This App-Controlled Air Conditioner Automatically Adjusts to Your Habits

This App-Controlled Air Conditioner Automatically Adjusts to Your Habits

If you’re in the market for a new air conditioner and you (and the heat) can wait till May, the Quirky+GE Aros is an app-enabled, Wi-Fi-connected window unit that combines Nest-like features with an 8,000 BTU cooling system.

    



Stay on Point With This Classic, Dead-Simple Pencil Sharpener

Stay on Point With This Classic, Dead-Simple Pencil Sharpener

Motorized sharpeners are fast and easy, but the results are rarely perfect. And the hand-crank variety from middle school? Puh-lease. Peek inside the pocket of any serious lead-head and you’ll find one of these.

    



Laser-Packing Robotic Vacuums That Work Like Google’s Driverless Cars

Laser-Packing Robotic Vacuums That Work Like Google’s Driverless Cars

Neato’s new line of robo-vacuums use the same laser-mapping technology found in Google’s driverless cars to navigate around your house and suck up dirt.

    



A Swedish Workbench That’s Far Too Gorgeous to Work On

A Swedish Workbench That’s Far Too Gorgeous to Work On

At first glance, the Tempel workbench resembles a 19th-Century writing desk. But open up its ash, walnut, and brass cabinet and you’ll find an assortment of contemporary goodies.

    



Here’s the Gear We Couldn’t Live Without This Month

Here’s the Gear We Couldn’t Live Without This Month

This is the stuff from our lives that we either own and never want to let go, or that we’ve been testing recently and are totally enamored with. This is February’s most loved gear.

    



This Propane Tank Alerts Your Phone When It’s Empty

This Propane Tank Alerts Your Phone When It’s Empty

If you fall on the charcoal-is-better-than-propane side of the grilling fence, you won’t care much about Quirky’s Refuel App-Enabled Propane Tank. But if you like to cook with gas, it’ll seem like a godsend.

    



A $26 Coffee Maker for Caffeine Snobs on a Budget

A $26 Coffee Maker for Caffeine Snobs on a Budget

Coffee connoisseurs adore the AeroPress for its fast brewing and extraction times and the limitless opportunities for experimentation it provides.

    



A $30,000 Waterbed That Vibrates With Music

A $30,000 Waterbed That Vibrates With Music

Inside this big white pod is a six-foot-wide octagonal waterbed encircled by soft LED mood lighting and an 80-watt audio system. You’ll never want to leave.

    



Radio-Controlled Mops, Trash Cans Let You Clean From the Couch

Radio-Controlled Mops, Trash Cans Let You Clean From the Couch

Even a lazy, couch-bound weekend watching House of Cards requires some amount of sanitary effort. Those soda puddles, empty ice-cream containers, and various tetanus hazards can’t dispose of themselves, right? Right — unless of course you have a fleet of …

    



This Tiny Gizmo Is All You Need to Automate and Protect Your Home

This Tiny Gizmo Is All You Need to Automate and Protect Your Home

Piper is not just a security camera that streams live video to your iPhone on demand. It’s also a weather station, a programmable motion- and sound-detecting device, a data-visualization tool for your in-home habits, a wireless hub for controlling other …