Tap Painter Lets You Virtually Paint Your Home In Any Color

You can visualize what your house will look like with a fresh color of paint all you want, but you can't really tell how it's going to be until all your walls are covered in the new shade. And by then, it's too late to change your mind. The TapPainter is an app that lets you see exactly what your home interior will look like in any paint color without making a real commitment.

Described as a "sophisticated color visualizer," the software lets you play around with photos of your home, covering walls on the scene with any paint color using just a single tap. Want to know how your bedroom looks like with orange walls? This will do the trick. How about different paint colors for each wall in the living room? We don't have high hopes, but you can see the results for yourself.

TapPainter employs a custom algorithm that uses edge detection and color analysis to determine the area that will be covered with every tap. It will also determine the precise existing color on the wall, which will be taken into account when you do inject it with a fresh coat of new paint, ensuring you get no surprises with the final result. The better lit the room, of course, the better results you will get using the app, so make sure to use well-lit, in-focus pictures to get a proper virtual recreation.

As of now, they already have an extensive paint color fan deck, with paints from close to two dozen lines integrated in the software (and more coming). You can also do a custom color mixing if you want to be a little more daring in your color choices

Pan Cake

Nibble Pan Lets You Sample Your Cake Without Cutting Off A Slice

Nibble is an erstwhile ordinary cake pan with a twist -- it comes with a second slot for baking a bite-sized piece of cake. That way, you can gobble up a tasty mouthful straight from the oven before it's time to serve while managing to keep the entire cake intact. Sneaky.

Developed at the crowdsourced invention site Quirky, it features an 8-inch non-stick pan for baking soft, sugary treats, along with a small cup at the handle. Fill the pan with your choice of batter, pour a small amount on the cup, throw the whole thing in the Viking Combi oven, and get cooking.

Measuring 11.5 x 9 inches (l x w), Nibble has an 8-inch nonstick pan with a 2-inch depth for baking your favorite homemade cakes, cornbread, and brownies. Since the tiny cake will probably cook faster than its larger counterpart, the miniature cup can easily be lifted out of the pan, so you can remove it for a taste test while the larger cake continues to bake. Construction is steel for the pan and silicone for the cup.

Floating Shelf

Use The CLM 2 Floating Shelf To Make 20-Pound Objects Fly

The CLM 2 is a levitating display shelf that lets you make objects of all sorts look like they're floating a few inches up in the air. It's awesome. Simply set an item down on top of the floating disc and, boom, it's immediately got that David Blaine magic going on.

Made by Crealev, this is, basically, the exact same tech that the company employs to make objects levitate in museums and product booths (and, we're guessing, the same tech used in this levitating lamp). And it's seriously powerful, able to buoy up items as heavy as 22 pounds. Look at this video from Brasspup to see how much weight it can handle:

The Crealev CLM 2 consists of a non-floating base that you lay down on a surface and a carrier disc that will float on top of the base. Without any additional weight, the disc can float at a height of 3.4 inches from the base, going down slightly for every extra heft that gets added onto it. With the maximum 22 pounds load on, it can float a single inch off the ground; at half of that, it will float at a height of 1.9 inches.

To set up, simply plug the base into a wall outlet, then put the carrier a short height on top of it with the rubber side down. At the right height and positon, the base and the carrier will lock in, leaving your floating magical disc ready for action. Oh yeah, these things contain powerful magnets, so best not put the wallet with your credit cards on that thing. Everything else under the weight limit (like a tablet stand with your iPad in it), however, should be fair game.

New And Latest Tool Troley

Hazet Collapsible Tool Trolley: This Toolbox Turns Into A Mobile Shelf

You're working on the car, both arms covered in a sleeveful of grease. You dig into your toolbag to get an O ring sitting in the bottom, smearing the rest of the tools with the same slime all over your arms. Bad idea. The Hazet Collapsible Tool Trolley lets you keep the same tools in one place while avoiding messy results.

When closed, it looks like a large toolbox that you can carry with two hands or pull along the ground. When opened, however, it's able to vertically expand, turning into a tall shelf that lets you organize tools and supplies on separate racks.

