Friday, 11 April 2008

SmartShopper Automated Grocery List Printer


Does your cupboard have 4 jars of tomato sauce but no pasta because every time you go to the supermarket you can’t remember if you need the pasta or sauce? Tired of having to switch up your menu from guacamole to salsa because you forgot the avocados again? Having another “senior moment” at the market? Too baked to remember which munchies you wanted?The SmartShopper Automated Grocery List Printer is an easy to use voice activated memo system that will print out your grocery list. It sticks via magnet to your fridge. You just press the record button and speak the item or items names into the SmartShopper. The voice recognition software adds those items to your list automatically. When you’re ready to go the grocery store, just hit print and your grocery list comes out neatly sorted by department. Simple as that.The SmartShopper has 2500 items in it’s memory and you can add your own too. It can also record a list of errands you need to run. It’s a thermal printer so it doesn’t even use any ink. Remember, your loved ones deserve guacamole this time and every time. [via craziest gadgets]

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Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Face-To-Face Tandem Bike


Unitasker Wednesday: The egg cracker


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France's Eurovia aims to make roads change color to warn of ice


While there's already GPS systems out there that'll give drivers some indication of road conditions, French company Eurovia is aiming to provide some warnings that are decidedly more real-time, with it now testing a process that'll actually change the color of roads as the temperature dips into freezing territory. That's, of course, not an entirely new process (we've already seen spoons that change color based on temperature), but Eurovia is apparently fine tuning things to hold up to the wear and tear it'll see on roads, and working to ensure that it turns color early enough so the salt trucks can be deployed before the roads get too dicey. While there's no word as to when we might see a wide-scale deployment, the company did test it with five patches over a 50 kilometer stretch of road in France this winter, and it sees no shortage of benefits to the technology in the future, adding that it could also be used to warn pedestrians to watch their steps on sidewalks.[Via Autoblog]

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