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Nose Picker provides other than Slim Pickens
Instead of putting your own finger up there, why not go with the more sanitary option of the Nose Picker fake finger? While it, ah, seems to only be in the prototype stages (doubtless extensive testing is needed) the…
Cyclone Gas Fireplace puts a flamer in your pocket
The ultimate geek status symbol: total control of fire, and the ability to survey it from all directions. The Cyclone Gas Fireplace puts a vertical jet of spinning flame in a glass tube. At 15,000 BTUs it plays nice…
Gorgonz Exhale Gloves turn your breath into heat
So when it's cold out (not right now, as such, but assuming it happens again sometime) you blow on them, which does basically nothing, but makes you feel better. Unless, of course, you're wearing Gorgonz Exhale Gloves, which have…
NightCove Circadian Clock
Light pollution – stray light because of street lights and houses – is one of many reasons why modern sleep cycles are so often confounded. The solution is to provide healthy light, such as that done by the NightCover…
20,000 mega-watts of snow (speakers)
While we've still got the snow to do it (in some parts of the world, anyhow) you can take inspiration from 20,000 mega-watt speakers from Michigan Technological University students which are completely cased in the white stuff (making them…
Electromagnetic Pet Door keeps neighbors' cats out of your food
Had I owned one of these in 2005, I wouldn't have Lacerda now; we found him near-starved in the kitchen gobbling food from the communal dish. But given that made five cats in the house (my sister left two…
Football Extension Lead
Show your love for footie with the Football Extension Lead. Sporting four plugs with decorator (as it were) anti-dust covers, it’s 1.5m lead. £4.97. [GT] Football Extension Lead [via Red Ferret]…
Smart Nanobattery improves batteries a hundredfold
While we've seen slight improvements in battery life since they were invented over a hundred years ago, with the introduction of advanced alkaline, rechargeable lithium-ion, rechargeable Ni-MH, and now the recent Rapid-Charge type, the extension still has us replacing…
Sewer Robots and Naked Fugitives
From deep in the "Jobs you want a robot to do so you don't have to" file: a robot in Seoul, Korea, nabbed a naked man from the sewers. The man snatched a purse in a hospital, was caught,…
Space banana to orbit Texas
When artist Cesar Saez was asked why he'd want to float a giant banana-shaped dirigible over Texas, he replied: "Texas is as symbolic as the banana." $65,000 has already gone into investigation and planning to launch the banana, with…
