Hasta La Gadget!

Check out this wheeled snow shovel design. It looks like it will allow you to shovel your driveway in record time and with ease. This has got to be better for your back than a standard snow shovel.

The Snow Wolf SW0310 Wheeled Snow Shovel (aka the “Snow Wovel”) has a sturdy wheel built right into the frame, so you’ll be able to scoop up large amounts of snow with minimal effort, and greater efficiency. It is the snow shovel of the future, but it is available today. In fact, it’s been available for several years – no time travel required.

Its makers claim it clears snow three times faster than conventional snow shovels. It sells for $139(USD) from Amazon, which also means it costs more than three times the price of conventional snow shovels.

What do you think? Has anyone tried one of these? Are they as great as they look?

[via This Is Why I’m Broke]

All right, the term “reinventing the wheel” might be aimed at folks who have lofty hopes of changing the world, but should not really touch anything that has been working at its optimal level all this while. Well, how about this steering wheel cover known as “Reinventing the Wheel (RITW),” which will allow you to fend off boredom while you are stuck in gridlocked traffic to entertain yourself as you play a drum set to go along with whatever else that is being played on your vehicle’s audio system?

RITW might seem to be a late April Fools’ Day joke, but it is dead serious, thanks to the efforts by the folks over at Smack Attack Corporation who managed to cobble together this $149.99 device that fits around an ordinary steering wheel. It is capable of playing eight different drum sounds, among others, where there is also the option to include additional sounds to its onboard storage, and you can trigger them from whichever one of the its eight sensors selected. All audio from the RITW will be output via FM radio to your car stereo, letting you come up with your very own mixes on the spot. It is day after tomorrow that “Reinventing the Wheel” will arrive as a Kickstarter project, and hopefully it won’t end up being as distracting to musically inclined drivers as texting on a smartphone would.

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Grinding down flights of stairs isn’t always easy when you are on a skateboard, so Po-Chih Lai decided that skateboards could be improved so that they would have no problem going down steps.

The Stair Rover skateboard uses extra pivoting trucks with two wheels on each side to follow the contour of stairs, allowing the board to ride down smoothly. While the video shows a skateboarder using the Stair Rover successfully, I wonder if it has enough ground clearance for all kinds of stairs. Nevertheless, it looks like it works well on a variety of bumpy surfaces.

For now, the Stair Rover is just a working prototype. There’s no word if it will ever be mass produced, but I can think of people who wouldn’t mind having the extra wheels that they can thrash down stairs.

[via Dezeen]