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  Osram Cuby Make For Cute Clip-On LEDs

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  As niche as clip-on little LED lights may be, they’re actually pretty awesome when you find a use for them (like as a nightlight or a reading light).  And the Cuby is possibly among the cutest ones we’ve seen. Made by Osram, the LED accessory pairs the company’s energy-efficient LED technology with a downright cute and compact design.   Even better, the clipping mechanism is integrated into the cube frame, so there’s no extra part sticking out like most clip-on LEDs. [...]

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  Nike Pro TurboSpeed Uses Dimples To Boost Your Running Speed

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  Tight suits can turn humans into super-humans and that’s a fact.  This is exactly the reason why most superheroes wear tight clothing.  And that’s why the superhuman rockstars of the 80s wore Spandex.  And we all know Goldust prances around in a golden skin-tight bodysuit.  And that’s why the Nike Pro TurboSpeed tracksuits can enhance the speed of humans while they sprint down the tracks. I know, a suit that makes you run faster sounds like a plotline right out of a [...]

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  Portable Folding Picnic Table Stretches To Hold More People

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  You’re shopping for a cool little portable table that you can bring to picnics, campings and afternoons at the beach.  And you can’t decide whether to get the big one or the small one. With the Expandable Portable Table, you don’t need to make the choice. Able to go from small to big in a jiffy, the table features an expandable frame that lets you slip in a second tabletop.  That way, you can bring both a four-seat and a six-seat [...]

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  Volet Vegetal Lets You Grow A Vegetable Garden Right Out Of A Window

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  You live in a cramped studio high up in a building in a crappy part of the city.  It ain’t much, but it’s home.  Sometimes, though, you long for a home where you can set up a garden for growing your own mutant tomatoes and genetically-modified herbs.  Well, now you can with the Volet Vegetal. Ever seen one of those vertical gardens that you can mount on outdoor walls?  This is kind of like that.  Since you don’t really have [...]

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  Silipint: The Missing Link Between Glass And Plastic Cups

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  You keep it classy.  Even when drinking trashy beer.  So instead of chugging out of a bottle or can, you pour the suds down a glass and sip from there.  Unfortunately, being classy hasn’t kept you from being clumsy, so broken glasses have become a near-constant part of your existence.  And that just won’t work. Sure, plastic cups would eliminate those shattered pieces of glass decorating your floor on a nightly basis, but  there’s absolutely nothing classy about cheap ass [...]

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  ReaDIYmate: Papercraft Plus WiFi Makes For Interesting New Things

  Gadgets, To Do

  WiFi is the new USB.  At least, that’s how it goes when it comes to desktop accessories and toys.  The ReaDIYmate embraces this new internet of things paradigm, adding WiFi connectivity to papercraft models that combine the classic with modern tech. Unlike many WiFi objects you’ll find online, this isn’t a kit that you’ll need to solder and glue up together for a weekend building project.  Instead, putting the stuff together is as easy as standard papercraft, with all electronics [...]

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  Hygienna Solo Turns Any Water Bottle Into A Handheld Bidet

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  You love the bidet-equipped toilet in your bathroom.  So much so that it makes you cry thinking of spending a weekend in the lake away from it. Just because you’re out in nature, though, it doesn’t mean you’ll have to make do wiping yourself down with dried leaves that fell off the trees.  Heck, no.  That won’t happen, especially with the Hygienna Solo around. A portable bidet that you can keep in your pocket, it lets you enjoy the comforts [...]

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  Fuel Cell USB Charger

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  A future with handheld gadgets that do magical things is a wonderful future indeed.  Until those gadgets drain their batteries mere hours after you leave the house, that is.  That can all change with Fuel Cell USB Charger from Liliputian Systems Inc. (LSI), which can replenish your smartphone’s battery up to fourteen times all on its own. Unlike standard portable charging devices that you’ll need to plug in before leaving the house, the pocket-sized unit uses small refill cartridges that [...]

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  Vintage Badassery: A Triple Barrel Revolver

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  Sometimes, you can put down an enemy in one shot.  Other times, they survive bullets like a video game boss, requiring three, four or more hits before falling down.  During post-apocalypse earth, we’re guessing that will be the norm with mutated humans and crossbred monsters ruling the land and all.  This Triple Barrel Revolver looks like the kind of handgun you should be carrying. Found in the collection of a Russian gun enthusiast, there are no details on the gunsmith [...]

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  LaserSaber Turns Spyder 3 Lasers Into Real Lightsabers

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  Remember those awesome handheld lasers from WickedLasers? Yep, the same ones that got the ire of the Star Wars franchise owners, leaving them with some legal matters to deal with a while ago? Well, they’re still at it — and bolder than ever.  This time, they’re selling the LaserSaber, an attachment to their handheld lasers that literally turns the high-intensity beaming devices into a lightsaber.  Yus! Forget those plastic lightsabers you’ve been using to play Star Wars LARP at the [...]

