In the film Goldfinger, James Bond had his work cut out for him when he went to battle with Goldfinger's right hand man "Odd Job." This giant round hulk of a man with a barrel-like figure and steel-knife-rimmed hat got the attention of movie-goers.

We'd like to get your attention with this week's offering. It concerns a new tool that, oddly enough, also is big and round and goes by the name "Odjob."

The brim on the hat of this Odjob isn't steel it's plastic. And this Odjob is short and fat a barrel-shaped plastic container with a gasketed lock-on lid. You can use Odjob to mix small amounts of concrete, sand, pet food, fertilizer and other ingredients that need blending or mixing all in a matter of seconds.

Why would you want to mix a small amount of concrete? How about for a fence, deck, porch, step, walk, stoop, stepping stone or an air conditioner pad?

With conventional mixing tools the process can get messy. When you pour a sack of dry mix into a wheelbarrow and add the water, you never know for sure exactly how much to pour in. Once you do this, you blend all the ingredients together with a shovel. With this method, you can count on spending about 10 to 15 minutes mixing each bag.

With Odjob the task is easy: First, use the calibrated lid to measure the right amount of water for a 60-pound box of ready-mix concrete. Next, pour in the dry mix. After locking the measuring lid into place, turn the barrel onto its side and start rocking it back and forth. There are baffles on the inside of the container that create a corkscrew motion within Odjob as it is rolled back and forth. The corkscrew effect not only tumbles the ingredients, but redistributes them from end to end as well. Thirty seconds later stand Odjob back up, open the lid and your concrete is mixed and ready to use.