Awesome Living

Household Essentials’ wash bag is lets you clean your shoes and other items without damaging your washing machine or dryer and your other clothes. It can be strapped to the lid of front-loading machines. Other wash bags here.

A non-toxic stick-on patch that stops mosquitoes from detecting you for up to 48 hours. When you pledge to get a pack of patches, you also donate a pack to people in Uganda, where malaria is the leading cause of death.

Just because you have a toddler doesn’t mean you need to stop having fun. Take, for example, this combination baby stroller/longboard, which lets you zip down sidewalks while giving your tot the ride of their lives.

Quattria’s Anita is a customizable shelf made of thermoformed acrylic. You can choose which letters to have, whether they’ll be in white, blue or red and whether your shelf will be wall-mounted or just placed on the floor.

This sim puts you behind the controls of robotic vehicles to explore the sandy and rocky surface of the red planet. While it’s not the most action-packed game, it’s the closest you’ll get to driving NASA’s Mars Rover. Coming to Windows PC.

A home security device controlled via an iOS or Android app. Canary can not only display and record videos, it can also track motion, temperature, humidity and air quality. It also has a night vision mode, a speaker and a siren.

Our pals at Owen & Fred have put together this prize pack which includes over $300 worth of their awesome custom leather goods, grooming accessories and other goodies. Full list of prizes and entry form here. (Ends 7/28/13)

A truly awesome lamp made from a cluster of PVC bubbles, illuminated by 150 white LEDs. While it may be retro-inspired, this lighting fixture is anything but old-fashioned. Designed by Anna Siedlecka & Radek Achramowicz.

Do you hate making your bed? Does a bunched up, misaligned and/or loose hanging top sheet really bother you too? This snap-together duvet and sheet design that reduces bed making time just might be a dream come true.

Smith & Wesson’s Tactical Stylus Pen is made of anodized aluminum. The body has a sharp pointed butt and a screw-on cap with a stylus tip. The pen uses a Parker-style refill.

The Ooloo is a skateboard-shaped footrest with two aluminum rockers. Use it to alleviate the negative effects of prolonged sitting. You can also buy just the rockers if you already have a skateboard deck.

Jason Markk Quick Wipes are disposable shoe cleaners. They come in boxes of 12 but each wipe is individually wrapped so you can just keep one with you for emergency use. They can’t be used on suede or nubuck though.

Nothing like guns and booze to get your evening off to a rousing start. This tequila from Hijos de Villa in either a Reposado Glock 9mm or Blanco Silver six-shooter bottle, and are perfect for firing “shots” into the two included glasses.

Despite its unfortunate name, the Morninghead is quite useful. Pour in some water, put the cap on your head and it instantly wets your hair, overcoming bed head, cap head and other nappy hair situations. Just don’t rely it on it too much.

The GoCan Drainer is a strainer for separating liquids from canned food by simply clipping on the side of an opened can. Of course you can puncture holes in the can’s lid to achieve the same effect, but this is more convenient.

By combining American hops, Scottish malt and cold-extracted Guatemalan coffee, Surly Brewing Company may have just invented beer that cures its own hangovers. Ok, we made that last part up, but the caffeine certainly couldn’t hurt.

FriXion pens use heat-sensitive ink that can be rubbed off. If you left your paper exposed to heat, Boing Boing says you can recover what you wrote by placing the paper in the freezer. It won’t work if you rubbed off the ink though.

A furry and functional replica of the popular name tag. It’s available in blue and red on Hypebeast, but you can also get a black one directly from Second Lab. A perfect gift for anyone named Rug.

A lightweight shelving system which uses a single shape of off-kilter geometric cubby. They can be stacked on the ground, or mounted on the wall, and interlocked in virtually limitless arrangements.

A unique glass made in Germany designed to be spun on a smooth surface. While it won’t spin ’round forever, it’s the perfect drinking glass for those the can’t stop fiddling around. Wonder if they could combine it with this.

Unlike traditional sleeping bags, Nemo’s Spoon Shape Series of sleeping bags don’t make you sleep like a mummy. They’re wide at the shoulders and knee area so you can move around and even sit up comfortably.

Handmade in Rhode Island from premium coffee, cane sugar and natural flavors, these delicious small-batch syrups are awesome in a glass of milk, poured on ice cream, carrots, or used in cocktails and cooking. Recipes here.

Queens of the Stone Age is releasing their latest album on an 8GB flash drive that’s also a bottle opener. It also includes freebies like photos and music videos. They even made a cheesy infomercial starring SNL’s Fred Armisen.