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nissan rock mystery vehicle – my guess: cars for cats

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The guys over at Yanko Design came across this mysterious miniature vehicle called ROCK.

Created by Mexico City industrial designer Alberico J. Camacho, the ROCK dons a tiny Nissan logo, and looks something like an oversize bowling ball on wheels. Or maybe the Dark Helmet that Rick Moranis wore in Spaceballs.

Yanko thinks ROCK might be some kind of interactive…

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June 13th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design future tech strange + wonderful

weird insect eggs don’t need no special effects

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They say that truth is stranger than fiction. I say that when it comes to eggs, fictional eggs are overall much much freakier.  I mean, are there any real eggs that spawn facehuggers? But as these pictures will show you, real eggs can be really weird too. Insects reprazent!

Let’s start off with something spooky. Those are some spooky eggs,…

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June 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: just plain fun strange + wonderful weird science

big ass fans: ’nuff said

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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 of the mill fan has…

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May 27th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

night watch concept: killer mosquito robot or mosquito killing-robot?

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Russian graphic designer iunewind cooked up this cool concept for a robot. Modeled after a mosquito, iunewind calls it Night Watch. His work is so detailed, I can almost believe that it’s a shot of an actual invention. There is one problem though: iunewind’s English isn’t that good, so I’m not sure as to what the purpose of his robot…

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May 6th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design just plain fun robotics strange + wonderful

india working on $10 laptop: one very cheap laptop per indian

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The Indian government is currently working with private companies as well as several “elite technology institutions” to develop a 500 rupee ($10 USD) laptop. In contrast, the OLPC laptop’s screen alone costs $28.50 USD. The Times Online says that the project is already three years in the making, and that the Indian government expects to have a prototype of the…

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February 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing future tech mobile tech technology

stonehenge 2.0 : keyboard monument in russia

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Tens of thousands of years from now when robots and ninjas rule the earth, they will find all sorts of man-made stuff which will surely baffle them, such as toilets. And poo. Maybe archeologist ninjas and robo-historians will be scratching their heads when they find this strange collection of shaped stones in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Upon closer inspection, the robo-historians will…

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February 2nd, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun strange + wonderful

everything is malware: was google hacked?

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It’s 10:54 pm, Saturday, January 31 here in the Philippines as I’m writing this. I noted the time because, right now, Google is going insane. How?

I wanted to check out Google’s M-Lab after reading about it in Lifehacker. I clicked the link on the article but for some reason it didn’t go through. So I go to Google and…

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January 31st, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing strange + wonderful technology

beds on facebook: furniture revolution

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It’s pretty normal these days to keep a blog or Twitter account. Some people even set up social networking accounts for their infant children, or even their pets. One intrepid person has pushed the envelope, however, into a realm heretofore unimagined: she’s got a bed with its own not-inconsiderable fanbase on Facebook.

The custom hamburger (or, cheeseburger, as it maybe…

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January 19th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: design just plain fun technology

strange speakers look like little dead guy

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen speakers that looked quite this strange. Designed to be your “little dead desktop buddy”, they look like something that your neighborhood dominatrix might have sitting next to her computer.

The oddly-named Dutch Dead Bbudd speaker system looks like some sort of naugahyde-wrapped dude with his eyes X’d out. The speakers are embedded into…

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March 4th, 2008 comments (9) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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