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How many times have you had to get your lazy ass off of the couch to get up and change the channel because the batteries in your remote died. Well thanks to some fine high-tech minds, someday you may never need to worry about changing the batteries in your remote again.
This unassuming looking prototype…
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November 17th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: future tech gadgets strange + wonderful technology
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Designed by Joris Laarman, Artecnica’s Wire Pod manages to avoid the messy tangle of wires that we’ve come to expect from an extension cord while actually adding style to a space. This is one power cord that you won’t want to hide even if it’s not being used.
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September 22nd, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design gadgets geek art + craft strange + wonderful
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Give your dad’s Monday night football an extra jolt with the electric shock bottle opener. But obviously you risk getting grounded as well. See what I did there?
The electric shock can opener is sold at BudgetGadgets for only $4 (USD). The look on your face when you forget about it’s surprise and you use…
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August 24th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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Wouldn’t it be neat to be able to have WiFi-like access to electricity? While wireless power is by no means a novel concept – Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla already explored the possibility of wireless power - US-based company WiTricity claim that they have one of the most feasible methods of making the world a…
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July 25th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: future tech gadgets mobile tech strange + wonderful technology
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And some people think junk is just, well, junk. But to the more visionary among us, that junk could be anything. Anything. Even a Tesla coil, if you’re innovative enough.
This DIY Tesla coil was built entirely from items found in the garbage. The project was conceived partially to prove just how many useful items…
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June 15th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: hacks + mods strange + wonderful technology weird science
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What do you get when you take four of your closest friends, attach electrodes to their faces, and then fire off small jolts of electricity to the beats of electronica? Video genius, I say.
Tokyo electronic artist / programmer / composer /DJ Daito Manabe connected each of his four friends to the business-end of his…
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March 28th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks + mods interactive strange + wonderful technology
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One of my first posts here at Technabob was about a flash game about saving energy. The US government’s Department of Energy heeded Canada’s example and came up with their own entertaining website to encourage people – particularly kids – to save energy.
The Canadian game just plain sucked; fortunately the DoE’s offering is better…
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February 17th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: just plain fun video games
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If you’ve ever walked along a carpet in the wintertime, you know all about how you can generate electrical shocks without ever plugging in to an outlet. Now it looks like your body movements could be harnessed to provide electricity for your mobile electronics. Imagine a shirt or a pair of pants which can automatically…
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February 14th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: future tech gadgets strange + wonderful
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No, these striking images weren’t made using Photoshop trickery. They were actually taken using a unique process which involves placing photographic paper onto an object, placing them both on a high-voltage plate, then cranking up the juice.
Referred to as Kirlian photography, the technique dates back to a 1939 discovery (by a man named Kirlian,…
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January 25th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: strange + wonderful
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These may look like your typical cheap schlock shop knock-offs of popular gadgets, but they’re much more devious than that. You see, while they may bear a slight resemblance to a certain portable gaming system, media player and a dime-store pocket laser, they’re actually practical jokes that deliver a nasty shock.
Available in PSP, iPod…
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December 30th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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If you’ve got a really cruel streak, here’s a new prank for your arsenal of practical jokes. This may look like an ordinary car keychain remote, but it won’t actually open any vehicle. Instead, it lets out a tiny jolt of electricity when your unsuspecting victim presses the wrong button.
The thing that makes me…
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December 16th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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Pioneer Japan is showing off this new music system that can send audio signals to remote speakers around your house. Rather than using more modern wireless technologies like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, Pioneer opted to use power line signal transmission, to reduce the likelihood of over-the-air interference, and to simplify configuration.
The Pioneer Music Tap system…
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February 28th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment
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