Pop Art Color Cam December 15, 2006
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If you have ever wanted to have the inspiration and desire for pop art without the need for LSD or acid (see: Andy Warhol) this cheap-ass camera can do it. The Pop Art Color Cam can reproduce four images, each with a different tint of color. No digital here, folks. This is good old fashion 35mm. At least you won't have to learn how to silkscreen (that is the process Andy Warhol used to create his different colored images ... the more you know). – Travis Hudson
Product Page [Via uberreview]
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Ravezooka Weapon Fires Sound, Not Bullets December 15, 2006
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Rather than firing live ammunition, the Ravezooka shoots music. Confused? With a pull of the trigger, the Ravezooka emits sounds at different frequencies depending on the distance to the target at which you're aiming. Closer targets will cause the Ravezooka to emit lower frequency sounds while targets that are further away cause it to emit higher frequency sounds. Additionally, an LED spits out a beam of light to help your aim be as true as ever.
Ok, so the Ravezooka looks like one of those art school projects that kids do in order to express themselves. It doesn't have any megapixles of gigabytes to speak of, but the mere thought of shooting Travis with low frequency sounds is enough to get me very excited. – Nicholas Deleon
Ravezooka Project Page [ITP Winter Show 2006 via we make money not art]
'Bridge' Concept Can Turn Anything Into Braille December 15, 2006
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This conceptual design is the work of Chinese company, Togo. It is a device that can scan text in books, magazine, etc and instantly turn it into Braille to be read by the individual. It can also save the Braille-converted text for future reading (and pirating at the library).
The braille screen works with electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. When the current or voltage goes through every array of six stitches, the resulting rise and decline gives birth to braille. The product scans the original printed matter, then translates the images into analog electrical signals with an optical-to-electrical transducer. Finally, it translates the analog electrical signal into a digital signal.
That is one hell of a device, if it ever actually comes out. Now if only we could replicate the feeling of looking at a good porno magazine for the blind... – Travis Hudson
blind reader-translate letter to Braille - "bridge" [Via SCI FI, Yanko]
P.S. Welcome back, YankoDesign. Yanko is a favorite design blog of mine that had been on hiatus for a couple months, but is now back in full force.
Binaural Head Mic Makes You Feel Like You're There, Man December 15, 2006
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If you want to record music that will sound amazing in headphones, retaining and delivering the space that the music was recorded in, this is how you do it. The KU 100 Dummy Head by Georg Neumann is a binaural recording device that has a mic in each ear, and the sound it records is strikingly true to how it would sound if the listener was in the position of the head.
And yes, this is where the name of that Pearl Jam album came from, as they used one of these bad boys in the studio. Is there anything better than well recorded, spatially-rich music on a good set of headphones? –Adam Frucci
Product Page [via NotCot.org]
Afro-Brush Cleans Your Keyboard December 15, 2006
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What better way to clean the crumbs from your keyboard than to use an afro? Flip the little finger-puppet over, pop off his afro, and use the underlying brush to whisk away the only remnants of that romantic night you had cybering away with that Woodelf in Everquest.
The brush comes in Afro, Elvis, Yakuza or Geeky Mushroom. – Jason Chen
Product page [Cataloger via Tokyo Mango]
Is This The First Vibrator Patent? December 15, 2006
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Thanks to Google's new patent search app, reader Ryan has been able to find what could be the first patent for a Vibrator. It was filed all the way back in 1926, titled "Electric Therapeutic Appliance", and was filed by John Dequer of Los Angeles.
The patent's also been referenced three times in the last twenty-odd years, as patent application titles became less and less creative. From the "Electric Therapeutic Appliance" to the "Mild-temperature thermomassage instrument" to "Apparatus for the threatment of diseases of the walls of opening or cavities of the body" to the most recent, and most straightforward, "Dildo". – Jason Chen
Patent [Google - Thanks Ryan]
Nintendo Recalls Deadly Blogger-Hanging TV-Set-Exploding Wiimote Straps December 15, 2006
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Nintendo responded to butter-fingered whiners who've somehow managed let go of their Wiimotes, resulting in exploding TV sets, broken windows and blackened eyes. Heck, some bloggers (pictured) have even managed to get choked by the things. The company is offering to replace any straps, broken or not, for free, and each new Wiimote shipped with the Wii console now has an enhanced strap that won't break so easily.
The company asks you to take a look at the picture above and figure out whether you have one of the newer versions of the strap on your controller. If you have that slightly thinner original version, fill out this form and Nintendo says it will start shipping replacement straps on December 21. Our advice: just keep the damn thing in your hand. Idea: wash that lube off before you start playing Zelda. – Charlie White
Nintendo respond to Wii breakages [BBC News]
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