Hanging Harry Light Pull Gives Your Room a Touch of Gloom June 6, 2007
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Most light pulls brighten up your room. Hanging Harry, on the other hand, darkens it up. The suicidal light pull comes with a limp, lifeless body and 6.5 feet of string/rope. It'll appeal to your morbid sense of humor (or make everyone think you're weird). It goes for $15, which is a lot cheaper than Prozac. – Louis Ramirez
The Hanging Harry Light Pull [SlashGear]
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X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor June 6, 2007
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X-Keys are a strip of shortcut buttons that you stick on your monitor and assign macros to using software, allowing you to quickly do tasks you do frequently with the push of a single button.
Solid Titanium Re-Nano iPod nano Case: Almost Worth All 80,000 Pennies June 6, 2007
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If it's obscenely expensive or shiny (preferably both), odds are, we love it. So obviously we dig the $818 (¥99,750) solid titanium FACTRON Re-Nano iPod nano case from Kiwami Studios. Besides being one of the sexiest (and sturdiest) cases we've ever seen, it sports hooks on each corner to allow dangleage from any direction. If only they could forge the follow-up from solid adamantine, we'd be totally sold. – Matt Buchanan
Product Page [via Tech Digest]
Panasonic's 7mm DVD Burner, World's Thinnest But Still Feels Fat In This Dress June 6, 2007
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Panasonic just rolled out its slimmest DVD burner yet, and this one looks like it hasn't eaten in a month. Just 7mm thick and weighing 3.5 ounces, if it got any thinner the DVD itself would be too thick to fit inside.
LED Art Fan Shows Off Your Hentai Animation June 6, 2007
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The LED Art Fan goes beyond showing the temperature or absurd color patterns, letting you store up to 128 colorful frames in its built-in 5MB memory. The only thing that stops me from satisfying my tacky Blade Runnerish decoration instincts is the strange way to load the animations.
Smart Coffee Lids: Never Incinerate Your Mouth Again June 6, 2007
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On the rare occasion that I actually con myself into thinking that £2 is a reasonable price for a cup of average coffee in a crappy cardboard cup, I usually end up burning my mouth off.
It’s not that I’m particularly dense, it’s just that most coffee is served with water so hot that it’s a smidgen below steam. And, it seems to stay that way forever so that, inevitably, I forget that there’s a volcano in my cup and gulp away heedlessly.
Now, thanks to lots of lawsuits in the US – where else? – coffee houses and chains hare having to do what they can to protect dopey customers from scalding themselves. A company called Smart Lid Systems has a novel answer, with special lids that change colour based on temperature.
From cold to hot, the lid changes from dark brown to a bright red, based on heat. There’s also a visual indicator on the lid to tell you whether it is on properly or not. Don’t be surprised to find these at your Starbucks sooner, rather than later, so get those lawsuits in quick.-Martin Lynch
[QSRweb]
Sony’s Giga Juke Is 'Giga-Priced' June 6, 2007
READ MORE Digital Audio , Entertainment , Hi-fi , Home Entertainment , MP3 , Music
We are used to inhaling sharply at Sony prices at least once a month, and the arrival of the Giga Juke is no exception. That said, £500 is a lot to ask for a digital music hi-fi, even by Sony standards.
OK, so you can hook it up to a network and it has DAB radio too – I should bloody hope so – but even with its 80GB hard disk drive, £500 is a lot of green for this kind of device. Here’s what you get though:
Stores up to 40,000 music tracks
Record music from CD, vinyl, cassette, radio and MP3 players with or without PC
High Speed up to 16x audio ripping from CD
Auto Artist/Album/Track Title Labelling
“x-DJ” automatically creates themed playlists for any occasion
Transfer tracks to MP3 player, mobile phone or PSP™ up to 50x speed
4.3in LCD display
2 x 85 watt power output (RMS) speakers
And, lastly, don’t forget that big burning hole in your pocket. Is this worth £500?-Martin Lynch
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Oldest Camera Breaks Sales Records June 6, 2007
READ MORE Digital cameras , Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Peripherals , Technology
If you thought some new high-end digital cameras were expensive, then you should try getting your hands on some the oldest cameras in the world.
The most expensive snapper in the world just went under the hammer last week for a heart-stopping £391,000. Built in 1839, the camera – or the Daguerreotype by Susse Freres of France – is classed as the oldest commercially produced camera and was snapped up by an anonymous online bidder at the Vienna Gallery and Auction House.
Found in an attic [apparently the BBC isn’t lying and there really is Cash in the Attic], the professor [a.k.a. lucky git] that found it said:
“It was clear to me straight away that this was a camera from the first year of photography.”
However, weighing up to 13lbs, you’d have a job carting it around in your pocket.-Martin Lynch
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