Transparent Japanese Appliances

These are really cool!

Aircon
Washing Machine
Refrigerator

Hot Stuff

PopSci photo gallery of cool gadgets include this belt-driven turntable that plugs into your computer via USB, converting your prized vinyl LPs to iPod-ready MP3s as they play. Who said vinyl was dead?

Additional stories on PopSci include 1) The positive effect of child-rearing on men. Studies show that contrary to popular belief, child-rearing may make men smarter; 2) A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood.


contraforma elegant solutions linear rocking chair

Built right into INCHworm shoes is the iFit technology. The iFit technology allows you to GROW the size of the shoe with a simple push of the button.


24 hours before your special day, the Hot Spot on the interior surface of your Remember Ring will warm to 120º F for approximately 10 seconds, and continue to warm up every hour, on the hour, all day long!

RC plane offers a remarkable video shot from the cockpit of a radio-controlled airplane. The camera's video is transmitted to the flyer on the ground below, who's wearing VR goggles. When he moves his head, the remote camera's pans and tilts correspond exactly to his movements.

New Scientist News

New Scientist latest news are always interesting:

1. Red wine compound boosts athletic endurance.

2. Software distinguishes between online namesakes.

3. New tack may stamp out polio for good.

4. Unruly star may be swallowing embryonic planets.

5. Stem cells reverse muscular dystrophy.

I Like

bad medicine, a really gross contest at Worth1000.com

evolution gone wild, another Photoshop contest at Worth1000.com


rechargeable batteries that get power from the USB port

Yehey, New Stuff!

HurriQuake nail is a tricked-out nail designed to protect homes against damage caused by hurricanes and earthquakes. Engineered to target the common problems of other fasteners that tear apart in high winds and pull through plywood during seismic stresses, the device reportedly provides up to twice the resistance to these natural disasters.


inflatable bar


Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took brain images of five women while they spoke in tongues and found that their frontal lobes - the thinking, willful part of the brain through which people control what they do - were relatively quiet, as were the language centers. Studies suggest that people who speak in tongues rarely suffer from mental problems. A recent study of nearly 1,000 evangelical Christians in England found that those who engaged in the practice were more emotionally stable than those who did not.


Thanko stealth switch. The stealth switch lies undetected under your desk and is activated by foot, just press the switch and Solitare is minimized and Excel spreadsheet maximized.

USB Collection

Here's a page I saw last April but failed to post. It shows an interesting collection of USBs.

see collection

Hello World...It's Been A Long Time

Here's some stuff I was able to grab from my feeds. I miss this blog.

collapsible guitar

airmail wallet

pumpkin computer case

six sided harmonica

teabag baby buggy

fish powered vehicle

hello kitty muffler

Adios!

About the Tongue

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

- The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, US author and satirist

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. - Shakespeare

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation. - Tyron Edwards

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. - author unknown

The tongue is like a sharp knife. It kills without drawing blood. - Buddha

An Interview Tip

The Work Styles Preference Survey is a helpful tool that shows which of your work skills will you want to emphasize in an interview. It also helps you to know which areas need to be worked on. Excellent!

Multicab For Sale

Blogger friends Rob & ZJ who are in Cambodia posted this ad and image for me:

A multicab FOR SALE.
It's still in very good RUNNING condition. Selling Price is Php 80,000.00 (roughly $1,600). Negotiable.
Do you want a picture?

Click here

Programmable Drink?

Take a soda bottle, add customizable flavor buttons, and what do you get? Ipfini's "Programmable Liquid Container". Each bottle is filled with carbonated sugar water and feature additive buttons on its side (aroma, flavor, color), which allow for up to 32 combinations of soda on the fly.

wanna try?

Credit Card Tools

Ultra Slim Credit Card Tools features: 2 inch serrated blade, can/bottle opener, screwdriver, 8X power lens, tweezer, toothpick, etc. etc. Some versions also feature a compass, scissors, nail file, staple puller and a light. Everything fits neatly into place like a puzzle and you can just tuck it into your wallet to bring with you everywhere. A great addition to any emergency survival kit

see more credit card tools

Top 10 Strangest Computer Mice

Mouse Phone combines both telephone and mouse into a very uncomfortable looking design.








