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Looking for something a little different to set on your bedside table? This new alarm clock tears apart the hours, minutes and seconds and places them on individual time-telling blocks.
Seiji’s LED block alarm clock are interconnected using ribbon cables with enough slack in them to let you stack them pretty much any way you like…
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posted: July 8th, 2008
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filed under: geek art & craft | video games
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I came across this cool dot-matrix rendition of Mario over on Etsy this morning. Using an original technique the artists refer to as “DOTRIX”, it’s a really unique method for presenting video game (and other pop culture) art…
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posted: May 18th, 2008
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While this wouldn’t be the first time that I came across a clock that tells time with text, it’s certainly the most wordy version that I’ve seen.
Singapore designer Hans Tan created the Idea of a Clock II using a green LED bulletin board to display the current time using a lengthy textual description…
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posted: April 28th, 2008
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filed under: future tech | interactive
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Instead of using a traditional 2-dimensional display surface, Shade Pixel renders information using a deformable skin surface which provides a 3-dimensional texture to its output…
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posted: March 28th, 2008
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filed under: hacks-mods | robotics | strange and wonderful
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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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posted: February 8th, 2008
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filed under: design | timepieces
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I just love the clean, minimal design of this white-on-white LED clock from Japan. The simple dot-matrix display is powered by bright white LEDs layered beneath a clear and white acrylic shell.
The clock offers alarm capability, and can be automatically set via a radio signal (although it’s possible this feature only works in Japan)…
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posted: January 26th, 2008
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filed under: design | just plain fun
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This cool decorative tape lets you leave messages by blacking out the the white areas. A brilliantly simple design concept, the tape works in pretty much any language thanks to its free-form display concept…
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posted: January 19th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun | retro
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Check out this never before seen episode of 24, shot back in the early 1990s.
Apparently, CTU’s technology hadn’t come along quite as far as it has today.
Seriously, I don’t know what’s funnier, the AOL and Prodigy references, or the old brick cordless phone.
[CollegeHumor via Digg]
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posted: November 9th, 2007
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filed under: design | timepieces
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These LCD digital timepieces from California’s Ammon Watches really stand out from the crowd.
Ammon’s Proof series of digital watches features a custom dot matrix LCD panel, contained beneath a flat mineral crystal lens…
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posted: August 10th, 2007
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filed under: just plain fun | strange and wonderful
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Throw out that old duct tape wallet! It’s time for the latest wallet for the
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posted: September 16th, 2006
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