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Fimo clay artist bearduck’s handmade iPhone icons fridge magnets just got upgraded to a full set of 20, featuring icons for familiar apps like YouTube, maps and more.
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September 6th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun
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The United Press International continues to build on their 100 years of journalistic excellence with their coverage of an Australian woman and her cattle dog. Polly – the dog – recently underwent emergency surgery to remove 1,000 magnets from her tummy. Owner Cathy James said that Polly swallowed the magnets in her – the owner’s…
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September 2nd, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: strange + wonderful weird science
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Why just put a couple of magnets on the front of your refrigerator when you can cover the entire thing with ‘em?
These mosaic magnets from Australia’s Motifo let you build complicated pixel art creations all over the front of your fridge.
Each pack of Motifo magnets ($79 to $99 USD) comes with nearly 1300…
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June 27th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design geek art + craft
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No, I’m not going to talk about sizable fans for your butt. Although I’d like to see what an ass fan would look like, what I’ll be sharing with you today are fans that are just plain huge. Just big ass fans, called Big Ass Fans, from the company Big Ass Fans.
While your run…
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May 27th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: gadgets just plain fun strange + wonderful technology
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Every once in a blue moon, you have to peel your ass off the sofa and take a break from your video game so you can get something to eat. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop playing when you get to the kitchen, does it?
With these fun Super Mario Bros. refrigerator magnets, you…
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May 16th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun retro video games
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The folks at The Boy Genius Report have a couple of screens from an iPhone debugging menu, and their Apple insider is telling them that the evidence points to a built-in magnetometer for the next hardware revision of the wildly successful device.
As we all know, a magnetometer tells you how close you are to…
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May 8th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: future tech gadgets mobile tech strange + wonderful technology
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Hey guys! Let’s play a game! I call it “Hazard!” Here’s how it goes: I describe something, and you tell me the answer in the form of a question. Awesome game right? Okay let’s get started! It is the spherical form of Buckminsterfullerene C60. What? “What is a buckyball?” Nice one! How about this one:…
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March 20th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: cool toys just plain fun
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Do you spend a good bit of your time in front of your computer monitor engrossed in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator? Now you can break down that pesky divide between the digital and real worlds with this clever magnetic photo board.
The designers over at Brazil’s Meninos (the same guys who gave us some oh-so-awesome…
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January 31st, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design digital imaging just plain fun
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Ever wonder how it would feel like to lie on a cushion of a magnetic field? Wonder no more. British company Hoverit has releasedĀ The Lounger, which is so straight out of RPGs and scifi that I can’t bring myself to call it furniture. I’ll call it Magneture. Because “Furnet” sounds stupid.
Hoverit claims that…
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January 27th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design strange + wonderful technology
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The NeoCube starts out as a cube made of super-magnetic balls that’s billed as “literally a puzzle with billions of solutions.” Here’s the good news: There are no right answers, just a whole heap o’ magnetic mayhem to be had.
Check out this video of the NeoCube in action. Then, let’s take bets on how…
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September 24th, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful
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The iYo is a yoyo-powered induction charger for your iPhone. This is a concept charger by Swedish designer Peter Thuvander and is definitely the first yo-yo-based charging mechanism I have seen this week. This month, even.
As the inventor helpfully points out, “since solarchargers donĀ“t work at night or in Sweden half the year, this…
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September 19th, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: future tech gadgets media players mobile tech
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If you wish your fridge could make you LOL, I’ve got great news: u can haz LOLmagnets! Imagine how witty your icebox could become with all the photos captioned up like those cute little kitties.
Now I love a good LOLcat as much as the next guy, but I’m afraid that this may be going…
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September 7th, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: just plain fun
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