This Paul Frank inspired mobile makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
How much will you get paid to carry around this garish piece of kitsch? You’ll actually have to pay for the privilege. $US140 in fact. The thing was so popular after Gizmodo posted it today that the vendor’s site is down.
Also awesome, also from ThinkGeek. This one’s $7.99.
Admit it. You’ve always looked at Dr Evil with envy because of Mini Me. I know I have. A little me running around doing my bidding would be awesome. Especially if the “mini me” was every bit as funny as I am. And if they looked, and sounded, like me that would be extra awesome.
Well, your own army of robot minions is no longer an unattainable dream. Little Island, A Japanese company, is producing them upon request. No idea what it costs though. But here are the specs:
Features:
We produce the Look a Like Doll with the hand making.
The Look a Like Doll is able to make a speech in the person’s voice.
It is possible to talk over from the remote place to
the person who exists completely in front of the Look a Like Doll,
and to monitor it.
It is possible to use it as only LAN cable is connected with
the power cable, and the setting doesn’t exist.
The operation only turns on the power on/off switch and is OK.
Please call when you end, “Shutdown”. ”
Function
Voice recognition
It is possible to operate the Look a Like Doll using Voice recognition.
Voice synthesis
The Look a Like Doll synthesize the person’s voice, and it talks using the voice.
Remote Control
It talks from the destination with the person who exists completely in front of
the Look a Like Doll.
The appearance in the room etc. can be seen.
RSS reading out
The Look a Like Doll will tell you Today’s weather and fortune-telling, etc.
Specifications
☆ Shape
We will make Look a Like Dall for the customer’s hoped design.
The height is about 40cm.
☆ CPU
LX800（500MHz)(AMD Geode)
512MB DDR SDRAM
80GB Solid State Disk
10/100Base-TX Ethernet
☆ Software
WindowsXP（Ｍｉｃｒｏｓｏｆｔ）
ＡｌｉｆｅＥｎｇｉｎｅ
☆ Power Supply
ＡＣ１００－２４０Ｖ １．２Ａ
☆ Others
Camera：0.1M pixel CMOS sensor
Speaker：1W(0.5W+0.5W)(200Hz-20kHz)
Geeks love overclocking. Making their computers more hardcore than the out of the box version.
My wife loves this clock. And geeks will too. $US20 from Etsy. Found via Boing Boing.
Speaking of beautifully designed things… Gizmodo just posted a link to this Aussie designed glass pool table – complete with a special surface that emulates the friction and movement of felt. The privilege of having this bad boy in your living room will cost you a cool $38,000 or thereabouts. But hey, Plasma televisions cost that much back in the day – and look at them now.
Want to pin up your work in intimidating style? Bring your ninja skills to the cubicle wall with these… they will however set you back $12 (Canadian) for a set of 3. Match them with the aforementioned shuriken fridge magnets for total ninja feng shui.
Does that scenario look familiar to any of you girls out there? Well, now there’s a solution.
A toilet seat with built in scale. Designed to make girls feel good about their weight – but used to give guys bragging fodder regarding their weighty issue. Come on, admit it, you’ve always wondered how much that thing you just flushed weighed… or maybe that’s just me.
Tired of your old, boring keyboard? Spend all day dreaming about board games? Maybe you like long words using the letter q – like quixotic in the never ending hope you’ll come up with the goods next time you sit down for a friendly game of Scrabble. It’s worth 76 points according to this scrabble calculator. Now you’ll be able to figure it out using your keyboard without actually keying in a stroke…
I shared this Scrabble keyboard yesterday via a link – but text doesn’t do it justice. Here it is in the flesh.
How many points for xylophone?
nanananananananananana Batman
I grew up watching reruns of the 1960s Batman serial starring Adam West. I bought the DVD of the Batman Movie spin off from the same series for about $7. It’s probably the worst Batman movie ever made. Even worse than the one with Arnie as Mr Freeze. But I digress. The thing that made that Batman series so good was the super imposed, jagged edged, comic book style “sock”, “pow”, and “zap”. Action onomatopoeia at its best.
If, like me, you grew up wanting to pack a punch like Batman – then this 950,000V infusing knuckle duster will give your self defense a real “wham” effect. The best bit – a set of these – for your own fists of fury – will only set you back $US100.
Zap, Pow, Wham
See what’s happening here? It’s the X-Men effect. Asking “what would your mutant power be?” is a great ice-breaker. And today’s inventors are going about developing all the cool mutant powers you can think of… these knuckledusters will help aspiring Surges (from the “new X-Men”) discover their electric personalities.
It seems invisibility isn’t far off either. What would your mutant power be?
Anyone who has played Red Alert knows that Tesla Coils are the ultimate home base defence system. And anyone who hasn’t, but knows what a Tesla coil is knows that they’re totally awesome.
That’s why this guitar amp is cool:
And, why this photographic re-enactment of Red Alert is also cool.
Red Alert: Tesla Coil
If you’re not convinced that Tesla coils are the coolest thing since electricity then check out this gallery from the Red Alert Tesla Guy (an Australian) on the SMH.
Haiku in a shirttotally very awesomeshould I buy it now?
How many of these have you used? Are designs getting clunkier and more complex? Or more intuitive?
Really, it’s just a cool pic.
Here’s the original post – complete with family tree
Tokyo Raiders is a very good bad Hong Kong Kung Fu movie. With an umbrella wielding protagonist. As featured below.
He also competently wields a vacuum cleaner in this scene…
Effective. One can only imagine he’d have been more effective with this custom made umbrella weapon. The Umbuster .
I can’t get enough of these pointless gadgets people are inventing. Here’s a new take on the piggy bank – complete with motion sensors. It will eat your money. Buy it here for $22US. Watch it in action below.
We're living in iTimes. I was walking through the supermarket yesterday and was surprised by the number of people who shop while attached to personal sound devices. Anyway, I digress. The reason for this post is actually the Eye-Fi – which makes it easier to share your photos with your iFriends via your photo platform of choice. It's an SD card with built in wireless and it's about $100US – I'd buy it if I could justify the expense and if it wasn't so easy to use a cable. Good trick for garage sailing (sic) though – provided your laptop comes with a 3G modem and you want your spouse to approve.