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Dustpan, trashcan and broom are three necessary things for household cleaning. For quite a long time, they’re designed and used separately, until Brendan Ravenhill’s dustbin that integrated them together. In this design, the dustpan also serves as the lid of a trashcan, subtly attaches onto the top of the trashcan and moves for you to use.  The beech wood brush can hang on side of the bin with embedded rare earth magnets, thus making it easy and clean for storage.

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We’ll all become a lazy person… I mean, who would ever want to do the cleaning any more, especially when they can get the help from the Floor Washing Robot? It looks smart, but performs rather well in cleaning the floors and hard-to-reach spaces in your rooms. Moreover, the robot can even tell whether or not your kitchens need to be cleaned and offer a most suitable service. Wanna have a try now? Check out the video below before that. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In reality there’re many girls who enjoy doing housework, cooking in the kitchen and clearing up the rooms with a cute Dog Broom. Each resembling a dog, these brooms will follow behind closely wherever you go, so that you may feel you’re walking a dog when you’re actually sweeping the floor. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hang your toothbrushes up in the air as you hang up your clothes, and we bet you’ll then live a much healthier life. Available in red, orange, green, yellow and blue, these Hooking Toothbrushes are now sold at Goodjoy Shop and you can click here to get one. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Replenish is a new kind of household cleaner that comes in small pods of super concentrate and a bigger reusable bottle. It is simple to use: snap the concentrate into the reusable bottle and mix it with water and then done. Not only the idea is unique, but also the plastic waste will be greatly reduced to make the world more beautiful. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Taking hand-held sweeping tools like the brooms to a new altitude, designers have come up with the Broom Groomer, an ordinary broom that comes with a row of rubber teeth to get the dust off the broom and drop into the dust pan. To make cleaning the room an easy work, the broom also features a built-in foot rest, allowing the users to steady the dustpan without having to bend their backs down . [Read the rest of this entry...]

No vacuum cleaners any more! What you need is just a “Bucket-Vac”. Seemingly rather ordinary, the product is actually a “secret weapon” that turns any 20L buckets into a cleaner when you clip it over the rim of the bucket. Fantastic!

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The Bathroom Cleaning Robot, from Russia, is an innovative techie assistant to clean and tidy up your bathrooms automatically. You will be amazed at its perfect performance! When connected to water tap, the robot then starts to clean your room with a cleaning cloth. Whatever the showers, bathtubs, sinks, floors or walls, the cute robot can all clean them in an efficient way. More than that, the sucker pads on bottom still allow it to climb up the wall to ensure a thorough cleanliness.

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Broomba for Halloween! Rather than sweeping your house, the self-propelled broom can scare your friends. Powered by three AA batteries, when it’s started, the broom will move around the room and give out frightful sounds.

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This pool skimmer is driven by the solar power and lets you keep your swimming pool clean in an eco-friendly way. With a pair of solar panels on the top of the skimmer to collect the sun’s energy and store it in a rechargeable NiMH battery, the pool skimmer also can change the station and reduce the work intensity automatically, according to the environment.

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Created by Dutch designer Stijn Bisscheroux, the concept combines the broom and the hook into one single product. When left without using, it can serve as coat hook.

You know the fact that the average computer keyboard is proven to accumulate more germs than a public toilet? Sure, it is horrible. So you should clean your keyboard frequently. But it is a troublesome problem. Because of the complex structure, computer keyboard is not easy to clean. What’s more most keyboards can not be washed with water. Accordingly, you need a unique cleaner like cyber clean.

Its patented formula uses a combination of viscosity and elasticity to sink right into cavities, absorbing dirt and other residues whilst killing germs on the surface. And just press on the surface, done!

Video after the break.

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With 15 sensors and a set of camera, this vacuum can clean your house automatically. It could even remember where it has been cleaned so that it won’t bounce around aimlessly. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Readybot challenge, which is a non-profit effort started by a group of veteran Silicon Valley engineers, just launched a video of a kitchen cleaning robot. It is said that this robot could do 30~40% normal choir and even be up to 80% in the future. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With a 6 watt low-energy bulb, this broom will be helpful when you wanna cleaning in the dark places, closet for example. [Read the rest of this entry...]