It was one of those mornings; after rushing around, helping the wife load the kids in her car and seeing them off I found myself late – again. I had to leave but as usual I couldn’t find my wallet, figuring it would just turn up later I went to work. Later that day my wife came by for lunch and as I watched her pull up to the curb from my second floor office I noticed a telltale black object. In my efforts to get the kids loaded I had placed my wallet on the roof of the car. Miraculously my wallet had stayed put up there all morning, and it wasn’t even made of duct tape. Now for people like me who regularly misplace their wallets the Ducti company has made a duct tape wallet. The wallet isn’t sticky but it’s so cool you will want to hang on to it.

Duct tape can do anything and solve nearly any problem. It has even been compared to the Force because it has a light side, a dark side and binds the universe together. The good folks at Ducti hand craft all their wallets out of industrial strength duct tape in a variety of styles complete with trendy names such as the Triplet, Roadtrip and Barhopper. The only problem is that my new Ducti wallet will be so cool that when I lose it I am sure the Good Samaritan who finds it will return all my money, credit cards and license but will keep the wallet.

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Intel invented the Universal Serial Bus and Apple was primarily responsible for popularizing it initially. Now USB is everywhere and in nearly everything – even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Close to the top of the heap of nonsensical USB gadgets is the torturously named USB pencil sharpener. Does it only sharpen USB pencils? The name reminds me of “Processed Cheese Food” – is that what they feed cheese?

Plug the pencil sharpener into any USB port on your computer and worry no more about broken or dull graphite. I imagine the only function the USB port provides is 5 volts DC power. I can’t fathom any data transfer would be going on. As silly as this seems, at least they didn’t include that other ubiquitous device of our go-go modern internet age – the MP3 player. I think if any company were foolhardy enough to release a USB enabled pencil sharpener with built in MP3 player then the Seventh Seal would be broken and all the good and righteous people of planet earth would ascend to heaven. I can see it now – me sitting at my desk, idly sharpening a good old #2 pencil while the strains of some illegally downloaded MP3 come liltingly out of the sharpener and certain people begin to float up into the sky. “Wait!” I cry, “at least I didn’t buy the Bluetooth enabled version!”

Found via x-treme geek. 

This would be a great gadget to have whether you’re out camping, or you’re home and the power’s gone out. The Waterproof Shaking Flashlight requires no batteries and is powered solely by your shaking motion.

Your shaking motion is converted into electricity which is stored in a large capacitor and is used to light a powerful LED bulb. You even get to see how the mechanism works as it is covered in a clear plastic shell.
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Magellan is widely known for its maps, however they also make a wide range of travel supplies, one of these being the Pack-A-Cone.

The Pack-A-Cone is a collapsible traffic cone. When in use, the cone is 16 inches tall, but when in its collapsed form, it is only 2 inches thick and measures 9.5 by 9.5 inches. With those dimensions, it’s easy to store this device in your trunk, glove compartment, under your seat, or about any free spot in your car.

According to Magellan’s website, about 40% of all auto accidents occur when visibility is low, making the Pack-A-Cone’s LED flasher a powerful safety device. The flasher is powered by three triple A batteries, which will run the unit for about 300 hours before needing to be replaced. Batteries are included with the unit. Another use for the flasher would be stick them on deer, so often they dart across roads unseen, wouldn’t it be useful to see them coming from off in the woods.

The unit is constructed of nylon and polyester with a solid polyethylene base, so it should last you awhile. The Pack-A-Cone is available from Magellan’s for about $25 each. Breaking down is always be dangerous, incoming cars may not see you, and having your Pack-A-Cone handy will benefit everybody.

Magellans found via gizwizbiz.

If you’ve got a strong arm and think of yourself as a pretty good arm-wrestler, then this gadget may be for you. If you’re not all that strong, however, you should definitely stay away from this . The Shocking Arm Wrestling gadget will shock the loser!

Each opponent wears a glove with a small pad on the back. When the back of the loser’s hand touches the table, the pad is pressed in, and gives the loser a shock. I bet that would be a pretty good reason to win .
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If you’re an intense gamer and find yourself slowed down by the clunky old standard keyboard, then this keyboard might be for you. The WolfKing Warrior Game Keypad features all of the keys you would normally have control over with your left hand, as well as all the function keys and numeric keys.

Designed in a circular shape it provides you easy access to all keys. Also included at odd spots are the O, B and K keys, as well as +/= and -/_ to give you more options for keys. The three small grey buttons on the side are customisable also.
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I don’t think there’s any need for this, but if you live with a bloke who is a bit of a sprinkler get your self a toilet nanny:

This is toilet training for men. You place the unit under the toilet seat. When a man lifts the seat the Toilet Nanny says “Excuse me sir!. Please try to urinate IN the toilet – NOT on the floor, and put the seat down when you are finished!”.

Available from gadgets.dk.

“Pain-free” is the latest buzzword in dentistry. It makes me wonder, was it purposely painful before? Did dentists have to be told: “Hey, we’ve got this great new idea, how about inflicting less pain?” When I was a kid I had a lot of teeth pulled in preparation for braces. My dentist must have been ahead of his time because he would break out the nitrous oxide and Novocain at the drop of a cuspid. I would by lying in that vinyl motorized chair and he would duck in and say: “Ready for a magic carpet ride?” Then he would fiddle with some knobs and leave for an undetermined time with me breathing that wonderful anxiety relieving gas until I was “feeling floaty.” I suppose through his liberal use of “laughing gas” there was some danger of me ending up like Frank Booth from Blue Velvet but all it really did was ensure that I never felt the sting of the needle nor minded the shrill shriek of the dreaded dentist’s drill. Maybe one too many physicists in the Netherlands caught a midnight showing of Blue Velvet because they have developed a possible replacement for the dentist’s drill; the plasma needle.

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