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Designed by Haneum Lee, the Gaon street light/wastebasket concept composts biodegradable waste and uses the methane by-product to power its light, saving energy and eliminating waste while lighting the streets. It’s a bright idea – or is it?
I like how one simple gadget can help solve a couple of environmental issues, but I’m not…
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November 13th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: future tech strange + wonderful weird science
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Call it a case of life imitating software: a designer at Mintpass recently showed off a couple of designs for calculators that look exactly like the calculator apps in Windows and in OS X.
The Mac version has a metal case and a 2-liner LCD screen like its software counterpart, while the Windows calculator sports…
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November 4th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing design gadgets geek art + craft just plain fun mobile tech technology
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Ryan Harc says that his Pocket Light concept will let us share “the blissful moments with your beloved. Draw out a little light which can be the best conveyor of your feeling.” Wink wink. I wish this was a real product; it’s just so nice to look at. And practical. And so nice to look…
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October 31st, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design gadgets mobile tech technology
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We can now add telepathy to the list of things that’s possible thanks to the Internet. Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have demonstrated that it is possible to transmit thoughts from one person’s brain to another person’s brain using nothing but pieces of tape, a couple of EEG amplifiers, some special…
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October 26th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing future tech strange + wonderful technology weird science
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Man, these are smartphones indeed. The wise – and probably bored – folks at the University of Berlin made a one-of-a-kind iPhone app which they called iDriver, which allows them to control a Honda Civic via Wi-Fi. But it’s not like our German friends just coded the app and then began playing real-life Hot Wheels;…
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October 19th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing cool toys gps + navigation hacks + mods just plain fun mobile tech technology
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Those of us who spend more time in front of our computers instead of other humans know that the current keyboard and mouse method of interaction with our magic boxes are far from perfect. I for one, want a half-sphere, multitouch surface that lets me move stuff onscreen with my right hand (my mouse hand)…
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October 16th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing design future tech interactive strange + wonderful technology

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Of all of the universal remotes out there, this LEGO-brick-inspired concept design is my new favorite.
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October 10th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design future tech just plain fun quickpix
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This offbeat watch design is merely a concept at this point, but I actually kind of like the idea. The Alessi Laser Shot watch is supposed to project the current time on your wrist using (frickin’) laser beams.
Designer Andy Kurovets envisioned this über-modern watch concept that uses a modulated laser scanner to projects the…
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October 2nd, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design strange + wonderful timepieces
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I’ve seen some weird mini games in my time, but this one might just take the cake. While the gameplay mechanics of Lose/Lose might look like any other space-alien-shooter, the consequences of playing incorrectly are so much greater.
You see, every time you shoot an alien, you lose. That’s because each alien represents a randomly…
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September 29th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: strange + wonderful video games
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This insane-looking contraption isn’t some sort of strange measuring device. Nope, what you’re looking at is a design for one of the most unusual looking watches to hit the pages of Technabob in a long while. At least you can actually tell the time on this one.
The Ora watch tells time on a series…
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September 29th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces
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Here’s an interesting blog I fished out of Dark Roasted Blend’s Link Latte: Rickey Taylor’s Sharpened Pencil, where said Mr. Taylor, a CADD designer/drafter, posts his doodles about his ideas for inventions. So is he a modern day Da Vinci, a source of inspiration, or just a dude with a surplus of paper, pencils and…
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September 18th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design future tech gadgets geek art + craft strange + wonderful
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I won’t lie to you, gentle readers. I don’t count monitoring power consumption among my various geeky interests. Chalk it up to the arrogance of youth. Or perhaps it’s because I’m not yet a homeowner, so I don’t fret about such things. But you know what I do dig?
Pretty pretty lights and shiny things.…
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September 12th, 2009
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author: chris h.
filed under: design technology timepieces
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