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freewheeler speaker looks like a tire, priced like a car

filed under: design | home entertainment | strange and wonderful

Viteo Freewheeler Outdoor Wireless Speaker

Nope, this isn’t some crazy whitewall tire for your car. It’s actually a high-end wireless outdoor speaker which can be rolled around anywhere you want.

Designed by Ron Arad and Frances Pellisari for Austria’s Viteo, the Freewheeler produces high quality stereo sound indoors or out…

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August 8th, 2008 7 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

orbitwheels turn rollerblades on their side

filed under: gadgets | just plain fun

orbitwheels image via core77.com

In the beginning, there was the roller skate, then came the skate board and later the Rollerblade. So what’s the next conveyance that we’ll be strapping to our feet to roll around the street?

Orbitwheels move sort of like inline skates, but a wheel rotates around your feet, instead of under them…

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July 27th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

lip mystic analog watch: watching the wheels go ’round

filed under: design | retro | timepieces

LIP Mystic Analog Dial Watch

When I first looked at this watch, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of numbers displayed on the face at once. But once I took a second to get my bearings, I actually thought it was pretty cool.

The Lip Mystic displays time using three concentric circular discs, the outermost one containing hours, the middle one showing minutes, and the inner one indicating seconds…

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January 11th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

photon skateboards get undercarriage lighting

filed under: gadgets | just plain fun

Photon Light Boards LED Skateboards

The latest in skateboard tech, these Photon Light Boards let you hit the streets after dark thanks to their brilliant built-in illumination.

Whether you’re just a hot shot and want to show off your moves, or you’re sick of taking a face plant on the curb when skating in the dark, the LED skateboards are sure to draw attention…

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January 10th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

seiko discus watch: let the spinning wheels spin

filed under: design | timepieces

seiko moving image discus watch

This gorgeous new watch from Seiko Japan uses a series of spinning aluminum discs to display the current time.

Unlike some of the more cryptic modern watches coming out of Japan these days, the Seiko Discus is actually quite easy to read. A set of three numbered discs continuously rotate to display hours, minutes and seconds…

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December 30th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

porsche wheel casemod does rock, won’t roll

filed under: computing | hacks-mods

Porsche Wheel Case Mod

This automotive-inspired casemod embeds a complete high-end PC built inside an alloy wheel from an SUV.

The liquid cooled SLI-Machine Wheel PC is loaded into an 18-inch wheel from a Porsche Cayenne, then wrapped up in a Bridgestone Dueler H/P radial tire to round things out.

An intense green neon backlighting system gives the computer a bright glow as soon as the lights go out…

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December 18th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bike wheels reveal hidden messages

filed under: gadgets

Lampex Lex LED Bike Module

Here’s a cool gadget that lets you send messages using the wheels of your bicycle. By using an optical illusion called persistence of vision, your words are revealed as you pedal your bike.

The Lampex Lex module screws onto the spokes of your bicycle, and produces rapidly flashing sequences of LEDs to display your messages…

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October 1st, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

roller-walker: the real rollerskating robot

filed under: robotics | strange and wonderful

Roller-Walker Robot

A while back I had a very popular post about Plen, a little bipedal humanoid robot who happened to be able to rollerskate. While that was all for show, this robot actually skates around as one of its primary methods of locomotion…

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September 2nd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

xbox 360 racing wheel: new model coming?

filed under: video games

Xbox Wireless Racing Wheel WRW01

I was digging through the FCC archives this weekend and came across something interesting. It looks like the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel is getting some sort of an update…

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July 29th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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