Posts tagged Geek Gift
Own The Keenest Water Faucet…On the cheap!
May 25th
So we don’t usually gush over retail household products but this is really cool and can be bought with the notion of safety in mind. You attach this doo-hickey that is battery operated and it changes the color of your water with LED’s depending on the temperature of the water. Its also only $20 so we might just give it a try! Here this is from the ThinkGeek website that sells it.
Tired of that same old monotonous water? Bored with water that doesn’t look like futuristic alien mouthwash? Need to make your midnight bathroom appointments more exhilarating?
Then you need to get the LED faucet light attachment from ThinkGeek. You can turn any faucet in your home into a streaming fantasia of techie-bliss in just minutes. How does it work? Just attach to the end of your faucet (universal adapters included), and when the water flows through the magic chamber, it simply turns on the LED array and illuminates the stream with soothingly powerful hues.
But wait, there’s more! You get to choose between two different Faucets.
Blue LED – Always streams BLUE LED’s
Blue/Red LED – Normally streams BLUE LED’s until the water temperature hits 89 degrees after which the LEDs turn RED!
Here’s what you get with either version:
Chamber with LEDs
Batteries pre-installed plus a set of spare batteries (uses G13-A style watch batteries)
Instruction Sheet
Two universal adaptors included. (fits most standard faucets in USA. Not recommended for faucets outside of the USA.)
Dimensions: 2.25″ tall, 1.25″ diameter.
Now available in a temperature sensitive display version!
If anyone has already splurged let us know how it worked out. The link to the product page is here. Oh and ThinkGeek Guys if you wanna send us a few we will be more then happy to find some other creative uses for them over @ AtA headquaters :).
Buy some support our effort – we get a little kick back towards our upcoming upgrades!
Caffeinated soap? Are you serious?
May 16th
(NOW BACK IN STOCK!)
Hey there??? Hi!!!??
How’s it going?????
Nothings wrong! Why do you ask????
Oh no. We always shake lIkE thAt!
DoEsN’t EveRyOnE???
Alright we got the pleasantries out of the way now – Holy crap it has happened. This is something straight out of Futurama. (Sorry for the re-run!)
That’s right you shower and lather up this “Shower Shock” and get a heaping dose of caffeine.
Just don’t stay in there for hours and come out shaking. Unless of course you are into that kind of thing. Don’t worry we don’t judge…
Aw who are we kidding – of course we judge and snicker.
Check out this item from our favorite online shop ThinkGeek – Starting at $7 a bar. It’s cheaper than Starbucks – Kind of…
Mornings Have Never Been So Invigorating!
- Tired of waking up and having to wait for your morning java to brew?
- Are you one of those groggy early morning types that just needs that extra kick?
- Know any programmers who don’t regularly bathe and need some special motivation?
Introducing Shower Shock, the original and world’s first caffeinated soap from ThinkGeek. When you think about it, ShowerShock is the ultimate clean buzz.
It Works! Featured On…
- TechTV
- NBC
- MSNBC
- CNN
- Good Morning America
- Washington Post
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
- Your Bathroom!
Shower Shock is an all vegetable based glycerine soap which does *not* contain any harsh ingredients like ethanol, diethanolamine, polyethylene glycol or cocyl isethionate. So it’s a gently invigorating soap ;) Scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, each bar of Shower shock contains approximately 12 servings/showers per 4 ounce bar with 200 milligrams of caffeine per serving. No, we’re not kidding and no you don’t eat it. The caffeine is absorbed through the skin. For maximum effect, ThinkGeek recommends that you build up a good Shower Shock lather across your entire body before rinsing!
Have smelly co-workers that sleep in too much? Give them the gift of Shower Shock… Plus AtA gets a few pennies on the dollar for your purchase via any of these links! Help us help you by buying us a new server and getting some stuff in the process… Who doesn’t need stuff!
Or for that smelly geek you can’t bring yourself to get any where near even when you need their help!
_TheShakEyAdmiN_ sEnD MorE samPlEs PlEaSe :)
Can you keep my coffee hot while I help the end losers?
Feb 12th
Excuse me while I vent a little. I hate it when I come into the office with a nice hot cup of $6.00 coffee and someone manages to drag me over to their cube or office to “Show Me Something” instead of just explaining it. We do speak the same language and all – I think so at least.
Well this little do-hickey I just ordered from ThinkGeek should put an end to my ice cold hot coffee and my luke warm iced cold drink. It is a simple little USB Warmer/Cooler that will keep whatever is placed on it …
Are you paying attention?
Yes?
Warm or Cold?
I am glad you are still with us.
I’m sure this will be right up there with the caffeinated soap!
It’s perfect and it’s simple – a hotplate powered by USB keeps your coffee warm. But if Alton Brown has taught us anything is that we hate a single-use tool. That, and, sometimes we like our caffeine served cold. No problem, ’cause we’ve got you covered!
