Oliso, Inc., announced the release of its new Touch&Glide™ iron today.

What makes this iron different from all the others is that it has a couple of legs on the bottom. When you grab ahold of the handle, it senses your touch, and automatically retracts the legs. When you let go, the legs come back out. So, you never have to lift the iron.

So now, you don't have to worry about burning something when you answer the phone, or drop the iron on the carpet.

The company says the initial design work started as a Stanford University graduate
school project with prototypes built in a basement of a San Francisco Mission Street building, and took three years of research.

Touch&Glide will be available through the Home Shopping Network (HSN) television channel on September 2, will be available in stores by October.