aquariums
Gadgets
Floating Garden Freshwater Aquarium Concept Uses 100% Vegetation Filtration To Keep Fish Happy
5:00PM Adrian Covert | If this aquarium doesn’t qualify as green innovation, then I don’t know what does. Because using a small garden to filter out nitrates from your freshwater fish tank is pretty damn eco-conscious. More »
Design
Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Showering standing up? That’s for savages. I want to lie down when I bathe—and I want it to be on a bed of colourful fish. I want a Hydroglass. More »
Gadgets
Aquawalls For Creating an Imaginary Undersea Abode
11:30AM Brian Lam | I fantasise about replacing all my windows with flat aquariums, filling them with coral and reef life (rays, lobster, clownfish), lighting them with full-spectrum bulbs and calling myself Namor. [Aquawall via BornRich] More »
Random Stuff
Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
1:30AM Adam Frucci | Wouldn’t it be nice, while waiting for the bus, to have an aquarium full of fish to look at? At least for those first few days, until they die, at which point it’d get depressing. More »
Phones
Phone Booths Learn to Adapt in the Mobile Phone Era
8:00AM Mark Wilson | “If you think this is bad, you should see my cousin. He’s a porta-potty.” [Lyon Festival of Lights via DVICE] More »
Design
Chumby Hack Brings Social Networking To Goldfish
11:42AM Sean Fallon | Goldfish must get lonely in those little bowls. I’m sure that’s why designer Bruno Fosi used guts from a Chumby to create a device that allows you to automate an aquarium and bring it online.
Gadgets
R2-D2 Aquarium With Radar Eye Periscope
3:30AM Sean Fallon | Now you can add “fish tank” along side “beverage cooler” and “projector” on the long list of job titles R2-D2 has had in his post-acting career. But rest assured that no matter what his occupation happens to be, R2 has a strong work ethic. In addition to housing your fish, he will rotate his head and utter his trademark bleeps with any voice command. He also features overhead LED tank lights that rotate colours and a periscope built-into his radar eye for spying on the fish floating in his robo-belly. On the downside, R2 never works cheap—this beauty will set you back $US130. [Hammacher Schlemmer via TFTS via Geekalerts] More »
Computers
Mineral Oil-Cooled Aquarium PC Kit Now Available For Purchase
3:30AM Sean Fallon | Custom PC maker Puget Systems has decided to capitalise on their wildly successful YouTube video demonstrating a mineral oil-cooled “Aquarium PC” by actually selling a DIY version. Puget claims that they have been running the system for over a year now with “no ill effect on the hardware,” which may or may not help ease the mind of anyone willing to void all of their warranties. More »
Gadgets
LED Earth Globe Aquarium Addresses Poorly Represented Fish Bowl Rave Demographic
2:00AM Jack Loftus | As if fish had it bad enough. They’re trapped in a tiny bowl, dependent on you to toss them a handful of dried shrimp from time to time, and now with this glass LED-illuminated globe bowl they’re going to be forced into an underwater rave every time the lights go off. Still, this little US$50 half gallon bowl is pretty cool looking, even if it does tease the fish with a map of their native habitat (oceans and lakes) whenever you hit the switch. Any aquarium pros out there know if LED’s are the proper lighting for fish? [Wrapables via Nerd Approved] More »
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