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For just under $100, you can get the “first entirely new globe of the Moon’s surface in over 40 years.”… Ironically, it looks a bit like the Death Star. It’s perfect for the desk of any space geek.

The steampunk “Electromagnetic Geospacial Globe and Remote View with Obligatory Goggles”… doesn’t just look cool, I like what creator John Knight is trying to do – making the ol’ globe more useful. RFID tags attached to the surface of the globe allow Knight to control Google Earth on an iPad

At first glance, you’d look at these pictures and think that these were some pretty cool lighting fixtures. You’d be right. But in addition to casting a warm glow, these illuminated orbs are actually speakers.

Moonlight’s light globes conceal speakers which can handle from 120 to 200 watts of amplification…

This watch uses a tiny globe to tell the time instead of conventional hour and minute hands.
As each hour passes, the globe gradually rotates around the North Pole, making a full revolution every 24 hours. A tiny indicator on the edge of the globe tells you what hour it…