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sneaky stick: portable hidden camera with built-in DVR and audio

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Want to know who keeps on stealing your drink from the office fridge? The drink that you so clearly labeled with your full name along with a fingerprint of your right thumb to eliminate all ambiguity as to the ownership of said drink? You could either ask each and everyone of your co-workers, or you…

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April 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio gadgets mobile tech technology video

ultraviolet spy pen lets you write and read invisible messages

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Here’s a handy way to keep a secret. Just grab one of these ultraviolet invisible ink pens, and you can leave yourself hidden messages that you can easily decode using the same pen you wrote them with.

Each pen has a built-in ultraviolet LED light, you can read messages that are invisible to the naked…

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February 6th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys gadgets just plain fun

hidden radio: this futuristic mushroom masks a cool radio

Hidden Radio

The Hidden Radio by John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen is designed to make the human-radio interaction more intuitive and less cluttered. Also, it’s designed to make your radio look more like a futuristic mushroom than a regular radio.

So how does it work? They say, “lifting the lid increases the volume proportionally with height” which means,…

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August 30th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: design gadgets

karaoke saver: the diy breathalyzer microphone

You know how karaoke is really fun until someone drinks a little too much and starts majorly hogging the mic for their less-than-moving versions of American Pie and N*Sync B-sides? Now you can shut them down with cold, hard facts about their blood alcohol content, by employing this sneaky breathalyzer microphone.

This nifty project was created…

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August 9th, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: hacks + mods just plain fun

a hidden roll of correction tape lurks inside this fake lego

Brick-Brick Correction Tape is a fake-o Lego that hides a roll of correction tape. If you have more than one, you can snap them together like Legos.

The website says, “It is funny that you can’t realize it is a correction tape by its outlook.” My outlook is: isn’t correction tape is all but obsolete, what…

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July 28th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: gadgets

spy cam fits in pack of chewing gum

Chewing Gum Spy Cam

Need to grab some vid clips on the down low? This tiny spy camera is designed to fit perfectly inside a gum wrapper, and can capture digital audio and video without any external hardware.

While the camera’s 176 x 144 capture resolution isn’t sharp enough for than grabbing more than rudimentary moving images, it’s enough…

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November 26th, 2007 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets

the wireless spy camera that’s hidden in a clock that looks like a tire: huh, wha?

Tire Clock Spy Cam

This weird wall clock that looks like a car tire actually is a cover for a hidden wireless spy cam.

Hidden inside the Tire Clock Spy Cam is a digital video camera with a 2.4GHz wireless transmitter. An included remote receiver can view and record what the camera captures. If the general concept of such…

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June 26th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets strange + wonderful timepieces