Category: Funny

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SMS Kettle

So you’re sitting in the living room dying for a coffee cup, but you just don’t feel like getting up right now. That’s why they created the SMS Kettle (via Gizmodo). You send a text message to the kettle, and it starts boiling the water.

This reminds me of the world’s most useless remote control button: the eject button (in modern CD/DVD players – open/close button). You still need to get up and put the DVD in its box. This is very much like it. I mean – can you be sure that the kettle has water in it when you send the SMS, or will you just have to get up and check?

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Alarm Clocks

If you have trouble waking up in the mornings, this post is for you. Every now and then a new alarm clock is introduced to the world to help people wake up on time. Here’s a collection I’ve gathered:

And these are my personal favorites:

  • Clocky, which actually hides away in the room once you hit the snooze button.
  • Anemone Alarm Clock, which not only starts shaking to run away from you, but also keeps shaking and sounding the alarm until you put in enough strength to calm it down.
  • The Hanging Alarm Clock that you hang over your head and every time you hit snooze will get further away from you.
  • The Jigsaw Puzzle Alarm Clock, which makes you solve a little jigsaw puzzle to stop the alarm.

These are all cool and funny, but the real “alarm clock” I would like to own is actually a watch named SLEEPTRACKER, which sets off the alarm when it senses the best time for you to wake up, in the sense that you will be “the most awake” when it sounds the alarm. I love the idea of this product, and most reviews say it really works (when it comes to sleep, of course this kind of thing won’t work for everybody). Basically, I’m just waiting for a version 2.0, as I usually do with gadgets.

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How I lost and found my keys at The Prodigy’s live show

Some of you know how I sometimes brag about never losing my keys (with one exception – losing and finding (!) my computer farm access card) . Anyway, in Reading Festival 2002 I had on me in 2 separate key chains – my Israel house key (it was attached to my watch, that’s why I carried it!) and my hostel room key.

After the Prodigy’s concert (the end of the second day of the festival) Katz, who I was touring England with, asked me for the time. Of course I lost my Israel house key, and then I found out that the hostel room key was missing as well.

In this festival there were around 70,000 people. Looking for the keys was a long shot. It was such a lost cause, that even I had my doubts about my chance of success. But since I’ve had luck with finding things before and we were standing at the same place for the entire show, I asked Katz to hold on for a few minutes, and let me look for the keys.

Katz said ok, and sat down on the grass. I was looking for the keys all around when Katz noticed from her sitting place a guy kicking something that was making ringing sounds on the grass. She said I should check it out, and it was my Israel house key! The Italian guy, who was kicking the key around, was so surprised when we thanked him, that he thought we were making fun of him at first. Then I decided to look around the place where the guy was kicking my house key, and found my hostel room key as well.

So now I can go back to bragging about never losing my keys :)