Friday, April 13, 2007
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Animated Space Invaders Doormat Keeps Your Visitors’ Feet Clean – If They Have Feet
11:57PM Seamus Byrne | Fresh from French designers La Tete Au Cube comes this hi-tech doormat, which does many things to a person’s crib. For starters, it says “Beware Of The Nerd” in a fairly charming way. It will show you to your door no matter how many Flaming Sambucas/microdots/spliffs you’ve had the (mis)fortune to consume on your travels. Door(mat) tax is $110 and you’ll need a couple of AA batteries to make the little green men strut their spacey stuff outside your door. – Ad Dugdale Product Page [Charles & Marie via UberReview] More »
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Nokia Plans to Put GPS Chips in All Its Cellphones: SatNavvers Playing Ketchup
11:56PM Seamus Byrne | Bad pun, I know, but I couldn’t resist. We’ve already reported on the TomTom and Garmin cellphone rumors earlier this week. And now here comes some more news that makes the rumors about the SatNavvers wanting to multi-task seem even more likely. Mike Goodenough, from the UK office of Route 66, has been quoted as saying that “Nokia’s goal is to be at the top of navigation.” Route 66 is, of course, the company that puts the GPS software on Nokia 6610s. And it won’t just be Nokia’s top-end cells that will be getting GPS—even Nokia’s pay-as-you-go phones are expected to have the chips in them. –Ad Dugdale Soon all Nokias will have a GPS Chip [NaviGadget] More »
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Darth Vader vs. Shock Troopers: Use the Force for Coffee and Cookies
11:52PM Seamus Byrne | Wash away your dark side every morning with a Darth Vader Molded Coffee Mug, and let’s hope there’s not a tear in the space/time continuum because you’re eating cookies out of this Shock Trooper Cookie jar at the same time. It’ll work fine—we’re all a combination of good and evil, anyway. Darth’s molded plastic coffee mug is $17.95, and the ceramic 12-inch-tall shock trooper cookie jar will cost you $49.99. –Charlie White Shock Trooper Cookie Jar [Star Wars shop, via Red Ferret ]Darth Vader Molded Coffee Mug [PCNews] More »
Random Stuff
VIZCap, A Reinvention Of The Bottle Cap For Hypochondriacs
11:28PM Seamus Byrne | What will those packaging geniuses think of next? The VIZCap is their latest flight of fancy, a bottle cap that stores vitamins and fizzies away from that liquid, high and dry so they won’t lose any of their potency. More »
Entertainment
Official: Samsung Will Go Both Ways
11:25PM Seamus Byrne | Samsung has confirmed that its BD-UP5000 Duo HD will ship sometime before Christmas, ending speculation that it would join LG in supporting both Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs in the same player. (Shot at right is current Samsung Blu-ray player, but case design should be similar.) More »
Phones
The Intruder: Mobile Phone That Thinks It’s A Powder Compact
10:09PM Seamus Byrne | This mobile phone concept, designed by Dennis Hopkins, has been given the most awful name, considering its femme-friendly design. It’s called The Intruder—probably something to do with UFOs which, judging by Dennis’ website, seem to have influenced his idea. More »
Music
