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| Saturday Mar 31, 2012 | Like music, puzzles, and safe places to keep your valuables? Here's a desk with compartments locked by puzzles, and the drawers are part of an organ that reveals a secret compartment. to Gadgets by faisal |
| Tuesday Feb 26, 2008 | When I die I'll go to Heaven, because I've already spent my time in Hell. And I picked up an engraved Zippo there, so I can smoke too. to Gadgets by fatherdan |
| Friday May 12, 2006 | In Soviet Russia, gadgets own you! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 1, 2005 |
Someone in Japan loves to rock out, 80's style, and
has put together
a gallery of
electronic, hexagonal drums. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 24, 2005 | Guns aren't just about killin'. They're also good for
getting
you wet, and
getting
you dry. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 22, 2005 | Turn your wok into a
2.4GHz parabolic dish WiFi repeater to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 11, 2005 | Reminiscient of Honda's
famous "Cog" commercial,
some people at Cambridge with a bit too much time on their hands have created
an
impressive Rube Goldberg contraption.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 9, 2005 | Give your crummy little life a little class, with
a hand-made
wooden laptop case. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 7, 2005 | If you really like playing laser tag, and are somewhat of an
electronics genius, you can do what Light Brain Productions
did and
design and build
your own.
The "MilesTag" system uses
custom digital signalling,
which allows up to 32 players on
seven different teams and supports a wide range of scalable, fully
configurable weapons, including sniper rifles, mines and "area-denial"
ordinance.
Source code,
parts supplier info,
and
schematics
are provided.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 28, 2005 | Incoming file transfer!
SWEET JESUS
MY EYE!! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 21, 2005 |
Best
knife block
ever.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 2004 | The perfect gift for your sister's hyperactive child: a
100mW
laser that can
burn holes through
plastic cups. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 15, 2004 | Just beause your walkman is obsolete
doesn't mean
it's useless.
With a bit of work you can turn it into
a
race car. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 7, 2004 | What could make meetings even less fun? How about making everyone sit way too
close together on
an infantalizing seven-seated tricycle?
I smell SYNERGY! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 11, 2004 | Beep boop, it's
music made on a Game Boy.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 8, 2004 | Get a true feel for veterinary medicine with the
Bovine Rectal
Palpation Simulator.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 21, 2004 | Ah, the Magical Gadgets of yesteryear. I always wanted a BoneFone, myself, and everything described as "executive". to Gadgets by fringehead |
| Tuesday Jan 20, 2004 | The question burning on everyone's minds... "What is a 'SKEEDADDLEHOPPER' anyway?" to Gadgets by mrnonrespondo |
| Thursday Jan 15, 2004 | Build your
own damn Segway. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 7, 2003 | For only a few hundred dollars (and a few hundred hours), you
can become
the coolest person you
know.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 30, 2003 | We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for
generating
3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 26, 2003 | I've got a foggy notion this site will come in handy on Halloween. to Gadgets by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Aug 20, 2003 | "I quit my full-time work to make it happen, spending my entire savings along the way. But building
a giant camera out of a delivery truck
has been my dream for the past six years." to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 9, 2003 | Yes, you can get an MP3 player made from a Kalashnikov ammo clip, but apparently you can only use it if you look really good in a camo bikini. to Gadgets by yoyology |
| Sunday Apr 20, 2003 | The Museum of Unworkable Devices has a collection of perpetual motion machines, as one might expect. -But there's so much more! A physics primer, in-depth profiles of optical illusions both 2-D and 3-D, a bio of master charlatan John Worrell Keely, and a patent collection. They even have plans to expand into a new annex. If that isn't enough, one can even read it all in Portuguese! to Gadgets by yoyology |
| Tuesday Apr 8, 2003 | Tachi Laboratories works on some pretty cool projects, including transmittable tactile feelings, remotely-controlled teddy bear avatars, and projection setups that can give the illusion of being able to see through something. But don't get any wild ideas. to Gadgets by onigame |
| Saturday Mar 1, 2003 | Typically when someone is using a cellphone headset it's hard to tell whether they're clinically insane or just talking to their broker. However, using this fellow's unique handset approach you can muddy the water a bit by talking to your broker and appearing insane at the same time. to Gadgets by fool |
| Monday Feb 24, 2003 | What do shopping carts, parking meters, highly secret carbon nanotube manufacturing processes, and disposable suppository applicators have in common? They were all invented by Oklahomans! to Gadgets by yoyology |
| Monday Jan 13, 2003 | If I can peck out an approximation of the tune that's stuck in my head (In German, "der Ohrwurm"), Ryuichi "Richie" Iwamura has a tool to help me out. On the visual side, if I can draw three views of an object, the Princeton Shape Retrieval and Analysis Group can help me find a 3D model of it. Now all I need is an online version of the Cyranose 320. to Gadgets by yoyology |
| Sunday Dec 8, 2002 | P-mate is certainly not the only accessory that allows women to urinate while standing up. However, it is the only one that is designed specifically for use with the Mobile Urinal Unit Kros or the WC series of urinals by the same designers.
to Gadgets by caspian |
| Wednesday Nov 13, 2002 | Enterprising (and sufficiently insane) tinkerers can do a
wide variety of dubious and
dangerous
things with the
microwave
oven sitting so innocently in their kitchen.
