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led gloves put lights at your fingertips

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LED Light Up Gloves

Just in case you’re still living in the early 1990s and heading out to a rave this weekend, you might want to add these to your outfit before you head out onto the dance floor.

This pair of battery-powered gloves have a set of bright LEDs built into the fingertips…

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posted: May 16th, 2008 1 comment

modular seating looks like pixel blocks

filed under: design | strange and unusual

Bond. Scape Modular Seating

This new modular furniture system lets you create custom seating areas by rearranging pixel-like blocks into your own unique layouts.

Created by Joe Doucet, founder of the new design collective Bond., the Scape Modular Seating system lets you transform your living space on a whim, thanks to its moveable seating towers…

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posted: May 10th, 2008 post a comment

greenpix: massive led wall powered by the sun

filed under: design | interactive | strange and unusual

GreenPix LED Solar Wall

This huge LED screen displays mesmerizing patterns of light and video to passersby. But the really amazing thing about the enormous wall of light is that it’s completely self-sustaining. That is, the light panels themselves harness the energy of the sun during the day to power a colorful light show at night…

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posted: May 4th, 2008 2 comments

the uno: motorcyle meets segway

filed under: computing | gadgets | mobile tech | strange and unusual

Uno Gyroscopic Motorcycle

Think the Segway is just too geeky for your Born to Be Wild bad boy lifestyle? Then check out this cool new motorcycle born at the intersection of Geek Street and Hog Heaven Avenue.

The Uno is a self-balancing motorcycle that uses a pair of gyroscopes to constantly keep its rider upright.

Designed by 18-year old inventor Ben J…

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posted: April 25th, 2008 2 comments

tuba hero? brass band? nintendo ds gets musical

filed under: strange and unusual | video games

Mokushise Zenko Kutaikai Lets Brass Nintendo DS Game

For those of you who think all music should be played on guitars and drums, games like Rock Band keep you jamming all night long. But for those who prefer to blow into their musical instruments, look no further than this new game for the Nintendo DS.

Fresh from Japan, Mokushise! Zenko Kutaikai!! Let’s Brass!!..

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posted: April 24th, 2008 2 comments

delicious kobe beef ipod anyone? mmm.

filed under: media players | strange and unusual

Kobe Beef iPod Nano Case

This has got to be one of the strangest iPod accessories I’ve ever seen. Just slip your iPod Nano into this camouflage jacket, and it’ll look just like a hunk of pricey (and delicious) Kobe beef…

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posted: April 17th, 2008 post a comment

tonal plexus synthesizers get up to 1688 keys

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Tonal Plexus Micro-tonal Keyboard Synthesizer

If you thought that the 312-key Chromatone synthesizer had a few more keys than your everyday piano, just wait ’til you get a load of the Tonal Plexus and its even more plentiful keyboard design…

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posted: March 28th, 2008 1 comment

pop ‘n music be-mouse: weird name, odd controller

filed under: computing | strange and unusual | video games

Pop N Music Be Mouse by Konami

Here’s a gaming oddity from Japan. Falling somewhere between Tetris and Rock Band, Pop ‘N Music Be Mouse is a Windows PC game that comes with a colorful multi-button mouse for controlling the gameplay…

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posted: March 26th, 2008 2 comments

clock counts down to the end of the world

filed under: strange and unusual | timepieces

Big Crunch End of the World Clock

When I came across the Life Clock a few days back, I thought that the idea of a clock that gradually ticked away the years of your life was a wee bit morbid. Here’s another timepiece that’ll have you thinking even more happy thoughts…

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posted: March 20th, 2008 1 comment

web gun catches thieves just like flies

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Net Gun Web Slinger

Why should cops need to zap suspects with dangerous Tazers when they could just catch fleeing criminals using a powerful Spiderman-like web-slinging device instead?

The NET-2000 Shooting Net Rod uses a charge of highly compressed air to fire a net at fleeing suspects from as far as 49 feet away…

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posted: March 16th, 2008 3 comments

mario gets real (weird)

filed under: digital imaging | strange and unusual | video games

Real Mario Render by Pixeloo

What if Mario weren’t a cartoony video game character? Artist Pixeloo set out to answer that question when creating this “realistic” rendering of Nintendo’s little Italian plumber…

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posted: March 16th, 2008 4 comments

ascii curtain has plenty of character(s)

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ASCII Curtain by Nienke Sybrandy

This cool fabric curtain may look like a tree from afar, but once you’re up close, you’ll see that it’s made of tens of thousands of tiny ASCII characters…

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posted: March 15th, 2008 1 comment

mp3 players are for lovers

filed under: media players | strange and unusual

Lovers MP3 Players

You and your significant other might have different tastes in music, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be close with your shmoopy. With this matching pair of MP3 players, you can listen to different tracks, but still be joined at the hip…

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posted: March 14th, 2008 2 comments

mario corset is a fierce hot tranny mess

filed under: geek art & craft | strange and unusual | video games

Nintendo Corset

Ok, this has got to be the most wacky Nintendo-inspired item I’ve seen in a long time ever. Apparently somebody out there with a serious Mario fetish has decided to create a corset using his likeness. Huh? Wha?

I know, it’s as strange as it sounds…

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posted: March 12th, 2008 3 comments

remote controlled flying bug freaks me out

filed under: gadgets | strange and unusual

Helibug Flying RC Insect Mecha-Chu

I’ll start out by telling you that I used to live in the Deep South, home of cockroaches the size of small mice. Oh yeah, did I happen to mention that they could fly? Every time I saw one of those airborne six-legged nasties, it made my skin crawl. No wonder this gigantic flying insect sets my teeth on edge…

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posted: March 10th, 2008 4 comments

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