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pierre junod eris planetary sphere watch is a real ball

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I’ve seen some really unusual watches in my time, but I can tell you without a doubt that this is the first time that I’ve ever seen a watch that’s shaped like a perfectly spherical planet. Ever.

Named after the recently discovered dwarf planet, the Pierre Junod Eris watch tells time using a pair of…

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July 6th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

elekit tornader robot is really a ball

tornader robot spin elekit japan sphere

This robot kit from Japan lets you build your own ball shaped robot that can pull off all sorts of wild and crazy moves as it gyrates around your floor.

While the Tornader robot from Elekit can drive slowly around the floor like most remote-controlled vehicles, the real fun starts when you set the Tornader…

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December 31st, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys robots

katamari wedding cake: with this ring i thee roll

Katamari Damacy Wedding Cake

Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? Will you roll a Katamari down the street with her and roll up the universe into a giant ball?

While I like to think this Katamari wedding cake is filled with tiny buildings, cruise ships, cows and wildly gesticulating little people, it’s actually just…

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September 26th, 2008 comments (20) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft video games

tiny dvr camera is a ball

Camball DVR

Within this tiny little black orb lives a tiny little digital video camera. What makes the Camball unique is its totally self-contained digital video recorder.

All of the requisite electronics are crammed into a sphere that’s just a hair smaller than a ping pong ball.

The Camball can record 320×240 or 640×480 resolution video using…

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August 1st, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets media players video

ping pong printer produces perfect projectiles

Ping Pong Ball Printer

Why print on boring old paper, when you can get your message across on some nice bouncy ping pong balls? The appropriately named PingPongPrinter can print dot-matrix messages directly onto the spherical surface of ping pong balls.

Builders Vern Graner and Rick Abbott of The Robot Group used a Parallax inkjet print head kit and…

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February 8th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods robots strange + wonderful

o mighty isis, this is one tough puzzle

ISIS Puzzle

Let me start by saying this — the glorious ISIS puzzle was designed with one mission in mind — to be the most difficult puzzle ever made. Handmade in England using aluminum alloy, the puzzle not only is insanely challenging, it looks really, really cool sitting on your table.

Each spherical puzzle has a set…

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October 9th, 2007 comments (15) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design just plain fun

boing balls change color when you squeeze them

BOING Balls LED Colored Juggling Balls

Boy, does that sound painful, or what? Actually, it’s fun. These colorful rubber BOING Balls (not to be confused with the classic Amiga orb of the same name) have a set of tri-colored LEDs inside of them, and change hues when you apply pressure to them.

The rubber balls can cycle between 7 different shades…

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October 6th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets just plain fun

360-degree speaker produces sound in every direction

Spherical Speaker by Pieter Maes

Industrial designer Pieter Maes, one of the artists responsible for developing LaCie’s cool golden hard drive created this design for a cluster of speakers which are formed into a near perfect sphere.

By joining a number of individual speaker cones to a single central spider-like structure, the orb can project sound in every direction. Unfortunately,…

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September 28th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

10,000 led orbs land in a field in italy

Massimo Silenzio LED Orb Installation

Artist Giancarlo Neri has put together this stunning installation which places 10,000 individual colored LED orbs in a field. Each sphere gradually cycles through colors, creating a beautiful, dramatic vista.

While the illuminated globes are absolutely stunning by night, they’re equally as interesting when turned off during the daylight hours.

The installation, entitled Massimo Silenzio (Maximum…

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September 9th, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design strange + wonderful

magic ball: your personal clean air act

Antibac2k Magic Ball Air Cleaner

Does your closet smell like old gym socks? Is Fido stinking up the place and making you sneeze? Does somebody like onions and runny French cheese? If this sounds like your house, perhaps you could us one of these.

The Antibac2k Magic Ball kills unpleasant odors, as well as removes allergens and contaminants from the…

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August 26th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets

shiro mp3 player inspired by soccer ball

Shiro AS Sphere MP3 Player

Here’s an MP3 player that doesn’t look like any other I’ve seen. Designed originally for the World Cup tournament, the Shiro AS MP3 Player looks a whole lot like a miniature soccer ball.

Sure, the Shiro won’t win any prizes for storage capacity, maxing out at 1GB of memory, but it certainly gets my endorsement…

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May 13th, 2007 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design media players