Archive for August, 2007
Join Light up your bottles with these
A bottle of booze isn’t that special (other than the sedating effect of its contents), but when you pair it up with some outrageous imagination, you will get an illuminated container filled with alcohol inside. This is made possible with a battery-operated LED that is placed within a cork that sits on top of a bottle, lighting up the beverage of you choice in the process. Nice design, but too bad this is just a concept at this point in time. Would be nice to order drinks based on color sometime down the road…*hic*
SourcE: Gizmodo
Argument Chair packs a punch
Now if you have some beef with your housemate, this Argument Chair will definitely come in handy – if you could pry one of the many boxing gloves that make up the chair, of course, in order to pummel your point across. During less turbulent times, the Argument Chair is a comfortable piece of furniture for you to lounge around in. The only problem would be the insane price tag of $5,895. I suppose building one from scratch with many pairs of boxing gloves would be much cheaper.
Product Page via Nerd Approved
Geometric LED Board
If you’re looking for a piece of modern art to spruce up your home, you certainly can’t go wrong with the Geometric LED Board. It gives off a continuous, hypnotizing light show of cycling colors, making it the modern equivalent of a stained glass that conjures up a variety of kaleidoscope-like patterns. Each of these measures 20″ square, making them large enough to be a piece of art on its own. There is no word on pricing or availability at this point in time, although you can always check with Kikkerland.
Source: Technabob
Phonak Invisity ushers a new era
The Phonak Invisity holds the honor of being the first in-ear RF receiver in the world.
The Phonak Invisity is the smallest – and only – in-the-ear-receiver in the world. Discreet prompting allows the production process to run smoothly and more economically. You can choose between 2 different devices. You can now program and or reprogram your invisity receiver, set your required frequencies and adjust audio level and other features at your discretion.
Guess this is the little invisible earpiece that could, operating up to 13 hours before the batteries are exhausted. Super spies and mothers who want to know their children better can always look out for one of these.
Source: Red Ferret Journal
Crayola goes back to school with more than just Crayons
Crayola has been diversifying for quite some time now. The Crayon maker initially branched out into other art supplies like Activity poster kits, glue and even modeling clay. But now, Crayola is looking beyond the simple joyeous world of coloring and into HiTech tools and toys for kids.
Their “Total Tools” line features an Audio ruler, which measures in 1/4″ increments and then recites the distance audibly; a staple free stapler, which punches a student’s paper (up to 5 pages) with a small cut tab into the page that is then folded into the slot; erasable highlighters, and even a replacement for scissors which uses a protected blade to slice in a wide variety curves and angles. You can even run with it.
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PowerMate volume knob
All volume knobs on the computer are built alike – or are they? The PowerMate volume knob looks pretty ordinary at first glance, but inside it packs performance that more than meets the eye. Not only does this little number let you adjust the volume of your favorite tunes currently playing, it can also be used to edit home movies or scroll through long documents (although I would question use of that especially when the scroll wheel on the mouse does that just fine), or compose a musical score. All these functions are made possible courtesy of it being an assignable controller that can be customized according to your own needs.
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Ice Cream Soy Sauce
Yesterday we reported on the some what strange crayon cologne, today’s wackiness comes courtesy of Japan, soy sauce for your ice cream.
So if chocolate or strawberry syrup don’t float your ice cream boat you can try a bit of soy sauce which will make your plain old vanilla ice cream taste like caramel or mitarashi-dango (not that I have any idea how that tastes).
Found via Pink Tentacle, thanks, though I think I’ll be sticking chocolate sauce.
360 Degree Speaker concept
Check out this neat looking device that consists of a dozen speakers that allow for non-directional 360 degree sound field, allowing you to basically position this set of speakers anywhere in the room without any loss in audio quality. The only problem would be those tunes that sound best in a surround sound environment, something this concept cannot do. Still, the design oozes with style as the speakers along are made out of translucent material, making them look invisible from certain angles. This concept was designed by Emanuele Patton & Michele Menescardi.
