USB-Compatible Voodoo Doll December 22, 2006
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It's
been a while since I busted out my wiccan bible and had a little go
with witchcraft, but I recall voodoo dolls not requiring power, or USB
connectivity for that matter. Upon stabbing this voodoo doll with a
pin, knife, icepick, etc it will spout out "nastygrams" on the computer
screen that it is connected to. This doll, called Voodoo Word, isn't
out yet, but it supposedly should be available soon.
The Black Arts are bus-powered [SlashGear]
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Roll-up USB Powered Piano Keyboard December 22, 2006
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If
you have ever really wanted to prove to your cubicle neighbors that you
truly are the reincarnate of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this $30 roll-up,
rubber piano keyboard may be the best option. The keyboard also has
more than 128 different instruments available (in case you also want to
prove that you are also the reincarnate of Kenny G) and it allows for
recording via the PC.
Product Page [Via Gearlog]
Anytone Super Portable Charger December 22, 2006
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Holding a ginormous 20,000 mAh, this Anytone portable charger could theoretically charge your cellphone a maximum of twenty times. Most phones have 1000 mAh batteries, and most laptops have around 4000 to 5000 mAh, which means this battery holds twenty times more juice than your phone and four times more than your laptop.
However, thanks to the laws of thermodynamics, you're not going to see a perfect 20x charge. But it is enough to add about 3-6 hours of work time to your laptops. The Anytone APC-20000 is around $200 from Hong Kong, but the sites we saw only took orders of 500.
Product Page [Anytone via Gearfuse - Thanks Mark!]
Beer Tap Backpack: What Not to Wear to an Intervention December 22, 2006
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Be the most popular player on your rec softball team next summer with this Beer Tap Backpack. Perfect for alcoholics, functional alcoholics, and college students, it loads up with beer and allows your friends and family to drink refreshingly warm and flat brew via the tap strapped to your back. It even has a mesh holder for cups, making you a portable party. It's a mere $44, way cheaper than the liver transplant you'll eventually need. Party on!
Product Page [via ProductDose]
It's Norad Santa Tracking Time Again! December 22, 2006
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What better way to keep the little ones occupied while you do
whatever it is you do around Christmas—binge drinking perhaps—than the
Norad Santa tracker?
As is the tradition every year, Norad uses their fancy satellites, which are supposed to warn us about incoming North Korean nukes, to track Santa's progress in delivering Wiis and PS3s to good little boys and girls.
So if half of our population is gone on the morning of December 25 thanks to some Kim Jung Bombs, you know who to blame.
Lego Record Player Meets Ozzy Osbourne December 22, 2006
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I was happy just being able to construct trucks from the Lego manual, never mind getting all technically brilliant like the boys who have created a Lego record player. Even the engine is made from a robotics invention system.
Lego was never this cool when I was a 4ft tall demon child but then if it had I would never have learned to love the Sinclair Spectrum 48k, wasted months of my precious life on frustrating text-only adventures, and laid the ground-work for scribbling about all this wonderful junk we can play with today.
Mark and Ralph in the video might prove the geek stereotype but hats off to their ingenuity. The sound is certainly not hi-fi but you can still hear Ozzy wailing like two cats in a bag on the classic Iron Man.
Happy Christmas fellas.-Martin Lynch
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Mercedes Ocean Drive Concept Car: Dull, Dull, Dull December 22, 2006
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This is the Ocean Drive concept car from Mercedes which is just about one of the most bland and boring designs I have seen on a high-end, luxury concept car for a long time.
As convertibles go it’s as big as a barge but then it is aimed at the US market – at least that’s where it’s been revealed. This concept is looking like production beckons but come on, since when did Mercedes start taking design cues for its cars from that well-known design-graveyard, Chrysler?
All together now how do we spell ugly? O-C-E-A-N D-
More pics after the jump.- Martin Lynch
Robots To Get Human Rights - Just As Soon As They Stop Falling Over December 22, 2006
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The one good thing about crystal-ball gazing is that when it doesn’t come true you also shrug and say: “nothing’s perfect.” So, when I hear that robots – or synthetic beings or whatever – will have the same rights as humans in 50 years time I have to wonder if it’s really that big a deal? After all 50 years in science and technology terms is a very, very, long way away.
That’s the premise of just one paper, or scan, in to the future among 250 others commissioned by the UK Office of Science and Innovation's Horizon Scanning Center. According to the robot paper, they could one day sue for their rights and will be eligible for housing, benefits and even, get this, ‘robo-healthcare’.
Apparently though we don’t have to worry about any of that for at least 20 years. However, just a decade away are some serious lifespan extending drugs and artificial retinas. I’ll take both, thanks.
Click now for the Sigma and Delta sites. -Martin Lynch
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