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Stereo Neckphones keep your music nearby
If you thought that Bluetooth headsets made people look ridiculous, you’ll just love this gadget. Instead of listening to headphones like a normal person or just buying a portable speaker you could have these Stereo Neckphones. They hang onto you like a set of headphones would, but make it so you can be aware of your environment like having portable speakers. It’d be the best of both worlds if it didn’t make you look incredibly foolish.
Home Gadgets, Wacky Gadgets
Toilet Paper is made for Origami
It isn’t often that I report on advancements in toilet paper. I suppose it is a technology that doesn’t really need improvement.
The only thing you can do is just have as much fun with it. Like the novel that was written on toilet paper that we reported on a while ago. Now there is the Origami toilet paper.
I can see a few problems with this item. I mean, let’s start out with having the instructions for the origami on the paper that you will probably be using. This assumes that the product is designed for making folding paper sculptures with toilet paper. As I recall, you cannot make creases on toilet paper, and it isn’t very stiff, which is problem number two. I mean, are you going to keep perfect squares of origami folding paper next to whatever pile of magazines you have nearby?
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Concrete Cloth can set underwater
Fabric of any kind can rarely be described as anything remotely awesome. However, this concrete cloth mixes things up quite a bit. It’s a special type of cloth with concrete built into it. At first it’s flexible and will move just like fabric. You can drape it over a chair and it’ll fall where you want it. However, add an extra ingredients to it and it hardens right up, just like normal concrete.
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Ceramic Swear Bank helps you save your extra !@#$ing cash
The Sandford police department from the film Hot Fuzz would definitely appreciate this particular device. Some of you might remember the “swear jar” that the clueless cops kept there, and the terrific scene where Nick Angel (Simon Pegg) fills it up when he vents his frustration against the other officers’ ignorance. I don’t think I ever had a swear jar growing up, but I can see where it would come in handy. I’m pretty certain that the entire budget of The Osbornes came from that family’s daily bleeping.
So why not make a swear jar that looks like something some comic book character would say when he or she is cussing? By comic book character, I mean those of old-school fifties and sixties superhero comics. I’m pretty certain comic characters can pretty much say anything they want, as long as their book didn’t fall under the Comic Code authority.
Audio/Video Gadgets, Electronic Gadgets, Wacky Gadgets
Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt
Boredom is a dreadful thing, so you should always find ways to get rid of it. Thankfully, Think Geek is always around to rescue geeks from being sucked into a bland dark place in their mind. Now you can spend your days strumming on a fake guitar on your shirt. It has all the major chords and plays them out loud for all the world to hear. Whether they like it or not.
Solar Powered Gear, Wacky Gadgets
The eco-friendly Solar Light Up Skull
Instead of getting a skull that lights up and requires you to plug it in or toss in batteries, go for this slightly more convenient design. It features a built-in solar panel to make it so that you can sit this out during the Halloween season and not need to worry about it till Halloween has passed. Since it will be all over with as of Saturday, perhaps you should consider this for next Halloween instead though.
Childrens Gadgets, Toys, Wacky Gadgets
Freaky Body Illusions
Grown up on a diet of illusionists and magicians, that you want to emulate the careers of David Blaine and David Copperfield instead of taking the traditional engineer/doctor/lawyer route? The Freaky Body Illusions set ought to get you started on the right footing then, letting you perform seemingly “miracles” by stretching your ear to an inhuman length and levitating on the spot among others.
Perfect for scaring the local kids and giving elderly relatives a heart attack, the range of disgusting acts you can perform with this set is delightfully wide. All in all, you can take pleasure in making your audience (or just the cat if you can’t rustle one up) feel quite sick with these clever little tricks. You can snap bones in your neck, discover a disembodied hand, even tear someone else’s arm off – all with the help of the included instructional DVD. Of course, the Magic Circle might not approve of these secrets being divulged, but that won’t matter a jot when you’re merrily terrifying anyone watching you yank a blood-drenched and still-moving arm out of a box. Of course, the tricks are surprisingly simple and just require a little bit of acting (not method-acting) and rehearsal to make a convincing show. Included are all the props you could need for these illusions, such as a box (with one panel missing), a fake ear, a fake arm (with gore detail), a bone-click simulator, a fake hand and various other bits and pieces to create the impression that you’re doing yourself some irresponsible harm.
The Freaky Body Illusions will retail for £24.99 and ought to make for a really wacky gift set.
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Happiness Hat for a permanent smile
happiness hat from Lauren McCarthy on Vimeo.
They say that frowning uses less muscles than a smile, and frowning too much might just result in an undesired, sad look on your face permanently if done once too often. Enter the Happiness Hat that ought to change all that, leaving you with a perpetual smile without having to carve one out for you. How is this possible? No, it doesn’t use some sort of laughing gas or anything of the sort, but rely on a traditional Pavlovian-style approach by driving a metal spike into its wearer’s head should he or she make the mistake of frowning. This is made possible by an embedded bend sensor which is attached to the cheek and measures smile size, while a servo motor helps moves a metal spike into the head inversely proportional to the degree of smile. That ought to leave you with a perpetual smile, that’s for sure.
Source: Gearlog
