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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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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

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.

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.”

All you ladies out there will love this gadget. Ok, so it’s not pink and it’s not fluffy and it won’t grow into a big leilandi if you water it every day, but hey…expand your mind gadget girlies.

The ‘Liika ironing board with suction pads’ is a bit of a mouthful and does not have a catchy name but it certainly does what it says on the box. You house-proud ladies can carry one of these wherever you go, so that in the case of an emergency ironing session you can whip it out and afix to any desired surface. The pads have more suction than that applied to the eggs my gran was so fond of.

Although it can also be used by men, it is advised that it is only operated by women incase of fire risks. 

Price not yet available, but the friendly people at Yankodesign have more information. 

For fear of being accused of being sexist, I will for the sake of balance state that this article was written by a woman.
Happy Ironing!
Bob.

source: GadgetCandy

Allow me to tell you a true story.

Once upon a time (all true stories start that way) I was on a hike and we got lost. But it wasn’t serious, you see, because we had a map and a compass. It was even the right map. But we still didn’t have a clue where on the map we were. So, some bright spark said “Why don’t we climb to the top of this mountain and then we’ll be able to work out where we are by triangulating our position against features that we can see and are clear from the map.” (Unfortunately confidentiality agreements prevent me from revealing the name of that prat).

Time passes, energy gets expended, sweat, tears, toil, anguish. We reach the top.

Still no idea where we are, so we just walk in one direction (south - well, it’s warmer there isn’t it) and end up nearly getting shot by a farmer who was decidedly unimpressed that we were taking a stroll through his property.

There was a happy ending, though - we didn’t die. However, if by some tardis-like maneuver I could have gone back in time and given myself one of these beautiful Satmap devices I would have been home in time for muffins and earl grey because you can get them with beautiful OS (1:25,000) maps (and lots of other ones too) which are a joy to behold.

For £299 ($580, €430), you’d be a crayzee nut-freak not to.

Source via Engadget

Ryan

This little gadget tells you how much money you should bet in a round of poker. Should you go in low (rare), or a medium bet to see other cards, or go for an ultimate bluff and go in well done.

Oh…what? Sorry…I thought you said stake.

The STEAK button is an ingenious little device that shows you how cooked your steak is. All you do is stick the device into your cooked steak and it’ll tell you if you need to cook for longer, or if it’s already frazzled beyond all recognition.

Costing $14.99 from Surlatable it’ll revolutionise the way you cook your steak.

“Stick a fork in me, I’m done.”