W+W Organizer

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We really like the simplicity and functionality of the W+W Organizer. Designed by Oliver Franz, it combines wood and white ceramic materials. The tray around the pencil cup lets you stash small items like paper clips, thumbtacks, and erasers. The memo pad has a clip to hold small notes (size A7 paper). There’s also a groove to hold your iPhone 4 or 5 in portrait or landscape mode. Here’s the really smart part- there are two cutouts to hold your charging cord in place when it’s not being used.

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W+W Organizer

iPad Holding Knife Block

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Adding a tiny ledge to the back side of a standard wooden knife block turns it into something significantly more useful. The Victorinox Knife Block iPad Holding Knife Block makes it easy to use your iPad, phone, tablet, Kindle, or even a paper cookbook right on your counter top. Look up recipes and/or watch cooking videos as you cook! The block has 13 slots to hold your various sized knives and other tools and a swivel base to access the recipe holding side easily.

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iPad Holding Knife Block

Donkey Kong Wall Rack for Coffee Capsules

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Looking for a geekier way to store your Nespresso® Coffee Pods? Meet CapsuleKong, a wall-mounted display holder for your capsules that’s modeled after the Donkey Kong game. Made of anodised aluminium, this rack can hold 50 pods. It’s got the flaming barrel, the jumping Mario, the princess, the angry gorilla, everything. The fun part is that the pods roll down the board themselves as you can see in the video:

Sure you can’t see what each pod is once it’s in the rack (nor can you take one out from the middle without taking them all out) but it’s more fun this way. And geekier. Every day is a potential Donkey Kong kill screen. Now about that $170 price tag…hmmmm. (via gizmodo)

Donkey Kong Wall Rack for Coffee Capsules

Universal Docking Station Holds All Your Cords

universal docking station Universal Docking Station Holds All Your Cords
Hold all of your cords in one neat place with this Universal Docking and Charging Station. This oak plywood charging station holds up to 8 different cords of varying thicknesses and cable head lengths. It’s an all-in-one cable management system that is not only functional, it looks great. To charge a device, just select the cable and take it out of the undulating slot:
universal charging station Universal Docking Station Holds All Your Cords
The whole thing measures 7″ by 8″ and is 3/4″ thick with felt feet on the bottom to prevent surface scratching. It almost looks like a ski hill for cables- but your cables have enough fun, they don’t need to go skiing. Uhhm well, that thought went off on an awkward tangent. Regardless, this docking station is simple, looks great, and keeps that tangle of cords nearly aligned.

Universal Docking Station Holds All Your Cords

Review: Recoil Winder

recoil winder Review: Recoil Winder
The folks from Recoil Winders recently sent me their namesake product to review. The Recoil Winder Review: Recoil Winder is a simple spring loaded cord winder in a glossy white plastic casing. It comes in three sizes to match up with your cord sizes- I tested the medium. It’s a deceptively simple gadget- to use it you just fold your wire in half, hook it around the loop inside the Recoil and pull.
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The spring-loaded mechanism then winds up your cord around the middle. To use your cord just pull it back out and unhook it. It’s great for storing cables in your pocket or bag without them getting tangled up, or just to keep a neater desk or cable drawer. I tried a few different cable types- some worked better than others- a few were too stiff or thick, perhaps a large size Recoil would have helped.
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The Recoil is a good solution to cord tangles but it’s not a great solution. The winding mechanism is a little tricky to get it go sometimes, took a little finesse. When it goes, it does wind up cables extremely fast- certainly much quicker than manually wrapping them around something. Note that it looks like using earbuds with a mic or volume control on the wire will either not work or possibly damage the mic as they wind up. So overall, it’s a solid but not perfect product. If you have a mess of cords and need a quick way to wind them up neatly, this might work for you.

Review: Recoil Winder

Bed Risers with USB Power Strip

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Every college student and space-starved home dweller knows that the easiest way to make more storage space in a bedroom is with a set of bed risers lifting up your bed. But what if those bed risers had power and USB outlets on them? The Power Bed Risers gives you a pair each of grounded outlets and USB outlets to plug in your phones, laptops, lamps, alarm clocks and anything else you might need on your bed or bedside. Plus they lift up your bed 8″ for more storage. And it’s from Bed, Bath and Beyond, so it’s like 20% off (ask your Mom for a coupon lol). (the gadgeteer via gizmodo)

Bed Risers with USB Power Strip

Mini Briefcase Business Card Holder

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If you want to be taken seriously as a businessman you need two important things: a briefcase and business cards. A suit probably wouldn’t hurt either. A smart businessman multitasks by using a Leather Mini Briefcase Business Card Holder Mini Briefcase Business Card Holder. Now you’ve got all your bases covered. You could even put it inside your larger “real” briefcase if you still feel the need to carry one. It’s multi-tasking at it’s finest right here.

The hinges and little sliding buttons on this case really work just like a real attache case. It’s a most impressive way to carry and present your business cards. Because as I learned in Business 101 class, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Or maybe that’s from a dandruff shampoo commercial slogan from the 80′s. Either way.

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Note, it’s also available in a silver metallic style Mini Briefcase Business Card Holder.

Mini Briefcase Business Card Holder

Pencil Eraser Pencil Cup

eraser pencil cup Pencil Eraser Pencil Cup
It’s a giant sized pencil eraser that is actually a pencil cup. Hold your pencils with erasers in a pencil eraser. What’s neat about this Pencil End Cup is that the eraser and metal part (what is that metal part called anyway? anyone know?) separate into two pieces. You can use the eraser as a small storage bin or as a cap for the bigger piece. Playful and wacky, yet useful.

Pencil Eraser Pencil Cup

Braided Fabric Smartphone Cables Won’t Tangle

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Enough with the tangled up cables! Every time you put a wire in your pocket or bag, it’s instantly tangled. No more! With these Eastern Collective Braided Fabric Smartphone Cables Braided Fabric Smartphone Cables Wont Tangle, your cords will look great and stay tangle-free. There are four color variations and four cable types: 30-pin, lightning, microUSB, and aux. 16 total variations. Math! Tell your cables apart instantly at a glance. Each cable is 3 feet long.

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Braided Fabric Smartphone Cables Won’t Tangle

Under the Cabinet Swiveling Knife Block

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Get that bulky knife block off your counter top! The Wusthof 8001 Under-Cabinet-Swinger Knife Storage Block Under the Cabinet Swiveling Knife Block is a beautiful oak knife block that keeps your cutlery off the counter. It easily mounts under your kitchen cabinet with just 3 screws and a drill. The block swivels 360 degrees to keep the knife handles out of sight when not in use.
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The block has slots for 8 knives with up to 10 inch blades and another slot for your sharpener. The knives are held in with magnetic strips. Measures 10.25″ by 7.25″ by 3.5″. Not only will your kitchen counters have more useful space, they’ll also look a lot neater. Or as we say here in Gadgetville, USA- more room for other kitchen gadgets.

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Under the Cabinet Swiveling Knife Block