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egg speaker wobbles but won’t fall down

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Egg Speaker

These tipsy egg-shaped speakers let you wobble them like a Weeble while you listen to your tunes.

Unlike real eggs (and those colorful Weebles), these only come in black and red, and they don’t crack open to produce omelets. They do, however, twist open to produce enhanced bass output. I wonder if they can only play The Egg Song?..

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May 31st, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

qwerty wallet holds cash, credit, but not your keys

filed under: geek art & craft

QWERTY Keyboard Pocketbook by Quiet Doing

Perfect for those of you who like a little geek with your chic (or is that the other way around?), this quirky QWERTY keyboard design wallet helps you keep all your personal items in order…

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May 25th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

itis lamp: it is led. it is modern. it is really cool.

filed under: design

Artemide ITIS LED Lamp by Naoto Fukasawa

The new ITIS desk lamp from Artemide provides dramatic LED illumination in a slick modern package. Thanks to its amazingly flexible adjustable design, the fixture easily takes on a variety of different looks…

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May 12th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

cell phone watch flips its lid

filed under: media players | mobile tech | timepieces

U200i Cell Phone Watch with Flip Lid

This oversize wristwatch conceals a little secret beneath its flip-top. Just pop it open, and you’ll reveal a fully-functional multimedia mobile phone inside.

Under the hood of the U200i mobile phone wristwatch dwells a quad-band (unlocked) GSM phone, complete with a 1.3MP digital camera, Bluetooth connectivity, and full media player capabilities…

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May 1st, 2008 8 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

word clock slowly reveals the time with text

filed under: design | timepieces

Animated Word Clock by Christiaan Postma

This has got to be one of the most amazing clock designs I’ve ever seen. At first glance, the display looks like a bunch of random matchsticks, but over time, they gradually transform into words that tell the time…

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April 19th, 2008 53 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ben heck’s ps3 laptop hits the streets [casemod]

filed under: hacks-mods | video games

PS3 Laptop by Ben Heck

Looks like our favorite god of mods is at it again. This time, Ben Heck has really outdone himself with this amazing feat of engineering — cramming an entire Playstation 3 into a laptop.

The portable PS3 features a slick, glossy black case, and a nice big 17-inch LCD screen running at 720p resolution…

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April 10th, 2008 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

diesel oled watches offer dual-color text display

filed under: design | timepieces

Diesel DZ7086 OLED Digital Watch

A while back, I showed you guys a pretty cool looking OLED watch from the fashion house of Diesel. That model was especially difficult to come by, and featured a tiny little monochrome blue OLED screen . The latest digital watch from Diesel amps up the organic light emitting goodness by adding a second color to the display…

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March 24th, 2008 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

clock drops numbers, doesn’t care what time it is

filed under: design | timepieces

Dropped Numerals Clock by Nextime

Here’s a clock for people who are perpetually tardy, and want to stay that way. All of the digits on the dial of this wall clock have fallen off of the face, causing a major numeric pile-up at the bottom.

 
While Nextime’s Fallen Numeral clock does have a functional time mechanism, it really couldn’t give a damn about the actual time…

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March 22nd, 2008 6 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ascii curtain has plenty of character(s)

filed under: design | strange and wonderful

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.

Created by Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy, the huge (18′ x 11′) curtain panel was digitally printed with dot matrix characters to give the impression of intricate tree branches from a distance…

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March 15th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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