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elekit tornader robot is really a ball

filed under: cool toys | robotics

tornader robot spin elekit japan sphere

This robot kit from Japan lets you build your own ball shaped robot that can pull off all sorts of wild and crazy moves as it gyrates around your floor.

While the Tornader robot from Elekit can drive slowly around the floor like most remote-controlled vehicles, the real fun starts when you set the Tornader into one of its insane spin modes…

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December 31st, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

katamari wedding cake: with this ring i thee roll

filed under: geek art & craft | video games

Katamari Damacy Wedding Cake

Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? Will you roll a Katamari down the street with her and roll up the universe into a giant ball?

While I like to think this Katamari wedding cake is filled with tiny buildings, cruise ships, cows and wildly gesticulating little people, it’s actually just lemon cake with strawberry filling. Oh well, it still sounds delicious to me…

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September 26th, 2008 8 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

tiny dvr camera is a ball

filed under: gadgets | media players | video

Camball DVR

Within this tiny little black orb lives a tiny little digital video camera. What makes the Camball unique is its totally self-contained digital video recorder.

All of the requisite electronics are crammed into a sphere that’s just a hair smaller than a ping pong ball.

The Camball can record 320×240 or 640×480 resolution video using MPEG-4 encoding…

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August 1st, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

these speakers give your ipod balls

filed under: audio | just plain fun | media players

iPod Ball Speaker by ZumReed

This odd little speaker for your portable media player distinguishes itself by its spherical shape.

ZumReed’s Sound Ball speaker hangs on your key chain or a book bag, and plugs into the audio jack on your iPod or other media player when your ready to play your tunes.

The little plastic ball comes in pink, lime green and purple, and has a built-in rechargeable battery (charges via USB)…

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July 16th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bowling for gnomes

filed under: just plain fun | strange and wonderful

Gnome Bowling

While this doesn’t really qualify as a techie gadget or a video game, I came across this quirky game and thought it was just too good to pass up.

Instead of knocking over some ordinary pins with this bowling game, you knock over a bunch of little plastic lawn gnomes…

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June 11th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

throw your monitor at game opponents

filed under: future tech | strange and wonderful | video | video games

Philips Throwable Game Display Patent

Ever had such a bad game that you wanted to throw your controller at your TV screen? How about a gaming system where chucking your display itself is an integral part of the action?

Philips recently filed a patent application for a video game system which uses a monitor that you can actually toss…

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February 12th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ping pong printer produces perfect projectiles

filed under: hacks-mods | robotics | strange and wonderful

Ping Pong Ball Printer

Why print on boring old paper, when you can get your message across on some nice bouncy ping pong balls? The appropriately named PingPongPrinter can print dot-matrix messages directly onto the spherical surface of ping pong balls…

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February 8th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bubblegum sequencer chews through tunes

filed under: interactive | just plain fun

Bubblegum Sequencer

This music sequencer takes the same basic interface concept as the ball bearing sequencer I recently showed you, and makes it deliciously chewable. Instead of shiny metal spheres, this sequencer uses a bunch of colorful candy-coated gumballs to make a beat you can dance to…

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January 17th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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