One day while being frustrated trying to install Speed Laces on a pair of sneakers with tiny fabric eyelets instead of larger, metal-rimmed holes, I searched around and found Yankz. Elastic laces, Yan...
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Cordless power tools are obviously the way to go.I have a drill but what I really wanted was a portable cordless circular saw and sawzall. All instant cutting, no cords. After eyeing the pro tool sect...
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This computer screen saver is incredibly beautiful, dynamic, amazingly hypnotic, free (!), and literally alive. You can get the full story here, but Electric Sheep is Scott Draves' open source, distri...
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This glass siphon brews a smooth, strong cup of coffee with little to no bitterness. I started using one recently and right away the taste was just awesome. It's really an excellent, efficient brewing...
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I have a bit of a crowded mouth -- small mouth relative to jaw size -- so it's very difficult for me to scrub the sides of the rear molars. The Sulcabrush, which I've used for about 15 years, is still...
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All of you 220,000 RSS subscribers to COOL TOOLS should detect little difference, but all of you 450,000 unique visitors to the website should notice a redesign. This new layout tweak piggybacks on an...
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Or in other words, how to have good clean fun. Directions for about 25 well-proven games for groups are succinctly supplied by this free PDF book. These games originated in church youth groups, but I'...
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Lehman's is a 50-year-old company in Ohio's Amish country, with a unique bunch of well-made, carefully selected and useful tools for "sustainable" living. Emphasis is on cooking, homesteading, farming...
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If you've ever tried to slit electrical cable very far without ruining the inner wires, you know how hard it can be. This amazing little tool does in two seconds what can take a frustrating five minut...
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When we moved out to a farm, we decided to line dry whatever we could, but handwringing all our clothing, linens and towels is time and energy consuming. And the hand wringing was hard on my more deli...
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Thrift store hunting isn't just a pastime. It can be an honest living. Finding and flipping used goods for profit has been the main source of income for one of my friends for more than a decade. Thoug...
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Backpackers, canoeists, campers and scouts have two basic ways to stock their food supply: classic prepackaged freeze-dried meals or building your own menu. Commercial freeze-dried camping food is exp...
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The Figure 9 carabiner lets you quickly fasten -- and quickly loosen or adjust -- a small-diameter rope to a fixed point without a knot deploying a clever combination of friction and angles. To those ...
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Whippersnappers have been skating around on these single-wheeled skate shoes since the early 00's. Seeing them coast through mini-malls, supermarkets and movie theaters, I started to get jealous/curio...
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Feet swell during long bouts of confined sitting. If youve ever taken your shoes off during an overseas flight, you've likely noticed they no longer fit when you put them back on for landing. To remed...
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When I used to work on cabling (fiber optic and copper) in the field, I found the most frequent tool I reached for was my electrician's scissors. Over the years, there have been a few "improved" versi...
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Tide data, like time and gps coordinates, now flows freely almost anywhere you desire, so there is no reason not to tap into this stream. Plugged into the data I feel more in tune with the outside, an...
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In the 1970s British bus driver Ken Fern went back to the land. Twenty-five years later he published the first edition of this now-revised compendium, a catalog and guide to a staggering number of mos...
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I'm of the belief that if cyclists want to be treated as vehicles, they should make every effort to be visible at night. I chose Dinotte because their LED tail lights alone are, by far, brighter than ...
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The Kahuna Big Stick is a lightweight wooden shaft with fixed rubber wheels that allows a skater to push and pull while keeping balanced with both feet as opposed to pumping with one foot. On the leve...
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