Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category

Fun: Moving Dog USB Drive

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It’s not easy to describe this USB drive so we just called it “Moving Dog USB Drive”. Have a look at the video to see the thing in “action”…

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Battle of Game Consoles: Wii (+38) – PS3 (-406)

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The business with game consoles is seemingly a rather special one where manufacturers are subsidizing their hardware in hope to make a profit with royalties from games. Not so with the most successful one of them, Nintendo that follows a different approach…
…The Japanese Magazine has broken down the costs for the Wii (USD 158.30) and PS3 (USD 805) as shown in the table on the right…
…So even when the prices would deteriorate Nintendo will be ahead. And with with its Wii console leading the sales charts, Nintendo’s different business model might pay double…

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Gadgets: Generate an IPod paper case

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About a month ago “Ape Lad” has shown in his Flickr Photostream a few images of a paper case he created for his IPod. Now Ryan Stewart with his web site “iPapercraft.com” has put this idea one step further and made an IPod cover generator available online…

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Christmas Shopping ideas: Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings

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There are seemingly still some copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s silk screen print of “Trout’s Tomb” available. Two links for those of you that don’t know who “Kurt Vonnegut” or “Kilgore Trout” are…

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Coffee Mugs for the political conscious

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US shopping site “Uncommon Goods” has two types of coffee mugs that use image changing effects to visualize a message. (Global warming mug / Bill of Rights mug)…

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Design: Ithemba light bulbs

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In 2003 two South African designers, Cyrille Varet and Scott Hart, started to ask well known fashion designers and artists to design light bulbs. And since then more than 60 of the best know artist in the world have joint their efforts to support women affected by AIDS. The list includes Fashion designers like John Galliano, JC de Castelbajac, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein and many others (full list below)…

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