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Ever wanted to be James Bond?
No?
Well don’t buy this then. It’s a 6 in one Casino bar, made of Mahogany and when not being used for casino games can be used as a normal bar.

Costing £599 from Harrods, the table converts to play classic casino games such as Roulette, Blackjack, Poker, Baccarat and Craps. SIX? SIX in one I hear you cry, and I only mentioned 5?
You should have paid more attention, dumbo, the 6th is a normal bar. So there.

Moneypenny, you can come in now.

This might either be the creepiest piggy-bank you ever used, or the friendliest. Depends if you’re easily scared.

The FaceBank can detect if you’re about to feed it coins, so opens its mouth to swallow whatever you give it.

I suppose it could be dangerous if you keep your fingers in FaceBank’s mouth, but as a novelty gift, you can’t go wrong.

Plus.

If you fed it with $20.34USD, you’d have enough to buy another one. As cleverly enough, that’s what they cost…from here..

There’s a creepy clip of the FaceBank in action on Youtube. Enjoy.

Wind. It’s all around us (some people more than others). You can’t see it, but you can feel it. Clever.

Other features of wind include:

• Not knowing where it’s come from
• Not knowing where it’s going

It’s so good, that we were going to have an entry just for ‘Wind’, but the picture would have been a bit dull so we decided against it.

Anyway, point is that people nowadays (I love that word), have worked out that if you get a big propeller-like construction and attach a motor to it, you can (by the simple virtue of what we physicists like to call “spinny-motion”) get electricity out the other end. Spiffy.

Which is where this particular device comes in. Aimed at the camping market, the idea is this:

• Wait for a force 9 gale***
• Watch as your tent, your car, your girlfriend and your just-purchased hamster get blown away****
• Smile, safe in the knowledge that you now have enough juice to charge your mobile so you check the football scores

It’s a winner all round, I say.

Source via Treehugger

Ryan

*** ok ok, so it’ll work fine with a 12mph breeze
**** ok ok, so your tent, car, girlfriend and hamster aren’t going anywhere

 

“What time is love” asked KLF in the 1990’s. What time indeed.

If I was wearing one of these watches when they asked me the question I would have answered quite confidently, “Well KLF, it is now a squiggle past 4″.

Fact is, these watches weren’t available back then, so that question would only ever have been hypothetical.

The watches cost 16,800 Yen.
You do the math.

 It has a 4 year battery life and under the bonnet it houses a Super 2035 movement, powered by Citizen. It is 100% custom made using Stainless Steel.

Go get one…..NOW!

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Let me tell you something about ‘retro’. Retro is cool. Retro is funky. Retro is being out of date and yet strangely fashionable at the same time. Retro is all about being warm and glowy about something that not so long ago we were lambasting (nothing to do with lambs… or cooking) from the rooftops.

Take the humble cassette. Consigned to the backwater of technological has-beens. But we love ‘em. Now that we don’t actually have to use them, we think they are fantastic. A design icon.

And yet, if we could only remember what it was really like… Take me for example - many’s the time I can remember listening to the latest ‘Bucks Fizz’ track before having a hissy-fit because my ghetto blaster unexpectedly munched the tape and made it unplayable. In retrospect, perhaps the ghetto blaster was trying to save me from myself, but the point still stands - cassette’s were, are and always will be rubbish (’trash’ to our American readers; ‘poo-poo’ to our doggie readers).

With that in mind, I present the Retro Cassette Wallet. Is it a cassette? Is it a wallet? No, it’s a cassallet ™. Hand made by Graham in his flat in Runcorn (that bit may be made up). I love ‘em. They cost $43 (£25; €36).

Source via Fun Forever

Ryan

The bomb disposal squads in the UK have stopped using robots and have started using CatCams to aid in bomb disposal missions.

“Not true”, I hear you cry.

You are correct in doubting my story, that would be sick. HOWEVER, the logic would remain the same as using a robot just as long as you could fool your snobby cat into thinking that the ticking black box hidden under that car was full of Whiskas. She would approach with cat-like stealth, CatCam recording her every move, then slowly walk up to ticking box, then..BOOM. No more CatCam.
(Cat runs away scared).

As a pet project, pardon the pun, J Perthold has customized a tiny camera into taking photos while strapped to his cat’s collar. Quirky but interesting results, until you discover your cat was having an affair with next door neighbour’s cat and both were plotting to run away together to Mexico. Or Scotland.

Mr Lee CatCam has more information. The gallery page is especially interesting.

Source:- Crave.Cnet

What better way than showing off to your computer buddies at your next poker tournament just how much up the geek ladder you have climbed than to wear these very cool Esc, Ctrl, Alt and delete rings.

Made with authentic spring loaded buttons, you can buy each one separately for $89 from Marchenoir.

Just think, the next step would be for someone to link these rings up with wi-fi so you could whack your knuckles against your desk to log you on to your PC.

Nice.

Now scoot off and buy some of these.

Source:- Wired.

I know what you’re thinking (well, OK, I don’t - it’s just an English language construct derived from the heady days of the early 1970’s where Harry ‘Dirty’ Callahan ruled the streets of San Francisco with a debonaire magnum .44).

Anyway, I know what you’re thinking - is this an iMic - a device used to getting all kinds of audio into and out of your computer - or an Irish response given when your friend Michael offers to buy you a drink? I’m thinking the former, but I’ve been wrong before.

It costs $40 (£21; €29) and comes ready to rock and roll for either PC or Mac, which is good.

Source via Popgadget

Ryan.

I have witnessed the future.

No, I am not a witch and my surname isn’t McFly but I have just witnessed something truly amazing.
You know that bit in Bladerunner where the guy zooms in on a photograph, then turns the corner (all inside the photograph)…you know that bit you shout “ah come on….that’s impossible”…well….read on boys and girls.

It is now reality.

In the year 2007, Microsoft in conjunction with some very clever individuals from the University of Washington have come up with software which will revolutionise the internet and the way we look at photographs.

No jokes in this blog..no sarcastic humour…just take a look…

Photosynth Demo

also check out..Microsoft Photosynth

Grilliput is the perfect companion for when your wife kicks you out of the house for being overly obsessed with useless gadgets. The Grilliput camping grill takes up only 29cm x 2.2cm of space, but expands to a whopping 26 cm x 23cm. Enough grill space for at least, woah, about 2 sausages and half a beef burger.

Costing £24.99 from iwantoneofthose.com it makes for a great Father’s day gift, unless of course your father has a severe smoke allergy.

What they don’t show you is the 5Kg bag of charcoal, cool-bag full of semi-thawed saveloys and ruck-sack full of fire-lighters that would be needed to accompany this tiniest of cooking grills.
Once you’re all kitted out, you’ll resemble a hungrier version of Andy McNabb.

Barbecue 2 Zero, we have a slight problem. In McNabb’s own words..”We binned our burgers. Couldn’t move quick enough with them. We heard contacts far on in the distance. But they weren’t shooting at us.”