Friday, October 5, 2007
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Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Self-Detects Geeks
11:55PM Mark Wilson | The Wi-Fi Detector shirt does everything you’d dream it could do: detect Wi-Fi signals and share them, via your chest, with the entire world. Spotting both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, signal strength is displayed in real time (big animated gif post-jump). After you are done broadcasting your (super ability?) to the world, just slip the AAA batteries out of the built-in pouch and unhook the decal, and you can wash the sweat away of a hard day’s work of bandwidth theft. More »
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Art.Lebedev Shows Pultius, the Crazy Zillion-Button Remote
11:20PM Charlie White | At first we were wondering if the Art.Lebedev Studio was kidding with this design concept for a remote control. Named Pultius, this 20-inch-long clicker solves a problem of designing “a remote control with as many buttons as there are channels on TV.” We weren’t aware that was an actual problem, but if such a solution were actually needed, this is about the most beautiful way to accomplish that we can imagine. Whatever happened to “less is more?” Take a look at a couple of closeups of the remote, after the jump. More »
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Stanley Brings out a Pair of Watches, One of them Strange
11:09PM Addy Dugdale | Ah, Brando. The soft “ping” in my inbox that heralds yet another slice of pedestrian weirdness from everyone’s favourite purveyor of odds ‘n’ sods. And today’s offering was no different: a pair of watches from toolmaker Stanley. One sports a 16-position compass, but it’s the other one that got me all excited—a calculator watch with 6″ ruler. Full specs for both after the jump. More »
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Glass Toilets Make Your Art Your Masterpiece
11:08PM Mark Wilson | Glass Toilets are the remix natural evolution of your run of the mill porcelain tank. Ironically constructed from acrylic, the transparent nature of the tank allows you to add theme to your throne in just minutes. Maybe the dolphin has always been your favourite animal, or maybe you just crave a few moments of meditation with Buddha (seriously, it’s an option). So, have you ever seen what 2,660 vertical pixels of glass toilet looks like? Hit the jump for the entire mega collection in one big-ass jpeg. More »
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Ion Digital Drum Station Keeps All That Banging to Yourself
10:55PM Charlie White | Now you can bang the drum all day to your heart’s content without waking up the neighbours with this Ion Digital Drum Station. There’s a grid of eight springy drum pads on this drum machine, and you can program a realistic-sounding drum noise into each one, choosing among 233 sounds. There are also 50 presets into which you can load your favourite combination of drums. For even more realism, there are inputs for external kick drum and high-hat pedals. Sounds like $109.90 worth of fun, and it even includes headphones and a pair of drumsticks. [Think Geek, via Crave] More »
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Pioneer SE-CLX9 Are Batman’s Earphones of Choice
10:40PM Wilson Rothman | Pioneer just debuted these gorgeous aluminium SE-CLX9 in-ear earphones at CEATEC. Not only are they high-performance ‘buds capable of a drum-shaking 105dB, but they come with different nozzles that physically alter the equalization, from “high tune” to “standard” to “bass tune.” Best of all, every option is nestled in the OCD-organized utility pack, so there aren’t a lot of loose pieces rolling around on the floor of your Batmobile. [Akihabara News; Pics from ASCII] More »
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FALTIMA 010 Saves LPs to Just About Anything
10:31PM Mark Wilson | The Faltima 010 (we refuse to the the all caps brand name for this article) is not just another record player that can digitize your old LPs. It’s a record player that can digitize your old LPs to MP3s and put them on anything. Users can save music to CD, USB devices (the company claims straight to your DAP), and even SD cards. We’re not certain that one needs to rip LPs to all of these different formats, but the option is nice all the same. It’s a Japan only product at the moment that will be sold for an unspecified price. OK LP lovers, you sat through this whole article. Now feel free to brag about your rarest vintage albums in the comments. [product via akihabaranews] More »
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Pear Cable Calls James Randi’s $1 Million Offer a Hoax
10:16PM Charlie White | Last week, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi (pictured above left) offered the makers of Pear speaker cables $1 million if they could prove in double-blind testing there was a difference between their $7,250 cables and ordinary Monster Cables. Now, Adam Blake (pictured above right), CEO and co-founder of Pear Cable, has called Randi’s offer “a fake” and a “joke”. We’ve contacted James Randi, asking if he’d like to get together with these Pear dudes for some double-blind testing. We’ve also contacted Adam Blake, asking if Pear planned to participate in Randi’s double-blind test. After the jump, see the full text of Pear Cable’s accusations that Randi’s million-dollar offer is a hoax. We’ll keep you posted if anyone responds. More »
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iRiver Siren DP350 Released in Japan Today
10:10PM Addy Dugdale | iRiver’s new media player, the DP350, came out in Japan today. Flash memory-based, it comes with 2GB and 4GB storage, and can play MPEG-4, WMV, MP3, WAV, OGG and image files, so you can use it as a storage device as well. Um, what else? More »
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