My old oven didn’t have a timer at all. My new oven has a timer. And on the rare occasion when I decide to actually cook, I’ll be using two burners, or the burner and the oven, or any combination of the 5 sources of flame I have, so one timer is not enough. And, being the cooking noob I am, I never know how something is supposed to look like when it’s done, so I completely depend on timing.
The DoneRight Timer looks like the perfect solution for this kind of problems, because it offers no less than 5 timers. And, because each of them is positioned exactly like your burners or oven, there’s no chance to forget which is which. The fish needed 10 minutes and the potatoes needed 15, obviously.
How much under $29.99?
A little: $24.99 on Amazon.com.
Via GearDiary
If you work in a traditional office – suit and tie and things like that – just skip to the next post. But if you work in the gaming industry, for example, a Nintendo NES Business Card Holder could be the thing for you.
There’s 7 models of replicas available: Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Ice Climber or Balloon Fight, and Controller 1 and 2. Unfortunately, you don’t get to choose which one you get, it’s all random.
But for the geekness factor it doesn’t really matter, does it? You’ll be pulling your business cards out of a game cartdridge.
How much under $29.99?
A lot: $8.80 on GameAsylum.us.
Via Gizmodo
Space Invaders has achieved cult status and, since this year it’s the 30th anniversary of the game, loads of themed merchandise is popping up, most of it very cool.
The latest example I’ve come across is this Gold Space Invaders Badge. It’s cool indeed. It fits the current handmade trend, it’s geeky, it looks good… But how do you justify the $12.80 price tag? (and that’s on sale) It’s a couple of stitches which take a couple of minutes to make…
All right, I know most people aren’t crafty or just don’t feel like working on something like this, but I still feel it should’ve been cheaper.
How much under $29.99?
Some: $12.80 on IDontLikeMondays.us.
How can you resist seeing a t-shirt with something written on it and not reading it? I can’t. And I refuse to buy clothes with gibberish on them or misspellings, because I’m just like that.
I am quite taken with the I Want To Be Friends t-shirt. It’s not funny (like the text itself states), but it’s smart. And a great conversation starter (again, like it says on it). If a t-shirt says that the owner wants to be friends with you, he won’t mind you reading it, right? Then you’d giggle and you’d get talking. Random conversations on the street are among the best things in life.
How much under $29.99?
Some: $15 on Threadless.com.
Letter openers probably aren’t dangerous. Until someone snaps and wedges it in the boss’s back, probably, but let’s not go there.
Having a Lightning Man Letter Opener on your desk might help you overcome your murderous tendencies. One poor plastic guy has a lightning bolt in his back, there’s enough suffering there for one day! Everytime you put the opener back in you’ll inflict more pain on him, so you won’t need to do it to real people.
[P.S. This is a made-up story. If you or your friends are eyeing the letter opener too much or are craving this one purely for the pleasure of virtually stabbing a plastic figure in the back... go get specialist help.]
How much under $29.99?
A little: $24.95 on WhatOnEarthCatalog.com.
Via GearDiary
I have this compulsion to sometimes feature crap, I’m sorry. It’s difficult to resist.
Brussels may have managed to turn the peeing boy into a city symbol (and even now tourists giggle when they see it), but… a phone charm? With plastic pee? Ummm.
The Mannequin Pee Phone Charm is silly. And badly misspelled, it should be Manneken Pis. When you pull the chain, clear plastic pee appears. Fascinating. NOT.
It’s appropriately catalogued under “kitsch” on the retailer’s website, at least. You must be insane to pay almost $15 for this.
How much under $29.99?
Some: ~$13.50 on Funzkyzilla.com.
Via FashionablyGeek
Being as bad at keeping plants alive as I am, I’ve always paid attention to devices to make my (and their) life easier, and have featured some in the past.
The latest in this series doesn’t work in an intricate way: it simply drips water in the pot little by little, while capturing oxygen. But the Aqua Globes look cool: they’re made from hand blown glass, with a beautiful design, and each pack gets you two globes.
As far as unusual gardening tools go, this wins brownie points for design.
How much under $29.99?
Some: $10.50 on Amazon.com
Via ubergizmo
This is by no means a new idea (I have a bread basket like this), but it’s smart enough to warrant a mention.
The Travel Tray is extremely simple to use and can be indispensable for the messy people among us. It’s probably more useful for travel, but I could use it perfectly well around the house – for example to store my 4 or 5 sets of keys (don’t ask), which I can never find.
It’s extremely convenient as opposed to other storage trays because it’s flat, so it takes up virtually no room in your bags, and when assembled you get a 8 x 5 x 2″ deep basket, with a separate compartment for your glasses.
How much under $29.99?
A lot: $8.85 on Magellans.com.
Via bookofjoe
I’ve given Twitter a shot but, more often than not, whenever I would want to post my brilliant ideas for the world to see I would get that cute image of the whale which meant that oh well, server’s down, tough luck.
Since Twitter seems to have issues on a regular basis, the Failwhale has become a little online celebrity with its own dedicated website/fan club. And what star doesn’t have branded merchandise?
The Fail Whale Mug features our fat friend being lifted by birdies, just like on Twitter. If you ever miss him, but the microblogging service is working, you can just look down and there he is.
How much under $29.99?
Some: $16.65 on Zazzle.com.
I guess everyone has their own nostalgia-games – you know, those first games you ever played, on a console or maybe a PC with a 133 mhz processor that was state of the art back then. There’s a lot of people who still have a soft spot for Mario so, while I’m not a fan, I thought I’d drop a line about the Grow Your Own 1up Mushroom.
No, you can’t really grow your own. It’s just a plastic mushroom just like on in the Mario games… but if you put some real dirt in its pot, it will look like you’ve grown it. Not sure why you’d want to do that, but oh well. It makes a fun desk decoration and your othe geeky friends will admire you.
How much under $29.99?
A lot: $9.99 on ThinkGeek.com.