The Hazet Collapsible Tool Trolley measures 27.2 x 14.5 x 15 inches and weighs a hefty 54 pounds without any tools stored inside it. It has two trolley handles that also serve as vertical frames for the shelf, as well as large, lockable caster wheels that can help level out uneven ground surfaces (so your shelf doesn't get shaky). When laid out in full shelf form, it gives users three racks of storage, along with a large bottom compartment, separation sheets on the first two shelves, and a beech wood board at the top. It comes with a padlock for securing your tools.

Sentri

Sentri Wants To Be Your Smart Home’s Central Hub For All Things Secure And Automated

Sentri is a multi-function device that brings a selection of security and automation features into your home. No separate modules with complicated individual installations -- just one device that quickly injects a rich selection of smart home functions out of the box.

            

As a standalone security device, Sentri can serve as a security camera (it comes with both HD optics and night vision, along with a mic) and a motion detector, with all feeds encrypted using 2048-bit RSA protocol. You can monitor all streams via the accompanying app, as well as receive alerts any time the system detects irregularities in the vicinity. Even better, it can evolve its intelligence over time, so it can learn situations that trigger false alarms, minimizing the amount of alerts you need to dismiss the longer you use it.                                                                                                                  
 

Aside from security, it also comes with sensors for temperature, air quality, light, and humidity, allowing it to collect a whole load of information that you can use to monitor conditions inside the house. This information can, of course, be accessed from the app, as well as on Sentri's onboard display. There's also an integrated speaker that lets you communicate with people in the house when you're away. It can be wall-mounted or set on a table with its integrated kickstand.

Using the device's WiFi and Bluetooth, it can be paired with a selection of home automation devices, so you can monitor everything from just one interface. As of now, it can only work withNest, Belkin's Wemo line of products, Philips Hue, and Lockitron, although they promise to expand to support a wider range down the line.

Tiniest Wireless Earbuds

Earin Are The World’s Tiniest Wireless Earbuds

Want to listen to music during a meeting but don't want anyone to know you're not paying attention?  When you get your own pair of Earin, that won't be a problem.

Billed as the smallest wireless earbuds in the market, the thing nearly disappears when plugged in your ear canal, making it completely inconspicuous to wear.  Seriously, unless someone stares at your ear for an extended period, we doubt anyone will notice.  Heck, even if someone stares at your ear, there's a good chance they'll miss it

Earin, basically, crams all the wireless electronics and battery, along with all the audio hardware, in a pair of tiny in-ear devices that measure just 14mm in diameter and 20mm in length.  Since stuff that tiny is prone to being lost any time you take it out of your ears, it comes with a larger "ear capsule" where you can store the pair when not in use.  The earbuds can only hold enough charge for up to 3 hours of playback, although the ear capsule also comes with an onboard battery that holds another 6 hours of worth of power (just put the earbuds in their designated slots on the capsule to charge), allowing around 9 hours of use if you start the day with each one fully-juiced.

Features include a newly-designed balanced armature speaker for the audio (which enabled the tiny size), three sizes of foam tips, and a "Concha Wing" attachment that you can use to ensure it stays on your ear during exercise (yes, you can stop using your favorite Qlasp Earphones now).  It's IP54-certified for water and dust resistance.

Add New Buttonsin Smart Phone

Add Multiple Physical Buttons To Your Android Phone With Dimple

Chances are, you're used to working with smartphones using nothing but the touchscreen display.  And it's great.  But if you've ever wished you can have physical buttons for triggering certain functions on your device, you might want to take a look at Dimple.

An NFC sticker with multiple buttons, you simply stick it on the back of your phone (so it gets in close proximity to the NFC antenna), then use the accompanying app to assign functions to each one.  Whether for launching specific apps, turning on the camera's flash (instant flashlight), or quickly calling a contact, it gives users a shortcut to different actions that is much quicker than going through the standard UI.  Heck, you can even use it to run Tasker tasks to get multiple things done in one push.
 

Dimple comes in two variants: Mini (two buttons) and Standard (four buttons).  The buttons are lined along a small Band Aid-like sticker that, while not exactly pretty, shouldn't really ruin the phone's aesthetic all that much. It only works with Android phones and tablets that have NFC (obviously), with the exception of those with metal bodies like the HTC One (whose antenna location, apparently, doesn't play nice with the sticker).  The sticker is waterproof and require no power source.  Oh yeah, the screen needs to be switched on in order for the buttons to work, although screen-off triggering is possible for rooted devices (you'll need to install Xposed framework).