Besides
shooting it with
a gun,
or using it to
melt metals,
you can perform various
dangerous
experiments with superheated liquids, coils of wire, steel wool,
bars of soap
and flash bulbs.
You can also use a microwave to
create
ball lightning,
take it apart in order to build a
microwave
gun
or to build a device that
disables video
cameras.
Just make sure to wear your
Faraday cage underpants!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 18, 2002 | The only thing cooler than
jet-packs
are
ray guns.
But instead of just dreaming about totin' a bad-ass laser pistol, why not
make
your own? If
lasers are too boring
for your jaded 21st century tastes, you could always take it to the next
level with
a rail
gun, which uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles to
high speeds. The rail gun's easier-to-build cousin, the
coil gun, is another good
DIY alternative
for
mad
science-style mayhem.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Up from the depths / Thirty stories high /
Breathing
firewire /
His head in the sky! / Hubzilla! Hubzilla! Hubzilla!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 14, 2002 | It appears that there's no way around the 'geek factor' when it comes to using a metal detector, but you can now recover lost money without leaving your computer. to Gadgets by rich |
| Sunday Apr 21, 2002 | Lung
guns,
head
splitters, and
pneumatic
cutters.
No, these aren't weapons in a new
Quake 3 mod,
they're the tools used to help put
meat on your table.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 19, 2002 | Now that the cold war is over, American geeks and Russian geeks can feel free to celebrate their respective triumphs over outdated, but sometimes beautiful instruments.
to Gadgets by cadastral |
| Saturday Dec 22, 2001 | If you were wondering if your DVD player could play various weird media formats, someone has already figured it out for you. to Gadgets by shadow |
| Friday Dec 14, 2001 | Ever wondered how those old coin acceptors and rejectors worked? to Gadgets by onigame |
| Friday Dec 7, 2001 | Get into Alison's pants with the PantsCam.
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Tuesday Oct 16, 2001 |
Zeppotron Unnovations is a world leader in tomorrow's outmoded artefacts, today! Take a moment to peruse their catalog of unique consumer solutions.
to Gadgets by dnm |
| Wednesday Sep 5, 2001 | "This robot solves a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube," with Lego MindStorms. to Gadgets by urog |
| Friday Aug 3, 2001 | Most men know that no matter how hard we work on gender inequality, there are certain things that women won't be using ... or will they? Although there have been some special designs that get at the problem, all you ladies really need is a special tool... and if you feel squeamish about reuse, a disposable version is also available, as well as a more realistic version. Or forget the tools entirely.
to Gadgets by onigame |
| Thursday Jul 26, 2001 | Amongst the sundials at Sundial Park in Genk an intriguing digital sundial stands. The Digital Sundial has no moving parts or electronics, but still displays the time in clear arabic numerals.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 12, 2001 | As if people weren't wussy enough, they've found a way to completely ruin the satisfying experience of smooshing bugs. to Gadgets by lampbane |
| Thursday Jun 14, 2001 | The pinnacle of human technological achievement has got to be a toaster that tells you what to wear outside today. to Gadgets by saucy |
| Friday May 25, 2001 | Wanna climb walls like Spiderman? Get yourself a Gekkomat, a German wall-climbing invention which apparently really works.
to Gadgets by cricket |
| Tuesday May 22, 2001 | Hey, guyth! Cheg owd mah noo dung
cleanuh! to Gadgets by fatherdan |
| Monday May 7, 2001 | TimeZone
is a wonderful collection of knowledge from
watch idiot savants.
There's
true
beauty
in
mechanical watches.
A
quartz watch
may be cheaper and more accurate, and you'll never get the
accuracy
of
the Internet with a
mechanical watch.
