Whoever said it aint easy being green? This new solar-powered lawnmower and “garden cleaner” purports to make it easier than ever. It won the Red Dot Award in the Design Concept in 2009 so you know it means business. It’s one part electric lawnmower, and one part, well, something else. They call it a garden cleaner and that is the intended use. It works sort of like a home vacuum, sucking up unwanted weeds and soil and leaving everything nice and even so your basil or whatever can grow at a nice clip. The thing is also foldable and ridiculously easy to use. Gone are the days of sweaty men mowing your lawn for a measly five bucks.
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Wanna pamper that pooch or feline? You could go the usual routes, taking them to get groomed or feeding them filet mignon. However, Pet Acoustics Inc. has a new option for you pet owners. Their My Pet Speaker system is a speaker system designed exclusively to entertain and calm your pets. My Pet Speaker is able to monitor the sound to the level well suited to your pet’s ears, no matter how loud you are playing the music. It features a 3.5mm output jack. The speaker system is compatible with almost all iPods, iPhones and music players. It costs $250 or, in another currency, 400 dog licks.
Wow. Soccer players are smart. Manchester United player Gary Neville is putting his eco-money where his eco-mouth is by helping to design this luxury ec0-bunker. Wait out the coming in apocalypse in style, and all without increasing your carbon footprint!
Neville teamed up with Make Architects to create this 8,000-sq-ft multi-million-pound luxury eco-bunker. It has been likened to a Neolithic settlement and will be built in the grounds of Gary Neville’s £8 million ($13m) estate in Lancashire.
The building will have solar panels, a ground source heat pump and a wind turbine. Energy produced from the wind turbine will power his neighboring property with extra energy being supplied to the national grid, helping to reduce his family’s carbon footprint. There’s one potential snag, however. The government has yet to approve the bunker.
Oh Swarovski. You multiply faster than Gremlins after midnight. This time on a guitar! But not just any guitar, a Gibson Bulls Eye. And not just any Gibson Bulls Eye, but a Zakk Wylde branded edition. Got all that?
To be fair, it’s not all Swarovski. There be gold gems on that thar guitar as well. Commissioned by an anonymous Monaco-based British celebrity, this limited edition Gibson guitar is encrusted with 4,000 individual Swarovski crystals - each measuring exactly 4mm in diameter and covered in 24-carat gold. Kim Webber and Gold2u worked in tandem to design this beast. The strings are also 24 carat gold and imported from Germany. And, that’s not all. 24 carat gold frets! Wow. I’m going to stop now before I also turn into gold. Is this guitar King Midas? Spend $24,200 and find out.
Do you like being clean and fresh so you can face the world with a smile? Of course you do! Would you like to not ruin the planet while doing so? Unless you are the nemesis of Captain Planet, you want to do that as well. Enter Lucedentro and their elegant, and green, bathroom top.
Fabricated from sandwich glass, the top has photo-luminescent PVC film in between the glasses that accumulates daylight and gives back the light accumulated in the dark through three colors: “Aqua-marina,” “Yellow green” and “Ocean blue.” They’ll also decorate it any way you like, but come on, it looks great as is. Why mess with perfection?
That age old question returns. Fire or television? Do we want warmth for our hearths and home or do we want the latest episode of LOST? Well now, thanks to French furniture company Mobilier DeFrance, we can have both. Introducing their Fontana TV stand and fireplace. Two-in-one! Look at them, standing side-by-side like two proud peacocks. Start a fire. Watch TV. Do both. No big deal. Why make a choice when we can have both? Isn’t that the way of the Western world? The unit is available now on the company’s website.
Put a stop to endless tech-clutter with the Evoline Port Lounge Table! This convenient cutie provides a discreet and elegant way to organize connections for power, networks, data and multi-media. The table contains two power sockets and two Ethernet ports to make organizing a breeze. Seems great for tech heavy living rooms or busy office environments. The table itself is nice, too. It’s double-aluminum and the composite covers are available in silver, black or stainless steel. This table is available now at the bargain price of $1470.
Admit it. Your entertainment room needs an upgrade. Don’t worry, though. Konig has got you covered. They’ve just released their HAV-MC100 Media Center. This bad boy does everything you need to turn your living room into a full fledged media playroom, except make the popcorn. It includes an LCD screen, a built-in DVD player with HDMI connection and speaker. Grab a beer and settle in.
So you like to have a few drinks in the bar, right? Then it holds, you like to have a few drinks in your living room bar. Why stop there? Why not have a bar built right into your BED. If your eyes just lit up, this bed by Disegno is definitely for you. You know what else is definitely for you? Counseling. The Disegno Reflex bed has grooves built in for champagne, wine, whiskey or whatever it is your thirsty body demands. There’s also room for glasses and cups. And, it’s round. So when the room is spinning, it could actually, you know, be spinning.
Sony Music is upping the ante on home theater technology with their new BDPorter all-in-one. omes with a WXGA projector, surround sound headphones, speakers and a 60-inch screen. The whole package seems to be aimed for the corporate crowd but it sure screams home theater to our eyes. They come in four different designs and are on sale for about $7,700.
