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world’s loudest alarm clock will definitely wake you up – and make your ears bleed

kip_kay_alarm_clock

Hit the snooze bar too many times every morning? Do you sleep through the alarm? Maybe you should check out KipKay’s latest hack, sure to jolt you out of bed in the morning.

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September 24th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods just plain fun timepieces

going commando with modern warfare 2 peripherals

modern warfare 2 xbox 360 joystick by mad catz

I’m not sure if slouching back in a chair playing Modern Warfare 2 in front of a television or computer screen is the sort of activity that requires camouflage, but who am I to argue with the video game peripheral gurus at Mad Catz, who have taken it upon themselves to develop a full line of…

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September 16th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: chris h.

filed under: gadgets video games

diana multi-pinhole operator camera by lomography helps you take puke-inducing pictures

dmpo-1

Lomography’s new Diana Multi-Pinhole Operator allows users to use up to 3 pinholes in one shot. The pinholes create a ripple, cross-eyed effect that only worsens becomes crazier once you add the color filters to the mix. The Diana Multi-Pinhole Operator has a focal length of 29 mm, a pinhole diameter of 0.277 mm and…

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June 16th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys gadgets just plain fun retro strange + wonderful

v-cube 5×5x5, 6×6x6, 7×7x7: like rubik’s cubes on crank

I had enough problems trying to solve the original Rubik’s Cube. Heck, I was often tempted to just peel all the colored stickers off and place them on the proper sides of the cube whenever I got frustrated with the damned thing. So when I came across V-CUBES, I just about lost my mind.

V-CUBE…

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October 14th, 2008 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful

minesweeper made out of pixelblocks

Giant Minesweeper Pixelblocks

From the “someone has too much time on their hands” file…

A true geek going by the screen name Cursors managed to take enough time out from his busy office life to build a giant reproduction of the Windows game, Minesweeper, entirely out of tiny plastic pixelblocks. The finished display used over 38,000 individual blocks…

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November 2nd, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun video games