Wow! This is one of the coolest gadgets I’ve seen lately. Yet another case of ‘Why was this not invented already?’ It’s a pair of digital binoculars with a built in digital camera!

Perfect for when you are watching wildlife, now you can take a picture of the close up image and show other people of what you have seen. Gone are the days when you have to take a picture though a telescope!
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The shining promise of robotics is that it will eventually free us from all forms of drudgery. It only follows that as technology progresses our definition of what drudgery is will become a sliding scale, a moving target. Have we come so far already as to define the noble pursuit of tending bar “drudgery?” The RoboBar from the Motoman company answers this question with an emphatic “Yes!”
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If you’re a fan of barbeques, pyromania or both it’s a good idea to have a fire extinguisher at hand (especially if you make it yourself) and this is the smallest one we’ve seen the PinQY.

Despite it’s size it still manages to extinguish small fires and it only takes a tiny fire to start an inferno. So next time you’re having a romantic meal by candle light don’t forget to get your pinkie Pinqy out.

More info and ordering details on the PinQY site, found via Crib Candy.

Remember the old 2 player console game Tanks where you had to navigate your blocky tank around walls and blast your opponent before they got you in their sights. This toy is just like that but instead of playing it on your retro console you play it on your desk.

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Samsung have been awarded a prestigious Gold Award by the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for their mobile handset, which features a Braille touch pad.

The mobile phone, known as the Touch Messenger, was developed by Samsung Design in China, a country which has 9 million visually impaired people. I had a look at the Samsung press release page, and they’re clearly very proud to have won 19 such awards in the last 5 years, making them the company with the highest total number of IDEA awards, but let’s have a closer look.  Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure if my old cat would have taken kindly to this one. It’s called a Pet Spa, and you just pop your beloved pet inside and it cleans, de-fleas and then blow dries in a cycle that lasts 25 to 30 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

You probably need a morbid sense of humor to appreciate this one, the body bag bean bag.

The bean bag resembles a body bag and is even filled with a body shaped bag of comfy beans. It comes in three sizes dead large, dead medium, and dead small. Available at Udder Stuff from £60.

Thanks to Beanbag Chairs for help out with this post (and they make quality bean bags too)

If you’ve always wanted to strut around showing off your six pack now you can by means of the beer belt. It can hold six times as many cans than the beer holster and looks six times as ridiculous.

Available from Gadgets.dk (beer not included).