Everyone likes a free tasty snack, just check out how people circle like buzzards around those sample tables at Costco. A lot of kids don’t even try to hide their greed, and would stuff themselves if the server didn’t shoo them off. Now Jell-O wants to add that intimidation factor to a sample vending machine, by using a face scanner that determines your age and won’t serve up a free treat if it thinks you’re just a pesky kid.

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Free Jell-O sample dispensing machine tells kids to buzz off

The Pancake Plate is an ever-so-slightly tilted plate with a reservoir at the bottom to collect all the syrup runoff from your flappyjacks . Unfortunately, a set of two costs $45, making it far more economical TO EAT F***ING WAFFLES . They have natural syrup reservoirs built into the design. It’s like, which would you rather eat ice cream out of: a bowl, or a stranger’s belly button? Exactly, always choose the naval . You never know, it might belong to a pretty lady! “I got a fat man.” Yeah well you also got lint in your beard. Product Site via I’ve Been Waiting All My Life for This Kind of Advancement in Pancake Plate Technology [gizmodo] Thanks to Clark, who eats breakfast the depressing way: in the car on the way to work.

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Pancake Plate With Integrated Syrup Reservoir

We’ve known about the effectiveness of ultrasonic cleaning for years, but it only really works on objects that fit in a special bathtub that can generate ultrasonic waves. A team of scientists from the University of Southampton have come up with a faucet attachment that gives any stream of water the same magical cleaning power.

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Ultrasonic nozzle turns ordinary water into scrubbing bubbles

Forget the fact that bees are super cute and stupendously important to our agricultural economy and general survival as a species. Let’s just be selfish for a minute: honey tastes really, really good, and with this urban beehive concept from Philips, you can harvest unlimited amounts of liquid gold straight out of your wall.

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Philips concept beehive makes for happy urban bees, free honey

Fruit stickers don’t serve much of a purpose once you’ve bought the fruit they’re attached to. But a new concept would give them an actual purpose, turning them from waste into a waste-saver .

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Brilliant: fruit stickers that turn to soap when wet

The FDA is getting ready to approve the very first animal that has been genetically modified specifically to be eaten by humans.

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Giant genetically engineered salmon exists solely to be eaten

Cooking takes too much time and effort. If only there was a way to hit a button and have food print out of a machine! Well, that’s actually not so crazy an idea.

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Printable food is coming

Summer is winding down, which also means the end of cookout season. But wait! Don’t roll your grill into the shed just yet! You still have time to make your propane tank seriously awesome.

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Turn your propane tank into a giant LEGO head

Your least favorite piece of housework, after washing the toilet bowl, has got to be ironing. But unless you’ve got a job interview and your lone dress shirt and suit jacket look as though they’ve been stuffed under your mattress since last Labor Day, there really isn’t much to motivate you to drag the iron out to do anything except make a grilled cheese sandwich .

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This is what a $1,000 German-engineered ironing board looks like

Back in June, Jonathan Kaplan, creator of the now retired Flip camera , announced that he was moving on to curdier pastures with The Melt , a chain of grilled cheese restaurants. Not just any grilled cheese sandwiches though — he hit up the fine folks at Electrolux to design him the perfect press.

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Electrolux designs press to make the perfect grilled cheese