But the
craftsmanship,
subtlety,
and
intricacy
of a
real, ticking watch
is unparalleled. to Gadgets by nelson |
| Sunday May 6, 2001 | Stanford's Matchbook PC created the competition for tiniest webserver, and the matchhead-sized iPic may have won for a time, but Jim Rees' Webcard is a webserver running entirely on a smartcard.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | In the late 1980's, Japanese inventor-visionary-genius Kenji Kawakami first formalized the study Chindogu, or "odd or distorted tools",
tools that
seem like they're going to make life a lot easier,
but don't.
to Gadgets by skallas |
| Thursday Apr 26, 2001 | Sony's VAIO line has sucessfully been the Macs of the PC world, especially with their LCD screen you can draw on. Think of it as the Koala Pad of the 21st century. to Gadgets by skallas |
| Monday Apr 2, 2001 | Doesn't everyone want a rotating cement mixer
with surveillance cameras, cable and satellite TV, a DVD player, and a PS2 inside? to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Mar 7, 2001 | Turning your Toyota MR2 into some
amateur science project
is nothing
compared to putting a Rolls Royce
gas
turbine engine into your
motorcycle.
0-200 mph in 15 seconds, baby!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 6, 2001 | Underwater lasers! Yeah! to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Monday Mar 5, 2001 | This Toyota is one hell of a way to pick up girls or earn a Darwin Award.
to Gadgets by kade |
| Monday Feb 26, 2001 | Convert your archaic record player into a video display system with Vinyl Video.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Sunday Feb 25, 2001 | IBM's half-keyboard prototype is now
available for the Palm and as a patch for Linux.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Monday Feb 19, 2001 | Where can you get wholesale prices on pepper spray, tasers, slingshots, and magnetic jewelry? Why, at familydefense.com. to Gadgets by djinn |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | Nothing says "My business is all about wretched excess" more than stainless steel business cards.
to Gadgets by skyhook |
| Wednesday Jan 24, 2001 | There's nothing more refreshing than an ice cold drink in a
frosty glass
Except, perhaps, a cold drink in a glass made of
frosty ice. to Gadgets by skyhook |
| Monday Jan 22, 2001 | Dotcommunists, having purchased all the
obvious gadgets, are now acquiring GPS units
despite not needing to find the
coordinates of their desk more than once
or twice a month. Take that GPS unit outside
and try to find some
geocaches or
perhaps score some photographs of an integer lattitude/longitude intersection.
Geeks of the world, stand up -
you have nothing to lose but your flab.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Friday Jan 19, 2001 | Most of us have heard of X10 and their gadgets for cheap home automation and video surveilance. One guy went a step farther, though, and put one of their wireless video cameras on a model rocket.
to Gadgets by mrbill |
| Thursday Jan 11, 2001 | 8cm discs are the future. Sony has a digital still camera that uses them, now Hitachi has a DV camera that uses 8cm DVD-RAMs. to Gadgets by krisjohn |
| Wednesday Jan 10, 2001 | I'll never use another chippy-breaky CD "jewel" case again, now that
I found instructions on making an origami CD case:
19K GIF; 24K PDF -- from the web site of some mathematician who does neat origami.
to Gadgets by sburke |
| Saturday Oct 28, 2000 | The USB ports on these newfangled legacy free computers these days make it easy to hook up all sorts of interesting I/O devices. You can even give your computer the finger (does anybody know of a USB-enabled GPS receiver?) to Gadgets by goboro |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | George
Katz rocked my adolescent geeky world with his solid
state oscilloscope. LEDs weren't cheap and
plentiful back then, and I never managed to scrounge up enough to
build my own. But wait; there's more! If you're interested in
leeching a bit of bandwidth off your local university, his line-of-sight
serial transceiver might do the trick. Mind you, you'll need two
laser pointers to pull that one off, and, well, one of them will be
aimed at your dorm. Perhaps you could arm one of his research
robots to keep guard. I understand at least one of them can hold
its ground against a common housecat, so fending off campus
security should be a cinch. Hmm... test equipment, wireless
point-to-point communications, and robots. All you need is an angry flower, and the world's
practically subjugated. to Gadgets by braino |
| Saturday Sep 30, 2000 | Mind Machines are what you get when you cross meditation and technology. Most work off the simple concepts of binaural beats and the frequency following response. You can also get your very own shareware binaural beat generator to play around with.
to Gadgets by skallas |
| Sunday Sep 24, 2000 | We're getting this much closer to our Dick Tracy fantasy watch. to Gadgets by skallas |
| Thursday Sep 14, 2000 | Hey, kids! Make your own View-Master reels! to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2000 | Why bother trying to run Linux on your
PalmPilot
or
iPaq when you can get
something designed specifically to run Linux, such as the the monochrome
Agenda
or the color
Yopy.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Saturday Jun 24, 2000 | Before the
first analog
recordings, music was stored in a
digital
format and played back by
steampunk robots.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 22, 2000 | I take offense at the recent slamming of jwz for the descriptions of his
self-made furniture. Okay, he's not perfect, but chances are, he's far
cooler than you. If not, he's almost certainly
richer. And he links back here.
