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Cube Clock Is A Rubik’s Cube That Doesn’t Puzzle

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[ad] Alarm clocks, being excessively simple devices, have been a favorite canvas for designers to play around with. The Cube Clock isn’t an especially complicated contraption, although the result is a really cool fixture that should nicely adorn your bedside table. One glance at the Cube Clock and the inspiration is obvious – it’s a Rubik’s Cube timepiece. Fun and colorful, it displays time, date, alarm and temperature on a small digital screen situated in one of the middle strips. [...]

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Goldmund Telos 5000: Monster Amplifier At A Monster Price

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[ad] What does a 5000 watt amplifier sound like? I have no idea. Twenty-five people will, though, when Goldmund ships the Telos 5000 amplifier to those lucky few who can afford them. Measuring three feet and one inch tall, weighing 651 pounds and costing $189,600, this is as heavyweight as an amplifier can get? Is it worth forking that much cash for? Unless you’re living in a football stadium and listening to your music in the middle of the field, [...]

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2009 Gullwing-America 300 SL Panamericana: Classic Looks, Modern Tech

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[ad] The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing supports one of the most iconic shapes in the history of cars. As such, it isn’t a surprise that the classically-enamored Gullwing-America is looking to relaunch the model “with technology from 50 years later.” Based on a reproduction from German garage Hoope’r, the 2009 Gullwing-America 300 SL Panamericana will come in a powder-coated steel chassis with fiberglass-reinforced aluminum bodywork. The frame will consist of a half-millimeter layer of sprayed aluminum that’s coated with epoxy and [...]

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BloomFrame Window Gives Your Home An Expanding Fold-Out Balcony

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[ad] Need a new window for your high-rise apartment unit or the upstairs floor of your home? Before laying out your plans and forking out for the construction, try giving the Bloomframe Window a look. More than just a regular window, it doubles as a folding and expanding balcony. Closed up, it looks just like a regular window frame, as bland as the lot of them come. At the push of a button, though, the mechanical controls instantly expand it [...]

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Duracell Introduces USB Charger

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Duracell and their ever-present and ever-going pink bunny are back with something new. Duracell has realized that many people have devices they use in the car all the time, and so they’ve created a cool USB charger that plugs directly into a car’s cigarette lighter (now often referred to as a DC socket since few people actually use the lighter as a lighter any more). If you’re tired of your devices losing power right when you need them, this may [...]

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Twisted Ties Gets You A Business And A Party Necktie All In One

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[ad] Neckties, being one of the few fashion accessories men regularly wear, do get a lot of attention in stores. While normally donned in formal settings, it’s not uncommon to come across a funky necktie every now and then. I’ve personally gotten gifts of neckties with cartoon characters, skulls and such. Twisted Ties, though, takes the regular necktie and fashions it two ways – business out front and party in the back. Each of the 100% polyester reversible neckties can [...]

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Blow Up Hall 50 50: An Inhabitable Work Of Art

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It’s not the perfect hotel room, but it does make for a great story when you get back home. The Blow Up Hall 50 50 is a themed luxury hotel, where guests become participants in an odd digital art experience. Located halfway between Berlin and Warsaw, the concept-driven hotel is as much a place to stay as it is an inhabitable work of art. It is built around a focal installation by Polish electronic artist Rafael Lozano Hemmer – 2,400 [...]

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Stealing The Sun

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We must warn all of you coolthings.com readers that we at Cool Things have a business plan worthy of the evilest of evil geniuses. We’re going to buy the sun – and charge people to get solar energy from it. If the bank approves our $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 loan then we’ll rule the world. Until then you can still use devices like the FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger for free. In trying to keep with our green theme this week, here is another [...]

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Modular Golf Rug Kit Gives You Putting Practice For Cheaper

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[ad] Need a place to practice your putt, but can’t afford to have one of those expensive indoor setups? We can’t guarantee it will play like the real thing, but this eight-piece modular putting rug should let you clock in some good practice time all the same. Released by Flor Tiles, Putt Up or Shut Up should work great as a portable putting green that you can lay down just about anywhere in your house. Whether you want to practice [...]

