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  Haul Your Own Professional Flash Accessory Kit For $88

  GADGETS

  Want a complete set of flash accessories to work your photography skills with?  Check out this Professional Flash Accessory Kit from Brando, which includes pretty much everything you could want to stick into that barren Speedlite. Most folks I know couldn’t be bothered investing in a set of flash equipment geared towards advanced photographers.   However, this professional kit is probably the most accessible around, retailing for less than half of what similar low-end set-ups are likely to net you.  It’s [...]

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  Resident Evil Zombie T-Shirt Will Make You Want Some Brains

  ENTERTAINMENT, FASHION

  Regardless of feelings you harbor for your favorite piece of clothing, I doubt it’s ever going to measure up to the free shirt Capcom is giving away at the upcoming Comic Con in San Diego next week.  The official Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles merchandise can turn you from a regular t-shirt wearing guy into a brain-eating zombie in a jiffy. A freebie shirt that doesn’t suck is a rarity these days.  One that blows away every other t-shirt you’ve owned [...]

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  Make Some Noise In The Kitchen With Mix Stix

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  Want to practice your drum skills while preparing dinner? Mix Stix has you covered with their combination ladle and drumstick, so you can bang on some pots and pans while waiting for the meat to stew. Ahh…the life of a domesticated wannabe rockstar. The idea is very simple. Instead of being a regular long-handed spoon, the Mix Stix doubles as a functional drumstick, complete with a regulation-size shaft, shoulder and tip at the other end of the scoop. As such, [...]

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  Self-Powered EATR Robots Can Turn War Zone Casualties Into Biomass Fuel

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  Robots have long been expected to play a major part in modern warfare. The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) will likely be among them, not only helping kill enemies in the battlefield, but eating them too. Designed for long-range tactical missions, the robot can endure extended hours of operation in the field without needing manual or conventional refueling. Instead, it powers itself by converting found organic materials into biomass. It will literally scour for energy sources, consume them and extract [...]

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  iKey AK-39 Wrist Keyboard Lets You Type With One Hand While Holding A Gun On The Other

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  Typing on a computer typically meant you needed a keyboard and a place to set it on. Not anymore. The iKey AK-39 gets you a complete wireless input panel with all the standard set of keys, all on your wrist. iKey’s latest keyboard creation sports a basic 39-key layout and up to 30 feet of wireless operation, all while strapping comfortably on your forearm. Designed for military use, it allows you plenty of flexibility while punching data into a computer. [...]

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  Scar Your Kids For Life With The Monster Stroller

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  Want to guarantee that your child grows up just as awkward as you did?  Give them the gift of horror from an early age with the Monster Stroller, a baby buggy clad in an awful-looking Cyclops’ head.  Believe me, awful is too weak a word to use for this thing. Taking a departure from the usual animals and cartoon designs of children’s cars, the arguably demented artist Elmer Presslee fashioned the piece with the kind of ridiculously gross imagery you [...]

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  Pocket Retro Game Emulator

  ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

  You know you are showing your age when you spend Christmas day trying to explain to the young ones in your family that really there was once a portable console that wasn’t in perfect color. Explaining the concept of a little black pixelated looking Mario running around on a green screen does little more than confuse the generation that is growing up in the DS and PSP portable gaming era. And you show your age even more when you begin [...]

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  Black Wii

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  The Nintendo Wii has proven a firm favorite with the gaming world and has even helped thousands to get fit. Yes, I know… if you had told the specialists a few years ago that video games would be improving fitness (as opposed to making us all obese hermits) they would have had you sectioned. But the Wii has proven itself revolutionary and has been a major success for Nintendo. So, when you already have a product that is flying off [...]

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  Modern Warfare 2′s Prestige Edition Coming With Full-Featured Night Vision Goggles

  ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

  Special edition releases for games aren’t all that uncommon.  Modern Warfare 2′s upcoming Prestige Edition, however, sets itself apart with the bundle it offers.  Apart from the actual title, gamers will receive a book of artwork and character details, a collector’s-edition metallic casing and a fully-functional pair of night vision goggles (NVGs), complete with a creepy-looking sculpted head as a stand. Now, that’s how you do a special edition – throw in a cool piece of tech you can’t just [...]

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  Shadow MacBook Case

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  The debate between PC loyalists and the Mac brigades continue. Well, not for me. I like and use both. But I know plenty of people I am sure would die for their computing choice. Well… maybe. But for those of us for whom computer accessories and peripherals are as central to our enjoyment as the machine itself, Mac might just have earned itself some extra brownie points with this superbly cool case. I don’t mean a carry case. I mean [...]

