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toilet speakers: if it’s sound, flush it down

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Before I begin, please do not ask me why these exist. I have no idea. But somebody over in China got the bright idea that we really needed speakers that looked like miniature toilets.

Each porta-potty cranks out 2-watts of sound, with a frequency range of 80Hz to 25kHz, and a supposed signal-to-noise ratio of…

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August 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: audio strange + wonderful technology

technology saves the day in a weird way: man loses eyesight, doctors restore it by implanting his tooth in his right eye

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Martin Jones lost his eyesight about 10 years ago, when “a white hot tub of aluminum exploded in his face” while we was working at a scrapyard. Doctors had to remove his left eye, while his right eye was rendered useless because of the damage. Jones married his wife four years ago while still without…

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July 13th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: strange + wonderful weird science

enviro-bear 2010: best iphone driving game ever (with bears)

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Now let me start by saying this. When I say “best”, I really mean “weirdest”, but once you check out Enviro-Bear 2010 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you’ll understand why I say that.

Actually, according to Destructoid’s Anthony Burch’s review of the PC version, Enviro-Bear is the “best, and only bear-driving-a-car-simulator”, which I have…

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July 11th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun strange + wonderful video games

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…

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June 13th, 2009 comments (2) 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.…

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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…

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May 27th, 2009 comments (3) 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…

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

filed under: design just plain fun robots 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

Dead Bbudd Speakers

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.…

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

filed under: home entertainment strange + wonderful