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Wave Hammock-Parasol Is Like A Resting Fixture From Heaven

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[ad] Doesn’t this just look heavenly? I can’t imagine lying down on anything that will be more relaxing. Called the Wave, it’s a hammock and parasol contraption that just screams brilliance. Who doesn’t love lounging in a hammock? There’s just something about surrendering to a piece of hanging material that leaves you trouble-free. The Wave, however, seems more than that – neither just a hammock, a sun chair nor a parasol. In fact, it looks like an art installation the [...]

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Cool Water Powered Gadgets And Stuff

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We hear a lot about solar powered gadgets and other devices, but we rarely hear about water powered devices. However, there are a number of them out there. As more and more companies move to being green, hydroelectricity is becoming more and more popular. In addition to using dams on rivers to generate power, tidal power farms have sprung up. These farms could actually become a major power source in the future. However, there are some smaller hydroelectric gadgets that [...]

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Get Your Medieval On

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[ad] While we sit in our cubicles, we dream of the days of yore when knights rode great steeds and carried large weapons of honed steel – and probably got major chafing as well. Well, now we don’t have to wait until we get home to log onto the computer and play whatever medieval game makes us jump for joy – now you can play with medieval toys in your cubicle. These wooden catapults and trebuchet kits will give you [...]

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Apache Pistol: 19th Century Gangster Bling

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[ad] “Gangster” may not have officially been “gangsta” till the 90s, but the 19th-century Apache Pocket Pistol sure looks like it came out of that culture. Over a century since it first adorned violent people’s hands, the pocket able weapon still manages to awe. How does it work? Well, first, you can fold it and keep it in a small pocket. When you get into a fisticuff, simply pull it out, put it through your knuckles and smash metal into [...]

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The Keyboard That Appears From Nowhere

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[ad] One of the things that we’re all looking forward to, is the advent of the projectible computer. Come on, you remember the cool computers from sci-fi that project the screen and keypad in 3-D, right into empty space. Well, we may not get the full version for a few more years, but for now you can pull out this futuristic keyboard, and make everything think you’re a time traveler from 2020. The Blue tooth Laser Virtual Keyboard is almost [...]

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Guitar Hanger: Long-Time Problem, Cool Solution

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It works like a coat hanger, except it’s for your guitars. Ingenious and immensely useful, the Guitar Hanger is as low-tech a solution as you concoct for the longtime problem of organizing your stringed instruments (and full-sized Guitar Hero controllers). Most of my musician friends have guitars lying around the house, where they end up easy prey for knocking over, either by pets, children or clumsy visitors (like me). Keeping them in a case should solve the problem, but doesn’t [...]

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Project 54 CX, Wave Sport’s Limited-Edition Luxury Kayak

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Some claim the Wave Sport Project 54 CX to be the “kayak equivalent of a high performance supercar.” I wouldn’t go that far. You can paddle in its ultra-light carbon fiber body all you want, but I bet I’ll still be leaving you silly with my jet-propelled kayak. Maybe I’ll pass by you gentler if you call it a “luxury car equivalent” instead - gorgeous and decadent, without managing to tear through the highway. Developed to push the envelope in [...]

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Do You Have A Talking Alien On Your Desk Yet?

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Always wanted your very own talking alien, that could attach to anything and say stuff to people that walked past it? Well, if you didn’t before I’ll bet you do now. The Echo Bot is a three legged – one eyed – (hey he’s considered very handsome on his planet) English speaking alien robot that has suction cups for feet and can record a ten second message and pass it on to anyone that happens to pass by. Whether your [...]

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Rubik’s Cube Salt and Pepper Mills

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Are you looking for something incredibly cute and different for your table? Maybe you need a fun gift for a friend or for a couple who have just purchased their new home. Either way, one of the coolest things around is this set of Rubik’s cube salt and pepper mills. You can’t actually change either of the cubes around like a Rubik’s cube, which is somewhat disappointing. This means you and your dinner guests won’t be passing the salt around [...]

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The Strap Wall Organizer

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We all need ways of organizing closets, rooms, and other areas, but it can be hard to find places to put bookshelves and other storage items. In fact, some rooms simply have no more space for new storage units. However, one very interesting way of adding more storage space involves adding straps. The concept of the Strap takes ordinary bicycle straps and gives them a brand new use: storage. The Strap is a great idea. Basically, all you do is [...]

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