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  SwissMiniGun: 5.5 Centimeter Double Action Revolver

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  When someone mentioned “the world’s smallest gun,” I was expecting something along the lines of what Will Smith was packing in MIB.  Surprisingly, that one was still too big for the SwissMiniGun, a real working pistol that holds the distinction of being the smallest rim fire ammunition available today. No bigger, it seems, than a regular house key, the SwissMiniGun is a miniature double-action revolver, with complete mechanical parts as you will fund in a regular handgun.  It comes with [...]

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  Cablox Lets You Thread Wires For Tidier, Easy-To-Remove Cabling

  GADGETS, HOME

  Need a better way to manage the mess of cables in your house? Cablox just might be the best solution around, boasting a system that makes both cleaning up and taking out cables a simple function of push-and-pull. Each box of Cablox ships with two 4 x 4 inch square panels that sport 64 protruding plastic nodules. The panels each have adhesive back-ends, which lets them stick right under a desk (as in the photo) or right up a wall. [...]

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  Surf-Rodz 72-Inch Olo Gun: A Skateboard War Machine

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  Surf-Rodz dubs their 72-inch Olo Gun as a war machine.  While I wouldn’t go that far, there certainly is something ominous about a beastly longboard skateboard that spans an entire six feet.  Hell, that’s taller than me. Instead of decking it in cute graphics and funky designs, the Olo Gun has been kept bare, with nothing but a rosewood oil finish covering its sweeping surface.  The aesthetic was based on Tom Blake’s longboard surfboard designs from the 1920s, which highlighted [...]

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  Mnemosyne USB Cube Hides Flash Storage Inside A $10,000 Puzzle

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  The things people do with USB flash drives often border on the silly.  From slotting it into a pair of shades to decking it in garrulous outfits, there’s little shortage of new ways to make the simple accessory just a little more complicated.  The SolidAlliance Mnemosyne 16GB USB Cube takes the concept a little too far, transforming a piece of flash storage into a $10,000 affair. Not that the price tag is without merit, of course.  Created by  Italy-based designers [...]

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  Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D Camera Gets You Life-Like Images With No Special Glasses

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  We’ve long been waiting for a real-deal 3D shooting camera, instead of the Viewmaster-style Lomo rigs we typically have to settle for.  That unrewarded anticipation may soon find compensation, though, when Fujifilm finally rolls out their FinePix Real 3D digicam, which the company says is on schedule for a September release. The 3D-shooting, dual-lens compact camera doesn’t look anything special, which really doesn’t do its function justice.  Able to produce images that leap out without the need for clunky 3D [...]

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  Insignia NS-HD01: World’s First Portable HD Radio Player

  GADGETS

  The world’s first portable HD radio is out and it’s a looker. Called the Insignia NS-HD01 HD Radio Portable Player, the innovative handheld device purports to transform radio listening on the road like never before. While the HD radio format hasn’t exactly taken off, a subscription-free portable player sure makes as great a case for it as you can come up with. Allowing traditional FM stations to broadcast in a crystal-clear, static-free digital format, the Insignia NS-HD01 could be the [...]

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  Igloo Satellite Cabin: A Way, Way Cooler Tent

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  Always wanted to live in an igloo?  You might have a chance to make your childhood fancies come true without moving to the north pole, after all.  The Igloo Satellite Cabin lets you live inside the protective shell of a functional dome-shaped igloo that’s capable of providing shelter under any weather condition. The product page claims it’s the same cabin used for safe and reliable accommodation in many remote areas over the last 25 years.  Built to live through any [...]

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  Light Pillow Trades In Squishy Softness For Warm, Soft Illumination

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  The Light Pillow is a bad idea. It’s neither soft nor squishy. I doubt you can put it in your lap or sit snugly on it (light gets hot – really hot). Still, there’s something comforting about seeing a pillow that offers illumination. Put one on your side table and it can ably replace your night lamp. If you need to do some late night reading, just pull it into bed and hold it up. Offering a warm light that [...]

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  URWERK UR-CC1 King Cobra Brings Sportscar Displays To Timepieces

  FASHION

  Got enough money for a high-end sportscar but would rather buy a wristwatch instead? Try URWERK’s UR-CC1 King Cobra, which sports retrograde linear displays that bring to mind overactive dashboard panels from barreling high-performance classic roadsters. Borrowing from the Patek Philippe Cobra prototype watch from 1958, the King Cobra tells time by way of a jumping cylinder for the hours (bottom of the face), a retrograde cylinder for the minutes (middle) and a rotating disk for the seconds (top). URWERK [...]

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