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So you think that fridges are used to keep things cold eh? Wrong! Sharp continues to wow us with their new fridges. Now you can frost and defrost food in the same compartment. Sharp is starting to put this feature on to their premium refrigerator models, calling this the Aijo-hotto-ko, meaning “romantic heated container”. While we have no discernment to ...

We never understand the Japanese passion for refrigerators, they seem to come up with a lot of weird ideas that when you think about them, might be really handy. Sharp’s fridges might not be the bestselling, but they’re surely capturing a lot of attention on their fridge doors. These new 300 Liter (volume) fridges are equipped with “Docchimo-doa” fridge doors ...

Don’t you just hate it when flashlights run out of battery? The natural thing to do would be turning it off and shaking it, hoping that the chemical paste in there will somehow mix and squeeze a few drops of juice left. Japanese company Daisaku-shoji is selling this battery-free flashlight that can shine for a good 20 minutes with half ...

Not every house has a central heating system, in fact, not everybody likes central heating. It makes your skin dry, it hikes up your power bill and it gets the whole house stink. The reason why we don’t like heaters too much is mainly because of their shapes and sizes. Greenwood Japan has started selling their minipanel heater that can ...

This thing is ugly. And by ugly, we mean that we would never let our kids eat something that came out of something that looks like a bad prop from a Ed Wood movie. But then again, almost every creation spewed by Yanko is a huge, useless piece of ugly. The designs they com up with are so deeply nestled ...

Glow-in-the-dark. Everything that glows in the dark can be turned into a toy for little kids to play with. Then come the glow sticks. Way more fun, until someone decides that it might be really cool to cut it open, and most of the time, scissors aren’t around so they use their teeth. Good times. Now there is a glow-in-the-dark ...

Do you love the song �Freebird� by Lynyrd Skynyrd when it�s live, like the CD version? Would you still like it if an animatronics bird were to sing it to you? Didn�t think so. Well Decoy Roy, a singing duck, will sing that or �(I Just want to) Fly� by Sugar Ray for you with just the simple press of ...

If Joe McCarthy were still alive today, this contraption would make him very proud. For all of you paranoid home owners who still think that communists are invading our towns and homes, the Fingerprint Access Control is a way to keep track of those damn Red Coats from storming down your door without you knowing first. The Fingerprint Lock is ...

Its taken many years to get this far, but technology has finally reached the point to develop something of such sheer genius that our minds can barely wrap around the concept. That’s right, friends. Finally, the three player ping pong table. Table tennis has been an underlying cult sport for decades and we’ve noticed that whenever playing ping pong, there ...

Diffused light, it’s that stuff that photographers are always trying to find. Basically, it makes for better pictures because it isn’t as hard as direct sunlight is. Why does diffused light have to be reserved for photographers? The designers of the Gaffer’s Bounce Lamp believe that it doesn’t. This nice little lamp is meant to be set on your desk ...