CP-1 USB Spy Mouse. Hidden inside this otherwise normal looking mouse is a condenser microphone - capable of picking up on any nearby conversations.

AMG Helmet Optical Mouse. An innovative new wireless optical mouse with a design inspired by Jean Alesi’s AMG-Mercedes Helmet.

see more mice

Try On Clothes Without Undressing

The intelligent dressing room, shown by Metro Group at CeBit in Hannover, Germany, scans your measurements and lets you see on a projection screen how a piece will look on you.

check it out

Super CD Bucket

This may just look like a simple plastic bucket to store your CDs in. The trick with the DC-101 CD library is that you can install indexing software, connect to a PC, search for the particular disc you're looking for and have it - just pop out.
check it out

Hello Friends

My dear Vasco, Nana, AW, Rob & ZJ, Elisha, Miguel, Albuquerque and Bizatch: I'm sad to inform you that I can't be online as often as I did (because of a change in my schedule) in the next several weeks. So I might not be able to drop by your blogs for quite some time. I will still be posting "quick posts" just to maintain this blog. As soon as my sked clears, I'll be seeing all of you again. Be missing you guys. Ciao!

Videogame Urinal

A videogame in a urinal which helps maintain hygeine. Recessed into a urinal is a pressure-sensitive display screen. When the guest uses it, he triggers an interactive game, producing images and sound. The reduced size of the "target" improves restroom hygiene and saves on cleanings costs. It also makes a trip to the urinal "fun and games."

Items, Items...

Coffee Candle Set







Personalized ASCII carpet
carpet/?s is an internet based project that allows you to purchase a personalised carpet made out of ascii (American Standart Code for Information Interchange).






Nailclipper with three cutting heads on three directions.



Laser Scissors
You can cut a straight line! Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. No marking, no crooked cuts.









The first official Swiss Army knife with a built-in MP3 player

MP3 Watch

MP3 players no longer need to be little white plastic squares that need to fit in a pocket somewhere. Now, you can fashionably wear your MP3 player on your wrist and have a magnificent timepiece too!

see specifications

Killer Bass

Do you want enough bass in your truck to kill you? Then try installing this 60 inch subwoofer.

World's Largest

Iocell Korea calls their flashdrive 'the world's largest' in capacity.

Celldisk is a 16 GB flashdrive.

Some Like It Hot - We Like It Cold

The Anti-Griddle.

This device quickly freezes sauces and purees instead of heating them!

1. Quickly freezes sauces and purees into solid, unique forms - or freezes just the outer surfaces while maintaining a creamy center.
2. Minus 30°F 'griddle' temperature ensures almost instantaneous results.

Fundies

Underwear for two! WHAT!!!!!!
check it out

Product Dose Watches

Top ten geek watches from productdose.

Fossil Frank Gehry Watch

Nixon Dictator Watch

Equalizer High Frequency LED Watch

Mr.Gadget 1GB USB 2.0 Executive Watch

Cathode Corner Nixie Watch

New Crustacean Discovered

Boing boing reports:
Scientists just announced the discovery of this strange new crustacean 900 miles south of Easter Island. According to a report in the journal of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, divers first found the creature last year at a depth of 7,540 feet.
Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new family and genus for it. The animal is white and just shy of 6 inches long - about the size of a salad plate.

Hello Folks; Old Stuff

Hello people. I've been very busy lately so I got lazy with posting. Anyhow, here's some stuff I still haven't posted...they're, ah, a few weeks old (sorry). I still feel they're good so here they are.

