Steampunk is one of those trends that makes me extremely sorry that I haven’t the slightest bit of crafting skills to make my own steampunk gadgets.  Purely because steampunk is usually very expensive, so unless you can make your own most of us will never get our hands on any of our own.  This one was created by a Russian modder who posted his project in a forum for us all to drool over.  He’s nice like that.  He even crafted a box to display it in.  He doesn’t give a single bit of fun details on how long it took or what he used.

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Humans are instinctively dynamic. While we might fear some changes, there are plenty of the small things in life that we just get sick of seeing in the same place all of the time. For instance, say you have a chandelier, or any hanging light for that matter, in your dining room or kitchen. Can you honestly say you’ve never been pissed off about its location?

There are just times where you wish you could move that damn thing up a few inches or maybe slide it lower towards the ground by a foot or so. If you’ve ever yanked on those chintzy chains which hold hanging lights, you know that their strength is sometimes unforgiving. Napastyle offers an excellent retractable light, made just for those moments of indecisiveness.

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How many times have you promised yourself that you were going to change your life? You what I’m talking about. Your swore to yourself you’d start waking up earlier, get some more exercise. And maybe for a week or so it was working just fine. But then what happens? You fall back into the same old habits.

It’s nothing to be ashamed of. You’re human. Without a strict ingrained regimen there is no way to change your life based on a simple personal ambition or promise. We need a little more of a push to turn away from our old habits. The Shape Up! alarm clock claims to got the skills to pay the bills when it comes to getting you up and ready for a new beginning.

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Flashing lights have been known to trigger seizures in some people. I’ve personally never had a problem, but for some this latest gadget might be a bad idea.

With that said, adding a personal lightshow to your music sounds like a pretty cool idea, am I right? The LED Lightshow Speaker is a customizable light effect speaker which comes with an assortment of different patters for creating your own lightshow matrix.

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I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of pictures. They are on my digital camera, my video camera, my cellular phone, and some of them have actually made it onto my computer for permanent storage. One day, one fine day, I shall put them all on an album or something as a chronicle of my life.

I believe that the Lifemap is for that purpose. What you do is attach a digital camera or other photo-taking device to the Lifemap, and you can put all of your photos in proper order. Beyond that, that is all my source knows on this particular invention, besides the fact that it has a QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen.

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If you want sound from your computer, MP3 Player, or any audio video device, there are two ways you could go about it. You could plug in a headphone jack and have a private experience, or you could attach some stereo speakers and publicly rock the house.

There is of course a third alternative that mixes the first two choices: the iJerry. This little rabbit shaped guy plugs into any headphone jack, then somehow transforms any hard flat surface into a speaker. I’m not certain how it works, but it produces good quality sound, making your audio experience both public and private.

According to the iJerry product page on Gadget4all, the iJerry takes the technology of the “super-energy crystal material”. This somehow uses the “object resonating sound production principle” to cause any flat material such as wood, glass, or any other flat material.

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If you hate getting those collars that zap your dog every time it barks, then you might give this one a try instead.  Although the shock collars are a bit more entertaining for those with a  slightly twisted sense of humor (me), eventually your dog is probably going to hate you.  This dog collar will instead just annoy your dog by sending out an obnoxious frequency.  Which over time will make them not want to bark all the time.  See, this is why I have a cat, I have heard my cat make a noise like all of five times in her entire life.  Which means no need for a collar to keep her quiet.

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