Hasta La Gadget!

Now, I can think of a few ways to interpret a particular item known as the “Space Bar”. It could be a long running joke of a bar for the likes of weary travelers who go through the cosmos at light speed, or even beyond that, or it might have something to do with one of the most often used key on the keyboard. Well, this particular £99.95 Space Bar is neither, but what it does is this – it intends to help smarten up the amount of space around your workplace!

We all know that space is a premium these days, especially in cities where apartments come in a rather cramped environment, and everything has to be flat and thin in nature in order to fit in nicely. Well, the Space Bar will help create some space on your work table, thanks to an ultra-sleek look that will assist you in ridding your desk of clutter, while giving you additional space and more USB ports. It boasts of a simple yet elegant design, and will even sport the space for you to slide your keyboard underneath the shelf, with additional items being placed on top of the shelf itself. Made out of brushed aluminium with white plastic accents, your desk would definitely be neater and cooler, not to mention having half a dozen USB ports at your disposal to charge and synchronize data with.

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You know the general rule when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep – having a cool head and warm feet works best, and what better way to ensure that your feet as well as the rest of your body remains nice and toasty other than to cover it with a decent blanket? Of course, some of us live in extremely cold countries, where a blanket alone will not do the trick, but generally speaking, the average blanket ought to be able to get the job done for a decent night’s rest. Well, the £34.99 Speaker Blanket does more than keep your body warm during those cold nights, as its name suggests, it also comes with a pair of built-in speakers to pump out your favorite winding down music so that you can drift off to dreamland sooner than you count to 99 sheep.

The Speaker Blanket will run on a solitary AA battery, and there is an integrated 3.5mm headphone jack for you to hook it up to a decent pair of headphones just in case there are others in the same room who might not appreciate your eclectic selection of music that you use to relax. It would have been nice to see a Bluetooth-enabled version of the Speaker Blanket, but I guess that the lack of this feature right now would just leave the door open for a decent sequel sometime down the road.
[ Speaker Blanket offers warm comfort copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Ever heard of Click & Grow before? Neither have we, but apparently Click & Grow is a designer of indoor smart gardens, and their latest creation would be the Smart Herb Garden that has been unveiled on popular crowd funding website Kickstarter. The Smart Herb Garden is no ordinary garden, but rather, it is a high-tech, self-watering plant system which is capable of growing multiple herbs simultaneously. Right now, Click & Grow has looked towards the Kickstarter community to obtain support from technology enthusiasts, travel fanatics, those who have been looking for a green thumb all this while but did not find it, in order to gain enough funds so that it can roll off the production line in due time.

Click & Grow’s CEO, Mattias Lepp, said, “With the Smart Herb Garden we hope to bring the World one step closer to sustainable and self-sufficient lifestyles. With more than 3 years of R&D behind the Smart Herb Garden, we aim to provide users a fool-proof gardening solution that is simple and intuitive to use at a fraction of the cost of similar products on the market.”

You do not need to know nuts about gardening in the first place, as the Smart Herb Garden is said to contain all of the technology within to get the job done on your behalf. The growth medium that sees action in each plant cartridge is based on a nanotech material which was specially engineered to supply the plant roots with just the right amount of oxygen, water and nutrients – at all times required. This means the nasty stuff such as pesticides, fungicides, hormones or any other kind of harmful substances are no longer in the picture.

Not only that, the presence of specialized LED lights ensures that these plants are as natural looking as possible without hurting anyone’s eyes, and the entire shebang sips a mere 6 watts of juice, while offering adequate amounts of light for the plant to grow. It is said that the Smart Herb Garden will require around $5 of electricity to run for the whole year. What are you waiting for then? Pledging $29 now would help you save $50 if the Smart Herb Garden is realized.

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[ Click & Grow unveils Smart Herb Garden copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Are you a gambling person, or one who likes to take your chances? If you have answered in the affirmative, have you ever made your way to the races before? Surely you would revel in the kind of excitement that a horse race entails, and even more so when you have placed your bets, looking through the binoculars to see your favorite steed ramp it up in the final furlong to finish in pole position. Well, instead of spending your weekend afternoons at the races, you might want to do so at home – while getting your horse racing kicks in. You can do so with the $75 Horse Racing Game, of course, while sharing the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and spirited moments among friends and family.

The handmade Horse Racing Game has been described as “easy to play but difficult to stop”, and I do not doubt this claim, especially when you consider how the aspiring jockey in you cannot think of anything better other than to throw some money down on whom you think is going to rally past the finish line first throughout the week. This time around, you can more or less say that things are in your own hands, where all you need to do is pick your steed, roll the dice, and ensure that your stallion gets the best results with each dice roll.

[ Horse Racing Game copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

We take tunes everywhere these days. Tunes wake us up and we get tunes in the shower, tunes on the bus or in the car, tunes at the desk, and tunes at the gym. Technology enables us to take our favorite music wherever we choose. And that applies to more than music. Include podcasts, streaming radio, live sporting events and other audio too. This of course means we need to become more creative with those places where sound was formerly not found.

Taking a hike in nature used to be a peaceful thing but does not have to be anymore. Likewise, stopping off to have a picnic now does not require silence or a huge boom box. Get a Speaker Blanket, £34.99 at spinninghat.com. Find your favorite grassy spot and unfurl the blanket. The center of one end contains two speakers a pocket for your music device and a 3.5mm headphone jack. After putting in two AA batteries just plug your device in, sit back and enjoy. No need to bring a separate speaker unit. When done, simply fold up the blanket under the vinyl speaker/pocket section. Technically, spinninghat.com is out of stock but they will email you when available. Hopefully in time for your first picnic of the year.
[ Add Tunes to the Picnic copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]