Posted: April 9th, 2008 | Author: Sly | Filed under: household technology, LED, light, lighting, plasma | No Comments »
The current state of lighting is archaic at best. Even the oft heralded LED light can’t compare to the emerging technologies that exist today. A quick comparison reveals that the plasma bulb is far more efficient that our current options. Here’s how plasma compares to our current options:
Normal , old school Thomas Edison style light bulb: 15 lumens per watt
Newfangled, awesome LED Light: 70 lumens per watt
Uber futuristic, mega hot plasma light: 140 lumens per watt
Now, plasma light technology isn’t ready for the general public just yet… also, it burns a s hot as the sun, which could pose a problem if you live somewhere that gets warm…but on the plus side, it produces a natural, sun-like light.
Posted: March 28th, 2008 | Author: Sly | Filed under: Drums, household technology, percussion | 1 Comment »
Here’s another product to add to the ever growing list of things that I will never buy: A table with percussion instruments attached to the bottom. The reasons I will never buy this are numerous:
1) I already own a drum. And if I wanted to sit around banging drums with friends, I have donkey conga.
2)I don’t need no stinking drum table- I am already infinitely amused by banging on just about anything I can get my tapping fingers on. Seriously- a normal table would be just as amusing to me as this overpriced and ridiculous product.
3)There is no three… gotcha!
Depending on the size of the table that you want, you’ll be paying between $800 and $2900 for it. That could buy you a complete drum set. Actually , it could probably buy you several cheap drum sets, or one or two nice drum sets. Not to mention the number of small hand percussion instruments that you could afford. But noooo, you want to hide your drums under a table… I think that in this case, a little glue could go a looong way in saving you some dough.
Source Geekologie
Posted: March 26th, 2008 | Author: Sly | Filed under: bathroom, dirty, gross, household technology, toilet | No Comments »
The Footflush does exactly what you would expect it to do. It allows you to flush your toilet using your feet. This is perfect if you happen to have really disgusting bachelor roommates who are absolutely disgusting pigs that splatter fecal matter every which way and never, ever clean the bathroom. Yep, my roommate is a dirty old man, and not in the innocent sexual way- he’s dirty in the literal, unclean sense of the word. Gross.
Source: Geekologie
