These days, refrigerator manufacturers are adding just about anything—from touch displays to kid-friendly storage drawers—to appeal to today’s modern consumers with discerning tastes. And as America’s taste for craft cocktails continues to increase, it would make sense for LG to install a craft ice maker in one of their most expensive refrigerator offerings, the InstaView Door-in-Door Refrigerator with Craft Ice Maker. Let’s start with the basics though: apart from the craft ice maker, the fridge has all the bells and whistles you would expect for a $4,399.99 modern chilled food storage container to have: you can store your kids’ junk food and your diet meals in its cavernous 30 cubic-foot storage…
Washing machines, blenders, stoves; just about every household appliance is associated with some form of electrical power. But what would household appliances look like if you removed the power cord and need for energy standards altogether? Created by German designer Manuel Immler, Pino is an electricity-free, multi-tool kitchen appliance that can be fitted with several standard kitchen tools such as a whisk or a grinder. Using a special three-gear hand crank, Pino converts manual exertion into energy which powers the attachments up to 1,000 rpm per minute. It doesn’t look like it stores the energy mind you, so be prepared to work for your scrambled eggs and coffee grounds in the morning.…
Get that stretch out of your system with this week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist. It’s fashioned up, ready to make you pull your shoulder blades back and knock out another week of meaningful work while you bob your head to the beat. Whether you’re in the shop milling aluminum, sketching the latest product prototypes or modeling up a 3D storm, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week on SolidSmack Radio we’re getting things rolling with the all-new “Sonali” from the original punk rocker, Iggy Pop. We’ll follow up with a smorgasbord of oldie-but-goodies including those from Spacehog, Garbage, The Breeders, and others before wrapping up with…
Before Spotify, MP3 sound files, and CDs, people listened to music through cassette tapes. These little blocks of plastic with rolls of film in them played tunes when played through a cassette player, and no cassette player was more famous than the Sony Walkman. First introduced 40 years ago in July of 1979, Sony’s portable music player went through numerous iterations before it became the media player it is today (yes, they’re still around). While the present-day Walkman looks as generic as apple pie, the original Walkman TPS-L2 has an iconic design which stands the test of time. To commemorate almost half a decade of the Walkman’s existence, Sony held…
As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack. What We’re Reading This Week: Why the Periodic Table of Elements Is More Important Than Ever…
The massive Grigglus Quod bent beneath the bridge to avoid the dust storm’s gale. While some may have thought their presence unnerving, their arrival produced a strange warmth that made the fingertips of everyone above the water glow like the petals of a lightning flower that had been soaked in these links. Ivana Besevic – Her portraiture and figurative paintings just jump off the screen a grab your eyes with a style that seems to capture the movement of painting a portrait. 42 – The mystery of 42 solved in three cubed 17-digit numbers, the last number under 100 to be solved as the sum of three cubes. Vile -…