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The Wackiest Products
This Old House.com has a new series going on home-related "Wackiest Products", featuring some pretty wild ideas turned into tangible products you can actually buy!
They've covered the kitchen, bath, pet, and their latest, "Wackiest Yard and Garden products".
What's cool for the yard?
I, Mow-bot
Filipino yard men, beware: The Automower from Husqvarna, "designed to operate with the absolute minimum human interaction," may severely limit your lawn-mowing income this summer. Working a random pattern between the boundary wires around your yard, the robot mower automatically shuts itself off or returns to its charger when finished. It cuts the lawn rain or shine and handles hills less than 35 degrees.
Pricey, but very, very cool.
What's wacked?
Clean Clippers.
Not only are power hedge clippers dangerous in a sweaty palm, they also make a mess of clippings at the base of your hedges. Solve both problems with the Garden Groom, a kind of Dust Buster for bushes. The smaller "Junior" model concealed blades cut branches less than a half inch in diameter, shredding and storing the waste for the compost pile.
The day I see the neighbor using this, is the day I decide to put my home up for sale.
One wacked gadget not mentioned in the kitchen category is the Ronco Inside-the-Shell Electric Egg Scrambler. You have to be one lazy SOB to not have enough energy to whip your own scrambled eggs with a good old fork. lol
Of course, we all know the wackiest product EVER sold for pets is, and always will be CLOTHING.
I'm trying to think of "Wackiest Made in Hawaii Products". How about Wackiest Hawaii Tourist Trap Products?
Like that ridiculous excuse of a musical instrument they dare to call a Ukulele sold at the ABC store. The tuning pegs (if you call it that) are a joke. And a plastic mayonnaise jar has more resonation than that Monkeypod scrapwood POS. lol
They've covered the kitchen, bath, pet, and their latest, "Wackiest Yard and Garden products".
What's cool for the yard?
I, Mow-bot
Filipino yard men, beware: The Automower from Husqvarna, "designed to operate with the absolute minimum human interaction," may severely limit your lawn-mowing income this summer. Working a random pattern between the boundary wires around your yard, the robot mower automatically shuts itself off or returns to its charger when finished. It cuts the lawn rain or shine and handles hills less than 35 degrees.
Pricey, but very, very cool.
What's wacked?
Clean Clippers.
Not only are power hedge clippers dangerous in a sweaty palm, they also make a mess of clippings at the base of your hedges. Solve both problems with the Garden Groom, a kind of Dust Buster for bushes. The smaller "Junior" model concealed blades cut branches less than a half inch in diameter, shredding and storing the waste for the compost pile.
The day I see the neighbor using this, is the day I decide to put my home up for sale.
One wacked gadget not mentioned in the kitchen category is the Ronco Inside-the-Shell Electric Egg Scrambler. You have to be one lazy SOB to not have enough energy to whip your own scrambled eggs with a good old fork. lol
Of course, we all know the wackiest product EVER sold for pets is, and always will be CLOTHING.
I'm trying to think of "Wackiest Made in Hawaii Products". How about Wackiest Hawaii Tourist Trap Products?
Like that ridiculous excuse of a musical instrument they dare to call a Ukulele sold at the ABC store. The tuning pegs (if you call it that) are a joke. And a plastic mayonnaise jar has more resonation than that Monkeypod scrapwood POS. lol
I actually have one of those that I bring into class. They do have their upsides. I don't have to worry about anyone breaking it and I can still talk about the shape, size and material. Have even taken a bow to it to show how you can make a crude violin. Do the same thing with a cheap bamboo flute. Add a reed onto it and you have a "sax". Crude but effective learning tool.
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