Wacky Gadgets
There are plenty of wacky and weird gadgets. Hey a gadget doesn’t have to be useful to be cool.
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Faker$ – Creative Fun with Forgeries
I remember being a kid and trying to make it look like I was visiting with a famous celebrity by having someone take a picture of me next to a cardboard cut out advertisement, I also remember those photo booths by the beach that let you put yourself on the cover of a well known magazine… complete with the body of a Goddess. Those were some fun times… but now being someone you’re not just got a whole lot easier!
Heliceum, a company specializing in the development and publishing of entertainment applications for smartphones iPods and iPads, announces the release of its newest application, Faker$. Faker$ is an app for everyone with a sense of humor-that wants to share it. With a multitude of crazy and spoofy templates to work with, Faker$ lets its users create fake magazine covers, ridiculous newspaper headlines, off-the-wall ID cards, and downright weird diplomas in record time, and thanks to its intuitive interface, impressing and stupefying friends and family is child’s play. Continue reading » Faker$ – Creative Fun with Forgeries
For Valentine’s Day Give the Gift of Conception…
Okay, so we’ve reported on GIANTmicrobes before, I’m sure you remember the humorously educational stuffed toys modeled on electron micrographs, then enlarged a million times it’s actual size. Each plush including it’s micrograph image and all the info about the microbe it represents. The collection is still growing, with nearly 100 microbes in the series including the Common Cold, Brain Cells, Kissing Disease, Ebola, Bed Bugs and more. I mean, is there anyone among us that doesnt know someone that can use an extra brain cell? and how about the person that always complains that you gave them a cold? Well, really do it this time!
Anyway, GIANTmicrobes has a brand new Valentines day line up you probably don’t want to miss, starting with the sure to be popular, Sperm & Egg Panorama Gift Boxes, each of these 3 sets includes one GIANTmicrobes Egg Cell plush and one GIANTmicrobes mini Sperm Cell plush that attach by way of magnets, showcased in one of 3 very romantic scenes, or perhaps a Kissing Disease plush is more your style, as she blows kisses when you touch her lips and says “I love you” in five languages… Or for those of you who miss all the warm and fuzzy feelings some get from Valentines day, there’s always the Heart Burned collection, a lovely boxed set that includes, Herpes, Chlamydia, Pox, HPV and thankfully, Penicillin.
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Giant Spider Web created from packing tape and plastic tubes
In case you were worried that Shelob, the giant terrifying spider from The Lord of the Rings, was in this art installation, allow me to relieve your arachnophobia.
What you are seeing here is an artificially made web that is not made for the next Spider-man movie (coming this summer). I’m not certain what the webs from the Spider-man films are made of, but this web is made from long, hollow tubes and packing tape.
The purpose of this faux spider web is to create a gigantic bounce house or jungle gym for adults. There is a video after the jump if you want to see how it gets created, and the web uses 117,000 feet of tape that weighs in at 100 pounds.
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Isn’t it time for a triangular tablet? Probably not.
Yes, that is Dwight Schrute from television’s The Office in the photo, and the triangular shaped tablet is not a real product.
I have to admit that when I saw this, I admired the writer’s ability to think outside the box when it comes to satirizing tablet technology. I can totally see a company trying a triangular shaped tablet, just because no other tablet company is doing it. Sure, the base of it is good enough for a full sized keyboard, but what you type out will probably look like an eye doctor’s chart.
Perhaps we should consider other shapes for tablets, as we are stuck in this rectangular rut. Perhaps a perfect square? Better yet, round. I’m sure that either shape would really shake up app developers. You can see a video of the scene after the jump, and I wonder why Jim wants 5. Perhaps he wants to link them together to form an incomplete hexagon, or something.
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Life-sized Pin Pressions makes it even more fun
I’m sure that a lot of you have one of those Pin Pressions things at home, so you can press your hand or face to it and get a metallic and pointillist view of your own body parts.
Just imagine yourself being able to go life-size with this type of technology. This is what has been done by Lulu Guinness, who created a giant pin art display, and encouraged people to “Be a Pin Up”. I must admit that is a clever pun that I wouldn’t have thought of.
She had this on display as part of Clerkenwell’s Design Week, at the St. John’s Gate in Central London. This was over a month ago, and I’m sad that I wasn’t in London for it. This looks like something that is a whole lot of fun, and I could probably press myself for hours.
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Musical Ruler
The Musical Ruler would have been cool while you were still in pre-school or kindergarten, but now that you are all grown up, working in a cubicle and slaving your way through the office so that you can pay off that ever ballooning mortgage, the $13.99 Musical Ruler does not sound so enticing anymore. Either way, it will still be an eccentric addition to your office desk, but others might just measure whether your sanity is still there or not. Perhaps the years of crunching numbers in a tight dateline has taken its toll on you…
Available from, where else but Stupid.com.
President Obama’s stuck limo is hopefully not an omen for the United States
I think we all know that the president, being very vulnerable while in transit, has a limousine designed especially for him. This vehicle is bulletproof, but it has one vulnerability: bumps.
Yes, like the super robot ED-209 in Robocop was vulnerable to stairs, the president’s limo, also known as “The Beast”, is vulnerable of getting stuck on a parking ramp. This happened in Dublin, right in front of the embassy. I am assuming the YouTube video that you can watch after the jump is footage from cellular phone cameras.
How embarrassing. Especially for the one Secret Service agent that had to get out and check to see what was up. I found it pretty amazing that some mini-bus type of vehicle took its place in blocking the way. I take it they probably made certain that president was safe.
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Snack Packaging Goes High Tech – Can You Hear It?
Does anyone remember Pringles? That nifty little can of neatly stacked potato-like chips, they didn’t taste like regular chips, but if you were in the mood for Pringles, nothing else would do. I haven’t had a Pringle for at least 10 years. I don’t really know why, it was nice to not have that pile of crumbs at the bottom of a greasy bag. Pringles just needed a little more jazz… They’ve been around too long, a little stale so to speak, they needed to do something fun.
Well, Pringles, is giving customers a brand new reason to love its potato crisps. With product purchase, they’re giving away a Pringles brand speaker that is designed to fit onto the top of any can of Pringles, the speaker uses the empty can to amplify the sound when attached to an MP3 player or similar personal music device. With the speaker attached to a can of Pringles, after listeners munch their chips, they can get their groove on.
It’s not so much WHAT it is, as the IDEA behind it that makes me wonder, what’s next? Is this the beginning of a new trend? Sure, it starts out with a simple can of Pringles, but who knows what this could lead to? I might just go ahead and get my Pringles speaker, then again I may just hold out for a new pretzel rod container flat screen. Now that would be really cool!
