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Another month and another entirely new set of kitchen contraptions. We’ve been focusing a bit on grilling this past April, and moving into May we hope to find even more cool grilling stuff. Of course we’ll be featuring other kitchen gadgets this month, and expect a full set of reviews as we’ve received a ton of cool kitchen gadgets here in the test kitchen.
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Want to make sure you get perfectly shaped burgers? These hamburger makers adjust to form 1/4, 1/3, or 1/2 lb. regular burgers or 1, 2, or 3 oz. sliders.
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For the ladies that enjoy bright and shining stones to catch her eye, this bracelet would be a great purchase. It would even work for a somewhat tech savvy mom for Mother’s Day. Which isn’t that far off, so you might want to be looking now for a gift for your Mom. This stainless steel bracelet would be hard to overlook on the arm of any person. Even if there were no shiny stones, this would still be eye catching with the bright silver coloring.
Although this looks like just a bracelet, it conceals within a thumb drive to store away any needed data. The bracelet can be purchased in either the all silver or with gold accents. The gold version still has the silver band. From the looks of things, the thumb drive stays attached to the bracelet. That would make it so that you’d have to take it off during use. It comes with 8GB of storage for $33 from Brando.
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No one likes to deal with dark gloomy days, but we deal with it anyway. Well if you’d like to stay in denial about how bleak the day is looking, you could always pick this umbrella up. Even if the skies are gray, right above you can be bright blue with puffy white clouds. That is, just as long as you keep this umbrella open. Then to keep up the illusion, you could just keep all the curtains drawn for the day at home and work. The umbrella would also be great for the lazy types that can’t be bothered to put any effort into opening their umbrella.
It automatically opens and closes all by itself, all you have to do is push a button. Perhaps someday soon instead of pushing a button, we could just think about it. Those would be the days. Although this would be nice for the lazy, it’s also good for the clumsy types that have issues juggling opening the umbrella and carrying a purse out in the pouring rain. It’s a kind of pricey umbrella though, it’ll cost you $34.95.
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The Sap Cap isn’t just a logo-less baseball cap. It’s also a blackjack, one of those weighted leather weapons private eyes used to get socked with all the time back in the 1940s.
The bill is meant to be held like a handle, and the crown of the cap is heavily weighted, in case you want to bust some skulls but don’t have any pocket space for a normal blackjack. It’s not really clear what’s actually providing the weight; apparently it’s a “unique material that is 110% the density of lead and will not rust,” which is thoughtful, because a rusty baseball cap is a dead giveaway that something weird is going on. [Product Page via Fashionably Geek]
Sure, you can get an attachment for that Kitchen Aide mixer which will allow you to make your own fettucine, but short of cannibalizing your kids Play Doh pumper number 9, you won’t get the chance to make elbow pasta or wheel pasta or those cute little bow ties. If you could do that, then making pasta would be something more interesting as there are literally hundreds of styles of pasta that can be made by pushing your semolina through a die cast mold. This Japanese model, called “Pasta Pasta” does just that.
Okay, the Pasta Pasta only makes just eight different kinds, and you have to hand crank it, but still, it can be fun. You just mix up and refrigerate some pasta dough, and when it’s firm enough, roll up some into a tube and place it into the canister. Rig that into the pumping mechanism, and start cranking. The dough gets forced through the die cast molds and then all one needs to do is cut off the shape when it makes the required thickness. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In addition to fettucine, the Pasta Pasta makes bowties, elbows, wagon wheels, twirls, raviolis, medallions and what looks to be a shell like pasta.
Cool “as seen on TV” video here.
All parts are made of ABS plastic and clean up is promised to be simple. Cost is about $155 US from Japan Trend Shop.
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Guys are stuck wearing ties and frankly they’re a pointless accessory. They just look uncomfortable and they just sort of hang there. Chicks all the time have the perk of hiding small amounts of cash in their bra, but guys are stuck using boring pockets designated for that sort of thing. Well now you can have an extra hidden pocket behind your tie. It’s specifically made for small MP3 players like the iPod Nano, but it could be used for plenty more than that. Hopefully an iPod wouldn’t put too much weight on your neck though.
Besides a Nano this could be used for various MP3 players, business cards, credit cards, money and smaller sized cellphones. If you’re using it for an iPod or other MP3 player, the earphone cord could be hidden through your button up shirt and pop up at the collar of your shirt. Making it far less visible and making it easier for you to get away with not paying attention to what’s going on around you. There are several things a tie like this could be used for, it’s entirely up to you what you store within it. A six pack of the pockets will cost you $34.95 and would have to be sewn onto your regular tie. The ties will cost you anywhere from $35 on up to about $60.
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