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ho ho hot: usb santa boots warm your feet

filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful

USB Santa Boots by Thanko

Ever wonder how do Mr. and Mrs. Claus keep their toes warm on a cold North Pole night? Why, with these heated USB Santa boots, of course.

Leave it to the wacky gadget makers of Japan’s Thanko (the same guys who brought us other gems like these) to come up with these silly oversize red shoes, which keep your tootsies toasty when you plug them into your computer’s USB port…

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December 8th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

gameboy octopus music controller mod

filed under: hacks-mods | video games

Gameboy Foot Controller by No Carrier

What’s got 8 tentacles and the brains of a Nintendo GameBoy? It’s an 8-bit music maker’s dream, that’s what. Electronic musician Joey Mariano (aka “Animal Style“) took an old GameBoy Color system and built a custom controller for it that uses 8 individual foot pedal controllers to jam out on the device…

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November 26th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

weird japan: sega foot massager

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SEGA Ashipure Foot Massager

After you sit around waiting for SEGA’s new Sonic game to load, nothing is more relaxing than a nice foot massage. Well, at least that’s what the game maker has got in store for visitors to one of their arcades in Shibuya, Japan.

According to a visitor to the arcade:
…there is a Sega arcade in Shibuya that has this bizarro Sega-made foot massage machine called Ashipuri…

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January 15th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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