Nathan’s Hot Dog Vending Machine: That’s Totally Kosher With Me

Great news for hot dog lovers; Nathan’s Famous Coney Island hot dogs are coming soon to a vending machine near you. The machines are being run by Kosher Vending Industries the leading Kosher vending machine operator. The hot dogs will all be certified as Kosher (all Nathan’s Famous franks are beef, but relatively few are produced and served under a rabbi’s oversight).


The vending machines will get the dogs grilled and the buns warmed within 34 seconds. Now if only they could get Nathan’s french fries into one of these machines (complete with little red pitchfork style fork, natch) I’d be in late night munchie heaven. And if you see one of these machines and there’s a small Japanese man named Kobyashi standing in front of it with a roll of quarters, back away slowly because you’re going hungry buddy.

Toaster Phone is a Burnt Idea

We love gadgets here at craziestgadgets.com but there’s just some things we’d prefer left in their conceptual stages and never actually produced. The Toaster Phone is one of those. And it’s not just because we have an aversion to toasters due to overexposure to Microsoft’s “flying toasters” screensaver back in the 90’s. It’s because this concept is just bad as an adult device. As a kid’s toy, it would be perfect. And why are there 2 of them anyway? What does the “toast” lever do? This is just bad.

Tea Sticks Improve on the Tea Bag

The tea bag has been around since 1903 and little has changed since then. {Turn on your movie preview guy voice now} But now… everything.. has.. changed. {/preview}. A Chinese inventor name Lee Yuen Qin has designed tea sticks which are basically a tea bag combined with a stirrer. The ingenious design is a standard tea bag in a new elongated shape with a plastic stirrer embedded inside the stick, allowing you to stir your drink without a spoon. Additionally rather than a string with a piece of paper dangling outside your mug, the tea sticks have a candycane shaped top that hangs right on the rim of your cup. This could be huge.

Honey You Can Hold in Your Hand

A new product from Honibe is a solid drop of honey that is claimed to be no-mess and non-sticky- you can actually hold it in your hand!

Each 100% natural Honibe drop comes from beautiful Prince Edward Island in Canada and is equal to one teaspoon of honey. Unlike other dried honey products, these are just pure honey- no sugars or additives. With these honey drops, you no longer have to use your honey lemon Vicks cough drops for your tea if you’re in a honey pinch.

Twist and Release Tea Flavor Bottle Cap

Straight from Japan comes a new innovation in bottle beverages. The cap of this tea bottle has a two stage release system. You twist the top green part to release the tea into the water. Then you twist off the bottom level to open the bottle as you would normally.

This gadget allows for the tea flavor to be infused into the water just before you are ready to consume the beverage, allowing for maximum fresh flavor in an instant drink. They are also using this system for other types of healthy drinks like the kale flavored drink pictured (kale?! uhmmm).

Kobe Beef Style iPod Nano Case

There is no better beef than Kobe beef and there is nothing that will protect your iPod Nano better than a Kobe Beef iPod Nano Pouch from GeekStuff4U. Look at the rich marbling, the grass fed red tenderness that can only come from a diet of sake and daily Wagyu cow massages. Taste the luxurious flavor of the Kobe (actually don’t taste it because this thing is probably made of some sort of rubberized plastic). Where’s the beef? Right here. Recommended song to listen to while your Nano is in the Kobe Beef holder: anything by Meatloaf.

12 Pack Vending Machine

Apparently everything really is bigger in Texas. A pair of Texas based inventors have created a vending machine that doles out soda in 12 packs at a time. I personally find that 6 sodas at once is never enough to quench my thirst and once I start to hit the 7th or 8th soda from the machine, I’m even more thirsty from working up a sweat as my arms are burning from inserting so many quarters (and I have to pee real bad).

The Sodamatic Vending Machine, which from the picture looks to be bigger than my apartment, is intended to be used at sporting event tailgating parties, supermarkets, and anyplace else where people need large quantities of beverages at once like mini-van conventions and the Sahara. Like I always say, go big or go home (thirsty).

Banana USB Drive is- you guessed it- Bananas

It’s a USB bonanza with the USB Bonanza banana drive. This drive by Hantat can hold up to 8GB of your monkey loving data and is encased in rubber so you can “go bananas” and toss it around a little bit. This looks like something they would sell over at Buy Fake Food. Just don’t try to eat it.

Edible Tootsie Roll USB Drive

It’s one thing to have a USB Flash Drive shaped like a food object. It’s a whole different thing when you combine your electronics with actual food. I don’t know why you’d want to stick a flash drive inside a Tootsie Roll but someone has done it. Maybe it will prevent a sticky fingered thief from taking off with your data (sticky fingered! get it?). Perhaps it comes loaded up with that annoying Tootsie Roll song… let me see your tootsie roll, tootsie roll.

French Fry Holder Fits in your Car’s Cupholder

Only in America would someone invent and sell a holder for french fries that fits into your car’s cupholder. The manufacturer claims you can store pens, tissues, brushes and more but let’s face it- you’re putting your fries in it. It even comes with a clip on cup to hold your ketchup or other dipping sauce. The french fry cup has a detachable base for easier cleaning. The picture alone is giving me supersized hunger pangs.