Show a little respect.
to Gadgets by caviar |
| What is it about people on the net who want to tell you about their self-designed furniture? Shelves and CD racks seem to be the most popular. If you're feeling lazy you can just buy something industrial-chic from Boltz.com. to Gadgets by akk |
| Wednesday Jun 21, 2000 | calculator watch, meteorology watch, pager watch, and presently, the MP3 watch. Casio once again reigns as the company squeezing way too much onto your wrist. A full review provided by MP3.com to Gadgets by urog |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | Ideo's Palm V has long made Star Trek's tricorders look like Fred Flinstone technology. Think Outside just began shipping a Portable Palm Keyboard, which elicits gasps even among Silicon Valley technerds. This baby has a full-sized keyboard, ingeniously collapses down to the size of a Palm III, and is utterly James Bond. Combine it with Cutting Edge Software's SmartDoc and leave your laptop at home. And as long as you're hotsyncing, check out my favorite Palm games: Galax (fantastic greyscale Galaxian clone), Trek (cloned from the classic mainframe game), Go (the Japanese boardgame) and the great nerd puzzle Netwalk. to Gadgets by cricket |
| Bored at work? Draganfly has the remote control flying machines you need to keep yourself entertained by buzzing coworkers - start off with the basic flying saucer and graduate to tiny multi-rotor helicopters. Competitor Plantraco doesn't have the high end helicopter, but it does have a more versatile flying saucer as well as wacky "in action" and "as seen on tv" promotional video clips and a strange alien midget mascot named Hugo. to Gadgets by faisal |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | Why on earth would you want to shoot any one with a gun when
you could use something little less lethal.
to Gadgets by rampage |
| Monday Apr 24, 2000 | Tired of running your model railroad
as a series of electrical blocks instead of as a number of trains?
Build your own digital command control setup!
This one utilizes work done by someone else with a
similar system.
Don't worry, Linux folks, you have options too:
DDL
is a fairly advanced system for use with a PC running Linux.
to Gadgets by shadow |
| Friday Apr 21, 2000 | Here's a guy who created a simulation of a railroad interlocking plant on
his model railroad layout using both physical and
logical means. to Gadgets by shadow |
| Monday Apr 17, 2000 | While not as versitile as Duct Tape, Cable Ties still deserve there own fan page. There is, of course, a searchable database of 1001 uses for cable ties, a few nice pictures, and (for the truely dedicated) a cable tie sounds page. Go out and get some now! to Gadgets by reid |
| Wednesday Apr 12, 2000 | Clearly, the need for data acquisition has gone much too far.
to Gadgets by dha |
| Saturday Mar 11, 2000 | Cardboard anaglyph 3-D glasses are for beginners -- you want
a pair of professional
3-D glasses. (Clip-ons
also available!) to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| You might have heard about the Aibo, Sony's dog-like personal robot. (Although you probably haven't heard of this Aibo owner's page...).
You might have even heard about the R100 Personal Robot, which recognises 400 voice commands and the faces of ten people.
So personal robots are happening right now. Where's it all going?
I think the Robokoneko (robot kitten) has got to be the one worth waiting for. to Gadgets by simon |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | What's tannish, dilatant, and smells funny? (Hint:
dilatant
is the opposite of
thixotropic.)
If you knew, would you want to
win
a five-pound slab of it?
Course you would!
to Gadgets by belford |
| Sunday Mar 5, 2000 | Mmmmm...new talking Simpsons toys... to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Friday Mar 3, 2000 | Read about one man's process of making his car electric.
to Gadgets by keith |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | Don't go anywhere that's hot and sticky without wearing an electronic dragonfly on your wrist. to Gadgets by monde |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 | Green? Peterb, you're a
wuss.
Hold out for the
blue
laser pointers --
and save one eyeball for the
violet
that is to
come.
to Gadgets by belford |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2000 | Someone please buy me a green laser pointer. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Wednesday Feb 9, 2000 | Instead of carrying a digital camera AND a Visor, a digital camera springboard would be more efficient. For those that still have an older Palm, Kodak has a solution, as well. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Friday Feb 4, 2000 | How about using some genetically engineered bio-luminescent proteins to make fun toys?