HOW TO MAKE A TIKI FIREPLACE
go to site for instructions


AIR COOLED MOUSEPAD
2 avid gamers say of this invention: "After a few hours of gaming with our normal high-end mouse pads you get a build up of sweat. The mouse and mouse pad becomes slippery and you start to loose your competitive advantage due to the loss of precision. While there are a couple mice on the market that have small fans in them to dry out your palm, they all have major failings in precision and accuracy. So after some thought and discussion we chose to build out our own custom mouse pad with a blower in it to suck the air down through the pad and away from the gamer's hand. The result is astonishing!"
see how this is done


VERY SMALL WIFI CHIP
check it out

Light-up Shower

Generated by water pressure, LED attached to a shower head glows. Since the color of LED changes depending on the water temperature, you can tell the water temperature intuitively.

Study: Criminals Tend To Be Ugly?

Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adulthood.
"We find that unattractive individuals commit more crime in comparison to average-looking ones, and very attractive individuals commit less crime in comparison to those who are average-looking," claim Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University.
read full article

Science News

(image from nataliedee)

1. Sick spouses raise risk of death for partners

2. Increased CO2 may cause plant life to raise rivers

3. Leggier cane toads step up efforts to conquer Australia

4. 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions

Fusion Watch

Fancy having a "fusion" reactor on your wrist ? Now you can with the Tokyo Fusion Watch.
The display is very simple to read. The outer ring indicates hours, the inner ring for minutes. The 30 small dots in the centre are seconds, they fill up to 30 and then drain down to make 60.

PopGadget Products

Adjust-A-Spoon
slide your way to your desired measurement with what appears to be a minimum amount of hassle.

Color Changing Microwave Spoons
Designed to stay in the bowl while you heat your food and will change color to alert you that your food is ready. Could come in handy when heating up baby food too.

Sanyo will soon begin shipping this induction heat-type cooking stove that features voice navigation and downloadable ringtones that let you know when dinner is done.
The talkative stove can also function as a coach for aspiring chefs, reading out recipes and cooking instructions. And, with its voice navigation, this is one kitchen assistant that will follow your orders.

A Machine Called WashDryIron

WashDryIron is a new machine which washes, dries and irons clothes; designed by Oliver Blackwell, a University of Plymouth graduate. The machine would probably become an object of desire because it saves about 10 days a year in ironing time.
The machine washes, dries and irons clothes in separate compartments and is said to eliminate colour runs, shrinkage and ironing. It can tackle up to 16 items at a time, including king-size bed sheets. Because hangers are used, they do not become entangled and have 83% fewer creases, according to the designer. The items are then dried and ironed by hot air blown across them.

Mugshot Collection

Leastwanted's collection of mugshots posted on Flickr. Check it out!

Check Out These Nice Stuff

cute vikings i saw at asterisko's blog

flexible book light

thai rice steamer

stone flour mill

dimsum clock

table bed. Transforms from a generous size dining or work table to a comfortable bed in seconds.

Virus That Kills Cancer Cells

Professors Amos Panet and Zichria Zakay-Rones, from the Department of Virology at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, have been involved during the past five years in research that could create a new and effective weapon in the fight against cancer, as well as change the way we look at viruses.
The NDV-HUJ virus shows outstanding preference for infecting cancerous cells. NDV-HUJ is a natural variant of NDV (Newcastle Disease Virus) which usually affects birds. Being an attenuated variant (e.g., weakened virus), it is innately preferentially targets and replicates in certain types of tumor cells, leaving normal cells almost unaffected.
Using the NDV-HUJ virus will enable doctors to specifically target cancer cells without the risk of severely affecting the patient.
Viro-therapy is not a new idea. Its roots could be found in the mid 20th Century, when a number of physicians noticed an interesting phenomenon: some of their patients, who suffered from cancer and had an incidental viral infection, or subjected to vaccination, were now improving, experiencing a remission from their symptoms.
read article

8X5 Meme

Got this meme from AW. Im not gonna tag anyone because this meme is quite long. This is just for your consumption. But if you find this challenging then go ahead write yours.

