Recycle your hand-basin water to flush your toilet – SinkPositive

Some time ago, we wrote an article on the Caroma toilet, which is a space- and water-saving combination of a toilet and a hand basin. Apparently, this kind of solution has been popular in Japan for a long time. It’s a great solution when you need a new toilet, but what if you already have a perfectly good toilet and you’d still like a similar solution? Enter the water-saving SinkPositive, a retrofit solution that can be installed onto many existing toilet tanks.

Your Travel Stroller is Your Luggage Too – The Ride-on Carry-on

Plane or train travel with little children is tough. Carrying one bag on your back, pulling a suitcase behind you and trying to steer a stroller with your one free hand takes more coordination than most people can handle. Not to mention the dreaded moment when you actually want to step on board and there’s no helping hand around.

Wireless Picture Light, No Batteries Either - CleverLite

A typical frustrating situation: You buy some nice posters or paintings and you can’t show them off as much as you’d like to because you don’t have picture lights on your wall – or wires in the wall to connect any. Recent technology offers battery-operated LED picture lights – the cordless solution to your problem, you’d think. But did you know that these can cost you $30 or more per year in batteries? Not so with this CleverLite, which is cordless and battery-less at the same time.

LightSpeakers from Klipsch Use Your Light-Bulb Sockets

Wireless cameras, wireless controls, wireless networks, wireless speakers ... Many of these products claim to be wireless, but the manufacturers “forget” to mention that, although the signal is transmitted wirelessly, they still require a power supply. Or worse, they force you to change batteries every few weeks, like most wireless (picture) lights. Following the Truly Wireless Security Camera from Vue, now the people from Klipsch have designed Truly Wireless LightSpeakers.

Fish Training Kit – Train your goldfish with the R2 Fish School

Ahum … didn’t this blog promise to bring you useful products, not gadgets? Indeed, I meant to remember something like that. But in my defense, I want to say that this product is both completely silly and brilliant at the same time, so I couldn’t resist having a closer look. Then I noticed that it’s getting rave reviews by people who’ve bought it, and it’s absolutely great for the kids, so here we go: This kit brings you over 20 training accessories and tools for your … fish.

Taga Stroller and Bike Combo Takes your Child Anywhere

Once people have kids, the bike often ends up in the garage, collecting dust until the kids are old enough to ride a bike themselves. You can equip your bike with a children’s seat, of course. But what to do when you arrive at your destination? There you’d like to have a stroller at your disposal, but how do you transport that with your bike? This stroller and bike combo from Taga is a great piece of product design, combining both functions in one.

Easy-threading Needle – Spiral Eye Needle

Cancel that order for your new prescription glasses! Here’s a needle that you can thread with your eyes closed. Even a mild manifestation of Parkinson’s disease won’t stop you from threading this within seconds – and I’m not kidding. Now you know what to buy for Mother’s Day.

Teach Kids How to Ride a Bike – Gyrobike Gyroscopic Wheels Improve Balance

Unless your children are really brave kids, it’s not always obvious how to teach them to ride a bike without the safe feeling of bicycle training wheels to help them stay upright. Most parents need to do a lot of running next to the bicycle to support them, until they feel confident enough to continue on their own. This gyroscopic wheel has the potential to change that and to make the good old training wheels obsolete.

Compact Folding Table Hides Behind a Picture

When you’re tight on space, but you don’t want to take it as far as the ultra-compact Matroshka furniture set, other great solutions can be found. This folding picture table from Ivydesign is very elegant and original, yet remains a real-life solution to your space problems. When you need it, it’s a table; when you don’t, it’s a picture – with no trace left of the table it used to be.

USB Charger Integrated in Outlet – TruePower

We’ve been writing a lot about the ideal multi-charger solution to get rid of cable clutter. But most of those devices don’t come cheap, and they still need to be stored somewhere when not in use. The TruePower outlet, however, has integrated USB ports. Just plug in your portable device, and it charges directly from the outlet – no separate USB charger required.