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The guys and gals over at Gizmodo are running a special at the moment on When Machines Go Bad. Well, this is a story of how the wrong machines can do good in the right hands. Last Friday the 15th, 13 year old Nicholas Rossi from Maryborough (170 km North West of Melbourne, Australia) fell off his bike and banged his head. He was knocked out for 30 seconds but got up and seemed fined. His mum (a nurse) decided…
Look people if you keep buying this stuff, they’ll just keep making it. This Dry Bones dog umbrella from Amazon is just what I’m talking about. It’s see-through, the rigid handle connects to the dog’s leash, it opens up to 75cm diameter and keeps your fluffy companion dry as you stroll through the rain. $US19.99. Any more questions? Clear umbrella/ Keeps pets dry, built in leash hook, easy grip/ 29″ diameter when open. Tags: gadget, pet+umbrella, dog+umbrella
Sounding like a new social networking site, FaceBank2 is a new-and-improved FaceBank. Basically it’s an animatronic piggy bank that “sniffs” and “chews” any coins you dare insert. It holds about 30 quarter-sized coins, comes in pink or blue and needs 4 AAA batteries. Now if it’s a piggy bank, shouldn’t it have a snout? $US49.99 from AudioCubes. The sensitivity increased because now without the eyes from the original Facebank, Facebank2 smells your money and chews your coin until it drops….
In 1979, the NASA space station Skylab returned to Earth in a fiery trail of destruction after 5 years of swanning about in orbit sans crew. Well the folks in Esperance in Western Australia didn’t take too kindly to this wanton littering and so Esperance fined NASA $AU400 for their sloppy aeronautics. Just a bit of fun really. Not much else happened after that, NASA ignored the fine, tourists enquired about it, footnotes got added to Wikipedia and it was…
Seriously, is there anything you can’t buy on Amazon? This Electronic Spin the Bottle Game is for those of you who are too, too … well I just don’t know what, words fail me. It comes with 130 built in commands, sound effects and a light to show who’s it. C’mon people what’s wrong with using a real bottle to play spin the bottle? Too analogue? Sheesh! (wanders off muttering to himself). $US18.93 This isn’t your parents’ Spin the Bottle….
Xbox Controller Soap. Well what else is there to say…really? Seven ounces, raised buttons, scented with Mountain Dew fragrance oil. Priceless. $12.00. I finally had an opportunity to make soap in the shape of an Xbox controller! Now, the PlayStation soaps will have a proper rival. The Xbox soap weighs seven ounces and has raised buttons. This one comes with the added addition of colors, so it looks even more realistic than the others. Despite its weight of 7 ounces,…
What happens when you display every Star Trek Voyager episode ever made on the screen at once? You get the Star Trek Voyager Singularity. Artist Arthur Vierkant torrented all 172 Voyager episodes, assembled them in Final Cut Pro and produced a 56 minute long episode showing all of the episodes at once. I don’t think there was any sound. Click through and see a 2 minute, fast forward version. [via Information Aesthetics] Concept: Display each episode of the television series…
This Rong Zun 758 Razor Phone gets our vote as the weirdest combo around. Not only a dual SIM, MP3 playing, quad band mobile phone, but for some reason known only to the designer and his maker, a shaver too. So we’re like, what, does this cause more cut off calls too? $115.74. The first Razor phone that is super-fit men used. Convenience to carry and practical. As long as you give the battery can be full of electric shaving,…
If you’re dog-rich but time-poor then maybe you need a Jog A Dog doggie treadmill. There are 4 different versions, for toy dogs all the way up to your giant bull mastiffs. The treadmills can do between 1 and 10 mph, are very quiet and are claimed to be maintenance free. They also have an easy grip surface and the running surface can be easily removed and cleaned. Prices start from $US1,195 and just remember what’s good for the dog…
Financial crisis got you over a barrel? Well you know what the self-help gurus say, you make your own luck. Now it’s true with the Grow Your Own Lucky Four Leaf Clover. Comes with a compost tablet (that’s what it says), mini terracotta pot, instructions (!!) and an oxalis bulb. �2.99. Take the randomness out of luck by being able to grow your own! This Grow Your Own Lucky Four Leaf Clover will stop you having to spend days…
The DIY Truth Wristband Kit will seriously make you the coolest geek in your neighbourhood. No really. Just strap it on, attach the galvanic skin response strap to your finger and you’ll be good to go. “Do you like smoking Smarties”… “Are you now, or have you ever been, a Klingon speaker?”… “Tetris or Pong?”. Yep, absolutely the must have project for the summer. Dull Video. $44.95. [Via] A wearable device that dynamically reflects your psycho-emotional response to the…
LincVolt. Take one 2.5 ton, 19.5 foot long Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible from 1959, drop in a state of the art hybrid power plant. Measure off 100 mpg and zero emissions, enter it for the Automotive X Prize and draft in aging rocker Neil Young to add a little charismatic celebrity sauce. Stir, leave to settle and wait for applause. Somewhere Henry Ford is spinning like an armature. Video. By working with established technologies in new ways, with the…
Dear reader, brought to you straight from the Dumbest Product of the Century Dept, we have the Ohgoodgrief whatweretheythinking Automatic Cigarette Lighter and Oxygen Air Purifier with Fragrance device. Just awesome. So you stick your cancer stick in the hole and it automatically lights it and spits it back out at you, while at the same time sterilizing the air in your vehicle with Ions and Oxygen and stuff, making it all smell nice with perfume? And they call it a healthy smoking…
Omegle is a new and rather strange online chat service which automatically hooks you up with a random stranger when you log in. In one sense this is the ultimate Web 2.0 pop, sharing your time with the world, on the other hand it can be very disconcerting to log on and discover some stranger at the other end asking you where you’re from. Maybe it’s a personality thang? Anyhoo, it’s an interesting experiment, and just a tiny weeny bit creepy. Not…
The Urilift public urinal lurks underground all day like some strange nocturnal beast, and then rises majestically at 10pm every evening just in time to satisfy the urgent need of drunkards looking for somewhere to relieve themselves. Goodness only knows what this does to your mental state if you’re intoxicated and happen to be standing next to, or on top of the thing when it starts to rise. You’ll probably take months to recover from the shock. Anyway, you get a…
