This is a miracle product. And I mean it.

The BoGo light (the name means “buy one, give one”) is a solar flashlight quite literally created for the masses–for every one you buy, another light is donated to a family in Africa. by 2 billion humans lack affordable access to light, and your $25…

Okay, so that Sycamore Ceiling Fan kicks all my notions about ceiling fans out the window. When I was writing a story about the air spinners for our September issue, the one thing I learned was that while designs and materials run the gamut of taste, none are supposed to wobble. In fact, I wro…

I’ve been waiting since I was about 7 years old for somebody to invent a light saber.

And while Black and Decker’s Bright Bar flashlight probably wouldn’t last enlarged in a Jedi fencing match, everybody that picks it up inevitably starts parrying and riposting, sound effects and all.

Wwwwump….

In case you missed out on some recent Hardware Aisle action:

Sal sawed limbs with a chain saw blade on a rope. urls to his story arised in Make, Wired, and Gizmodo.

We learned how Mad Max would’ve mowed the lawn.

Mark showed up to work filthy, as usual.

We found confiscated tools on sale for ch…

photos: Anthony Tieuli

One of the central areas of our home will be the family room, which was the dining room in the original configuration of the home. Technically, that room will be accessible from five locations, so flow is urgent.

Equally crucial is how we furnish the room so that it wor…

For the sake of photosynthesizing organisms everywhere, I don’t do much gardening. But I’m a bit of a cheapskate deal-hound and I recently came across something too good to pass up: $1 trees.

See, whenever you compose a $10 donation to the National Arbor Day Foundation, they send you 10 tree…

I’ll start with the positives:

The rolling blades of my Craftsman reel mower neatly snip the grass like scissors, unlike common rotary blades, which hack off the grass tips and invite disease.

It’s light. The quiet, satisfying sound makes up for the fact that it takes nearly twice as expanded t…