Toasters aren’t merely an appliance to be used as your own discretion for the sole purpose of toasting your bread. Toasters are more like an introverted roommate who not only makes your breakfast but also has a sleek sense of style.

PC Magazine has written a 10 Tantalizing Toaster Concepts list that features a variety of toasters with bizarre looks; even some with multi-functional use. They even have a wall mounted toaster which looks like a hamburger phone. Click on to scope out some of the other designs and a link to the 10 toasters.

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Day in and day out, we make sandwiches. Such delicious sandwiches with spreads like mayonnaise, peanut butter and gnutella. However, with a recession upon us, we must all do our part to conserve and not waste vital resources such as food. Enter the Easy PB&J Double-Ended Jar.

Simply put, it’s a basic jar with a lid on each side. This way, when your spread is running low, instead of jamming a knife in there trying to reach the last of the goop, you simply flip the jar and open the adjacent side’s lid. Next thing you know, you’re scooping out more white stuff than Jenna Jameson after a 10-hour shoot. The Easy PB&J Jar would compliment the FridgeFork quite nicely.

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Anyone with a passion for science fiction or the movie Aliens will surely want to pay tribute to Giger. As the creator of the actual aliens in the movies, his work has since been recognized around the world through sculptures, artwork and paintings. The latest creation Giger has unveiled is the Harkonnen chair. Featuring a design that would make even Corporal Hicks cringe in fear, these chairs are now available to those with bank accounts to match.

Each chair takes a solid two months to complete and ship out, so those of you a little on the impatient side, take note. They range in price from $15,000 all the way up to $45,000 for the aluminum version. At this price, you’ll want to make sure there isn’t a living soul within 1000 ft of your precious butt-warmer.

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Editor’s Note: Apparently Giger did work for Dune? As a die-hard Aliens fan, I chose to drop references to that film as opposed to Dune. Either way, this chair is seriously badass.

Here’s an interesting take on clothes hangers for the “American Psycho” out there. Tianyi Chang has come up with a creepy way to hang your coats, aprons or whatever you wish on polyurethane black knives mounted and screwed into a wall.

The lady friend might not enjoy knives being drilled into her wall as a fashion statement, but she’ll get over it with some persuasion.  The knife hooks are available for purchase at Bouf.com for 40 dollars per hook. Quite pricey for just one coat hanger but when you’re Patrick Bateman, money is no object. After the jump, another shot of the knives doing their thing.

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone out and bought fresh fruit, only to have it mold by sitting in my refrigerator’s crisper drawer. It’s both a waste of food and money and can be quite frustrating at times. This is where BLUE enters the picture.

BLUE will cleanse your fruits through emitting a special light that kills bacteria on the skin of your pears, peaches and other delicious delicacies (a process known as Action Fresh Blue technology.) A beautiful blue ambient light glows when the device is on and cleansing your food. BLUE comes with a charger and a removable bowl that you can easily clean. After the jump, a collage showing how BLUE works:
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Star peg goes in the star-shaped hole, triangle peg goes in triangle-shaped hole and hexagon goes in-well you get the point. Though it may seem as harmless as a Fisher Price toy (or target-practice), this Puzzle Alarm Clock will probably piss you off early in the morning when you’re waking up.

It’s really a simple, yet beautiful thing. As the clock strikes 6:00AM, you’ll blindly fumble for the triangle, only to find you knocked it under your bed. As your wife screams at you to “Turn that fucking thing off!”, you’ll be trying to fit the hexagon piece in that your dog chewed up two days beforehand. Six minutes later and you’ll have thrown the clock at the wall and will be in the shower getting ready for work.

All the above fun can be yours for $40.

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Most people have some sort of junk drawer in their home where they throw all sorts of random shit that has no home anywhere else. Rummaging through a junk drawer is typically a damn good time to kill an hour or so, especially when it’s someone else’s. After all, you never know what the hell you’re going to find (and possibly horde for yourself.)

The Fractal Furniture is a cubed multi-drawer contraption which allows you to separate your crap into 23 individual nooks rather than one massive stock pile. Perhaps you could divvy up your junk drawer by category; one drawer for spare change, one for stationary, etc., so on and so forth. At least you can add some sort of organization to the mayhem. (more…)

I seriously doubt we’ll get attacked by aliens anytime soon but in case we are, we’ll be prepared to bluff their assault with these quirky ceramic ray guns from Muddy Mountain Pottery. The Raku Ray Gun series of creations feature classic sci-fi names such as “Van Vogt Defractor” and “Nemo Squidulator.” The median price of the guns you’ll find is about $275 a sculpture, a small price to pay for such unique art.

Interested in how these guns came about being crafted? From the website:

Raku Ray Guns are one-of-a-kind ceramic sculptures made by West Magoon. They are inspired by alien technology unearthed at a secret UFO crash site, known only to a tribe of Wyoming Hill People. These photos depict all of the individual Ray Guns currently available. Each is named after a classic science fiction author or character. The moon crater wall plaques that support the guns each measure 12″ wide by 9″ high.

In the end, they still don’t have shit on Ripley’s Pulse Rifle from Aliens.

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I really don’t see what the big deal is about saving energy. At home, we just ignore our electric bill until the company sends us a letter crying about paying them money. We send them some cash, they’re happy and the virtuous cycle repeats. Of course, not every tree-hugging citizen would agree and that’s why technologies like wind-based power plants and solar energy panels exist; solely to please the masses.

Case in point: Lumeta’s Power-Ply 380. What sounds like a next-gen gaming console is actually a new type of solar panel that can be stuck onto rooftops like a giant sticker. It allows faster installation without sacrificing quality and can be tailored for most buildings. Though they lose about 5-percent of the energy they generate, each panel can produce up to 380 watts of power. That means big savings for those who can afford solar panel installation on their domicile.

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A French designer named Vivien Muller has come up with a strange new take on a traditional heating system. Dubbed the “Octocube”, this 14″ cube is comprised solely of 90-degree copper tubing with elbows that serve as a radiator for large surface areas. It’s also said to fit anywhere without looking tacky.

What makes this particular radiator unique is the fact that, with the amount of copper tubing comprising the cube as well as the flexibility of the elbow, one could reconstruct the cube to be flat, making the cube more effective at heating a larger room. You still can’t get one, though you could boil a bunch of elbow macaroni, pour it down your pants and call it a day.

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