Our toilets - one of the top 10 best gadgets for 2008

We get a lot of comments about our new toilets - those that ‘get’ the concept applaud the innovative water saving design. Those that don’t understand what’s happening complain that the tap won’t stop running. I noticed that at popular mechanics, the caroma smart flush is one of the top 10 best gadgets for 2008 - a huge accolade for an Australian invention.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a video that explains what all the fuss is about:

Solid stone bath tubs

This neat company makes solid stone baths and basins, which doesn’t sound too exciting until you imagine one of these in your bathroom:

Stone Forest

Rock music lullabies

There’s something strangely hypnotic about Pink Floyd tunes performed as lullabies… think glockenspiel and your favourite rock band. I want one of these albums and I’m 40… if you want your kid to be the coolest child in preschool then check out samples at Baby Rock Records - Transform your favorite rock music into baby music.

The Coolest BBQ Grills.

Why do we have kitchens inside? Especially when you can have a Lynx professional grill like the one above. No more smells, and you can just hose off the floor when you’re done. I love it.

For the top 10 coolest bbg grills check out the list at
Neatorama

How to cook with Lava!

You get wrecked on an Hawaiin Island… you’re hungry and you need to cook your dolphin steaks but you have no matches. Here’s a great site that will teach you how to cook with LAVA. It doesn’t show you how to catch dolphins but the lava cooking lessons are part of the Dolphin Bay Hotel.

chopsticks filled with soya sauce

When you’re just too lazy to reach for the soya sauce, these neat little chopsticks have got you covered. A simple press and a measured dose of soya sauce is delivered to your sushi.
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great cookie cutter idea

Keep the kids away from your cookies with this great cookie cutter.
Once Bitten Cookie Cutter from Baron Bob and Wonderfully Wacky viaNeatorama

Cooking for engineers

When designing a cookbook or a recipe for the cooking school we want the ingredients and method to be as easy to understand as possible… and that takes time and page space. I should have known that an engineer could turn ingredients and instructions into something incredibly elegant… in fact the guy behind Cooking For Engineers has a patent pending on his innovative way of formatting recipes.

While the recipes on his site aren’t exactly 5 star, there’s some neat stuff in there. Check out his recipes at: Cooking For Engineers

Godzilla Eggs

Here’s a great way to sell fruit to kids… repackage it and call it something cool. Check out this japanese site for more cool ways that fruit vendors sell watermelons.

Customise your own beer

Is the Spirit House brewing it’s own beer?

Here’s a great idea just in time for Christmas and summer too. An Australian company called brewtopia are a boutique beer brewery and have created a fantastic online application that allows you to create your own beer labels so you can customise your own beer. They will brew your beer, stick on your labels and deliver it to your door. Check there website out to

customise your own beer.