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Gadgets
Telephone Company Ripping You Off? Get Revenge With This Lamp
11:21PM Rosa Golijan | Somehow it doesn’t seem like landline providers would be happy about people using the tiny bit of electricity coming through phone-jacks to power lamps, but this thing is so kitschy-looking that it’d be hard to resist. Plus it’s cheeeeeeap. More »
Science
2:40PM Rosa Golijan | Sometimes it’s the unseen that’s the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there’s plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More »
LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
2:40PM Rosa Golijan | Sometimes it’s the unseen that’s the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there’s plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More »
Gadgets
Clever LED Bike Light Has Accelerometer To Sense When You Brake
4:50AM Danny Allen | Sure, you could wear a Safe Turn indicator for night rides, but why lift your arm when the Spooklight has a wireless handlebar touchpad. Its accelerometer also shines your brake light when you slow down — just like a car. More »
LED Pocket Watch Will Have You Considering Monocles, Moustaches
4:20AM Sean Fallon | Using one of his Grandfather’s broken old pocket watches as a starting point, one modder [Paul Pounds] skilled in the ways of microelectronics replaced the face with a system of 133 hand soldered LEDs. More »
Games
Yet Another PSPGo Mod Blinds You With LEDs
5:30AM Jack Loftus | Seriously, what is wrong with the PSPGo? Is the handheld so ho-hum that people are purposefully modding it into awful things, or is it just a really hard device to work with? More »
Design
DIY: When LED Throwies Meet Mouse Taxidermy
4:00AM Danny Allen | Say your pet rat dies. Instead of trashing it, you could shove LED throwie lights into its eye-sockets in a decorative taxidermy experiment that’s as creative as it is graphically morbid. It might be what little Snowy would have wanted. More »
Toys
Lego R2-D2 Minifig Mod Adds Sound And Light
2:00AM Jesus Diaz | Sorry Jason. You trumped my LED Lego stormtrooper minifig with your cylon and Iron Man, but this modded R2-D2 Lego minifig kills them all with lighting and actual Star Wars astromech sounds. [Brickmodder via FBTB via Brothers Brick]
Design
CTRL, Shift Button Lights Are A Shortcut To Escaping The Boogieman
7:00AM Sean Fallon | For those of you who experience life mainly through a series of keystrokes, I give you the CTRL and Shift button LED light. More »
Games
Blue Blood 360 Controller Modkit Looks Surprisingly Tasteful
2:00AM Mark Wilson | For $US30, console mod company XCM will sell you this Blue Blood Xbox 360 controller kit. It includes a new blue shell and D-pad along with a series of glowing LED buttons. Can techno-kitsch be beautiful? Apparently. [TotalConsole via technabob]
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