Based on a design that was first patented in 1891, the German-made Weltrekord was a 1950's ratchet screwdriver that has since become a collector's item. British tool manufacturer MetMo has now reimagined it, using today's materials and production techniques.| New Atlas
Faced with a deluge of Chinese competitors, debt issues and the collapse of a sale to Amazon, American home robotics company iRobot is in some trouble at the moment at the corporate level, and all the import tariffs of the rainbow may not be able to help, since iRobot manufactures in Asia. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Reviews, Robots, Vacuum, iRobot| Around The Home
Some tools are made to be admired and fondled as much as they're made to actually be used. Such certainly seems to be the case with the sandblasted titanium GripNGo 2.0 ratcheting bit driver, which is currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign.| New Atlas
Not that long ago, most of us didn't even know what a fractal vise was. Now, however, we're hearing about the fourth one in six months. That said, the Titaner TiFractal Vise still manages to pack in a few unique selling points of its own. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Tools, Kickstarter, Titanium| Around The Home
Precision milling has always been locked behind a "members only" sign – giant machines that take up massive warehouse space, cost more than your first car, and hum like an old air compressor 24 hours a day. For the average guy with big ideas, it's a sort of cruel joke: sure, you can design a million-dollar idea, but actually being able to make it? Now you have to hire a product development firm. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:CNC, Kickstarter, Tools, Machine, xxVi...| Around The Home
A new chef's knife with sophisticated vibration tech built in promises to cut the effort you put into chopping ingredients in half. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Cooking, Kitchen, Knife, Ultrasonic| Around The Home
Stick vacs are taking over the world, riding high on the back of the humble lithium battery. By 2023, according to Market Reports World, more than 62% of vacuum buyers were going cordless – and it's easy to see why. They're just so handy to have about – no need to drag some hose-sprouting clunker…| New Atlas
It's 2025, and we have AI. We have humanoid robots that can do front flips. We have autonomous delivery vans and taxis. And yet, the craziest thing to me is having a little autonomous robot doing my yard work. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Mower, Autonomous, Garden, Reviews| Around The Home
There are folks who get genuine pleasure from tending a colorful garden. But if – like me – you'd rather sit back and let a robot do the work, startup NexLawn is developing a robo-mower with a retractable arm capable of performing numerous garden tasks. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Robots, Mower, Garden, IFA 2025| Around The Home
We get it: You don’t want to spend your weekends pushing a heavy mower around the yard. So you go get a robotic mower to save you the trouble. But it likely won’t take you long to realize it’s an even bigger hassle. You trade the effort of mowing your lawn with cursing the bloody thing for hobbling around with boundary wires, its useless wheels, and shaky navigation. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Mower, Robotics, Autonomous, Home| Around The Home
Consumer 3D printers definitely have their uses, but they're typically limited to printing rigid objects … and doing so pretty slowly. The Saltgator, on the other hand, allows you to crank out rubbery injection-molded items in a claimed 10 minutes.| New Atlas
Want an induction stove that plugs into a standard 120-V power socket? After a gradual rollout this spring, the Copper Charlie is now available across the US. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Cooking, Kitchen, Appliances, Stoves, Induction| Around The Home
If you're trying to firmly clamp small irregular-shaped objects, utilizing an adaptable desktop fractal vise is certainly one option. The K-One offers an interesting alternative however, plus it's reportedly the first of its kind to pack an electric motor. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Kickstarter, Tools, Motorized| Around The Home
This portable dental blaster should probably be called a vapor flosser, as it fires surprisingly forceful bursts of up to 98% air through the gaps in your teeth, making efficient use of water as it blasts out debris. Continue Reading Category:Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags:Teeth, Toothbrush, Flossing, Dental| Around The Home
In a perfect world, everything you try to clamp in a vise would have nice straight sides. The world isn't perfect, though, which is where the Tivise comes in. It's a modern-day fractal vise with jaws that adapt to the unique shape of whatever's placed inside of it.| New Atlas
It's fun to watch how quickly things are improving in home robotics right now. Sunseeker's new X5 robo-mower isn't perfect, but it does an impressive job with complex, multi-zone lawns thanks to its RTK-GNSS positioning system.| New Atlas
Let's be honest: vacuuming is not the bulk of the work. Vacuuming is a victory lap that can only be performed after somebody's gone around picking up all the junk off the floor – a task that Roborock's flagship Saros Z70 is starting to take over.| New Atlas
We've now spent several months with the latest wire-free Landroid robo-mower, and we've found it a mix of confusing, educational, satisfying and highly entertaining. Oddly enough, the one thing the Vision seems to need... is a bit more vision.| New Atlas
