Archive for October, 2008
October 22, 2008
Having an indoor electric grill is almost like having a barbecue inside your apartment. There are some fancy grills made nowadays that do not require electricity but most landlords and fire inspectors don’t like them no matter how handy they seem. You can use an electric grill indoors or outdoors depending on your preference. Some landlords who have balconies on their properties will only let you use the electric grill because other types of barbecues flame out too easily.
A really nice outdoor electric grill is the Fuego 02 Electric. It is inset into an island of its own which makes it easy to work on and work with. It is also a very elegant piece of furniture that would look quite nice indoors or out. It is made out of teak, steel and stone slate. It is a free standing block that looks almost like a miniature kitchen counter and it has a drawer in it so that you can keep your barbecuing implements organizes d and all in the same place. Basically you can think of it as being a small stove but with an open grill and a stone and teak top on which you can marinate and cut meat.
There is no set up at all to this type of electric grill. All you have to do is just plug it in and you get 1650 watts of cooking power. The grill also has a powerful coil heating element that when paired with a reflecting plate returns the heat back to the grilling surface. This helps you make perfect steaks and ribs every time.
The surface of the grill is a cast iron enamel coated grill plate that easily accommodates a two inch thick steak.
The Fuego company makes many different types of these grills. The company calls them “outdoor kitchen islands” and “campfires for modernists.” The grill itself is a conversation piece at social events because design wise it is quite hip and futuristic looking. This sought after electric grill which is also quite green because it does not emit many fumes into the air or burn trees has been the subject of many feature articles in glossy magazines including Hearth and Home, Interiors, the 100 Thousand Club, Log Home Living, Garden Design, Hampton Cottages and Gardens, Better Homes and Gardens, Outside Magazine, Mountain Living and Kitchen and Bath Design Living. As you can see from just looking at the names of the magazines that have printed enthusiastic reviews this new invention is one that adapts itself to many different types of lifestyles.
I f you like the look of the grill you can also get variations of it that includes sinks and drawers and ovens so that you can outfit your entire kitchen with it.
October 19, 2008
New marvels of technology are being invented all of the time –some of them are great and some of them are absolutely ridiculous. This month has brought us a whole new crop of amazing inventions for sale both online and offline.
Your cell phone is not just a cell phone anymore. It is practically a personal fitness center. For instance the Japanese Cell phone company known as NTT Do Como has invented a new wellness phone. In addition to doing all of the things you usually use a cell phone for like playing games, listening to tunes and taking snap shots it also uses sensors to record how much running, walking and climbing stairs that you do and how many calories you burn during the day. If you press your finger on a sensor pad it will also record your heart track. It will even tell you if you have bad breath. All you have to do is blow on it and it will advise you of how severe your halitosis is.
An amusing new gadget is called the Rat Race clock. This is a clear Plexiglas clock into which you can view a little mechanical rat running on the treadmill. It looks as if all the hard work of the rat is what is making the treadmill go round. It is a really good existential gift for the workaholic in your life. This gadget is made by the American Tailgater company and it is one of those ironic amusements that makes an all too true statement.
A bizarre little gadget is the Ear Wax Camera and Cleaner which uses the magic of fiber optics to help you peer inside your ear to see how severe your earwax problem is. I t features a tiny camera on the end of a cleaner wand and a handheld screen which allows you to see what is going on inside your ear canal while you poke around. This is definitely helpful in aiding you in the removal of every last bit of ear wax.
This is similar to the idea for the Lighted Ear Curette which was basically a metal or plastic swab with a tiny LED diode on the end. This unique gadget is considered to be a medical instrument and its main value is that it allows doctors to have a full view of the ear canal during the wax cleaning process.
Are you sick of burning your toast? Well then maybe it is time for you to get a see through toaster. This toaster is not yet on the market but it is the topic of discussion on many blogs that have to do with discussing gadgets of the future for some reason. By the way that includes this blog which is also looking forward to the day when a transparent toaster will allow us to prevent the smoke alarm from going off when the toast burns.
October 16, 2008
It takes more than a pocket calculator to outfit the average student today. There are all kinds of gadgets on the market that make the process of having to do things lik e tapea lecture that much easier. Mundane chores such as printing off a big essay are also made a little easier by the technology that is now available.
For instance you can’t expect to get through school without a printer as few professors nowadays will let you email them an assigned essay. If you must get a printer makes sure it is one of the incredibly cheap combination scanner, printer and fax unites that are all the rage nowadays.
These combo fax/printer/scanner/copier multi-taskers are actually down to as low as fifty bucks on some sites that have them from sale. Hp, which has been making copier since they have been invented make s a very high quality one for just a hundred bucks. It’s called the HP Photosmart C5280. It prints up to 24 pages a minute in color and also prints photos and cards. It also has the ability to print directly onto CDs and DVDs. This versatile printer is also compatible with both Macs and PCs.
The Leapfrog Fly Fusion Pentop Computer helps you transfer anything that you write, draw or scrawl onto your computer for safekeeping. This way you can always archive the notes you take in class so you can study them later. It costs about eighty dollars which is quite reasonable for a device that is going to help you stay so organized. This pen can also record voices, perform math calculations and hold a CD’s worth of MP3s for you to listen to while you are working. In fact it is as close to a miracle as ever was invented in terms of being tiny, entertaining and completely useful.
The latest fad when it comes to recording lectures is to use a tiny MP3 player that also records rather than the usual bulky digital recorder. The MP3 should work fine as long as the lecture hall that you are using it to record in is not too large.
A machine that falls into this category is the tiny 8GB Creative Zen V Plus which is about 200 dollars at U.S. Creative is only the size of a Tic-Tac box but it cans store over four thousand songs, diplay videos and photos on its tiny 1.5 inch screen and also tape dozens of hours of lectures into its Flash memory. It also has a built in FM radio with over 32 stations and a line in jack to copy music from another source without the need for a computer so you can amuse yourself while doing something completely boring like scanning the pages of a textbook with your new scanner/printer/copier/fax machine.








