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Feeling a little blue today? Green with envy? Why the heck shouldn’t your wristwatch match your mood? Now it can, thanks to this new multi-color LED watch from Ohsen.
Just press the top button to cycle through 7 different backlight colors - perfect for color-coordinating your outfit or your state of mind…
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posted: July 19th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | retro
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The first thing that pops into my mind when I hear the word “candelabra” is The Phantom of the Opera. The second is Liberace. The third is an old episode of Scooby Doo involving a haunted mansion. I’m reasonably certain that the words electronic and modern aren’t anywhere on the list. Of course, I’ve been wrong before…
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posted: July 18th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets | hacks-mods | strange and wonderful
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The guys over at MAKE recently showed visitors how to make a “Brain Machine”, a trippy looking device which reaches into your mind and helps you to chill out. Now, thanks to the miracle of modern science, you can buy one in kit form and try it on for yourself…
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posted: July 13th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | timepieces
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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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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun | video games
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I’m a sucker for lightsabers. Sure, I’d really like to have an authentic one that could sear off limbs or disintegrate your foes in a single swipe, but as an inhabitant of the real world, I generally have to settle for cheap toys instead. Now your Nintendo DS can get in on the action thanks to these little saber-inspired styli…
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posted: July 1st, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | timepieces
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The “Superior Watch” from Kyle Cherry looks like a minimalist bracelet with LEDs but is, of course, a sneaky watch. The top row is for hours and the bottom row is for minutes.
The website says that each watch is custom-made. That tells you right there it’s expensive. Next it talks about diamonds. Double cha-ching…
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posted: July 1st, 2008
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author: karen
filed under: design
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How’d you like one of these organic glowing orbs hanging from your ceiling? The intricate Laluna chandelier uses brightly lit, intertwined strands of fiber optics to light up your room…
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posted: June 29th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design
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The Poplight is the latest LED lighting fixture to come from Mathmos, the same guys responsible for the original Lava Lamp back in the 1960s.
Each Poplight is made from handblown glass and gradually fades between shades of blue, purple, violet, magenta, red, and back…
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posted: June 28th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | timepieces
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Check out these dramatic new watches, courtesy of the house of Diesel. When not displaying the current time, the mirrored surface of the display makes the time disappear into thin air.
Each watch tells time using a scrolling red LED dot-matrix display which floats behind a curvy, shiny electroplated exterior…
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posted: June 11th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: strange and wonderful | technology
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“A Step in the Right Direction” is a sneaker that detects Wi-Fi while you walk, via a tricky network detection unit embedded under the left shoe flap.
The three LEDs on the flap (supposedly) show you how much Wi-Fi action is within 50 meters. If the lights are blinky, you’ve got bupkis…
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posted: June 10th, 2008
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author: karen
filed under: just plain fun | video games
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After you decked out your Rock Band rig with a light show and smoke machine, I bet you thought you added all the cheap theatrics you’d ever want. But when I saw these light-up drumsticks, I knew there was just a little more you could do to crank your performances up to 11…
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posted: June 7th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: strange and wonderful | timepieces
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Somewhere around 3 or 4 in the morning, at the deepest point of my R.E.M. sleep, my orange tabby insists on jumping into the bed, meowing incessantly, as he plots to claw my eyeballs out. Now I’ve got a whole different way for a cat to freak me out and jar me awake from my slumber…
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posted: June 6th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | timepieces
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Looking for a modern watch, but can’t make up your mind what color you want? That’s okay, because with the latest funky watch from Tokyoflash - the Nekura -encourages your indecisiveness.
The new watches use a hybrid LCD / LED display technology, which lets you choose a color on a whim…
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posted: June 3rd, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art & craft | robotics
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SwashBot 3 is one crabby lookin’ robot- but most impressively he is 100% homemade. For a scrappy little fellow, he’s got some impressive moves.
SwashBot 3 is the latest RC robot in the SwashBot series, following the cute and crabby SwashBot 1 and the more impersonal, wooden SwashBot 2…
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posted: May 27th, 2008
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author: karen
filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful
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Ever felt the need to leave a television on to make it look like somebody is home while you’re out of town? This quirky little invention does just one thing - simulate the effect of having left your TV turned on.
The $49 FakeTV uses an array of colored, flashing LEDs to create the illusion of the stroboscopic effect of a television…
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posted: May 20th, 2008
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