{"id":1179,"date":"2006-03-31T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-15T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:18:06","slug":"whirlwind-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whirlwind-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirlwind Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"2058\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/form>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"3768\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/cup2.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<p>Eric@brando.com recommends this item in an email consisting of just four words: &#8220;One push to stir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Eric owns the web site that sells the Whirlwind Cup, but regardless of his vested interest in promoting the device, it surely deserves mention as a palliative treat for all those who suffer health problems such as repetitive strain injury induced by the onerous chore of stirring hot beverages.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, gadget.brando.com.hk has a wonderfully quirky inventory of implausible yet available items, ranging from a &#8220;USB Thumb Ionizer&#8221; to a stretchable hula-hoop. Is this a sign that the Chinese are encroaching on the traditionally Japanese business of developing very small, fanatically ingenious, frivolous gadgets that no one really needs, yet are somehow irresistible?<\/p>\n<p>Gadget.brando.com.hk proudly proclaims, &#8220;We deliver joys to worldwide.&#8221; Sounds good to me!<\/p>\n<p>They also sell a 51-LED flashlight, leading me to tomorrow&#8217;s recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee-Stirring Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[235,26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}