🕯️ Candle Intelligence
And some AI-powered lobsters.
In times like these, it’s important to take a step back and appreciate the good things in life…
Like the fact that Mike’s Golf Shop will buy the old golf clubs you have sitting in the garage:
Anyway, onto this month's internet loot 👇
🎙️ Now the robots can’t hear you
This product has a great mission: whether there’s a phone, laptop, or smart speaker in your vicinity, this thing will scramble its ability to record your voice. It’s a pocket-sized gadget that claims to create a two-metre anti-mic zone around you by cancelling out sound waves.
🕯️ Beats refilling a diffuser
I initially bought this as a way to automate candles (yes, yes, don’t judge me) and avoid open flames in the house (no flame, no smoke, no ‘did I leave that on?’ anxiety), but it’s quickly become a better version of an essential oil diffuser. Being able to control the heat lets you dial in the scent, and after over a month of daily use it’s barely used up the first 10% of a large candle.
💨 Blow or suck away your problems
I’ve been a longtime fan of HOTO products, and this cordless mini blower + vacuum is great for cleaning your car, desk, workbench, or anywhere else you make a mess. It’s like a USB-C rechargeable compressed air can mixed with a super-powerful hand vacuum. Highly recommend.
🧱 When 3D printing feels like LEGO
GRIPS for Gridfinity ↗ • Tooltrace ↗
Gridfinity is a modular, 3D-printed storage system for people who have no life enjoy being super organized. And GRIPS solves the annoying baseplate size limit by splitting big plates into snap-together pieces.
Bonus: Tooltrace can generate custom inserts from a photo of your tool on top of a piece of paper, which is a massive time-saver.
If you own a 3D printer, this rabbit hole is worth it.
🌙 Dream out loud
This bedside gadget lets you mumble your dream when you wake up and watch it come to life as a fuzzy low-fi video clip. Less productivity machine, more tiny surreal nightstand artifact.
🕰️ You need a better screensaver
Finally a screensaver worth using, because it’s actually useful (and beautiful). Bauhaus Clock for macOS resembles a mechanical watch face and has absurdly cool details; worthy of you putting your face right up to the screen. It has multiple colours, light/dark mode, and options for movement sweep, too.
🤖 The AI that actually does things
This self-hosted AI assistant has taken the world by storm because it actually does things for you, almost entirely via texting. So far I’ve spun up a few agents: Casper helped me source images and build out the shell of this newsletter issue (don’t worry, this is still me writing this), and Mr. Potato is now our personal chef/shopper who finds and stores recipes, checks the calendar, syncs with the grocery list, plans meals, orders groceries, and schedules delivery. Wild times!
🔓 No more paywalls
Exactly what it says on the label: click once and it will remove the paywall barrier on sites when you try to view that one article a friend sent from a subscription-only site. Super useful.
🪙 Change for a knife
COiN by Tiniest Gear (Kickstarter) ↗
A knife the size of a quarter. It folds up into a coin that conceals the tiny blade, along with a bottle opener, keyring slot, and optional Damascus steel.
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