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by Mark Rollins on March 21, 2007
When will the electronics industry learn that technical and cute don't mix? Those Robo-dogs are just so not canine, and Raytron's Chapit is cute in name only.
However, what Raytron's Cha...
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by Mark Rollins on March 9, 2007
I'm sure a lot of environmentalists are concerned with the amount of non-recyclable plastic materials in our LCD TVs. Fortunately, a certain company decided to construct a television whose housing...
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by Eric Hanson on March 3, 2007
I share the love of bacon common to most meat-eating male Americans. When Sonic Restaurants had an advertisement a few months ago where one character stated that he knew all things about bacon because...
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by Mark Rollins on February 8, 2007
Every once in a while, a product comes out that I can't resist reporting about, but I'm unsure if it's real or not. For example, a recent report that I did on a Lightsaber MP3 Player may o...
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by Mark Rollins on February 5, 2007
Apparently, little children fear television remote controls. At least, that's what one study that I have seen quoted on many sources says. Designer Hayeon Yoo has designed a friendlier-looking rem...
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by Mark Rollins on January 31, 2007
There is some weird iPod accessories out there, but this one has got to take the cake. Thinklabs ds32a Digital Stethoscope takes the classic doctor's tool and attaches it to an iPod. Doctors can t...
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by Eric Hanson on January 30, 2007
Ah, acne treatments. You always seemed like the red-headed stepchild of beauty products; the dark underbelly that many have to face but no one wants to acknowledge. If you have to deal with "mode...
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by tiago on January 25, 2007
In case you are a freelance bartender (does it exist something like that?) and want to have your own small and personal setup that can be ready to use in just a few minutes, there is a Portable Bar ...
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by Mark Rollins on January 20, 2007
Obviously the Xip3 (or, as it is written, the Xip cubed) was inspired by those who really liked The transformers as children. How else can you explain why someone would develop a product that provides...
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by Eric Hanson on January 20, 2007
According to NBC11.com, a woman who died in the San Francisco area last week after competing in an on-air contest on KDND-FM's morning show died as a result of water intoxication, a condition wher...
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by Eric Hanson on December 22, 2006
One for the MySpace generation? Or maybe for all of those people who wrote to Barbaro after he broke his leg? Very, very odd in any case, but I'm sure that won't stop the makers of the Breath ...
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by Eric Hanson on December 12, 2006
I mentioned the other day that gadget watches are the new thing for the cool kits to put on their wrists - here's one of the watches that I meant in name, if not in spirit.
Called the GammaMaste...
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by Eric Hanson on December 8, 2006
As we've seen throughout this year, 2006 seems to be the year of the weird USB device, so why not end it with one of the weirdest ones yet? That's right, folks: you can now buy a USB-powered w...
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by tiago on December 1, 2006
Instead of having normal photos in your wallet to remember the beloved people, you can get into the future and start looking at the photos on a digital format with the Pocket Photo Album. It's a...
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by Eric Hanson on November 21, 2006
Who knew people were all about buzzing apples? Especially on Thanksgiving. But yes, that's what this post on Make: Blog is about; a circuit board plugged into a USB port that, when approached, sta...
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by Eric Hanson on November 7, 2006
head lice. They seem to be a problem for children and their habit of getting into anything and everything and they're a pain in the neck to get rid of. Stupid parasites think they belong in the ha...
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by Eric Hanson on October 24, 2006
For those of you who think camping is something you do out of the back of a car in a well-manicured campground that sports showers, a country store and possibly even a tennis court or two, you might w...
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by Eric Hanson on October 24, 2006
I'm not sure if this USB-powered keyboard vacuum is built into a rubber duck because Sanwa Supply was looking for a way to distinguish their products, or because their market research showed that ...
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by Eric Hanson on October 11, 2006
Forget your battery packs, your portable chargers and your search for the nearest power outlet - now you can charge things through your clothes! Or you will be able to...eventually...maybe.
Clothing...
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by Eric Hanson on October 10, 2006
George Forman's little grill certainly caused a revolution anywhere cooking space is tight - from college dorms to government-sponsored SROs and even homeless shelters. Sure, the Grill plays up th...
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by Eric Hanson on September 27, 2006
I swear, we could run an entire blog just on the weird stuff that Brando puts out. This time the product is an animated USB kitty armed with a vision, motion and sound sensor that mews, hisses and sin...
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by tiago on September 8, 2006
An interesting discovery was made yesterday at a prison in El Salvador, four prisoners had cell phones "inside them" as you can see by the X-ray photo. The strategy used was simple: put th...
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by tiago on August 31, 2006
The Shake Awake Alarm Clock is not a normal alarm clock that beeps and make noises at the desired time, that is so old-school. What's really in right now is putting an alarm clock "inside&quo...
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by tiago on August 30, 2006
This might seem a bit strange but it's actually quite useful, the Pet Phone Food Dispense works with your cellphone in case you want to feed your dog/cat and are not home, the working process is ...
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by tiago on August 21, 2006
A simple idea can turn out to be a great product, depending on your point of view of course. Anyway, imagination is what counts for the people that made the Bean-Born Eggs and what they did is simpl...
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by Eric Hanson on August 21, 2006
For those of you rocking desk chairs that don't do much for the air flow under your legs and rear end, possibly made worse by summer heat and lack of air conditioning, leaving you with sweaty neth...
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by Eric Hanson on August 14, 2006
You know the whole new age healing thing with magnets? Where the aligning power of magnets improves your life, makes you feel better, cures all woes, etc. ? Well, someone (specifically Patrick Ferrell...
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by Shane McGlaun on August 14, 2006
Surely Jeff Foxworthy would agree that if you own a beer cooler with wheels and a motor, you might be a redneck. I mean just look at the guy in the product shot to the left. Anyone want to make odds t...
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by Shane McGlaun on August 14, 2006
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this gizmo was, why? I have childhood memories of my grandmothers rotary phone, I vaguely recall it taking a year to dial. Nonetheless, some enterprising g...
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by Shane McGlaun on August 6, 2006
If like Dr. Evil, you find the look of a shorn scrotum quite breathtaking this is certainly the gadget for you. The gizmo is a little aaa battery powered trimmer that you can use to prune your nether ...
