The Safety Can – a brand new invention by Swedish SpecialDesign AB, the company behind the Triforce Touchscreen Pointer – is the world’s smallest approved fire blanket.

The single use product comes neatly packaged in a retro style tin can, making it easy for you to find a subtile place for it in the kitchen cabinet or on the kitchen fan.

The Safety Can (in Swedish) is available from brandfilt.nu for 249 SEK (about $31).

Fire – a streamlined, lightweight watch equipped with multicolored LEDs – is the latest addition to the steadily growing stream of hard-to-read timepieces from Tokyoflash.

Fire explodes into to life when the upper button is touched, illuminating the LEDs in an X formation from the centre to the corners before displaying the time.

Each hole, with two LEDs beneath the surface represents one unit of time. Yellow LEDs indicate hours 1-12, red LEDs indicate groups of 10 minutes and green LEDs indicate single minutes 1-9. The exact time telling method is explained fully in the diagram below.

Finished with an easy to open buckle and easily adjustable strap, Fire is a wrist wear design that will impress wherever it is worn.

About Fire

• Time only
• Polished stainless steel strap
• 1 year warranty
• 3ATM water resistance
• English & Japanese instructions

The Fire watch from Tokyoflash is “coming soon” (no word on pricing yet).

Remember that cool Amphibious Robot Snake that was covered here at GeekAlerts back in June? It looks like that snake has a sister named Anna Konda, living on land and spending her days fighting fires.

The robot is to our knowledge the biggest and strongest snake robot in the world and also the first water hydraulic snake robot ever constructed.

Here’s a video demonstration of Anna Konda in action:

Technical Data

• Length: 3 m
• Weight: 75 kg
• Number of DOFs: 20
• Angular flexion in each joint: +/- 33 degrees
• Actuators: Water hydraulic cylinders
• Max system pressure: 100 bar (1450 PSI)
• Max torque (at 100 bar): 300 Nm

Visit SINTEF for more info and photos of Anna Konda – the Firefighting Snake Robot.

Via a bunch a great blogs:

• BotJunkie
• Gadget Venue
• Gearfuse
• Geeky Gadgets
• Gizmología
• SlipperyBrick
• TechFresh
• Ubergizmo
• UberReview
• Walyou

The French Arkiane company shows a nice example of a modern fireplace using the ancient Egyptian pyramid design.

The Kephren fireplace has four tubes hidden beneath it, driving the smoke down via a horizontal tube linked to a vertical chimney. This allows you to place the fireplace just about anywhere in the room.

No word on pricing.

(Via Home Improvement Ideas)

The BullsEye is a laser driven training system that allows you to learn how to “effectively use a fire extinguisher without the cost and clean-up associated with using dry-chemical or CO2 extinguishers”.

BullsEye utilizes LED driven digital flames and a laser training extinguisher to provide a dynamic and realistic simulation for trainees while eliminating the hazards associated with conventional fire extinguisher training.

(The Raw Feed via gearfuse)

The hand grenade looking Pinqy ($62) is a small, yet very powerful, tool that comes in handy when you have the beginnings of a fire at hand. Here you can see a bunch of Pinqy video demonstrations.

Its unique spherical shape gives PinQY® the same extinguishing capacity (in terms of pressure) as a 1 kg extinguisher!

With its lightweight and practical design, PinQY® is simple to use and easy to handle. It takes up little space, which means that PinQY® is not only also suitable for smaller living spaces (such as student rooms), it can also be placed right in any area that runs the risk of catching fire.

As it is “lightweight” and does not require much strength to handle, PinQY® can also be used by children, the elderly and the disabled.

Its pleasing design and gadget-like nature also make PinQY® a perfect present for your children, friends and family.

(Via Stuart Witts)