How can we not like something which combines our two loves, Doctor Who and Keep Calm posters? The uber-geeky “Keep Calm I’m The Doctor Mug” will sit pretty in your kitchen and up your geeky quotient. Retailing on Think Geek for $9.99, the mug is perfect to have coffee or green tea before facing the world.

Keep Calm I’m The Doctor Mug

Five Cool Gadgets For The House

Wilton Christmas Cookie Shapes Pan

The Sodastream Is A Swarovski Studded Sodamaker

Pessimists watch out. The “Half Full” Optimist’s Glass may just mess with your head! This uber-cute glass can be purchased from Think Geek for $11.99 and has been designed for the eternally positive! The 7 ounce double-walled drinking glass is made out of durable borosilicate glass and even makes for a great gift, no matter what side of the fence you’ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”re on.

The “Half Full” Optimist’s Glass

Need a hot steaming cup of coffee before you take on the world? Well, then drink up in style and we are really crushing on the Into Focus Camera Lens Coffee Mug, which can be purchased from Think Geek for $14.99. The ceramic coffee mug is shaped like a camera lens and it also includes a rubber ceramic coffee mug shaped like a camera lens, which keeps your hot beverage from spilling.
Features
Ceramic coffee lens mug
Heat resistant. Keeps from scalding your fingers
310 ml capacity (approximate 10 ounces)
Perfect for the combination photographer / coffee fiend
Comes with rubber “lens cap”
Dishwasher Safe

Into Focus Camera Lens Coffee Mug

The Eva Solo Pizza Cutter

It is imperative to have a healthy breakfast, to sustain ourself throughout the day. In fact, most health experts feel that the breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I agree. No healthy breakfast is complete without freshly squeezed juice. The Coway Juicepresso will get the job done and the slow juicer ensures that maximum nutrition and taste is retained. The juicer features a Smart Extraction System and a  low operation noise function.

Coway Juicepresso Juice Maker

Add some style in your kitchen cabinet by getting the uber cute  Lilliput salt & pepper set. Designed by Stefano Giovannoni and made by Alessi, it is part of the company’s  line of playful objects for the home. Each character has magnetic feet and can be attached to the base and the set measures 4.3″ dia. | 5.7″ h. Available on Hive Modern for 0.00 + $7.00 shipping in the continental U.S., the Lilliput salt & pepper set is a must buy for anyone who is design conscious and like purchasing imaginatively designed home accessories.

Alessi Lilliput Salt & Pepper Set

If you are planning to  completely redo your kitchen or want to splurge on new appliances, then do make a stopover at the neighborhood IKEA store. Currently IKEA is running an offer where when you buy an IKEA kitchen (minimum $2500), you get to save 10% on your entire kitchen purchase! If you end up also purchasing 2 major appliances, you get to save 15%! Add 3 major appliances and save 20%. For more information and to read all the terms and conditions, head over here.

New Offers On IKEA Kitchen And Appliances

Beat the sweltering heat by drinking loads of chilled drinks. And the best way to enjoy a chilled beverage is to fill it up with lots and lots of ice. The Best Countertop Ice Maker is capable of making  18 1/2 lbs. of ice in eight hours–56% more than a lesser model and takes only eight minutes to  make a 12-cube batch. The Best Ice Maker has also This ice maker earned The Best rating from the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute  and is very easy to use. Just  fill it with water, select an ice cube size, and push the start button. You can order it online from here.

The Best Countertop Ice Maker

Single people or those living in urban apartments need to make maximum of the limited space available to them. And it makes sense to be on a lookout on space-saving designs like the Mini kitchen by Adriano Conti, Corrado Galzio and Alex Innamorati. This compact kitchen may be small on size but is big on function, as it features a cooking counter, an oven, a washer, a dishwasher,  a fridge and a pantry as well. Pretty neat isn’t it, even though it is still a concept.

Modern Mini kitchen For Small Apartments

The Hand Powered Espresso Maker may just be a savior to millions of coffee addicts. This beautiful machine produces rich Italian coffee drinks without electricity and also comes with a hand-powered frothier. The espresso maker is made from durable cast aluminum with a hard plastic water reservoir and once you push down the pistons, it  creates up to 10 bar of pressure to extract rich, complex espresso topped with creme. The Hand Powered Espresso Maker can be purchase from Hammacher Schlemmer.

The Hand Powered Espresso Maker

Got thousands to spare? Then live the good life and buy expensive consumer products like the Mobile Bongos Beer Bar which costs around $11,000. Perfect for all the party animals out there, this fun and functional mobile bar can keep all your beer chilled without any electricity. Since the Mobile Bongos Beer Bar comes attached with wheels, it can be wheeled around anywhere in the house and can be parked right next to the couch, so that you don’t miss your favorite game or tv show.
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The Mobile Bongos Beer Bar For The Lazy

When it comes to designing audio equipment, Harmon Kardon knows a thing or two. Now the company is extending its technology to kitchens and have come up with the MaestroKitchen 100 system. A joint collaboration between HK and Verburg Audio, the MaestroKitchen 100 system is a kitchen with built in world class audio! The kitchen cabinet also comes equipped with a display so that one can access and read their playlists and the integrated docking station allows for multitude of connections.

