You searched for:
The Honey Bear Water Pipe is a somewhat irreverent design in its usage of the honey container that has been around for years. That same design also gives it a simple type of camouflage to keep prying eyes away. But care must be taken so that an unsuspecting guest doesn’t take it out of the cupboard looking for a sweetener for their tea. That would be a tough one to explain away.
Product Page ($12)
Your mother will think this is an interesting mushroom sculpture. Your friends will enjoy smoking their tobacco out of it after removing two of the caps. Yeah, you read that right, tobacco. What else would you use a pipe to smoke?
Product Page (€30, about $40)
If you live in a large household, you know how much of a bitch it is to wait for your turn to use the shower. The Shower Manager Timer can put an end to the misery.
All you do is attach the device between the shower pipe and the showerhead and set the shower time for 5, 8, or 11 minutes. When the time has elapsed, the flow of the shower is cut in half – which is enough water to permit rinsing, but not enough for the bather to continue wasting time. The shower will also reset after five minutes which, according to the manufacturer, is long enough that “the bather will not stand there waiting for the unit to reset but not so long as to upset the next bather in line.”
Obviously, the Shower Manager is a great way to conserve water and save money on your utilities as well.
Product Page ( $119.95 )
The Portable Wood Burning Hot Tub may look like an April Fools joke (it kind of looks like a bowl made in the 70’s with a spring attached to it), but a quick phone call to Hammacher Schlemmer confirmed that this product is very real – and very expensive.
“Made in The Netherlands, this handmade portable hot tub requires no electricity, hot water, or plumbing, and provides ample soaking space for up to four adults. Made of durable polyester, the tub rests on four sturdy feet spaced evenly to prevent tipping. Once filled to its 200-gallon capacity, a stainless steel heating coil system uses burning wood to provide hot water for the tub; water from the tub flows through the tubs lower pipe into the heating coil full of burning wood, and is naturally circulated using convection, emptying hot water through the top pipe into the basin, heating the tub to 104 in 2 1/2 hours.”
The Portable Wood burning hot tub measures 36″ H x 60″ Diam. (165 lbs.) and it is available for $6000.
Celsia has a line of cooling products that use steam as a heat conductor. They use NanoSpreaders part of which contain a small amount of water, and when they get heated up, the water turns to steam. The steam then transfers the heat to some kind of heat sink to dissipate it. As odd as it sounds, steam is one of the best heat conductors there is. They say their technology is a bit more expensive than heat pipes, but the increased efficiency should leave it cost neutral.
With heat the number one problem in computing today, any advance in cooling technology is bound to garner yourself some attention and maybe some VC bucks. It may just be time to break out those college physics books and see what you can do.