Just flip a switch, and the hot-plate turns into a peltier device, quickly cooling to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celcius). Sweet! By maintaining optimum temperatures for your caffeine delivery system, you can enjoy increased work productivity and nice twitchy gaming reflexes.
Just know that it’s not powerful enough to chill a room temperature drink, or warming cold coffee – that kind of ability is sneaking dangerously close to x-factor mutant ability! It will, however, delay the inevitable march towards room temperature.
Shiny and jet-black, so it also looks wicked-cool on your desktop.
Features
- Connection via USB
- Coldplate chills to 45?F
- Hotplate warms to 120?F
- Helps keeps your beverage at optimum temperature
- USB cable length: 2 feet
- Power consumption: 5.75W
- Dimensions: 5.25″ x 3.25″ x 1.4″
- Bawls and Coffee not included
Own The Keenest Water Faucet…On the cheap!
Jan 7th
So we don’t usually gush over retail household products but this is really cool and can be bought with the notion of safety in mind. You attach this doo-hickey that is battery operated and it changes the color of your water with LED’s depending on the temperature of the water. Its also only $20 so we might just give it a try! Here this is from the ThinkGeek website that sells it.
Tired of that same old monotonous water? Bored with water that doesn’t look like futuristic alien mouthwash? Need to make your midnite bathroom appointments more exhilarating?
Then you need to get the LED faucet light attachment from ThinkGeek. You can turn any faucet in your home into a streaming fantasia of techie-bliss in just minutes. How does it work? Just attach to the end of your faucet (universal adapters included), and when the water flows through the magic chamber, it simply turns on the LED array and illuminates the stream with soothingly powerful hues.
But wait, there’s more! You get to choose between two different Faucets.
Blue LED – Always streams BLUE LED’s
Blue/Red LED – Normally streams BLUE LED’s until the water temperature hits 89 degrees after which the LEDs turn RED!
Here’s what you get with either version:
Chamber with LEDs
Batteries pre-installed plus a set of spare batteries (uses G13-A style watch batteries)
Instruction Sheet
Two universal adaptors included. (fits most standard faucets in USA. Not recommended for faucets outside of the USA.)
Dimensions: 2.25″ tall, 1.25″ diameter.
Now available in a temperature sensitive display version!
If anyone has already splurged let us know how it worked out. The link to the product page is here. Oh and ThinkGeek Guys if you wanna send us a few we will be more then happy to give them the old college try over @ AtA headquaters :).
Is there an easy way to open packages? This OpenIT will change my life!
Dec 15th
The Admin gets LOTS of packages and some are easier to open then others. Who am I kidding? They are all ridiculously hard to open!
I got my review OpenIT in the mail today to do all my un-boxing bidding. Guess what? It was sealed in fricking plastic. I need one of these OpenIt’s to open it! I wonder if that was meant to be a statement?
For ten bucks this thing is great. It opens the hard plastic clamshells that make gadgets Karl proof. It has a built in screwdriver (for those kid toy battery compartments), retractable knife (for cd’s and dvd’s) and of course serious shears (to cut open ties).
I opened all my other review units today with it! I love it and hate to give it up, but for my users, it’s a sealed deal
If you want our OpenIT leave a comment on how this will improve your geeky life in the comments and it can yours for the low price of FREE if you win our Comment Contest. Just like we like it :)
How about wrapping it up in some crazy hard to open package and then another and then seal it in a big box – that will make your (victim) recipient appreciate it more… RIGHT?
Gelaskins for all different devices, reviewed on a Powerbook…
Dec 8th
Hey Boys and Girls,
We’ve had the honor of meeting up with the guys over at Gelaskins. Their products were one of the more popular products at the CES pre-show and Digital-Life Show, mainly because of the sexy designs they use for their Gelaskins. Really wicked stuff. But there’s more to Gelaskins than meets the eye. Beyond the sick designs they’ve used for their products, they’ve also seemingly took great pains to make sure the products are easy to apply, and guess what… IT WORKS.
I wish screen protectors were this easy, because I’ve never had a device with a screen, that didn’t also have an air bubble or two. But this was a pleasure to stick on. It seems the Gelaskin is somehow porous, and air bubbles can be dissipated just by pressing on them. It literally took me 10 seconds to stick this thing. When I noticed it wasn’t perfectly centered, I peeled it off and gave it another go. Once again the product stuck on with no issues, snags, snafus, or the such.
The guys at Gelaskins were nice enough to provide us with a bunch of different sizes and designs, so pretty soon we will be running a Gelaskins Giveaway contest. Sponsored by Gelaskins and Ask The Admin, of course. So stay tuned kiddies, these things are gonna be the hottest new accessory for pretty much every piece of high-end electronics you own, phones, laptops, and everything in between.
I like Gelaskins.
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Happy Holidays
