The Urbano Eco Trash Can is the winner of the 2005 Pratt Product Design Competition, and it deserves it. This recycling focused trash can allows you to store and reuse the plastic bags that you collect from shopping. Simply loop trash bags around the cut-out sides and push them all the way down. This creates a visual of stacked handles all along the side, and shows you how many bags you have left to use. When you are ready to use one, just move it up to the handles and hook so that it won’t fall in on itself
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The Urban Cultivator is an enclosed hydroponic system designed for growing herbs and smaller vegetables indoors. A computer unit controls water, light cycles, humidity, and air circulation. All you need to do each week is add some fertilizer, and you need to eat the greens when they’re ready to harvest of course. The consumer model dubbed the Kitchen Cultivator is like a dishwasher and needs power and water hookups. Prices for the consumer model start at US $2,200, and a larger industrial model of the Urban Cultivator starts at $6,000. Via Gizmag
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Look how happy this girl is in the picture, and you’ll realize how happy you could be if you had the Joyoung Easy-Clean Automatic Hot Soy Milk Maker . This soy milk maker has six intelligent protection functions for safe operation, and comes with an easy to clean stainless steel jug, filter, blade, and heating element. The Joyoung Easy-Clean Automatic Hot Soy Milk Maker makes up to 1.6 Liter of fresh milk from soy beans, rice, mung beans, and almonds. We have a young son with soy allergies, but it’s nice to see you can make rice milk with this maker. This set also include their exclusive best taste NON-GMO (not genetically modified) Soybean samples of 0.3LB gift bag, and a special discount voucher to order from their soybean farm store.
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The Oster 4722 Rice Cooker with Steaming Tray in red cooks a variety of food including rice, soup, fondu and even steams vegetables. You can prepare up to 10 cups of rice, and it also features a 1-liter steaming tray. There’s an automatic keep warm feature, and it’s very simple to use with a one touch button. We really like the red color, and the brushed look of the exterior is also a nice change over shiny plastic or just plain metal. We are eating more and more steamed vegetables this year, and we think you’ll welcome the change
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This cotton/polyester blend, is Color-fast, adjustable, stain resistant, and ready for cosplay in your kitchen. When you put on the apron and mask you can ask your cooking, “What you gonna do beef rib roast?”. We think this is a perfect gift for crime fighters who cook, and who doesn’t get better cooking results when dressed as Batman. Answer - nobody. At Batman Classic Character Kitchen Apron
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This is really an entirely new Bistro coffee maker from Bodum. Unlike the french press bistro, the water gets distributed evenly over the ground coffee through an easy to clean shower head made of plastic and silicone at an ideal temperature of well over 90ºC. The filter – titanium-plated stainless steel and finely meshed – keeps the coffee pure in taste and best of all no paper filter needed. No heating is needed because the piping hot coffee goes right into the stainless steel carafe. The thermos comes with a spout that keeps the heat where it belongs Easy press of a finger it opens only for pouring. Only turns on with the jug in place Handles of the jug and the filter are made from heatresistant silicone. At BISTRO
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The only single-up machine that makes great coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and espresso, the compact footprint - fits easily anywhere. The CBTL Contata is made in Italy - the birthplace of espresso, and you can match it with their exclusive milk foamer for wonderful latte’s and capiccinos. We’ve been enjoying this machine over the Summer and can safely say the french roast coffee is amazing. At CBTL Contata Single Cup Coffee and Espresso Brewer
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These cups are perfectly sized for a single shot of espresso, and they feature an antique finish with rustic black edge around the rim. There’s a ton of colors available, and they are dishwasher safe, but may get hot in microwave. At Sur La Table Italian Espresso Cups
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This Progressive International GPC-4000 Fruit and Vegetable Chopper is a one handed food chopper, ideal for chopping nuts, fruits, vegetables, chocolate and more. You can dice, slice and chop fruits and veggies without the mess of a cutting board, adn the press down on pusher lid and food is cut into included measuring container. The built-in side blade which minimizes the need for precutting is a dream come true, and the set includes cleaning tool and storage box.
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The Lock & Lock HPL20BS 20-Piece BPA FREE Food-Storage Container Set set comes with food-storage containers in 1-3/4-, 2-, 2-4/5-, 3-2/5-, 3-2/3-, 5-1/2-, 6-3/4-, 11-, and 16-2/7-cup sizes. The durable polypropylene construction (bpa free) has clear bases which allow for better visibility of inside contents. THe lids feature a 4-hinge locking system that create air- and water-tight seals. The containers stack and nest to ensure space-saving storage in cupboards and drawers, and they are safe to use in refrigerator, freezer, microwave, and dishwasher.
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