cooler, but what if you want to blend up a margarita or other frozen concoction? 
60 years ago the futurists of the day told us that the 21st century will be a paperless society. A quick look around any office will prove that the dead tree technology isn’t going away anytime soon but there are more and more alternatives to use a high tech replacement for the old tried and true method. 
In the world of low-tech gadgets this heat sensitive spoon is one of those items that is actually pretty cool. It can be used in the microwave to sense the temperature of whatever is being heated up and indicate when it’s at 120 degrees Fahrenheit by a change in color. Conceivable just the opposite could apply, where this spoon would also indicate when something has cooled below 120 degrees avoiding someone sticking their finger in your food either way.
Not to often does a guy get to write about breakfast gadgets but it’s a good thing that cool gadgets are everywhere, including your kitchen!
