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Golden Buddha Speaker Can Also Blast Out Heavy Metal
How much would you pay for a plastic-looking Buddha figure to dominate your living room? What about if it sat atop a giant speaker? This hideously kitsch, incredibly naff speaker design from TON (pronounced “tone” darling, as in music, like, and not weight – how very pretentious) will set you back a hefty $43,000 –…
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Japanese Robot to Help Dementia Patients, May Frighten to Death
Just to disprove the common theory that almost everything to come out of Japan these days is frivolous and a little ditsy, scientists from the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have unveiled designs for a robot for people with…
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Weezy Looks Like a Juicer, But Plays Music
Why am I not surprised that the advertising video for this Italian music player is as chauvinistic as the men from that country tend to be? It infuriates me that women are targeted as techno-ignoramuses because Weezy’s designer chose to make this music player look ridiculously like a fruit juicer. Of course, only a woman…
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Mini Robot powered by Panasonic batteries will walk for 300 miles
The Japanese are known for their public displays of endurance. The long-running and re-running TV show Takeshi’s Castle saw hordes of contestants battling to overcome grueling physical challenges. Even nowadays, you can see troupes of old and young walking epic pilgrimages around the country. So, it comes as no surprise to hear that Panasonic are…
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Fancy Steve Jobs’ Pixelated Head Sitting on Your Desk?
Who needs to be remembered in wax at Madame Tussauds, when you can have your image rendered in a pixelated art bust? It certainly seems a lot more appropriate for Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and chief exec of Pixar animation, to be honored in the latter way. The Steve Jobs pixel bust was designed…
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Super Expensive Hollandia iPad Bed May Give you Sleepless Nights
If there were a competition for the silliest iPad dock design, I think this iPad bed might just beat even the iPad pole, or iPad suit. Hollandia’s iPad bed sounds like a practical joke on the one hand, but looks like a sexy, swanky, utterly serious iPad-dock bed design, on the other. The iCon iPad…
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Star Trek Pizza Wheel Goes Where no Pizza Cutter has Gone Before
Taking you where no man, or pizza cutter, has gone before, ThinkGeek has released a Star Trek themed pizza blade. Made from stainless steel, the pizza cutter is molded to look like the Starship Enterprise, and will make your take-away dinner realize that resistance is futile. This cutter has been officially licensed and exclusively designed…
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5th Avenue jeweler adds QR codes to the rocks
New York jeweler, Michael C. Fina, is taking window shopping to new levels with his scan-able jewelry displays. The fifth avenue retailer has partnered with bridal jewelry manufacturers A. Jaffe, Platinum Guild International USA (PGI-USA) and web developers Tappinn to be the first to embed their window displays with customized QR codes – matrix barcodes…
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Kiss ME a device that will deliver a kiss virtually
I am all for technology advancements, but must admit to being slightly worried about the increasingly blurry lines between the real and virtually-real. Yesterday, we brought you news of a Wii-enabled virtual massage system which lets you choose a virtual girlfriend and massage her. This came hot on the heels of Love Plus, a dating…
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Ninja Toilet Paper – Learn an Ancient Language While Sitting on the Pot
As someone who keeps a collection of literature in her toilet, and has even been known to stick revision notes and new foreign vocabulary on her toilet door, I rather like this new Japanese toilet roll. Inscribed with Ninja writing (“Ninja mouji”), you can now sit on the pot and catch up on your ancient…