Glow in the dark water? Be sure to watch the Quicktime movies
here and here.
to Gadgets by gen |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 | Sure, Ceiva, "the world's
only Internet connected picture frame," seems neat,
until you accidentally have something
inappropriate on it when Mom comes to visit... to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Harness the power of mirrors for evil: Build a disgustoscope, the evil twin of the kaleidoscope, and turn the reflection of your hand into an "obscenely pulsing wrinkled flesh-ball" with "throbbing organic orifices." to Gadgets by rogers |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2000 | The neverending geek debate: Victorinox's Swiss Army Knives, Leatherman's... erm... Leathermen, or Gerber's Deluxe Multiplier. Think I'll stick with a butter knife for now. to Gadgets by stimpy |
| Wednesday Jan 19, 2000 | At the end of this month this company
will be demonstrating a product that they claim
will enable individual
VTOL flight. Either this is a really great web hoax that
has the media fooled,
or we really are living in the future. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Thursday Dec 30, 1999 | On long road trips, the need for a restroom can become overwhelming. Sometimes there's a clean one close by, and sometimes there isn't. Never fear! Uncle Booger's Bumper Dumper is here. to Gadgets by jacquez |
| Tuesday Dec 21, 1999 | "A turbine-powered helicopter is no longer the ultimate accoutrement to a superyacht." What's that, you cry? Yes! Personal luxury submarines! Less than two megabucks gets you a 25-foot sub with a thousand-foot dive range, an all-transparent cockpit, and leather seats! Or, for only two-thirds of a megabuck, the cutest little submersible you ever did see. The high-end models are perhaps a bit ostentatious, I warn you. Go for something incredibly nifty-looking instead. to Gadgets by belford |
| Monday Dec 20, 1999 | Hey, obnoxious cell phone users! Cloot! Cloot! to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Sunday Dec 19, 1999 | Most people are familiar with the necklace-like cellphone straps, but not many people have seen the one for your Palm organizer. to Gadgets by enigma |
| Friday Dec 10, 1999 | What to play your records without having to drag a needle across them and slowly wear them down? Well, it ain't cheap, but ELP offers an audiophile's wet dream, a laser record player. When I say "ain't cheap," what I mean is that the base model costs $13,500. But for that price, you get to listen to completely virgin vinyl forever. Mmmm. to Gadgets by keith |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | Heads up, geek - the PalmPilot/CellPhone unit has arrived. Read all about it
here.
Yes, I'd like overnight shipping ... $799? Ok, this will be on MasterCard ... to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | Zippy says these are only for "bored yuppies with more discretionary income than brains". YOW! to Gadgets by stimpy |
| Thursday Nov 4, 1999 | Personal Jukebox will allow you to store up to 80 hours - about 1,200 songs worth - of mp3's on a portable player when it becomes available in December (it'll even have a car kit!). Sounds great, but at approximately $10 per playback hour, it may not be for everyone. to Gadgets by eclipse |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Also in the insanely stupid audiophile accessory
category are mpingo discs,
which are supposed to improve the harmonics in
your room. Whatever. I'm so glad we're using
endagered trees for such a stupid purpose. At least there
are some people willing to mock
the madness. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Sometimes, it's embarassing to like
fine audio
equipment, since you get lumped in with idiots who think that
green pens
help the sound of CDs and
$80 hunks
of steel covered in of wood can improve "imaging."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 | Live in your own grounded and refitted
airplane.
This guy
is preparing his now. to Gadgets by keith |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | No, it's not a torture device, just one of the many unusual patents found at Wacky Patent of the Month. to Gadgets by rsf |
| Friday Oct 22, 1999 | The World's Only Missile Silo Luxury Home with Runway to Gadgets by faisal |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | The TRGPro is a modified PalmIIIx with added enhancements: WAV-capable audio and a CompactFlash slot that is compatible with inexpensive flashRAM, modems and other devices. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 13, 1999 | When you can't get down to your local anti-clean air pool hall, practice on the Real Feel Pool Controller in the comforts of your home. to Gadgets by david |
| Saturday Oct 9, 1999 | If you're like me, you've got lots of gadgets lying around the house for which not only have you lost the documentation, but you don't even know who made it (like this remote I'm using with nothing on it except "FCC ID DKN AMTX"). Fortunately, the FCC ID Search Form will help you figure out who to turn to for information. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | Need to jump off a cliff and arrive alive? Zorb to Gadgets by faisal |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Hankering for lightweight yet strong materials? Lighter than aluminium? Stronger than steel? Head over to SP Systems where they've got the latest in composite materials.
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Brain in a tank! Thing in a jar! Weird stuff in glass to impress your friends and make them worry about you! to Gadgets by magus |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | For people with fat wallets and demanding aesthetics,
Moth Audio makes some
gorgeous tube amps, and
the coolest
night light
I've ever seen.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | Some dentists suggest that daily tongue cleaning can help prevent gum disease, tooth decay and
reduce bad breath by sweeping away bacteria colonies that live in your mouth. While most of us
would consider a $2 toothbrush to be an adequate tool for this task, an ad for the
electric vibrating tongue cleaner confirmed my suspicion that there's no limit to the kinds of needless electronic
gew-gaws rich people will buy. to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | Hey kids! Wanna be a costumed vigilante? Well, first you'll need some G-E-A-R. And don't forget to outfit your car! to Gadgets by riffraff |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | After you put the Piddler's toilet targets in the toilet, you can teach your children more advanced targeting techniques with these fine bathroom decorations. to Gadgets by mrradon |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Does anyone ever stop to think that sometimes consumerism can go too far? to Gadgets by djinn |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | Do you have a bicycle? Is STI not enough to please your widget receptor? Is your right hand getting tired? You need
Mavic's new Mektronic for wireless, electronic rear shifting.
