Sick of the typical, ugly dish rack that currently resides in your kitchen? Spice it up with the Dish Doctor from Magis. Designed by Marc Newson, this green bastard has dual utensil holders and a bunch of colorful pegs to hold your plates and dildos cups.

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I’m pretty sure that everyone likes tea. It’s a drink that’s universally refreshing, whether it’s hot or cold. Bodum has just unleashed its Clara Kettle, a tea kettle made from nearly-indestructible borosilicate glass. That means that when you try to make tea the day after your 12-hour bender, you needn’t worry about chipping this bitch.

With beautiful blue accents and multi-stovetop abilities, the Clara Kettle makes for the ultimate gift for the tea lover in your life. At $60, it’s the perfect fusion of price, art and utility.

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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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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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Science has finally advanced in such a way that we’ve completely eliminated the middle man for stirring drinks: the spoon. Any beverages that need mixing can be done with this mug’s self-mixer, an innovative design, invented by French students.

The bottle-neck form of the lower half of the self-mixing mug allows you to stir your drink by simply holding the cup in the air and giving it a gentle shake. The awkward shape and design makes use of a clever floating mechanism, supported by a ceramic ball at its base. Both the float and ceramic ball stay at the bottom of the glass while you take your sip, making those morning gin and tonics a little less life threatening. Now if only Bond had one…

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We’ve been looking at fridges lately, we know that you can grow strawberries, frost and defrost your food there, we also reported that fridge doors can open from either side. Today Hitachi is rising the bar by introducing the world’s first auto drawer for your fridge, whether you want to open or close it, close it in the middle of opening, they’re all as simple as a button press. So no more embarrassment for having difficulty in opening those drawers when you bought too much potato, no more hassle when you don’t have hands at all (use your foot to kick the button). The automatic drawers will be used on Hitachi’s top line of fridges, the first model R-W5700 with 565L of storage will be available later this month with a whooping price of 2600USD. –Sam Chan

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We hardly ever make potato chips at home, the furthest we can go is probably french-fries. It’s such a hassle to make them (fries come in frozen packs, but hardly do we ever see chips), it’s fattening and you’ll have to do the oily dish washing. Japanese company Akebono has developed this Microwave Potato Chips Kit that gives you the potato peel (not potato skin, but potato-potato) and a holder that you can put into the microwave with. 100g of chips will take about 6-7 minutes in a 700W microwave, the Impress team took it for a test run and it worked really well. The kit is selling for 10USD in Japan and you should definitely pick up one of them if you are a health-conscious chip fan. More pics after the jump.

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Have you ever thought of bringing those automatic water taps in public toilets home? Takaratomy is selling these Pitap add-ons that you can easily install on to any tap you want. So when you have oily hands and just want to rinse them off you don’t have to make your taps oily anymore, all you have to do is to put your hands close enough to the sensor and the water will run. You can turn off the sensor and resume to manual control if you wish to leave it running to fill up the sink. You can also install one of these in your bathroom to make teeth-brushing and shaving easier. However the company warns users against installing over the shower head for some reason (wouldn’t that be great?). The Pitap runs on AAA battery and are selling at $70 in Japan now. — Sam Chan

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So you’ve seen it in the movies, someone is making dinner (probably pasta), and they drop too much of one ingredient into the sauce. Maybe this has even happened at your house (but not by you, of course). The SpiceHood takes care of this problem while serving other purposes simultaneously. It is a cooker hood that has an integrated spice rack that also dispenses the herbs and spices when you want. Because it sits on the wall, it also lets you clean up the counter by getting rid of your wooden spice rack. So how does it work? It takes in air from when you are cooking and filters it so that it can meet the needed temperature and humidity of the herbs. It allows the spices to be kept in an environment that is dry and ideal for storage. It is able to maintain a desired temperature by sucking in air when you aren’t cooking and regulating itself that way. Now the real kicker: it allows you to tell it what you want to make and it spits (well, dispenses) the correct amount of spices and herbs you need! How futuristic is that?! The ingredients just slide right out of a drawer at the bottom of the device.

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