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...French press but hate the gritty grounds at the bottom? The $30 AEROPRESS coffeemaker, left, combines the best of both press and drip technologies for a smooth rich brew, with the full flavor of espresso but without any bitterness. To keep your beans fresh prebrewing, the COFFEE BEAN VAC storage container, right, has a motorized vacuum pump that creates a secure seal in seconds. (The canister stores a pound of coffee and can also keep baked goods fresh.) The true java junkie knows the best way to achieve great freshness is to roast the raw coffee beans yourself. Ordinarily, that...
...tricks from its predecessor to tackle a different chore: mopping tile, linoleum or sealed hardwood floors. With each pass, Scooba completes four tasks: it sweeps loose debris, sprays a special Clorox cleaning solution onto the floor, scrubs the surface with a brush and then uses a "squeegee-vac" to suck up the dirty water. Like Roomba, Scooba works around obstacles and has "cliff" sensors that prevent it from falling down stairs. Different sensors keep Scooba off your high-pile carpet. Next: Up and Away...
...treated as if they are children,” he says. However, the allure of the movie is not in the plot itself, but in the ingenuity of the ideas that shape the plasticine minutiae. Foremost among these ideas are Wallace’s bizarre inventions, like the Bunny Vac memorably featured in “Were-Rabbit.” In styling these, Park is “always looking for things a bit out of the ordinary that have a ‘Wallaceness’ to them, a task that you could really do without...
...Park and Steve Box's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, about the attempts of a daffy English inventor and his stoic, smarter dog to rid their home village of a vegetable-ravaging monster. Wallace, the man, scoops up rabbits by the hundreds in his mighty Bun-Vac 6000 ("It blows and sucks"). Gromit, the pooch, gets involved in some World War I--style aerial combat with another canine--a real dogfight. At film's end, the heroine, Lady Tottington, and the dread Were-Rabbit have a housetop confrontation worthy of (i.e., stolen from) King Kong. The whole...
...Staff writer Brian D. Goldstein can be reached at bgoldst@fas.harvard.edu. He is the co-curator of “VAC BOS: The Carpenter Center and Le Corbusier’s Synthesis of the Arts,” an exhibition held Spring 2004 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...