to Gadgets by urog |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | My latest boy toy is the brand-new Dreamcast
from Sega. Roughly
as powerful (in gaming terms) as a PC with the
latest 3d cards, it costs a mere $199. So far my favorite
games have to be the psychotically realistic
NFL 2k
and the perfect arcade conversion Soul Calibur. Lastly,
the unit comes with a built in 56k modem and a web browser
disk -- and yes, you can read memepool on it. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Monday Sep 13, 1999 | Livin' la Video Loca con Puerto Para Graficos Acelerados Gigante! to Gadgets by faisal |
| Thursday Sep 2, 1999 | Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. Need we say more? Oh, yes: Don't touch it! to Gadgets by faisal |
| Thursday Aug 26, 1999 | Killer app for travel junkies with PalmPilots: you can now use AvantGo to get MapQuest directions and maps on your Palm using MapQuest to Go. to Gadgets by faisal |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | Be ye artist, engineer, or just the kind of person that likes to
fill up the basement with nonsense, the Small Parts
Catalog
is full of all sorts of things you never knew you didn't need.
to Gadgets by goboro |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 1999 | Curse Free TV:
"remove cursing from virtually all TV and video
movie rentals." It also comes with a Religious setting
that, "when viewing Christian programming, allows
the names of God to come through." to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 | KA9MVA hacks the Earthmate so you don't have to. to Gadgets by shadow |
| Monday Jul 12, 1999 | Anthony Gallo Acoustics makes round speakers
that sound good. Buy some today. to Gadgets by akk |
| Monday Jul 5, 1999 | In the continuing quest of high-tech firms to raid the options-laden pockets of overpaid
nerds, PocketMail is the latest entry in the cool-but
-inessential status-gadgets category. Offering
the email queueing features of a PalmPilot and the 800-number email
dialup capacity of MyTalk, it is practically begging to be
acquired by 3Com or
Microsoft. Get yours today! to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | For my next gift, alert memepool readers should send me the Nikon D1 Professional Digital SLR. Drool here, here, here and here. Thanks in advance! to Gadgets by gen |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | Do you have problems with low-frequency room resonances? Your subwoofer taking advantage of you? Then you need the Giant Toilet Paper Tubes to fight those resonant bass notes. A cheap fix for you headphone geeks who spend too much money on stereo equipment. to Gadgets by gen |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | How much would you pay for the
fastest 8-bit single-chip microcontroller?
$10? $20? But wait--there's more! You get 100 MIPS
of processing power, on-chip reprogrammable
flash memory, and a four-stage pipeline. NOW how
much would you pay?
About $5.
to Gadgets by xrayjones |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Meet the
guy responsible for all those little sticky bits of paper
that cover your monitor, and the storied history
of the company he worked for. to Gadgets by goboro |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | I plan to invest my share of the croesian profits from the wildly anticipated Memepool IPO to
buy my dream home.
to Gadgets by peterb |
| Pipestone Veterinary supplies shepherding
paraphernalia, such as castrating apparatus
and lambing equipment. I know where
I'm buying my emasculators and sheep drench from now on.
to Gadgets by jacquez |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | My latest toy is an EarthMate
GPS Receiver, along with the hyper-spiffy
Street Atlas USA software from DeLorme.
After using it, I was intrigued by the idea of GPS, and found
an interesting tutorial (requires Shockwave). And so, having submitted an item
which mentions commercial products, heartily endorses a superb piece of
non-GPL software, and points to a web site which uses non-Lynx compatible
technology, I am going to go on my Memorial Day.
vacation and wait for the hate mail.
to Gadgets by peterb |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | The
Palm VII is out. Be the first on your block
to blow $599 on an
internet-enabled organizer. to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Saturday May 15, 1999 | I respect low tech solutions to high tech problems, like this emergency charger
for the Palm V. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | To describe it in one word: versatile. It can be used as cozy housing, storage, a hat, and the subject of many Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Still can't guess what it is? to Gadgets by djinn |
| Sunday May 2, 1999 | If you're looking to buy the child in your life a doll that has dreadlocks, pubic hair, and isn't anorexically thin, you might want to check out Feral Cheryl.
to Gadgets by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 27, 1999 | Apple won't have a lock on colorful, translucent computer cases for long. (Available in Lime, Strawberry, Grape, Orange, and "Blackish Green.")
