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Gadgets: Pre-chewed pencils
With these pencils you can have a really lazy day at the office - you not even need to chew on them - they are already pre-chewed.
Four (natural wood) pencils for about GBP 1.5
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Weekend Activity: Build your own Zen Garden
Japanese Zen Gardens are known for their calming effects and for centuries gardeners in Japan have cultivated, groomed and maintained Zen rock gardens and their dry landscape style called Karesansui (”withered landscape”).
Scientist analyzing one of the World most famous Zen gardens, the Zen rock garden of the Ryoanji Temple (Temple of the Peaceful Dragon) in Kyoto revealed that the calming effect is due to subliminal messages created by the arrangement of rocks and gravel. If they would have also asked the gardeners maintaining the beauty of that place, they would have learned that - as known to many practicing Zen - that maintaining or arranging such a garden has a calming effect of its own.
While you might not be able to feel the gravel passing through the teeth of your rake within one of these old gardens, you could create yourself a miniature version of a Zen rock garden and enjoy peace and quietness that way.
There are ready made miniature Zen garden sets available, but we put together a few links demonstrating how to create one yourself with parts you might…
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Augmented Reality: A monster on your desk
If you want to try out augmented reality effects for yourself all you need is Flash and a web cam connected to your computer.
Uses the Papervision and the FLARToolkit flash components. You’ll find some more examples at the FLARToolkit web site (link below). The Boffswana page (link below) has step by step instructions and the PDF with the marker. Source code is available.
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Christmas: Pirate vs Ninja Holiday Card Set
Still looking for some unusual holiday cards. Maybe the Pirate vs Ninja card set is for you.
12 cards for about 14 Dollars.
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Games: Fallout 3 Mod - Wasteland Dancin’ (Umpa)
Great F3 animation created with the Umpa Animation MOD.
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Tiny Tags Online Generator
The small online application TinyTags creates little tag graphics with the text you enter. Images can be downloaded or saved to Flickr or ImageShack and you can turn your tag into a t-shirt too.
Nice little toy, might come handy in the holiday season.
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Gadgets: Sunshine wallsticker
Great wallsticker from snoebi. Size varies up to 2 meter.
Available from German Online Shop a-better-tomorrow for about EUR 30.
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Photography: Tokyo Reality - Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Interesting what you can do with the latest top-of-the-line digital SLR cameras. Tokyo Reality is a 6 minute movie shot with the new Canon EOS 5D MarkII that comes with full High Definition video capability.
In Live View Mode, this digital master piece from Canon allows to shoot uninterrupted at full HD, 1080 resolution with 30fps. The movie was created within 3 days from 74GB of rushes (after processing).
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Gadget: TeddyTaurus
If you liked to play with Teddies when you were younger and believe been seen with one at your age might not be such a great idea - here a two options:
A fried of us a while ago - always in the evening - was having a small white teddy bear looking out from one of the pockets of his jacket. Believe it or not - great success with the girls. Maybe it was the type of the bear.
The other option is more for home use: The TeddyTaurus.
Made by the great German toy company Steiff, the TeddyTaurus is most likely the first…
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Computer Interfaces: Interactive Mirror
This is a patent pending touch capable mirror features proximity sensors, gesturing, and both near-field and far-field infrared. Conceptualized by Alpay Kasal of Lit Studios and Sam Ewen of Interference Inc. Designed/constructed by Alpay Kasal.
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