Imagine you are predicting the weather with the Weems Stormglass (1)
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The Weems Stormglass, it is called. Not some steampunk confection, this strange little device, invented more than two centuries ago, is said to predict the weather by the forms taken by its mineral-heavy liquid. Spreading crystal ferns indicate storms, while a clear phial means it will remain calm. In all weather, you pay $149.99 for it. "No-one knows quite how it works," says crapvendor Signals. "But it does."
Super Mario Bros. 3 makes excellent USB hard drive (1)
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This Super Mario Brothers 3 250GB hard drive isn't anything more clever than a retro game cartridge pried open, gutted, and crammed with a cheap 2.5" SATA drive. Even so, could there be any more appropriate repository for an arcade cabinet's NES ROM collection? This one was being sold by an Etsy seller for $180, and it's doubtlessly long gone, but if there's enough demand, surely an entire business could be forged from the pecuniary ...
Minimalist desk hides cables (1)
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In introducing the minimalist white iDesk, Giles Turnbull cries "Here’s one for the ZOMG THERE MUST BE NO CABLES VISIBLE types among you. Yes, you know who you are." He's talking about us, certainly. However, for this chunk of white acrylic with an integrated docking tray , one must pay $3,000. How does "No," sound, iDesk? iDesk [Product Page] Another zen Mac desk [CoM]
I went to a Circuit City (1)
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The day before yesterday I entered a Circuit City. I don't recall the last time I'd been in one — I'm more of a Best Buy man myself, although only when I must; I tend to purchase electronics almost exclusively online — but the uniform red-and-silver trimmings were just as I remembered from a few years ago. The store itself was staffed entirely by children, but then again I was in a college town. A ...
Six-side dice as pixelated Madonna (2)
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Robert bought a bunch of six-sided dice from Amazon and created this amazing table top with an image of the Madonna, mapping a six-color grey-scale image to each face of the dice. 2925 (dice table) [Flight404.com] (Thanks, Brett!)
Techspansion drags VisualHub video converter program for Mac behind the killing shed (1)
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Techspansion, makers of the excellent VisualHub program — about the only truly excellent program to allow for the conversion of regular video files to iPod-compatible MP4s on the Mac — have closed their doors, citing the tantalizing and mysterious excuse of "personal reasons." The good news is that Techspansion hints that they will release the source code before they completely blink out of the time stream. That they would consider releasing the source seems to ...
Sega announces re-entry into hardware with the Vision (1)
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Inexplicable announcement of the day, sure to elicit a cranium-bursting WTF: Sega is getting back into the hardware game. According to Register Hardware, Sega's new handheld will be called the Vision, and it will primarily be a PMP, with a built-in television tuner combined with video and musical playback support. It'll play games too, but that's clearly not the device's thrust... in fact, the Vision's leaked feature sheets lists "games" in a desultorily second-to-last place, ...
Motherboards that won't tear the roof of your mouth to shreds (1)
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Gadgets: Ten things that changed if you spent the last five years in hypersleep (5)
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1. Sony finally got it, but still doesn't get it. Sony finally ditched proprietary music files, but still hasn't updated its copy 'n' control development model. And get this: the latest Playstation is getting its rear end kicked by both Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo! Sir Howard's obviously tired of wrapping duct tape around the beast and the stock's in the toilet. But then again, whose isn't? 2. No-one admits it, but piracy is mainstream. The ...
Review: Sorapot tea pot. Verdict: Tea is officially sexier than coffee (2)
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Sorapot is a stylish and expensive teapot made from stainless steel and pyrex. Designed by Joey Roth, it is undeniably a beautiful creation. There's even a matching teacup. But is tea brewed in it any good? I used it casually for a few days, including a blind test against a Brown Betty-style pot, and found it perfect as a compact tea-making gadget — a role that has its charms — but too small and fiddly ...
Budweiser's promotional Beer Drive (5)
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Budweiser's promotional USB thumbdrive is full of beer, or something that looks like beer.Prosit, submit, vomit! CNK will make you a similar item, with minimum runs of 250 pieces. CNK Promotions [via Giz]
Spotting game design poseurs (1)
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Codemasters' principal designer Phil O'Connor writes at length on how to hire a good game designer. Despite its dry and business-like air, it's a frequently-amusing guide on how to spot a charlatan in a profession that offers little in the way of accreditation, but which has an abundance of people who think they can do it. The key qualification, he says, is game-making experience. For those with no development or modding skills, there must be ...
OSX Leopard on Dell Inspiron Mini (1)
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Uneasy Silence gets Leopard running on Dell's netbook. The steps to Leopard-ize the mini are actually quite simple and easy to follow. ... Once you complete the install all components except the wireless, ethernet, and sound worked. After some searching on the Dell forums I found two files that enabled the disabled Broadcom wireless adaptor and audio chipset. They should do this for real. Here's an ad you could use, Apple:
Consumers hate Linux. Or perhaps they just hate SUSE. (2)
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Tthe Linux edition of MSI's Wind is returned four times as often as the Windows version. In an interview with Laptop mag, MSI's director of U.S. sales, Andy Tung, says that buyers just don't want to learn how to use it. Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux. People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don’t ...
Like Steve Jobs having a heart attack would be broken by iReport (4)
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Dear reporters, Say you went to a website and the top item there was an all-caps rant proclaiming HENRY BLODGET IS A SKANK. Would that suggest credibility? So stop pretending that CNN's user-sourced iReport is a news source, or, now that you've been had by it, that it's evidence that non-professional journalism is no good. It's just a glorified microblogging system. It's Twitter with a news hat. If you fell for it, it's because you're ...
Analog Photoshop photo frame by I Love Blocks (2)
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These cute "photoshop photo frames" are just regular wooden frames silk-screened to look like a window from the OS X version of Adobe's image editing software, right down to the checkerboard background. They're going to sell for about $50 in a limited edition of 50. Complain about the price if you want — but it's an idea that would be plenty easy to emulate at home. With Photoshop. Photoshop photo frame [I Love Blocks via ...
Kindle 2 Leaked (9)
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TOKYObay: Sometimes cramming clocks into robot bodies is enough (1)
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TOKYObay makes a lot of little trinkets, including some keychains and watch pocketwatches, but their robot clocks are really cute. Especially the "Tank" model in the middle. They're available in a variety of colors. Prices start at $36 for the smallest, up to $45 for good ol' Tank there. Robot clock catalog page [TokyoBayInc.com]
