Do you have the patience to wait 12 to 24 hours for your coffee to brew? If so, you’ve got to assume you’ll end up with a pretty excellent cup of joe. Check this out:
This is the coffee maker that brews with cold water to reduce the acid in coffee by 69.6%, producing rich, flavorful coffee. Independent laboratory tests confirm the hourglass significantly reduces the acidic compounds and tannic acids in coffee that can cause heartburn and create bitter tastes. Cold brewing produces a concentrated coffee extract that retains flavor-enhancing essential oils that are lost when coffee beans are exposed to heat.
The hourglass does not require any electricity; simply combine 2 1/4 cups of coarsely ground coffee beans with 3 1/2 cups of water in the brewing chamber and allow the coffee to infuse with the water for 12 to 24 hours. When the infusion process is complete, turn the hourglass over and 16 oz. of extract instantly drains through a reusable stainless steel filter and into the extract chamber. Combine some of the extract with hot water for traditional coffee or cold water for iced coffee. The extract can be kept in the included carafe and stored in a refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Sounds interesting if you’re that much of a coffee maniac, but I’ll just stick to my cup of sludge from the corner bodega, thanks.
Hammacher Schlemmer via Random Good Stuff
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Want to be an astronaut? Good news! Apparently all it takes to get the best conditioning possible is being able to bounce around on a trampoline and get beaned by the occasional ball. That’s because Spaceball is — according to Scott Carpenter, one of NASA’s Mercury Seven astronauts — “the best conditioning exercise for space travel.”
As for the game itself, it’s a little confusing to figure out — or to figure out which part is fun, at least. You bounce around in your compartment while trying to toss the ball through a little tunnel in the middle and get it by your opponent. Spaceball supports two players under 200 pounds each, and takes up an area of your yard that’s 14′ by 8½’.
It’s all yours for only $700, or quite a few space bucks for you astronauts-in-Spaceball-training.
Hammacher Schlemmer, via Gizmodo, via Geekologie
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Now you can give a scientifically accurate answer when someone asks what kind of mutt you’re walking on the end of that leash with this Genealogy Kit. Just swab some goo from your dog’s cheek and send it into the lab, and they’ll do some sophisticated testing to figure out exactly what breeds are present in your dog’s DNA.
The $59.95 price gets you a fancy certificate, spelling out exactly what percentages of 93% of the most common breeds in the U.S. encompass the ancestry of your beloved bowser. Or, if you’re an A.K.C.-registered purebred snob, this will be further proof of pedigree. Now you can strut around, confident that your dog is what you say he is.
Just hope when someone asks what kind of mutt that is on the end of that leash, the questioner is not talking to the dog.
Via Hammacher Schlemmer
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