Technabob » punch http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:00:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pick Punch Makes Guitar Picks Out of Anything http://technabob.com/blog/2010/11/02/pick-punch-make-guitar-picks/ http://technabob.com/blog/2010/11/02/pick-punch-make-guitar-picks/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:18:19 +0000 Shane McGlaun http://technabob.com/blog/?p=42189 I’m not a guitar player at all, I can get by on Rock Band in a pinch, but when it comes to the real thing I have nothing. That doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate how cool this Pick Punch device is though. Using this simple invention, you can make guitar picks out of almost anything you want.

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The $24.95 Pick Punch looks like a giant single hole punch you might find in an office. Rather than punching out paper, the Pick Punch creates pics that measure 30mm H x 25.5mm wide at the top in a roughly triangular 351 pick style. You can put images between clear sheets of material and punch them into a pick if you want.

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The product page doesn’t say how thick of a material you can punch with the thing. I would go around making picks out of anything the Pick Punch could cut through. The company offers a bunch of different color sheets of material you can punch out and most of them are 0.8mm thick. The sheets are $3.00 each.

I would love to make a few picks out of my wife’s credit card, which would be $25 bucks well spent.

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The pint-sized prizefighter is more sophisticated than your average USB gizmo, letting you throw punches using your computer keyboard. The left and right arrows control the fists, while the up and down arrows rotate the turntable. An on-screen score card keeps track of how many punches you land successfully.

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The USB Boxer is available from I Want One of Those for £29.95 (appx. $59 USD). That’s not exactly cheap, but according to the marketing collateral, it’s “The most advanced USB toy of 2008″, so maybe that’s worth extra.

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