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Do you constantly leave your Wii-mote lying around? Do you find it stuck under the couch cushions between some moldy Fritos and loose pocket change? Maybe it’s time you found a place to keep your controller so it doesn’t keep getting lost.
The Wii Remocon storage accessory from Hori Japan couldn’t be simpler…
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November 11th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets
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Most of the USB memory card readers I come across are rather pedestrian. Conversely, this one is rather automotive.
ElectroJoe’s Motor Maniac is a 16-in-1 memory card reader that looks like a (slightly deformed) little red race car. Now it’s anyone’s guess why the wheels are sticking out at a weird angle, but you still get the point that it’s a vehicle…
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October 21st, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | design
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Designer Neil Poulton got the inspiration for the domed glowing light on the outside of his latest hard drive design from the red light on the face of HAL 9000, the infamous computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The new LaCie 5big Network storage array is designed for small and medium workgroups looking for a ton of storage at a reasonable price…
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October 12th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets | just plain fun
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Marubeni InfoTec will be coming out with 10 different wooden animal USB drives. There are 5 different animal shapes, and they come in maple or walnut.
I can’t find out too much more info about these cute flash drives, but the 411 is that they’re coming out in Japan on September 1st…
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August 27th, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: design | timepieces | video
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Now, most of us have moved on from compact discs to digital media players these days, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t still have to find a place to store our old CD collection, right?
This ingenious storage system doubles as a giant LED clock, so you’ll actually be getting some utility out of an otherwise single-purpose bookshelf…
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July 31st, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | geek art & craft
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When is a hard drive not just a hard drive? When it’s a tiny work of contemporary desktop art, of course.
The artists of Brazil’s Meninos design studio first started out making these custom pop art hard drive cases for their friends. Now they’ve had the brilliant idea to release their wares to the rest of the world for us to enjoy…
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July 30th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | gadgets | just plain fun
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Hmmm. Would you rather be caught drinking on the job, or sneaking sensitive company data out of the office? Now you don’t have to choose, thanks to this new portable hard drive that looks just like a hip flask…
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July 26th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | geek art & craft
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If you’re unfamiliar with the Russian craft of Matrushkas, they’re those little stacking wooden dolls that fit inside one-another, gradually getting smaller and smaller. Designer Art Lebedev has taken these traditional dolls and put a geeky spin on them, adding data storage measurements to each one…
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June 17th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | hacks-mods
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Got a couple of spare Compact Flash memory cards lying around? Why not turn them into a high-speed, redundant drive array? With this new drive module, you can create your own solid-stated RAID array in seconds.
Simply plug in up to three Compact Flash cards, and this nifty device will set up a RAID array between them, which you can connect to your computer’s high-speed SATA port…
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June 13th, 2008
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author: technabob
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