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Wash your face in MomSpit
Describing itself as "inspired by the original" and "the universal no-rinse cleanser for hands and face," the makers of MomSpit settled upon the name only after "SisSputum" and "DadPhlegmgobber" proved unpopular in market testing. Only $7 a bottle... so you just know that whatever Mexican mother-of- ...
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Operation meets lock picking
Artist Moritz Waldemeyer crafted this rather neat lockpicking variation of the game Operation: the idea is to insert the key through the translucent block, navigating the tumblers without touching the walls. I like it, but performing laproscopic surgery on the exposed bones of a bulbously nosed fat ...
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Platzhalter book shelf splits into "V" and reveals secret compartment
Although I have since fallen into the German bohemian style of book storage which involves rooms lined with teetering piles of cracked, used paperbacks upon which half-empty beer bottles have been haphazardly stacked, I used to have a love affair with book cases, and this break-apart Platzhalter del ...
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The VideoMan creates public performance art, is wailed upon
Meet the VideoMan: a large rig consiting of a video camera, projector, large portable battery pack, amplifiers, power inverters, sirens, hell, you name it... all strapped to what appears to be the most punchable jerk in the world. They've definitely identified their market: it's meant to create publ ...
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Palm Death Watch: Revenue falls 41% short of projections
From Palm:The company announced that it expects to record revenues for Q2 fiscal year 2009 in the range of $190 million to $195 million. The revenue decline vs. the company's Q1 fiscal year 2009 and Q2 fiscal year 2008 is a result of reduced demand for maturing smartphone and handheld products. The ...
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Mario Calcedo's Columbian junkbots
Mario Caicedo makes some very gnarly jinkbot sculptures in his Bogotán workshop down in Columbia. For some reason, every time I watch Blade Runner, I always think of the vermin of J.F. Sebastian's Los Angelean apartment as being scurrying robotic creatures like this. Mario Caicedo [Flickr via M ...
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Drawdio: an analog synthesizer on your pencil
The Drawdio is a lovely soft-lead pencil with an analog synthesizer circuit strapped to the spine, transforming your sinuous cursive into an array of electronica burblings, slides and squawks. I love it: onomatopoeic penmanship. Drawdio [Lady Ada via Technabob]
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Just where the heck are Apple's premium in-ear headphones? (Update: Oops. They're now for sale.)
At a certain point, a pair of opalescent iPod buds roping out from your pocket and inserted into your ears had a certain hipster cache, largely thanks to Apple's own silhouette iPod ads. I always thought this a rather interesting phenomenon, because I never particularly thought people using the stoc ...
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Fujitsu offers free Lifebook replacement every three years
Fujitsu laptops are sort of secret favorites of us here at BBG: they just make well designed, affordable laptops with long battery life and tablet screens without a lot of fanfare and guff. Rob swears by his, only lamenting it can't run OS X. Fujitsu's latest promotion is their Lifebook 4 Life c ...
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Reports: Samsung's "7-hour" NC10 notebook selling out
Samsung's NC10 has sold out in Europe, according to reports, and stocks won't be replenished until the new year. Though launched a few months ago, it's become popular as word of its unusually good battery life spread around the internet. We are increasing facility capacity as fast as we can, sa ...
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Strange jumbled keyboard from Japan
The uTron is two halves of a keyboard, set into a new layout. The basic, no-frills implementation is pleasing, but if one is going to embark on learning a new keyboard, something more radical, like the frogpad, is in order. Frogpads are also not $500. µTRON Keyboard by Japan's Personal Media for ...
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Sony Vaio Picturebook returns with 3G internet, 802.11n
Sony has submitted a new design for a miniature laptop to the FCC, and it's similar to it's classic subnotebook, the Vaio Picturebook. It even inherits its model naming scheme, PCG-XXXX. From the documents, it appear there will be a PCG-1P1L and a PCG-1P2L, each running Windows. EVDO/3G WWAN, blu ...
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Sony's netbook: Vaio Picturebook returns with 3G internet, 802.11n
Sony has submitted a new design for a miniature laptop to the FCC, and it's similar to it's classic subnotebook, the Vaio Picturebook. It even inherits its model naming scheme, PCG-XXXX. From the documents, it appear there will be a PCG-1P1L and a PCG-1P2L, each running Windows. EVDO/3G WWAN, blu ...
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Sony's netbook: Vaio Picturebook returns with EVDO, 802.11n
Sony has submitted a new design for a miniature laptop to the FCC, and it seems almost identical to its classic, much-loved classic subnotebook. It even has its model naming scheme, PCG From the documents, it appear there will be a PCG-1P1L and a PCG-1P2L, each running Windows. EVDO and 802.11bgn ...
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LaCie CurrenKey, USB flash drives that look like coins
Too precious for their own good, perhaps, but I don't care: I think the LaCie CurrenKey USB Flash Drives, shaped like thick coins and cast in bronze or silver, are very cute. I only wish they were a bit more ornate so that they looked more like real coins. Perhaps the designers were worried they'd b ...
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Just where the heck are Apple's premium in-ear headphones?
At a certain point, a pair of opalescent iPod buds roping out from your pocket and inserted into your ears had a certain hipster cache, largely thanks to Apple's own silhouette iPod ads. I always thought this a rather interesting phenomenon, because I never particularly thought people using the stoc ...
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Microsoft Arc merges with oriental pottery
Hong Kong design store the Goods of Desire have updated Microsoft's Arc mouse with a gorgeous oriental design. I'm really surprised how great these look: they don't appear gaudy or tasteless at all, but instead resemble the sweetly pungent pottery of the tea house or opium den. Chinese Microsoft ...
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Nokia N97, their new flagship phone
Behold, the new Nokia N97, the hottest of the hot when it comes to Symbian-powered phones. It has both a large resistive touchscreen and a flip-up QWERTY keyboard. It's going to cost $700 — and won't be out for six months. Gizmodo has a mildly impressed hands-on, but it looks like the demo ...
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A keychain to insult Spaniards
Palabra Gracioca is a keychain that emits records of rude words. Unfortunately, they are in spanish. From Foolish Gadgets: [It] features push-button phrases like Hijo de Puta (son of a b*tch), Maricon (a**hole), Come Mierde (eat sh*t) and Cabron (man who lets woman cheat on him). Span ...
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Circuit City's problems heat up
Dear Staff: please do not sell store's own fire extinguishers. Yours sincerely, The Mismanagement. Employee Intelligence Fail [Failblog via Consumerist]
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