I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that no one wants your old baseball cards enough to warrant securing them in a safe that delivers electric shocks to people.
The gadgets you see above may look like your average Chinese knock-offs, but they hold a most shocking secret. They don’t play video games or MP3s, but you would be forgiven if you thought as much. You would not be forgiven if you picked one of these bad boys up, as they’d shock the bejeezus out of you—literally.
TN Game’s 3rd Space Vest, designed by physician Mark Ombrellaro, is based on a earlier medical instrument that permitted doctors to carry out distance based investigations. As if there could be an even better use, Dr. Ombrellaro has modified the vest so gamers will be able to feel gaming impacts, such as punches and shots, by means of alternating air pressures that will simulate the sensations. More »
From the Embarrassing Obituaries Dept.: a 20-year-old student in Shanghai was killed when his computer electrocuted him. Apparently, it was very hot outside, yet Wu refused to turn the AC on. His computer was overheating, so rather than go with the AC, he took the case off to let it breath. His sweaty legs hit some exposed wires, and he got zapped into oblivion. Yikes. Let that be a lesson to you: Don’t be so cheap that you refuse to turn the AC on even when it’s so hot your computer is about to crash. It could kill you. [Shanghai Daily via Weird Asia News] More »
newVideoPlayer("dreamlover_gawker.flv", 475, 376); This “male management and boyfriend training unit” is an add-on to that CB-3000 male chastity belt that attaches to a submissive male’s member, keeping it, and him, out of harm’s way or out of anybody else’s pants. This Dream Lover 2000 add-on takes it a step further, letting the poor sap’s mistress remotely administer shocks, keeping him in line and punishing him as much as he so richly deserves.
To better protect hard drives in mobile devices, from laptops to cameras, Sony has issued a patent on a mini liquid airbag. And here’s how it works.
A water or silicon oil bag surrounds the drive like a skin. “Biasing units” connect the hard drive to the bag, maintaining the drive’s orientation under duress. Meanwhile, the bag has an inner lining of irises. When the bag is put under pressure, these irises are pushed closer together, creating more bag resistance by putting more pressure on the liquid.
So as we understand it, the “airbag” never actually deploys, but is always wrapped around the protected device. As long as liquid is being used, we’d love to see this technology tied in to cooling systems. Two birds, one airbag. We’re just wondering if they use really tiny dummies for testing.
Art Lebedev studio, responsible for that spectacular Optimus Maximus keyboard with a video display on each key, have apparently gone nuts, now giving you a way to test electrical circuits by shocking yourself half to death. The creative design studio calls this a Vilcus plug dactyloadapter, and it includes adapters for European and US power outlets. Simply insert a finger in each hole, plug it in, and boom! You’re in Electric Ladyland. This product might be popular with the Department of Homeland Security and their colleagues down at Gitmo.
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