Harmon Kardon MaestroKitchen 100 system

May 8th 2011 is Mother’s Day so you better buckle up and go shopping for your mom! The gifting options are limitless and one thing which caught my eye was the Bormioli Rocco Murano Rocks Glasses. Amazon is selling the gift boxed version for $12.99 and each set contains four glasses. The beautiful glasses are available in a striking shade of cobalt blue and I love the incorporation of the infused blue swirls in the clear glass.

Mother’s Day Gifts: Bormioli Rocco Murano Rocks Glasses

“Ultimate” Royal Wedding Refrigerator By GE

Bang & Olufsen after designing stunning audio and video equipment is now experimenting with faucets! Check out the Bang & Olufsen Sink concept which has been designed by Jessica Hunt for the Danish label. The sink faucet has no knobs or taps and is opretable by just using touch gestures. The brushed stainless steel faucet also includes a a simple sprayer attachment and soap dispenser mechanism and offers various levels of heat and cool.

Bang & Olufsen Sink Concept

Tired of the traditional and old-looking faucets? Well here is a modernized version for you. They are called the 1 Liter Limited, elegant test-tube looking faucets invented on top of a tap.

The glass tube holds exactly one liter of water, sufficient for a quick hand wash. This should be a great way to save on water as well, a resource that has had its share of being wasted due to lack of attention on the end of consumers.

Once the stored one-liter is used up, you have to turn-off the tap till the next one liter fills up the tube.

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One Liter Limited Faucet Designs

Kaffee Partner’s Ultima Duo Coffee Machine

Here is something that should make you think about green. Though it doesn’t specify an eco-friendly attributes, the Green Countertop Drying Pack made for baby accessories can serve its purpose. This is a unique looking drying pack designed to hold all your baby’s peripherals in a neater way.

It looks very natural, soothing and fresh. Like a scene from a meadow only with baby accessories replacing cows and sheep and goats. If you want to get one, it costs only $20.

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Grass Countertop Drying Pack for Baby Stuff

For the folks who are worried about seeing their pet dogs wandering off from their home, here is a secure way to make sure that they remain inside your home. The solution is called the Dog Escape Preventer, a barrier of sorts that makes sure your canine friend cannot leap or escape when you accidentally leave the door open.

This is a 31” dog barrier that should keep your pooch in check. It is made of vinyl and should be strong enough to withstand scratches and punctures should your dog become rowdy. If you want the Dog Escape Preventer, be ready to shell out $75 for it.

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The Dog Escape Preventer

Darren Morgan offers in what he calls the Dynamic Kitchen. For many home enthusiasts, this could be the dream kitchen you have always wanted. The kitchen was designed to adopt to anyone in the household, transforming itself into “a stunning backdrop to any social occasion.

This kitchen is broken into five zones including consumables, non-consumables, cleaning, preparation, and cooking. The process of your day to day can be tailored to specifically upon purchase, but for this original edition meaning the image you see up there is not really the final design in case you are keen on getting one.

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The Dynamic Kitchen

Here is something funny for you to put on the table. We are all aware how hard it is to familiarize ourselves with the Periodic Table and now Modern Toss delivers something with a little humor of sorts, turning the said table into a Period Tablecloth of Swearing!

Retailing for about $15, the Periodic Table of Swearing transforms the standard periodic table into a table cloth of swearing through British curse words. The abbreviations have been re-tooled to mean curse words which should really give you or your guest a big kick. Be careful though if you have kids, you don’t want them swearing on you, especially in a Brit language way!

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Periodic Table Cloth of Swearing

These are some bathroom fixtures that certainly take after the movie “Stealth”. They are made of sharp angles which reportedly compliment the fluidity of water and seem like a collection coming out from the Pentagon.

This ultra modern faucet is capable of a 1.5-2.2 gallon/per minute water-saving flow rate and comes available in polished chrome or Steelnox satin nickel finishes. Not bad for some fixtures which should uplift your modern to contemporary home design setting.

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The Stealth Faucet Collection for Bathrooms

The Tea Time Set Of 3 is rather festive and will make a great Christmas gift  for a loved one or you can buy it for yourself and serve your guests some tea in it. The ceramic set  includes a  teapot, two mugs and even features built-in filter beneath the adorable teapot lid. It comes in a contemporary gift box and will charm anyone with its y cherry, polka dot and poodle-trimmed  patterns. The Tea Time Set Of 3  can be ordered online from here for $48.

