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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With the iPhone app Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage you can slice, blend, and dice your way through lots of fruit and be happy with the results. If you’re unfamiliar with Annoying Orange, head on over to their web site and then you’ll know why you need this app to continue on in your mobile existence.
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The Breville BJE200XL 700-Watt Compact Juice Fountain makes juicing just about anything quick and easy. The heavy-duty compact juice fountain with centered knife blade assembly features a 700-watt motor that operates at 14,000 RPM for maximum extraction of all things juice. The extra-large 3-inch centered feed tube will fit entire limes, lemons, and even oranges. There’s even a stainless-steel micro-mesh filter for keeping out the bad things you don’t want in your juice.
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Did the Nasa Mars program just land a robotic garlic press on our countertops? We guess not but a Garlic Zoom XL did just land, and we’re driving it around to garlic chopping success. How does it work? Just insert one or two peeled cloves in the trapdoor on top, close it up, and then drive your Zoom around the countertop.
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Did the Nasa Mars program just land a robotic garlic press on our countertops? We guess not but a Garlic Zoom XL did just land, and we’re driving it around to garlic chopping success. How does it work? Just insert one or two peeled cloves in the trapdoor on top, close it up, and then drive your Zoom around the countertop. The stainless steel blades whizz around inside, slice and dicing the garlic. Clear acrylic body with stainless-steel chopping blades Fun for kids (the driving part! Don’t let kids near the blades inside.) See-through design lets you see when garlic is chopped enough No more smelly garlic hands Blade unit removes for cleaning; top-rack dishwasher-safe
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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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Name of Product: Honeywell Surround Select Portable Electric Heaters Units: About 19,000 Distributor: Kaz USA Inc., of Southborough, Mass. Manufacturer: Ningbo SMAL Electrics Co. Ltd., of China Hazard: The heater’s internal housing, including the fan, heating element and circuitry, can detach, posing a burn hazard to consumers. Incidents/Injuries: None reported Description: This recall includes Honeywell Surround Select Series portable electric heaters with model numbers HZ-420, HZ-430, and HZ-440 and five-digit date codes that have 11 as the last two digits.
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Are you tired of wondering how many cookies will really fit on a cookie sheet and also to not have them move around on said cookie sheet? We are. This helpful cookie pan is embossed with drop zones for your cookie dough placement, and the durable steel construction won’t warp and is finished with a nonstick coating. Silicone handles give you a good grip when transporting the pans to and from the oven without burned hands as well. At Sur La Table
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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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