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Saturday Apr 24, 1999 | Radical and
Extreme Hobbies: Fun via high power kinetic energy.
to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| For my next gift, Alert Memepool Readers should send me the Nikon
Coolpix 950 digital camera. Thanks in advance! to Gadgets by peterb |
| Saturday Apr 17, 1999 | Force Ten sells
equipment and
books
for "revenge, spying, police and miltary" uses.
If you're planning on doing any serious stalking, however, you'd better
get a night-vision scope, too.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Into obsolete videodisc technology? The RCA
Selectavision Videodisc player lives on at
www.cedmagic.com.
The CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) was the
only stylus-based video tech and struggled to find
a market from 1981 to 1986, before being completely
given up for dead. The site features more technical
specs than you'd probably want to know, plus a nice
CED
title database, listing everything released in
the format. to Gadgets by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | The virtual retinal
display uses low-powered lasers to paint images directly on your retina.
After some of the larger components are made smaller and cheaper, the
inventors plan to commercialize the
technology.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 8, 1999 | At this very moment, I am scouring
the toy stores of the world for
this toy.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 1999 | Intel's AnyPoint
is a new "plug and play" system for home networking that runs over your house's phone line. It's compatible with new DSL services, and includes NAT (the ability for multiple machines on a network to share a single user internet connection such as a standard ISP dialup account).
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Does this make you horny, baby? Grateful memepool readers
may feel free to purchase this Goldwing
alternative for me.
to Gadgets by peterb |
| Saturday Apr 3, 1999 | You can't build the possibly "ILLEGAL" or
"DANGEROUS" equipment at
Information Unlimited without first
visiting American Science
And Surplus' definitive directory of surplus...thingies.
to Gadgets by mpc |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | Write into thin air, with Spacewriter. to Gadgets by faisal |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | The Tool Logic Tool Lite Deluxe contains a light, knife, screwdriver, phillips head screwdriver, nail file, toothpick, tweezer and inch/cm rules in a 1'8" thick thick credit card shape. As seen in Jeff Bezos' pants!
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Sunday Mar 14, 1999 | Pull My Finger:
The CD of digitally recorded farts. Aren't you
just thrilled to live in such technologically advanced
times? to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 | Itsy. It's a PDA. It runs Linux. It's smaller than a Palm III. It does speech recognition. We're not so sure about this whole "Rock 'n' Scroll" UI, though.
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Monday Mar 8, 1999 | Horrible, unspeakable evil in a cute and cuddly form. to Gadgets by nyarl |
| Tuesday Feb 23, 1999 | The
perfect gift for all of the daquiri-addicted
telemarketers in your life.
to Gadgets by goboro |
| Thursday Feb 18, 1999 | Laser listening devices, electromagnetic mass drivers, tesla coils: Information Unlimited has fun toys for the whole family.
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | Several hundred kilometer range. No target-kill delay. $1,000 per kill. The future of theater defense: ABL. to Gadgets by faisal |
| Monday Feb 8, 1999 | Killing insects with
high powered lasers!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| In the same spirit as
Beerframe (a.k.a Inconspicous Consumption), is
Contraption,
a webpage about nifty gadgets.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 4, 1999 | Did someone stomp on your Tamagotchi, which is now pushing up daisies? What you need is a digital pet rock. to Gadgets by penth |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | The Sparrow is a tiny little
electric car with with a 30-60 mile range and a
not-so-tiny pricetag.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Free your nose up, take deeper breaths, and get back your health with a natural, gently cleansing nasal passage cleaner. to Gadgets by mfp |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | The story of "three very bored geeks, a leatherman, a bunch of disposable
plastic lighters, and a severe case of
pyromania."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 15, 1999 | "Wo0f, wo0f!" barked the robotic dog/monkey as it
scampered about, anxiously awaiting the new
robotic dog/monkey architechture.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jan 7, 1999 | Time to throw out that Internet Time swatch and that Timex organizer watch - Casio
has come up with the ultimate wrist weight. to Gadgets by derb |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | There's an ass fetish
joke somewhere here, but I'm not going to be the one to make it. to Gadgets by magus |
| Tuesday Jan 5, 1999 | Use your two-thousand dollar G3 Macintosh to emulate a one-hundred dollar Playstation.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 30, 1998 | Danny Hillis is building a "millennium
clock" that will hopefully last about 10,000 years. The reasons
are vaguely New Age-y, but the
mechanics of the thing are kinda interesting. to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| So obvious it hurts: News.com argues that PalmPilot's dominance may slip in 1999, losing market share to the "preponderance" of competitors.