Christmas Gifts: Tea Time Set Of 3

Daniela Bekerman offers potentially tiles which should be perfect for bathrooms and kitches. The Faucet Modular Tiles come with ready-provisions for anything you would need for bathrooms or kitchens. This includes a faucet, soap dish or even a dish rack if you may so wish.

The tiles provide you total control over how your kitchen is designed and allowing you to keep it clean by taking all the bits out at any time. The faucet is able to be pulled out from the tile wall with the hose, and even comes with a silicone button for preferred water intensities.

As for the dish rack, it is made of aluminum covered silicone with an anti-slip cover for the dishes that can be taken out to increase the space between the dishes.

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Faucet Modular Tiles

IKEA NYSNÖ Glass Collection

Holiday Gifts: Nail Bottle Opener

These angelic and devilish salt and pepper make for  the perfect Halloween decor. Designed by German company, Koziol, one can have the battle of the  good vs. evil right onto their dining table. The salt & pepper shakers are available in colors like white, white/red or white/black.

Koziol Salt And Pepper Shakers Perfect For Halloween

My cooking skills are nothing much to write about however the Piece Of Plate kitchen appliance may just help me to redeem myself in front of the family. Designed by Elisa Parucker, the appliance makes cooking easy and even fun. It is also eco-friendly since it reduces water consumption.

Piece Of Plate Kitchen Appliance

NÄRHET Dessert Wine Glass

Have beer, will play. There is nothing better than being drunk and channeling the hidden musician inside you. The  Tuned Pale Ale does just this as its marked with musical notes and you can create your own symphony by blowing across the bottle.

Tuned Pale Ale Beer Plays Music Too

Espresso Solo Coffee Machine

Milk Jug By Cravendale Detects Sour Milk

Toasty Single Serving Toaster

The Yuno PC may just be a concept but I would love something like this to kickstart my mornings.  The Yuno PC mug seeks to promote the killer combination of coffee and computer in the morning and is hence every computer addicts dream device. The touchscreen display   gives access to photos,  as weather, time, traffic, stocks and much more.

Yuno PC – Have Your Coffee With Your Computer

Here are some light shade ideas, the Colander Pendant light which stands to change lighting fixture solutions to keep up with kitchen atmospheres. They make use of colander-inspired designs and is perfect for the kitchen setting.

Using a colander-inspired design, this light pendant is definitely a piece that’s unique for your cooking space.

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The Colander Pendant Light Shades

Spice Egg Salt And Pepper Shaker

Here are new and high tech looking faucets for classy kitchens thanks to Fima Carlo Frattini. These are called the Nomos Faucet, offering a perfect mix of form and functionality that allows users to easily adjust water quantity, pressure and temperature.

They also alert owners if malfunctions should occur. They come with touchscreens with big graphic icons that should help people manage water flow easily.

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Fima Carlo Frattini Nomos Faucets

Raise your hand if you need a steaming cup of coffee to kickstart your day. If you are like me then you would love the “Senseo Tide” by Philips since it promises to provide you with hot steaming coffee in two minutes! The coffee dock is based on the principle of sea tide as the coffee is brewed and flowed back to the cup.

Philips Senseo Tide Coffee Dock

Here is something with a dual purpose, an aid and something that can tell you the time. The item is a clock and a scale rolled into one, something useful in kitchens or hung on the wall with provisions to measure weights.

The kitchen scale clock is perfect for any kind of home interior setting and comes with batteries included. It costs only $36.

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Kitchen Scale Clock

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Electrolux Bio Robot Refrigerator

Carafe Domestic Soundscape Collection

Rocking Teapot

Appresso Coffee Machine

Enigma Battleship Bar Game

Here is another outdoor kitchen design, something you can perhaps integrate by your garden. The Electrolux Outdoor Kitchen features an integrated barbecue and burner which should be great to turn to when you have some social gatherings or outdoor dining events.

The outdoor kitchen is made from eco-friendly materials and has the signature branch detail and actual greenery as a basic part of the design. What’s more it can be custom designed to suit an individual’s requirements. It blends effortlessly into the garden and has the beauty to draw people out of their houses making them spend their leisure time outdoors.

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The Electrolux Outdoor Kitchen

For many (including me) life without coffee especially in the morning would be unbearable. The Arietta Coffee Maker ensures you get your cup of Java quickly without any hassles. Designed by Christian Peder Torget, this one has a mechanism similar to a stove stop espresso maker and there is a dial also to decide the strength of the coffee.

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Arietta Coffee Maker

For people who want some stylish barbecues, this wall-mounted barbecue grill should be something worth checking out. Other than serving neat barbecued specialties, this wall-mount flip-down Sigmafocus charcoal barbecue from Focus Fireplaces should be something lush for your outdoors.

This wall barbecue consists of a steel firebowl that can be folded up when not in use. The bowl allows the barbecue to be used a number of times without having to empty out the ash, so you don’t need to fire up your large-sized pit unless you have friends and family coming over.

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Wall Mounted Barbecue Grills Anyone?