Archive for November 2011
Little Printer Prints Your Personal Daily Newspaper
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Berg has unveiled a tiny “inkless” printer for your mobile needs designed to help you print out simple content. Stuff like news, pictures, puzzles, gossip from your friends, smiley faces, and more.… |
November 29th, 2011
Urban Beehive Gives You Some Honey, Right on the Money
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I use honey with a lot of stuff. Honey on bread, honey in coffee, honey in oatmeal, honey in tea, honey in milk – I think a whole lot of things just taste better with honey in it or on it.… |
November 29th, 2011
American Standards Lamp Has Its Own Wall Switch and Outlet
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Peter Bristol’s minimal American Standards Lamp has its own walls switch built right in. The light switch is fully-functional, so you just flick it when you want some light.… |
November 29th, 2011
Soft and Flexible Robot Crawls Like a Starfish
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This Gumby-looking robot is the work of Harvard scientists, led by professor George M. Whitesides. It’s a flexible robot that can wiggle and worm through tight spaces. Like under your door, that tiny crack under your window pane, that bit of molding you’ve been meaning to fix – what the… |
November 29th, 2011
A Mouse That’s a Battery and Eyeglasses for Your Cell Phone
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While touchscreens and trackpads might be what people yearn for, the reality is that most of us still have to use computer mice in some fashion. This is why Nendo designed this mouse that looks like a “D”-cell battery. Need I say more?… |
November 29th, 2011
Pumpack: Vacuum-Packed Suitcase Lets You Carry More
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I’m going on another trip in a few days, and while I’m excited for some more sightseeing and some much-needed R&R, I’m not very excited about the prospect of packing.… |
November 29th, 2011
TARDIS DVD Bookcase Transports You to Any Place (in Your Movie Collection)
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You know me. Just slap a TARDIS on pretty much anything, and I think it’s cool. But this particular TARDIS is one of my favorite builds in a while. It’s a full-size bookcase made in the form of a TARDIS.… |
November 28th, 2011
Portal Personality Core Rings Finally Give Wheatley the Finger
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While the killer puzzles, GLaDOS (Potato), and Cave Johnson were all highlights of Portal 2,… Wheatley tops the list for the sheer quantity of laugh-out-loud moments in the game, if you ask me. Now fans of the game can take Wheatley wherever they go, with one of these personality core |
November 28th, 2011
Servers Could Heat Your Home or Office Just as Well as a Furnace!
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Back when I had a “real job,” I took care of the servers for a large and busy pharmacy. It was a cool job some days, but my office was the server room. A small closet size room with a desk and four servers in there makes for a massive… |
November 28th, 2011
Apple Store App Knows if You are There to Pick Up
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Not too long ago, Apple started to use iPads in its stores for giving the specs on all of its products. Apparently the app running the iPads also allows the shopper to press a virtual button to get assistance from a rep. The behind-the-scenes app that the Apple Store employees… |
November 28th, 2011
