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Shredder Alarm Clock: You Snooze, You Lose Money

Lambert Varias — Sun, 29 May 2011 12:30:03 +0000

We’ve featured a clock that won’t shut off its alarm until you deposit some money into it. This concept on the other hand, is the unholy opposite – once the alarm kicks in, it will start shredding money and will obviously keep going until you turn the alarm off. The concept picture is enough to send shivers through any working man’s body, until you realize how easy it is to fool the clock.

The trick of course is simply to feed it with something else. Place your bills inside and you’ll have another reason to stay in bed. Unless this clock can detect whether the paper inside it is actually money. Now that would be one effective clock. I wish I had more details about this concept; in fact I don’t even know who came up with it. Hit us up in the comments if you do.

[via TechEBlog]

DTV Shredder ATV: Jet-Ski for Land

Range — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:00:40 +0000

This off-road vehicle looks kind of like a jet ski for land. It has two independently-powered caterpillar tracks, that make it look like a personal battle tank. The DTV Shredder can fly over almost any kind of terrain. Plus, you’ll probably scare the crap out of anyone seeing you coming.

The DTV Shredder has got a 18hp/200cc engine that provides good traction and helps it go up slopes as steep as 40 degrees. It can hit speeds up to 30mph. The top handlebars can be folded down so that the rig can be remote controlled or it can be hooked onto a trailer to haul up to 1,200 lbs of cargo (!). It comes as no surprise that the U.S. military is even looking at this ATV for their soldiers.

The treads will chew on anything, including snow, ice, sand, marsh, and mud. Here’s a video the guys at Engadget shot showing off the DTV Shredder in action:

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You can pre-order the DTV Shredder from BPG Werks for $2,500 with a $250 deposit.

[via GeekAlerts]

Swingline Stack-and-Shred Shreds 100 Pages of TPS Reports, Staples and All

Shane McGlaun — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:33:06 +0000

You have to be a real geek to get excited about a shredder. Back when I had a “real job,” I used to shred all sorts of stuff, not because it needed to be shredded, but just because I hated that place and imagining it was the bosses tie (still attached to his neck) getting chopped up made me feel better about working for such douchebags. I could shred a few paperclips and staples in that thing before it jammed and I had to sneak away.

Swingline has a new shredder called the Stack-and-Shred that will go perfectly with that red stapler and your TPS Reports. The thing has a top that opens and you can put 100 pages in the hopper to shred complete with staples and paperclips. It will also shred credit cards, but I wonder if CDs can be shredded.

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It uses a crosscut confetti shred patter for security and the bin holds up to five gallons of paper and metal shards. I would really like to shred my wife’s credit card. I so need one of these. You can buy one for about $250 right now.

White Goat Eats Paper, Poops Toilet Paper

Lambert Varias — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:44:15 +0000

Spotted at the Eco-Products 2009 trade show, Oriental Co. Ltd.’s White Goat is a paper shredder that turns the shredded bits of paper into toilet paper. It is named after the famous Japanese White Goat, which eats paper and then shits out toilet paper. Yeah that’s not true. I wish it was though.

The White Goat can make one roll of toilet paper from 40 sheets of A4 paper, saving up to 60 trees a year.

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Sure, the toilet paper it produces isn’t exactly top-notch – it actually looks coarse – but wouldn’t it be awesome if you could shred your phone bill/failed exam/your office mate’s documents, turn it into toilet paper and then wipe your ass with it? Seriously though I can’t wait for this thing to be miniaturized. Every house should have a White Goat.

[via Popular Science]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder Hoodie for the Villain in All of Us

Range — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:42:13 +0000

One of the coolest villains in cartoon history has definitely got to be The Shredder. Before he was ridiculed in the movies, he was one mean dude in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. Now, you can bring out your own super-villain with this snazzy hoodie.

It looks pretty cozy and there are even these crazy blades on the side of it as decoration, which makes me even want it more. This TMNT Shredder hoodie is being produced by 80stees and will cost you only $60 (USD).

This Shredder hoodie is based upon the armor of the Shredder, or Oroku Saki. It comes with a neat half-mask, as well as a false cape and spikes protruding from the shoulders and forearms. I really like how the zipper zips up all the way straight over your face to make the mask.

[80s Tees via You Bent My Wookie via Geekologie]

Panda Shredder Destroys Tiny Documents, Not Pandas

Technabob — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:45:47 +0000

These wacky mini panda bear shredders aren’t really big enough to destroy that second set of books you’ve been keeping for your business (let alone pandas), but they are perfect for getting rid of tiny pieces of paper you’ve written secret love notes on. As an added convenience, the desktop panda will sharpen your pencil while it shreds.

The little hand-cranked shredders are also great for getting rid of business cards from unsolicited sales visits, that fortune you didn’t like from your Chinese lunch, and the occasional ATM receipt.

You should be able to find these for about $12 bucks over on Stupid.com, but they’re currently sold out, so you might have to settle for a crummy elephant shredder instead.

Spamtrap: Shreds Spam Into a Fine Pulp

Technabob — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:24:25 +0000

I don’t know what it is that fascinates me so much about shredding devices lately; maybe it’s just my latent destructive tendencies. That said, this art installation by artist Bill Shackelford just seemed too good to not mention.

Shackelford’s Spamtrap is a computer-driven sculpture that receives spam e-mails, prints them out, then immediately shreds and discards them.

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The sculpture isn’t only generating a mountain of paper. It’s actually helping to build better anti-spam blacklists by submitting all messages it shreds to SpamCop. For those concerned about the (lack of) environmental correctness of the whole concept – not to worry – all of the paper Spamtrap shreds is being recycled after the fact.

Shredder Disposes of Days Gone by

Technabob — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:35:28 +0000

Designer Susanna Hertrich created this unique calendar that gradually rids itself of the previous day by shredding them into oblivion.

The Chrono_Shredder combines a calendar, clock and shredder into a single device that gradually scrolls through the days, eating them away with the shredder. According to the artist:

The Chrono_Shredder’s function is not to show the current moment, like a calendar. Instead, it shows the nearest future (the next day) — and all the time that has past from the time the device has been switched on. Whilst you spend your time in hibernation — the Chrono_Shredder messes up your space with wasted time!

Now that’s deep. Regardless, I think it’s a pretty cool idea. All she needs to do is use hamster power to operate it, and I’ll buy one.

[via NOTCOT]

Disc Shredder or Spirograph?

Technabob — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:34:02 +0000

If you’re looking for a creative way to get rid of those military secrets your copied to CD-R, or just want to destroy your ex-girlfriend’s Justin Timberlake disc, you might want to check out Elecom’s SCR-CD001 portable CD/DVD killer.

The portable device etches a nasty series of spiral patterns into any CD or DVD, rendering the data unreadable. Simply plug the device into your USB drive, and you’ll be giving new meaning to “ripping a CD” in minutes. No release date or pricing has been announced yet.

[via Akihabara News]