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This is one of those gadgets that’s funny for like 5 minutes – a bottle opener that looks like a motorcycle’s grip. It revs up when you open a bottle with it! Yay. Awesome.
Open a bottle of your favorite beer! Vrooom! Or a miniature bottle of your favorite whiskey! Vrooom! Or grape-flavored Fanta! Vr…ooom?…
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October 26th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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NotebookReview forum member chrixx ordered something from HP. He got what he asked for, but he wasn’t prepared for this:
chrixx claims that that’s a 10kg (22 lbs) wooden pallet. See what I’m getting at? He orders a tiny thing, something that should only weigh “barely 300g”, and he ends up with this monstrosity: “…I…
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August 22nd, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing just plain fun
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A Japanese company called solidalliance has come up with Mnemosyne, an aluminum cube that holds an otherwise ordinary 16GB flash drive inside. But it’s not that simple: the cube is actually a puzzle.
It’s made of smaller pieces that you have to slide apart before you can get to the flash drive. That’s the flash…
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July 3rd, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing design gadgets mobile tech technology
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You know the Terminator franchise has officially jumped the shark when 1) Terminator: Salvation can get trounced at the box office by a Ben Stiller movie and 2) they start making bobble-head versions of the deadly T-600.
I really don’t care that its eyes glow with red LEDs just like a real Terminator. There’s just something so…
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May 27th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: cool toys strange + wonderful
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Nowadays, beta males are considered cool guys. There’s Chuck. There’s Leonard and Sheldon. There’s Justin Long in Die Hard 4.0. There’s Dwight Schrute. Okay maybe not Dwight. But you get it right? And when something is marketed as cool, you can bet your neighbor’s family that the media and the market will milk the living…
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March 10th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: just plain fun
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Do you swear like a truck driver? Yeah, me too. Now you can clear any room by dropping the old F-Bomb, literally.
Just toss this plush softball-sized cartoon “bomb” into any room and as soon as it hits the floor, it’ll shout out your favorite four-letter word. Toss a dozen of these into your company’s…
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December 24th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun strange + wonderful
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These may look like your typical cheap schlock shop knock-offs of popular gadgets, but they’re much more devious than that. You see, while they may bear a slight resemblance to a certain portable gaming system, media player and a dime-store pocket laser, they’re actually practical jokes that deliver a nasty shock.
Available in PSP, iPod…
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December 30th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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If you’ve got a really cruel streak, here’s a new prank for your arsenal of practical jokes. This may look like an ordinary car keychain remote, but it won’t actually open any vehicle. Instead, it lets out a tiny jolt of electricity when your unsuspecting victim presses the wrong button.
The thing that makes me…
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December 16th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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Breaker, breaker, any of you got your ears on out there? This wacky invention out of Japan lets you use your cell phone like an old CB radio.
The Taito Transceiver hooks up to your mobile phone’s headset jack and lets you communicate with all the other truckers in your convoy. For those of you…
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November 4th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech retro strange + wonderful
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You’ve gotta love this. Apparently some dirty little troll over at SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) has been sneaking around over at Wikipedia and edited Microsoft’s Halo 3 entry.
Back in April, the SCEE poster added the small notation “Although it wont look any better than Halo 2″ to the listing, implying that the game’s graphics…
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September 4th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: video games
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Have a juvenile sense of humor? Now you can get out your immature tendencies with this remote controlled version of the “classic” Whoopee Cushion.
Just place the battery-operated receiver unit under your unsuspecting coworker’s chair, head back to your cubicle and press the wireless trigger and let the mayhem ensue. There’s nothing like a good…
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August 14th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun
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It’s a necktie. No, it’s a fan. No, it’s a necktie. No, it’s a fan AND a necktie in one! Yep, leave it to the gadget wizards at Japan’s Thanko to come up with this bright idea.
The $25 USB Tie Fan is a giant clip-on that you can wear around your neck, keeping you…
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August 9th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets strange + wonderful
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