Blow-Up GoCrib

The first thing you have to learn to do as a parent is to blow up random objects. Actually, you might want to start practicing before you have kids to work those lungs out a little. You can’t afford to not be prepared for these sorts of things. Those of you that had blow-up chairs in high school will have a small amount of an edge. The rest of you though need to really get to working on this sort of thing. Of course for this particular blow-up crib they were nice enough to include a pump. Don’t let that make you think you can get lazy though, there will come a day when you’re stuck blowing up a whole assembly line of pool toys.
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Leap Frog Leapster Explorer

I’ve reported on Leap Frog products before, such as the Didj and the Leapster II.

They are terrific at making portable and electric gaming/educational toys for kids in the grade school years, and they just announced the Leapster Explorer Learning Experience yesterday.

If you didn’t hear about it, I don’t blame you. After all, Apple had this new iPhone thing that they were all excited about. That effectively killed most technological coverage yesterday.

Anyway, the Leapster Explorer Learning Experience is designed for kids ages four to nine, and it has a high resolution touchscreen as well as “a click-in camera accessory”. I’m not certain if that means it can take pictures, but it can support downloadable Leaplet learning Apps such as e-Books and videos. … Continue Reading

Oregon Magnetic Weather Hub

I’ve always wanted one of the electronic weather stations, but for some reason I’ve never really gotten around to purchasing one. In part it’s due to the price and that I can hop on the internet and get a mostly accurate weather forecast. However, this tiny weather hub might be enough to get me to cave and purchase one. Especially since the hub can be hung on your fridge thanks to the handy little magnet.

It’s a pretty small fridge magnet, measuring 6.5 by 0.5 by 3.5 inches. It tells the indoor temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit, you can select your preference on the device. It also shows a 12 to 24 hour weather forecast with a graphical icon. Sure, it doesn’t show a ton of information, but for $1.49 it tells plenty of information. You can pick the Oregon Weather Hub up through Amazon.

Aluminum Sound Tube MP3 Speaker

ThinkGeek has just introduced their latest $39.99 Aluminum Sound Tube MP3 Speaker for the masses, where it might not look as though it amounts up to much, but surprisingly enough, it will function similarly to a full size speaker, being really loud when it needs to be for those who love to crank it up. Who would have thought that such a design could result in a booming speaker? This is definitely a different speaker from all that you’ve seen so far, with the addition of an integrated MP3 playback and a rechargeable battery. You can opt to hook it up to your iPod or choose to bring it along with your speaker, although others will even try to hook it to their bicycle handlebars and make a menace of themselves in the neighborhood.

Breville Hot Cup saves on energy

Recently I wrote up a Philips Kettle that promised to save energy and give you a hot cup of water fast. However, I have to say after looking over the Breville Hot Cup, I like it a whole lot better. Granted my reasons may seem a little silly, but I imagine it’ll appeal to a great deal of others. This device boils just as fast, saving you energy, but you don’t have to refill the water quite so often.

With this you just fill up the tank and then set the size of the cup you’d like to fill. It’s all pretty basic as far as the usage goes. Thankfully, despite the simple usage it has a smart design that’ll help you save on your energy bill. You can purchase it for £59.99 or about $90 through Nigel’s Eco Store.

Source: Envirogadget