fish tanks
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 »
Design
Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets’ Tiny Minds
4:10AM Wilson Rothman | People who have birds and fish probably set the cage near the tank, but the Duplex stacks the two—cage on bottom, tank on top—in a genius move that everyone except the pets themselves will enjoy. More »
Peripherals
USB Hub/Paperclip holder/Fish Tank, May be Worst USB Gizmo Ever
8:51PM Gizmodo US Edition | A four-way, USB 2.0 hub. A magnetic paperclip holder. A fake fish tank. A seven-colour LED illuminator. Mix them all together, and what have you got? Yes: possibly the worst USB gizmo ever. I mean, what’s next? A USB hub with built-in electric dog-polisher? I don’t know though: if you’re a collector of USB naffness then maybe you’d prize this thing… available now for US$20. [Gadget4All] More »
Gadgets
RhythmFish Helps Your Goldfish Say “I Love You” (or “You Suck”)
12:45AM Wilson Rothman | RhythmFish is a suction-cupped USB webcam concept that sticks to the side of a fishbowl, tracking the movements of your little shiny-scaled compadres. Sensors inside the bowl measure the “currents” made by fish swimming, and your computer combines both data feeds into a visualisation meant for “inter-organism communication.” Talking to goldfish? From the looks of the invention, I thought designer Sangmin Bae had seen one too many Terry Gilliam flicks, but on second thought, he may just be addicted to American Dad. [Coroflot via OhGizmo] More »
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