Awesome Living

We like our food spicy. We also like bacon. So what’s not to like about a spicy hot sauce, flavored with delicious bacon-y goodness? Absolutely nothing. We’ll have a side of bacon with ours.

Created by professor Sheila Kennedy and a team of MIT students, these rockers capture solar and kinetic energy, passing it along to USB gadgets and a cool electroluminescent lighting system at night.

Beat the heat with the classic Slush Mug. For those too young to remember, the Slush Mug has a core filled with refrigerant, which cools down most beverages until they turn into tasty slushie.

We can’t seem to find the pin on this bar of soap, cast from an actual WWII steel grenade. We’d advise against traveling with this in your luggage, unless you want “special” treatment from the TSA.

Conceptualized by 5.5 Designers for Saazs, the Matières à Chaud radiator is a pane of glass with “Quantum Glass”, a thin metal coating that emits infrared light when the radiator is plugged in.

Nobody will mess with your lunch if you carry it around in this spiny, prehistoric leather backpack, perfect for punk-rockers and paleontologists. So if you’re both, you’re really in luck.

With concerns about the fallout from Japan’s recent disaster affecting food supplies, Nils Ferber created this concept combining dinner plate with radiation meter. Whimsical, but well-intentioned.

Make your own pizza like a boss with the Grill-Top PizzaQue Pizza Stone Grill. Works on a barbecue grill or in a kitchen oven. The stainless steel base has a thermometer to eliminate the guesswork.

Hyun-Seok Kim’s Puppy Robotic is a vacuum cleaner consisting of a mommy dog and her litte, who even have digital faces. The mom acts as the base unit and the four pups are her cleanup crew.

This extremely rugged carrying case holds laptops up to 15″. It’s watertight, crush-proof and dust-proof, and the Pick N’ Pluck foam secures its contents. If you have a 17″ laptop, go for the 1495.

You don’t need to be a geek to know how to pop open a cold one with Art Lebedev’s Ctrl+O bottle opener, although Windows users would appreciate the reference more than Mac fans.

Keep your footwear shiny with this clever shoe polisher built into the belly of Benny the dog – designed by Stefano Giovannoni. Runs on 230VAC, so you’ll need an adapter outside of Europe.

Designer John Brauer’s trash can mimics the crumpled paper you’re about to throw in it. We prefer the white one, since we don’t have much red or black paper. Matching pen caddy here.

Add a splash of color to your kitchen while keeping it tidy with Niels Romer’s silicone Dropp bowl – its unconventional shape was inspired by a single splash of paint, frozen in time. Offered in 6 colors.

Opaque ice cubes are so passé: check out Jacky TC Wu’s Polar Ice Tray; the water freezes from top to bottom, removing impurities and allowing the ice to remain clear. Bonus: sculpture mold included.

Nooka is hard at work, happily crafting their highly requested wall clock, which features time display, TDF LCD display and AUTO/motion activated electroluminescent back light. Preorder it for $500.

Commonly used office items that are stackable and have a harmonious color range, meant to reduce both the physical and visual clutter on desks. Designed by Adrian and Jeremy Wright.

Carry your canned beer like a boss with Burton’s Beeracuda insulated beverage sling. The cylinder holds up to five cans, while the Koozie on the shoulder strap can hold a sixth. Perfect for bikers.

Beat (up) your meat with style, and practice your fighting skills with this steak tenderizer that looks like a set of brass knuckles. Tough pot roast won’t stand a chance against your fist.

Designed by KWK Promes, the Safe House can transform from a beautiful mansion into a closed off black box at the touch of a button. Its moveable walls can even confine people at the entrance.

Parking is hard to find in San Francisco, and so is the 4-car garage that Beausoleil Architects managed to build for this historic Victorian apartment. Watch the video to find out where it is.

Send Etsy seller Jane Dandy your books and she’ll make you a one of a kind side table. It has grooves that will only accommodate your tomes – and only if they’re in the right order.

The ladies will surely spot you when you use this soap. It will leave you sneaky squeaky clean. And if they’re into gaming, you’ll earn bonus points when you show them the box that it comes in.