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electronic rock guitar shirt: air guitar on steroids

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The thinking geeks at ThinkGeek recently unleashed one of their most awesome creations: WEARABLE ROCK. Their Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt features a semi-guitar with 14 major chords – which were recorded from a real electric guitar – assigned to different areas on the neck, so you can play songs for real without really knowing how…

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November 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft interactive just plain fun technology

flashlight pendant lamps prove that porcelain can make anything look sophisticated

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Even if you were asked to name a hundred beautiful objects, would you include flashlights in your list? Of course not. But what if the flashlights were made of porcelain?

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November 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design gadgets

star wars gets new tv games from jakks

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Here’s a couple of fun games for Star Wars fans to play on their TVs. The guys over a Jakks Pacific (makers of all of those great retro TV game systems) have recently released two new standalone TV games from the Star Wars universe.

The first of the game systems is called Classic Battles, which features a…

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October 28th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys retro video games

ion tape express converter: play your cassette tapes one last time

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Immortalize your mixtapes with the Ion Tape Express, an easy to use device that converts your favorite songs to mp3 files. Just pop in a tape, connect it to your computer via USB, and let the bundled EZ Tape Converter Software work its magic.

As you may have guessed from its looks, the Tape Express…

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October 27th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio gadgets media players mobile tech retro technology

have one for the road with the motorcycle grip bottle opener

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This is one of those gadgets that’s funny for like 5 minutes – a bottle opener that looks like a motorcycle’s grip. It revs up when you open a bottle with it! Yay. Awesome.

Open a bottle of your favorite beer! Vrooom! Or a miniature bottle of your favorite whiskey! Vrooom! Or grape-flavored Fanta! Vr…ooom?…

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October 26th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets just plain fun

wikireader: the world’s most semi-trusted encyclopedia at your fingertips

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Don’t you just love Wikipedia? Whether you’re a high school student writing a paper on some obscure old or dead person, a tech blogger who knows nothing about tech, or a lowly prankster who wants people to think, even for just 50 seconds, that the name “Microsoft” is really a description of someone’s primary sexual…

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October 14th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing gadgets mobile tech technology

bottle tops: dunce caps for canned drinks

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When I first saw this I thought it was one of those so-simple-it’s-brilliant kind of things,  but then I remembered how dirty the tops of canned drinks usually are. No rat piss on my Coke please, thank you. Not that rats piss on Coke cans here. They don’t, honest. I think.

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October 12th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets strange + wonderful

ugliest speakers yet: (evil) clown sounds!

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We’ve featured some weird and ugly speakers here over the years, but this is definitely the one to buy if you’re looking for something really hideous to listen to your tunes on.

I feel like the only thing you should be playing through these awful looking clown speakers is some sort of disturbing, scratchy carnival…

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October 12th, 2009 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: audio strange + wonderful technology

kill time and the undead with the zombie shooting gallery

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Video games with zombies are all the rage nowadays, and you’ve probably tried at least one of ‘em. But what if you’re at the office? What if your Xbox 360 RRODs again? What if there’s no electricity? Muuuust plaaaaaaay zooooombiiieeee gaaaaaaame. Then get the Zombie Shooting Gallery, and have a ready supply of undead to…

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October 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful

splitterbot headphone sharing robot: for generous music-loving sadists

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Sure, headphone splitters are nothing new, but how many toy keychain headphone splitter robots that you decapitate and stab in the eyes to use have you seen? Did you even understand that previous sentence? I didn’t.

Whoever designed Splitterbot has some wicked, Brando-style imagination.

Ouch. You can get your own Splitterbot for only $8 (USD)…

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October 7th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio design gadgets just plain fun media players mobile tech technology

musicskins: loud designs for your gadgets

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One of the reasons why Nokia’s cellphones became so popular here in the Philippines was the fact that most of their earlier models had cases that were easy to remove and swap, providing a bit of customization. Now gadgets mostly come in black, gray or white, and even if there are still devices that have…

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October 5th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing design gadgets geek art + craft media players mobile tech video games

lacie sound2 usb speakers look like giant earphones

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LaCie’s Sound² speakers are perfect for ogres, ents and Michael Clarke Duncan. Designed by Neil Poulton, the Sound² kinda look like flattened earphones. Huge flattened earphones.

Each speaker measures 7.87 x 5.51 in. LaCie backs up Poulton’s design with French audio company Cabasse’s technology. Sound² speakers are equipped with a Class D digital amplifier, magnetic shielding and a…

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October 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio design technology

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