The mad genius behind projects like the “Emergency Party Button” and an internet-connected Christmas tree had a problem:

“Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).”

The result? A project called the Blender Defender.

The “Blender Defender” is essentially a motion-triggered switch that does the following when a cat jumps on the countertop:

• Turns on a blender
• Fires off a strobe light
• Emails a video of the cat freaking out

The videos of the cat are well-worth the roughly $200 of assembled tech and programming elbow grease that the designer expended to bring this all together.

If there were a “Veritrope.com Technology Award”, we’d have our first winner!