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  Teal Panels Let You Build Modular Campers And Temporary Dwellings

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  A modular house that you can build and extend just like LEGOs has long been on the wish list of geeky people who want their houses to be as quirky as they are.  They just might get their wish soon with these Teal Panels, which let you assemble temporary dwellings of various sizes and configurations. Granted, it’s not exactly permanent housing, but it’s close enough.  Even better, you can set these up in your yard, backyard, roof, garage and neighbor’s [...]

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  Lazy Football Chair Features Built-In Soccer Goal

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  When I was a kid, I did plenty of things to turn standard household fare into toys.  Buckets became basketball hoops.  Plastic plates became frisbees.  And throw pillows became ladder sleds.  Somehow, though, I feel like I missed out on turning chairs into soccer goals like the Lazy Football Chair does. Designed by Emanuele Magini for Campeggi, it’s just a simple chair with net wrapped around the legs.  While dead easy, that little tweak just turned the chair into a [...]

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  Powerbreather Redesigns The Snorkel

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  Snorkels are a genius invention, allowing you to breathe underwater with little effort without requiring you to haul a tank of air around.  But they’ve also embraced the exact same design for decades upon decades now.  And somebody finally decided it was time for a change.  The result is the Powerbreather. Designed as a breathing tool for swimmers (and those learning to swim), the contraption revises the classic L and J shape of traditional snorkels into a U-shaped rig.    Instead [...]

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  Bübi Bottle Rolls Into A Bundle When Not In Use

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  During use, the Bübi Bottle looks like a normal plastic water container.  Once emptied out, though, you can roll it into a small bundle that you can squeeze into a jeans or shirt pocket, so you’re not stuck having to walk around with a bulky container in tow. While we’ve seen similar creations before (most notably, the Vapur), this new one does it while looking like a real bottle instead of a tetra-pak.  It should hold like a real bottle, [...]

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  Drinklip Is A Clip-On Cupholder For Your Desk

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  Just when you thought your fancy Baluster Desk was big enough for all your needs, it isn’t.  Between your quad-monitor setup, mini-donut maker, cubicle toys, USB fridge, mini-roller coaster and actual work stuff, there’s hardly a place in your desk to rest a cup of beverage safely — you know, where there’s little chance of accidentally knocking it over with an arm swipe.  This Drinklip Portable Cupholder should help. A clip-on cupholder, it allows you to put a slot for [...]

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  World’s Loudest Bike Horn

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  Tired of people in their cars honking their loud horns while you pedal leisurely on the way to work?  Unless you’re hiding superpowers that let you mute everything within a 5 mile radius, we doubt you can make them stop.  You can, however, sound off right back if you’re riding the Hornster, which comes equipped with the loudest bike horn in the world. Part publicity stunt (from the Environmental Transport Association) and part amusing novelty, this bicycle comes with a [...]

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  Evil Hot Gummi Bears Come With Habanero Chili

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  You like Gummi Bears.  You like ‘em big.  You like ‘em small.  You like ‘em in all colors.  You like ‘em so much, you end up finishing a bag faster than you can check your email in the morning.  And that’s not a good thing.  You need to find a way to control this obsessive Gummi munching.  Maybe these Evil Hot Gummi Bears could help. Shaped and sized like regular Gummi Bears, these candies hide a dark secret: they’re built [...]

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  Machine Gun Tour At The Sebastian Hotel

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  You,  Me  A chopper (don’t worry, it’s not this wooden helicopter).  And bullets,  Lots of it.  That’s the promise of Sebastian Hotel’s Machine Gun Tour, a weekend getaway that involves unloading ammo from a helicopter in flight. An optional service you can avail when you visit the Colorado hotel, the tour flies you over the Rocky Mountains in a genuine military gunship.  We’re not exactly sure where you’re going to be firing off the machine guns at, but we’re guessing [...]

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  Voice-Authenticating USB Drive

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  We’ve seen plenty of secure USB thumb drives before (such as Cryptek, the self-destructing Tamatebako and Lok-It), using everything from passwords to encryption in order to facilitate the added data protection.   So far, though, this Voice-Authenticating USB Drive is the first one I’ve seen that validates access through your voice. Unlike many security-heavy thumb drives released, this one doesn’t come with a unique design, so it doesn’t look like anything special whatsoever.  For all a thief knows, it could be [...]

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  Volocopter Could Be The Personal Aircraft Of Our Near-Future

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  Jetpacks, you’re taking too long to reach consumer hands.  And we have a feeling it might take even longer.  Maybe a jetpack isn’t just the personal flight transporter we should be waiting for.  In fact, it might be wiser to look forward to the Volocopter instead. Made by Germany’s E-volo, we’re not exactly sure what it is.  On first glance, it looks like one of those toy gyrocopters you control with a smartphone, but bigger.  At least, big enough to [...]

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