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Open Your Garage Door With Your Smartphone

Craftsman AssureLink Garage Door Opener

So you’re in your car, ready to head off to work, when you realize you can’t get the garage door open because you left the remote in the kitchen table. Or you could have just gotten home – only to have to park your vehicle outside while you rummage around…

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September 30th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Float Table: How Does It Work?

Float-Box

How interesting is the furniture in your house? Looking around, mine is pretty bland. Don’t get me wrong, it’s decent stuff for the most part, it’s just not terribly interesting. I mean, I don’t have an NES controller for a coffee table or anything. Well if you’re on the lookout…

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December 10th, 2010 by: Chris B.

Glass Doorknobs Let You See What’S on the Other Side

glass-doorknob

You know what’s missing from doors these days? Keyholes big enough that you can actually look through. Back in the good old days, if you wondered what was going on behind a locked door, you’d just kneel down and take a look through the keyhole. The last time I went…

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November 26th, 2010 by: Chris B.

True Mirror Doesn’T Show a Reversed Reflection

Mirrors are great. They let you see yourself much the same way that the rest of the world does. Unfortunately they have one major drawback: Everything is reversed.

You’d think that whoever invented the things would have noticed that everything you see in a mirror is backwards. No, they took…

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November 16th, 2010 by: Chris B.

Bang! Lamp Gives You Something to Shoot in the Morning

bang lamp

When you wake up in the morning, do you ever feel like shooting something? Oh, me either.

For those weirdos out there that hate the annoying sound of your alarm going off after only six hours of sleep and feel the need to take it out on an inanimate object,…

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November 3rd, 2010 by: Chris B.

Chore Hero: Yet More Mundane Activities Turned Into a Game With “Hero” in It’S Title

chore hero 1

Way before Microsoft jumped on the ‘Hero’ bandwagon came this app on Apple’s side of the fence, which doesn’t really turn chores into a game so much as impose a ratings system as cheap trick motivation. The name of the game is of course Chore Hero…. I wonder, if

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March 10th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Daysago: the Digital Day Counter

DaysAgo Digital Day Counter

Did you forget how long ago you put that meat in the fridge, or when you last scooped the nasty cat box… how about the last time you changed the oil in your car? This simple, ingenious device lets helps you keep track of the last time you performed a…

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December 22nd, 2006 by: Technabob

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