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Lullabelly Maternity Musical Device
We live in an extremely competitive world, and parents these days want their kids to get ahead of the rest even from the womb itself, hence you see many of these “baby aids” that intend to help the development of the foetus in the market. ThinkGeek does not want to get left behind as well, hence their $59.99 Lullabelly Maternity Musical Device, which is actually a pre-natal music belt which allows you to play tracks of your choice so that your future geek-to-be will also be able to rock on to today’s grooviest tunes without missing a beat.
Not only is it super soft to make sure it does not mess up mummy’s tummy, it is also adjustable, lightweight and comfortable. The volume for baby’s speakers are capped at a safe level, so you need not worry about breeding a headbanger right from the get go. There is a splitter thrown into the mix for you to listen to the same music, and hopefully you won’t introduce him/her to Justin Bieber, but rather, more solid stuff like Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana.
Water Cannon for next summer
I guess if you happen to live in the southern hemisphere, then this £29.99 Water Cannon would definitely be your cup of tea – after all, for folks who are living in areas where the cold chill of winter is setting in, you might not want to run around outdoors soaking wet lest you catch a chill that might last you through the upcoming holiday season. We know that there are super soakers which frankly, are great if you have impeccable aim, because you would naturally run out of ammunition real fast especially if you are trigger happy and are a poor shot. Still, that beats the usual water pistol that is pathetic by today’s standards, and this Water Cannon is definite the ace up your sleeve – all you need to do is mount it on a tripod, and it will be the first water gun in the world that is hooked up directly to your garden hose, now how about that?
You will never run out of ammunition with this puppy, and with a maximum range of 100 feet, you can be sure no one would dare come near your turf – after all, this is a case of defense being the best form of offense.
Portal Bookends won’t help you read any faster
Sometimes, don’t you wish you had the power of opening portals at different points in and around your home? It would surely make shifting furniture a whole lot easier, especially when it comes to lugging that huge bed up the stairs carefully to make sure none of the paint around gets scraped off. Well, you can somewhat relive those moments in Portal with the $24.99 Portal Bookends that are made up of shiny and durable aluminum, sporting a subject who goes in as well as out of a portal.
These bookends feature a test subject at Aperture Science, where the left side indicates the test subject going through an orange portal, while the right side has the other half of the test subject making his way out of the blue portal. A non-slip rubber padding located at the bottom will make sure these bookends stay in place at all times, unless your collection of tomes is super heavy, leaning to one side in a lopsided manner. This is an officially licensed Portal collectible, so gaming fans might want to check it out.
Manhattan dweller creates “Origami Apartment”
I always loved reporting on people who create the most out of a small space. As someone who lives in a small space, I guess I just can’t help myself.
We have reported on a man in Hong Kong who created a Domestic Transformer or the Tokyo man who builds his home in a parking space.
These architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson work for Normal Projects, and they have created a flexible space in one of the most over-populated city in the world: New York City. There is a video of it after the jump if you want to see how it works.
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Itzbeen Baby Care Timer
First time parents have plenty to think about – who does what chore, whose turn is it to get up and attend to baby, the whole works! The key to making sure you have a happy, healthy baby would be consistency, and what better way to inculcate that quality in a new set of parents than with a little bit of extra help in the form of the £24.99 Itzbeen Baby Care Timer? Yes sir, there are four easy-to-use timers available so that you have an idea on when the last nappy change happened, not to mention feeding or sending the little one off to sleep. As to how the fourth timer is used, it depends on you – perhaps you can designate it as Xbox time?
All it takes is one touch of the individual buttons, and the timer will begin in earnest. Heck, you can also opt to set alarms so that you don’t miss anything. A nightlight is built in at the top for it to cast a glow in a dark room, and the backlit LCD screen is handy whenever you wake up groggily and need to see the readings there, fast. It will run on a trio of AAA batteries and is good indefinitely as long as your baby does not throw it down to the floor, thinking it is a toy.
Brinno PHV1330 Digital PeepHole Viewer
Most of us have those peepholes on our door that let us see who is there, even if it is a distorted fisheye point-of-view. Brinno’s new generation of Peephole Viewer, the PHV1330, allow the user to see who is at the door on a 3-inch LCD, sans distort.
Not only can the PHV1330 get rid of the distort, but it can also take an image of the visitor at the door, and keep the image on a Micro SD card.
Another feature of the PHV1330 that trumps typical peepholes is that it has a brightness enhancer so it can see who is at the door when it is night out.
The PHV1330 is “easy to install” and stays on the door all the time. It isn’t on constantly as turning the power only lasts for a minute, but that’s all the glimpse you will need unless you will want to take a picture (to make it last longer). Yeah, I just had to add that last parenthetical.
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Voice To Text Translating Telephone
I guess I can safely say that our brains are the best Voice to Text translator ever, but if one day should our brains (and ears) start to fail us, then there is always external help that comes in the form of machines. The $99.95 Voice To Text Translating Telephone will come in handy then, where it shows off captions of everything a caller says, letting your eyes dance over the clear, easy-to-read transcript – which eliminates those who have difficulty with their hearing faculties to be able to provide the appropriate reply. Of course, if you’re talking to someone who naturally doesn’t have very good speaking skills, then I am not quite sure whether the software will be able to decipher the words on the other end of the line.
All captions can be turned on or off at any time during the call, and this device can store up to 480 lines of text in its memory for review once you’re done with your conversation. Apart from that, you can also amplifying the call volume up to 40 dB, thanks to the adjustable tone for enhanced clarity. Have it aid your memory as well with its 97-number address book, while three speed-dial buttons help you connect to frequently called numbers with but a touch.
Boogie Board Rip LCD writing tablets
Want to go paperless? Well, if you happen to have a heart for trees as well as whatever remains of virgin forest around the world, you might want to figure out ways to reduce such wastage by using recycled paper to write down those notes of yours. Alternatively, there is always the option of taking the electronic route – but then again, your smartphone’s battery is not exactly the longest lasting battery on earth, so here is a middle-ground solution that might just appeal to everyone – the Boogie Board Rip LCD writing tablet.
Take a step closer to a paperless society with the $129.99 Boogie Board Rip LCD writing tablet, where it is the first Boogie Board tablet model that will come with the ability to save whatever you have written/doodled. Ready to ship to different addresses in North America, Europe and other select global locations, you can not only place your order over at Amazon, but Brookstone (US only), and improvelectronics.com.
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