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Dirty Bomb Emergency Kit Appeals To The Paranoid In Me
12:10PM Jesus Diaz | When I was a kid I saw The Day After, which left me having nightmares about nuclear bombs exploding in the horizon, and looting supermarkets for chocolate bars. Maybe that’s why I’m itching to buy this dirty bomb emergency kit. More »
Gadgets
Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into A Supplies Kit
4:40AM Adam Frucci | Sure, you could keep emergency supplies in a box in your closet. But keeping it on your cat is just far more adorable, which is important in a crisis. [Japan Trend Shop via 7 Gadgets]
Toys
Stuka Aeroplane Kit Is a Flying Carpet, Literally
1:20AM Jesus Diaz | My career in model making finished with a P-51 Mustang which ended looking like Dick Dastardly’s aeroplane with an epoxy overdose. Fortunately, this JU87-G Stuka carpet kit by Katharina Wahl doesn’t require any glue. [Mocoloco] More »
Gadgets
DIY Pocket-Sized Oscilloscope Kit For $US33
8:20AM Sean Fallon | Using a oscilloscope for your projects is often an expensive endeavor. At the low end you are talking several hundred bucks at least—but this DIY version fits in your pocket and only costs $US33. More »
Toys
Implosion Toy Set Lets You Practice Destroying the Apple Cube Store Over and Over
2:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | American Toy and Invention Co. is selling a kit that’ll let you build, implode, and rebuild a multi-story structure that looks strangely enough like the 5th Avenue Apple flagship retail space. I’m sure it teaches about the physics of demolition, but hey! Stuff’s blowing up! Stuff with iPods inside! More »
Gadgets
Super-Sleek Aurora Open Source DJ Mixer Can Be Built From a Kit
8:00AM John Mahoney | We love open source hardware, especially when it can throw some MIDI flange and fade into your party like the Aurora–a dual-channel, USB-powered DJ mixer. All the schematics, bills of materials and source code can be nabbed for free online, or you can have one built and shipped. And it can pull off a pretty mean LED lightshow… More »
Robots
HPI’s G-Dog Robot Kit Ain’t No Aibo, Big Dog
6:47PM Gizmodo US Edition | Yo, suckers! You want this robot dog to guard your home? You’re a nut! Mr. T only likes Big Dogs or hot dogs! HPI’s little G-Dog thing is way too small, like Murdoch’s stupid dog Billy. And it’s some kind of kit, so you got to be putting all those fiddly parts like plastic pieces, three-axis acceleration sensor, servos and 7.2V nickel hydrogen batterys together. With no spark-welding, man! But if you’re into this crazy robot stuff: I ain’t gonna stop you. You’re gonna have 15 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches of robot with some crazy motion processing software stuff, and it’s gonna be doing robo-doggy do on your desk. What’s it gonna cost? Cool it: we don’t know the price. But you can get it from July, in Japan. [Robot Watch] More »
Gadgets
Power House Kit: Your Action-Figures Are Going Green
11:00AM Sean Fallon | It is high-time that your Star Wars figures, Gi-Joes, and Barbies woke up from their fantasy worlds and realised that in the real world, there are limits to the power we can consume. The first step in their education would be to move into one of these Power Houses and learn what life would be like without fossil fuels. With each kit you can build a small model house complete with solar panels, a windmill, greenhouse and a desalination system —but the lesson in sustainable living does not end there. More »
Kiddie Green Screen Makes Special Effects Accessible
2:23AM Adam Frucci | The Rip Roar Creation Station is a cheapo green screen setup for kids and impoverished filmmakers. It’s got everything you need to make it look like you’re standing in front of a volcano, when you’re really standing in your parent’s basement: camera with LED lighting, a mic, two green screens, tripod, and software. It’s the perfect thing to either teach your kids about special effects or take your mediocre YouTube comedy shorts to the next level. It’s available for preorder on Amazon now for $130. [Product Page via PopGadget] More »
