Gift Guide - House and Home Archive

  • Review: Panasonic 360 Degree Quick Iron

    Review: Panasonic 360 Degree Quick Iron

    This is an iron that promises to increase your ironing speed by up to 25% thanks to a symmetrical titanium soleplate, which allows you to iron forwards, backwards, left, and right with ease. It doesn’t make ironing any more exciting but with a street price of around $40, it’s a solidly-built and attractive iron if [...]

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  • Gift Guide: Gadgets for the Home

    Gift Guide: Gadgets for the Home

    Gadgets need not be relegated to the darkest corners of your home office or rumpus room. There are plenty of options that can easily blend in to the less techno-centric areas of your humble abode. In that spirit, here's a list of relatively inconspicuous gadgets for the home.

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  • Review and giveaway: Thirsty Light Snowflake

    Review and giveaway: Thirsty Light Snowflake

    Short Version: Much like the original Thirsty Light, the Thirsty Light Snowflake is a single purpose gadget designed to tell you when your Christmas tree is thirsty. Drop the dongle into your tree’s water, and hang the ornament somewhere on the tree. It blends in nicely with your other ornaments, and blinks when there’s no [...]

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  • Animated musical Star Trek lamp

    Animated musical Star Trek lamp

    Ah, perfect. Use your Star Trek cologne to woo the ladies and then wow the ones you bring home with this $100 Star Trek bedside lamp from Hammacher Schlemmer.

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