to Gadgets by sip |
| Tuesday Dec 29, 1998 | Your Furby isn't stimulating enough, but the thought of social interaction sends you into panic attacks? Buy yourself a Verbot and never be lonely again except during the terrible, terrible silence of power blackouts. to Gadgets by nyarl |
| Wednesday Dec 23, 1998 | While the Hack Furbysite claims to be primarily about documenting the Furby IR in its entirety, you may be more interested in the various things you can do to make your Furby act funny with a remote control device. Of course,
you might want to think twice about buying your kid a Furby at all, after
you read about Furbies and sweatshops.
to Gadgets by stimpy |
| Monday Dec 14, 1998 | So you went out and bought a fancy new car, but now you are worried about Palm Pilot break-ins. Perhaps what you need is an
effective theft deterrant. to Gadgets by urog |
| Friday Dec 4, 1998 | The dpiX Gradient 500 is a 19" greyscale display
that runs at a resolution of 2,048 x 2,560 pixels. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Dec 3, 1998 | the ultimate car stereo. Check your email, then ask it what the traffic on the road ahead of you is like. Voice recognition, maps, and high fidelity. to Gadgets by bruce |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | 3com skips the Palm IV through Palm VI and goes straight to the wireless Palm VII
and shows that they don't understand math any better than Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Sunday Nov 22, 1998 | Sony unveils a "Memory Stick"
standard in the US, along with a the SMAP - Single Media Active Platform, a tablet for viewing content from the Memory Stick
such as books and pictures, as well as providing internet access.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 19, 1998 | Refurbished Phillips' Scuba Head Mounted Displays are available for $99. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Swatch releases a fundamentally retarded time standard (and accompanying overly-plastic watches) called
Internet Time which is like normal time
except there are only a thousand of the probably-trademarked "Swatch Beats" in a day,
there are no more time zones, and it's backed by MIT goon
Nicholas Negroponte. to Gadgets by joshua |
| The RIM Inter@ctive Pager 950 is an lightweight (4 ounces without battery)
two-way pager that runs on the BellSouth Wireless Network. to Gadgets by joshua |
| The 9 ounce, $129.95 JVC HC-E100 PocketMail
device includes 128k and a acoustic modem, and can dial up to the toll-free but $10/mo PocketMail service.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Swedish hackers modify their Gameboys with radio transceivers, turning them into proximity sensors. to Gadgets by nyarl |
| Wednesday Nov 4, 1998 | Matt's Hack TV lets you
do on-the-fly conversion of TV formats
(NTSC, PAL, SECAM) using an AV PowerMac.
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Friday Oct 23, 1998 | The sci.electronics.repair FAQ contains instructions on
how to fix small household appliances, audio equipment, compact disk players, microwave ovens,
computer monitors, switching power supplies, televisions, VCR's, strobe lights, lawn mowers,
photocopiers, shrimp gumbo, broiled shrimp, jumbo shrimp,
stuffed shrimp, and popcorn shrimp.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| The ultimate
Universal Remote
-- your Pilot.
to Gadgets by oznoid |
| Monday Oct 19, 1998 | Gadgets for God
are the most glorious gadgets of them all. to Gadgets by obvious |
| The Motorola Smart Pager 1300
may be the first fruit of the acquisition of Starfish,
maker of the software behind the Franklin Rex.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 6, 1998 | Test your phone line for 56kbaud compatibility.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 1, 1998 | Aparently, the only difference between the Entrega
USB Hubs for the PC and for the Macintosh is that they are
color-scheme compliant. to Gadgets by joshua |
| The Wacom PL-300 pressure-sensitive
LCD tablet eliminates mouse and monitor at the same time. Photoshop will never be the same. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 | The Iomega USB Zip Drive looks like a neat little toy. But what's the deal with the transparent plastic fetish? to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | need a good stereo for under $2000 and want to get something better than the crap
being pawned off at your local appliance mart? try good sound for cheap.
no green makers for your cds - i promise.
to Gadgets by akk |
| Tuesday Sep 22, 1998 | The child of the cool but enormous Nextel cellphone/walkie-talkies,
the Motorola iDEN is the size of a
StarTAC, has a speakerphone, and
uses a proprietary digital network which provides regular phone service, paging, and group and private call.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| a user interface nightmare? probably, but some technology is still sexy: pdQ to Gadgets by akk |
| Monday Sep 21, 1998 | PoopMoose - "It's a unique candy dispenser."
to Gadgets by akk |
| Saturday Sep 19, 1998 | Animal lust meets human ingenuity. If you've always
wanted a painful way to enhance your self-image,
the
Vacuum Pump is your best bet. Better than an
intern any day.
to Gadgets by jacquez |
| Confused as hell about digital cameras? You should be. At least someone is trying to sort it all out. to Gadgets by akk |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | phone call in the middle of baywatch? just hit pause. to Gadgets by akk |
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