Buy it for $7.99 at Organize Everything:

Yogurt Spoon Gets Into the Corners

The Yogurt Spoon from designer Nojae Park solves the age old problem of the leftover bits of yogurt left at the bottom of your container that a normal rounded spoon can’t pick up. The Yogurt Spoon comes to a point at the tip so you can scrape up every last drop. Also works on pudding and apple sauce containers if yogurt’s not your thing. As for me, I just use my Gene Simmons-like tongue to scoop it all up.

Chocolate Tetris Style Puzzle Dilemma

The chocolate Tetris style puzzle from Meiji presents and interesting dilemma: eat the chocolate or solve the puzzle. The pieces fit into the case perfectly if you fit them correctly. The chocolate doesn’t melt at room temperature, so you have plenty of time to decide what to do. Of course, there’s an easy solution for those last few pieces that won’t fit in- bit off the ends to make them fit. That’s sort of like peeling the stickers off your Rubik’s Cube but a lot tastier. The types of chocolate determine the puzzle difficulty level: White Chocolate is easy. Milk Chocolate is for a Beginner. Black Chocolate is for an Expert!

Bread Shaped Like Realistic Human Heads

A Thailand artist Kittiwat Unarrom has opened a bread shop where he creates uniquely shaped loaves of bread that are shaped like human body parts. He makes bread hands, feet, internal organs, and as pictured above heads. That’s some seriously creepy stuff right there.

If Mr. Unarrom opened up one of his freaky bread factories near my mobile home park, I’d buy some of his bread heads, rip off the top and fill it up with jello. Then I’d go freak out the neighbors with my bread gift. Or I’d hollow out the backside and wear it as a bread mask. Then I’d eat my way out of the bread mask from the back so it appeared that I was eating my own face from the inside out. Awesome!

Drinking Cup and Spray Bottle Combo

The Spritzer Cup is a combination of a regular drinking cup and a spray bottle. The cup is segmented into two separate sections, one for your drinking beverage and one for your spraying liquid. It gives you two different ways to keep cool while looking ridiculous either way. This might be the weakest combo item ever- they might as well have just duct taped a water bottle and spray bottle onto each other.

XML Birthday Cake is Nerdalicious

Here’s the ultimate geek birthday cake created by a user on Flickr. The birthday greeting is coded in XML. It appears to be the most SEO friendly birthday cake out there. It will probably rank #1 in Google for birthday cake…if it doesn’t get eaten first.

R2D2 Soy Sauce Bottle

I’ve said it before, if there’s any cylindrical household objects, someone will make an R2D2 version of it. And sure enough, the handy soy sauce container has been R2D2′ed for your droid condiment pouring convenience. You could probably fill it with something else like Tabasco or some other hot sauce if you like your Star Wars tabletop accessories a little spicy instead of sweet.

Resealable Soda Can Cap

The Soda Seal is a revolutionary update to the standard soda can. It looks and opens like a normal soda can but once opened, you can twist the poptop around and a piece of metal under the lid seals the can back up. The company that invented this wants to use the seal as an advertising spot that you wouldn’t see until you re-close the can. A better use for this would be in beer cans- if you opened up a can of beer and it started to foam up and explode out of the can, simply turn the doohickey and close up the can before you get sprayed with beer. A great idea.

Star Wars Giant Light Up Music Playing Pez Dispensers

Everything is bigger these days and Pez dispensers are no exception! Now there are Giant Star Wars Pez Dispensers. How big? Try 12 inches tall. That’s a lot of Pez to be dispensed and these big ol’ heads do not mess around when it comes to dispensing. Instead of the normal one at a time dispensing like a standard size Pez dispenser, these big guys drop out 12 Pez’s (is Pez’s the plural? Pezi? Pez? Pezs? Pezzum?) at once. They come with a dozen packs of 12 so you’ll have plenty to give out to all your buddies.
Oh and that’s not all. Like I always say, go big or go home. Giant Pez definitely goes big. These huge candy flippers also light up and play the Star Wars theme song whilst giving you the sugary treat. You can get the Star Wars Giant Pez Dispensers in a variety of styles to suit your giant Pez dispensing needs including: Darth Vader, the Death Star, a Clone Trooper, General Grievous, C-3PO, Chewbacca, R2-D2, Yoda and the pricey exclusive limited edition translucent green Yoda.

Giant 11 Magnum Champagne Glass

At an Italian festival the Guinness world record for largest champagne glass was broken with the one pictured above. It’s large enough to hold 11 magnums of Asti Spumante (Italian Chamagne) which is the equivalent of 22 regular bottles or 558 oz’s which is appoximately 557 more ounces than I can stomach in a single sitting. The glass stood at nearly 7 feet tall. That’s one huge champagne hangover headache. Here’s some video of the glass being filled up and awarded it’s record (warning! 10 minutes of your life you’ll probably never get back! you might want to skip ahead!): Read the rest of this entry »

Giant 11 Magnum Champagne Glass

At an Italian festival the Guinness world record for largest champagne glass was broken with the one pictured above. It’s large enough to hold 11 magnums of Asti Spumante (Italian Chamagne) which is the equivalent of 22 regular bottles or 558 oz’s which is appoximately 557 more ounces than I can stomach in a single sitting. The glass stood at nearly 7 feet tall. That’s one huge champagne hangover headache. Here’s some video of the glass being filled up and awarded it’s record (warning! 10 minutes of your life you’ll probably never get back! you might want to skip ahead!): Read the rest of this entry »