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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.

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 Retro is being out of date and yet strangely fashionable at the same time.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.

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.”

I’ve got a thing about bikes. A couple of things, actually.

Being more specific, I absolutely love the things. Oh, and I keep crashing them. No idea why, but if there’s an opportunity to drop, scrape, slide or simply just go straight on at a corner, I’m your man. I worry about the whole life expectancy thing.

Anyway, check this baby out. I’m not going to go into the technical specs because frankly they are so boring they would make your pet hamster cry (there are only so many times you can say “The suspension system is completed and perfectly balanced by using a fully adjustable Öhlins 46PRC rear shock with a ride enhancing top-out spring, controlling the single-sided swingarm for outstanding drive, traction and steering precision”. Just the once, probably)

Also cool is the fact that it comes with a ‘Ducati Data Analyser System‘. Yep, the Duke has got a USB port for you to pull down all the essential info including throttle opening, vehicle speed, engine rpm, engine temperature, distance travelled, speeding fines awarded… that kind of thing. Cool indeed.

Cost $25,000 (£13,000; €18,800).

Source via Wired

Just PLEASE don’t let me any where near it.

Ryan.

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

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.”