If you’ve already got a flat-panel TV, a color-changing kitchen table, and an Internet fridge, the LED faucet will give you that last push you need to truly transport your home into the future. The 2½-inch long silver tube attaches easily to your sink’s faucet, and once in place it imparts a cool neon-blue hue to all your waterworks. The supplied set of watch batteries should keep your water lit up for a while, and the package also includes two universal adapters for fitting most faucets in the U.S. A relaxing cool glow coming from the sink will probably inspire you to do your dishes in the dark, and with the money you’ll save on power, the $15 light will pay for itself. — Peter Pachal

LED Faucet Light, via Shiny Shiny

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If you believe the FBI, American companies lose around $250 billion a year due to counterfeiting. That’s a lot of spurious scratch floating around. With the Authenticator Detector ($299), you can avoid the embarrassment of getting caught trying to hawk a bogus Benjamin. Using an algorithm that automatically checks for infrared, ultraviolet, visual, and magnetic-ink properties, the device can identify even the best counterfeits in less than 2 seconds. The authenticator can be used with all US dollar denominations as well as euros and Canadian dollars. — Trevor Noren

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SlimTRAK is a covert way to keep valuables under constant surveillance. The 3.6-ounce homing beacon has a GPS transmitter that runs on four AA batteries (should last three months). After you’ve stuck it on your quarry, just fire up your laptop and head on over to SlimTRAK’s site (you’ll need a subscription, and yeah, that costs extra) to see a map that updates every five minutes that shows you its exact location. Intended mainly to help recover stolen cars, SlimTRAK can supply the speed, street address, and last stop of a vehicle. However, feel free to stick it onto anything worth keeping an eye on — boat, luggage, nuclear missile — and in the unfortunate event it’s stolen, misplaced, or launched, the target’s location is only a click away. Priced at $845, SlimTRAK isn’t cheap, but for everything truly worth protecting or thwarting, it’s an investment in safety.

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Guys, we wouldn’t recommend carrying the Bodum Lipstick Travel Flask to the construction site, but we’d say it would probably be a good gift for that lovely lady in your life.

This Thermos looks just like a lipstick tube, and it’s newly redesigned from a 1983 classic that was made of plastic with a glass insert. Now its double-walled stainless steel container is unbreakable and will keep that coffee hot for six hours. Get it for $29.95 from Coffee & Kitchen.

Product page [via popgadget]

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Its not your mother’s TupperWare—these containers break down in compost heaps in about 2 months. Made from corn resin, these sorts of holders are all the rage for cold and warm (less than 110 degrees Fahrenheit) foods and are US made. There is no shortage of container shapes and these are perfect for holding leftovers in the refrigerator or lunchbox. Once you’re done, you can throw them away and not stay awake nights feeling guilty about contributing to the land fill.

Biodegadeable Food Containers [via PopGadget]
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Mule Lighting has created a substitute for neon that’s made up of flexible LEDs that are just as bright but 70% more energy efficient. The lights also last longer than neon and are more durable, too, with their specially-designed LEDs cleverly inserted inside tough yet flexible tubes. That bendability facilitates dazzling applications as well—Mule says, “It looks just like neon…except you can tie it in knots.”

LED-Flex [Transmaterial, via Treehugger]

Mule Lighting

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Phlash is a self-contained LED unit powered by coin-shaped lithium batteries that lets you add flash to your mobile phone pictures. You either stick Phlash on your phone with its self-adhesive backing or hang it from your phone with the included strap. Made for close-up photos of three feet or less, it’s manually synchronized, meaning that you squeeze the button on Phlash as you take your picture, for what the company says are perfect photos every time. Made to work with all camera phones, it’s now available for $29.99.

Product site [via MobileWhack]

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