bottles

I have a certain affinity for tacky novelty gifts. I used to peruse comic book ads offering untold delights such as X-ray specs, hand buzzers, and fake vomit.

The Prescription Bottle Beer Holder from Gadgets and Gear would fit right in with those tasteless gags. It's bound to be a hot joke gift among both frat boys and medical professionals.… Read more

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There are iPhone cases that protect the world-changing devices from sledgehammer blows. There are cases that act as backup batteries. There are fashion cases that match your ensemble and waterproof cases that invite your iPhone to the beach.

But if you're anything like me, you've been waiting for a reliable iPhone case that can knock some of the pretension out of that little box of delights--something to make it a little more redneckish.

Jackpot! Here comes Be a HeadCase, the iPhone case with a bottle/can opener included. It's the kind of essential kit that should complete … Read more

Here's one for all the fitness and gadget gurus: the i-dration device.

The prototype bottle, which developer Cambridge Consultants is calling the first in a new generation of hardware apps (although we've found others), dispenses hydration advice by wirelessly transmitting real-time data to a smartphone. The bottle's sensors monitor not only fluid quantity but also temperature and drinking frequency.

The corresponding smartphone app, in turn, uses the phone's built-in accelerometer and gyroscope to measure exercise levels, and then fuses data from a heart-rate chest band with pre-entered details (i.e. height, age, weight) to assess the … Read more

Forget iPhone cases that recharge your battery, support your favorite team, transform into a keyboard, or survive mortar attacks. I want one that can open my beer.

And that's the iBottleopener in a nutshell: it's an iPhone case with a built-in bottle opener. Check it out in the video down below.

The hard-shell case consists of two parts, meaning it slides over your iPhone and locks together. It has cutouts in all the right places so you can access your buttons, headphone jack, etc. The opener is, well, a bottle opener.

I have to say, I don't … Read more

Plastiki, a boat constructed of discarded soft-drink bottles, arrived Monday in Sydney, Australia, completing an 11,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean intended to draw attention to the way humans treat the environment.

The 60-foot catamaran set sail from Sausalito, Calif., just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, on March 20. Buoyancy was provided by more 12,000 recycled 2-liter bottles donated by Waste Management, which were washed, cleaned, and pressurized before being installed in the boat's twin pontoons.

Banking heir and expedition leader David de Rothschild runs the Adventure Ecology educational organization and is the mastermind behind the … Read more

When you wash baby bottles, towel-drying them isn't even an option. You have to precariously balance bottles all over your counter as you wait for them to dry--preferably upside down, so they'll drain. The Beaba Bottle Draining Rack makes the process easier, allowing you to set up to six bottles so that they can't be turned over or unbalanced. The rack will also hold up to six nipples, seals, and caps, so you've got all the pieces in one place. In fact, depending on how many bottles you have in rotation, it can make sense to … Read more

A while back, I received a sample cup from Contigo, and this truly spill-proof travel mug quickly became a favorite in my house. Recently, the company asked me if I'd be interested in trying out its new line of kids' cups. You mean there might be a way to keep apple juice off my couch? Sign. Me. Up.

Like their grownup counterparts, the kids' cups are 100 percent BPA free, and the patented Autoseal lid is 100 percent leak- and spill-proof. The best part, in my opinion? The lid is a single piece. There's no valve that gets … Read more

Cleaning a water bottle is not an easy process, especially if you've been drinking something other than water from it. Even scrubbing the bottom of the bottle seems entirely impossible.

A bottle may look clean, but if you use it long enough, you can never get it to smell clean again--powdered mixes are particularly nasty culprits. The Clean Bottle takes a different approach than encouraging us to try to scrub out a bottle through one small opening. Instead, the Clean Bottle has a screw-off bottom so that you can access to the entire bottle when cleaning it. The bottom … Read more