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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Clever Idea Meets Poor Design
Do not get too excited about the brightness of this torch. With today’s super efficient, super bright LED torches, this torch sits right down the bottom of the list. I mean way down the bottom. I have had many years of electronics training and completely understand the technology and concept behind this torch. I was…
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A Decorative Array of Orbs to Brighten up your Garden
I like solar products. No messing around with batteries or lengthy power cables in the back or fount of the garden. Just set-up the lights, then locate the solar panel base unit where as much sun as possible can hit the panel. The tiny air bubbles within each one of the orbs work very well…
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A Fresh Illuminating Idea to Enhance Your Home
This large LED Ceiling Light makes an excellent main light source to completely illuminate an entire small room. It produces a very bright clear white light that illuminates everything from floor to the top of the walls in a very natural daylight colour temperature (6500K). If you were to use two or four of these…
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Heavy Duty and Good Quality Measuring Spoons
I do not cook day-to-day, but I do love baking and I’m forever rummaging around trying to find an appropriate sized spoon to measure my ingredients. I do have two measuring spoons but they are not designed for liquids and they have very wide heads. I was very pleasantly surprised when these measuring spoons arrived…
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A Very Happy Eldest Son with his new ‘I Survived Five Nights’ T-shirt
My eldest is a huge Five Nights At Freddy’s fan and he really liked the look of this T-shirt. He had a £10 Amazon Gift Card and wanted to get the T-shirt. I did not let him know that I had already ordered it and he was given it today. The red T-shirt is well…
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A Very Happy Youngest Son with his new ‘Crossy Road Deal With It’ T-shirt
My youngest son absolutely loves this game and character. He liked it so much that he went looking for the t-shirt himself and wanted to buy it. He had a £10 Amazon gift card but was sad when he new he did not have enough to buy it. So later that evening we just purchased…
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Get creative and let your imagination loose with a wide variety of Fondant Icing Nozzles
This particular product offers a total of 17 fondant icing nozzles. They are made of a good quality stainless steel and are of a good size. As you can see from the images, they come with a wide array of tips to create a large variety of fondant designs. The one issue I had, which…
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Streaming music in and around the office
So I have been off on holiday looking after my boys for the last few days but now I’m back at work and it’s time for some music whilst I’m writing code. I like to completely immerse myself and not hear any distraction around me whilst coding and these Mpow Bluetooth Headphones tick all the…
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Lighting Up and Encouraging My Son’s Bedtime Reading
My eldest son is just starting to enjoy reading in bed. He can not always get straight off to sleep and likes to read a book to slowly wind down for the day. He needs a light that is close by, bright enough for reading, but not too bright so that he starts to get…
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A New and Innovating Way to Illuminate Your Rooms
With the cost savings of LED lighting then it’s a logical conclusions that new innovating and unique designs of lighting using this technology will start to appear. This LED Ceiling Light produces a very natural daylight colour temperature and so everything in the room has a more natural colour tone then more traditional forms of…
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Preparing for the end of summer
As the days shorten and the tins of chocolates start to appear in the supermarkets in a very premature Christmas build up, it’s time to prepare for the wind and rain that is Autumn. I use a rucksack for work so anything that goes into it has to be compact. This particular umbrella is great…
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Now your Amazon Prime Music can follow you around the house
I love my music and the more rooms that I can access it in the better. With Bluetooth technology getting better and better, the quality and range has increased greatly from those early days. I am very impressed with the audio capability of this Bullet Portable Bluetooth Speaker. It has a very wide frequency range…
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