5 Jobs
1. Math teacher 2. Sales representative 3. Assistant Pastor 4. Training center staff 5. Systems Administrator
5 Movies
1. Saving Private Ryan 2. Gladiator 3. Star Wars 4. Harry Potter 5. Catch Me If You Can & (may i add 1?) The Aviator
5 TV Shows
1. Medical Detectives 2. Friends 3. CSI 4. Fear Factor 5. Clean House (niecy nash)
5 Places Lived (Philippines only)
1. Quezon City 2. Cebu City 3. Cagayan de Oro City 4. Butuan City 5. Pagadian City
5 Vacation Places
(sorry. haven't had any vacation.)
5 Places I Would Like To Be (to visit)
1. Spain 2. Germany 3. USA 4. Any Scandinavian country 5. Eastern Europe
5 Favourite Foods
1. Raw fish 2. Durian 3. Grilled fish 4. Ice cream 5. Roasted pig
5 Websites
1. my blog and my friends' blog. eheheh. 2. google 3. yahoo 4. bloglines 5. boing boing

Floating Flower Bowl

look up site

Solar Bag

The Voltaic solar bags are mobile power generators, designed to charge your devices without tying you to a power outlet, which makes them ideal for traveling.
check out site

Fetus Cushion

take a look

Study: Mental Declines Can Be Reversed

As we move past retirement age, most of us will not be as mentally sharp as we once were, but a study suggests we may be able to reverse the trend. Dennis Foth, a professor in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Extension, says some people might have that talent.
Foth said mental declines are pathological for about 10 percent of the population over the age of 65, and not much can be done at this time for the debilitating cognitive effects of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. But for the other 90 percent of the population, cognitive decline need not be inevitable.
"A lifetime of good mental habits pays off," Foth said. "People who are curious at a young age are more likely to be mentally active and stay active as they age. And we found it is never too late to start. With a little effort, even people in their 70s and 80s can see dramatic improvements in their cognitive skills."
read article

Parasite That Makes Zombie Cockroaches

This is the wasp named Ampulex compressa.
As an adult, Ampulex compressa seems like your normal wasp, buzzing about and mating. But things get weird when it's time for a female to lay an egg. She finds a cockroach to make her egg's host, and proceeds to deliver two precise stings. The first she delivers to the roach's mid-section, causing its front legs buckle. The brief paralysis caused by the first sting gives the wasp the luxury of time to deliver a more precise sting to the head.
The wasp slips her stinger through the roach's exoskeleton and directly into its brain. She apparently use sensors along the sides of the stinger to guide it through the brain, a bit like a surgeon snaking his way to an appendix with a laparoscope. She continues to probe the roach's brain until she reaches one particular spot that appears to control the escape reflex. She injects a second venom that influences these neurons in such a way that the escape reflex disappears.
From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord. The wasp takes hold of one of the roach's antennae and leads it--in the words of Israeli scientists who study Ampulex--like a dog on a leash.
The zombie roach crawls where its master leads, which turns out to be the wasp's burrow. The roach creeps obediently into the burrow and sits there quietly, while the wasp plugs up the burrow with pebbles. Now the wasp turns to the roach once more and lays an egg on its underside. The roach does not resist. The egg hatches, and the larva chews a hole in the side of the roach. In it goes.
The larva grows inside the roach, devouring the organs of its host, for about eight days. It is then ready to weave itself a cocoon--which it makes within the roach as well. After four more weeks, the wasp grows to an adult. It breaks out of its cocoon, and out of the roach as well. Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.
read complete article

How To Make A Whiskey PC

see manual

Girly Kettle

check it out

Recycled Products

Bottle Opener

Wall Clock

Candle Holders

more recycled products

Liquid Condom

A man shows a bottle of newly-developed liquid condom for women use he bought from a drugstore in Yichang, Hubei Province.
The new product, making use of naometer and physical foaming technologies, is said to be easy to apply, anti-bacterial and lubricating. The invisible condom, developed by a company in south China's Guangdong Province, has won approval from the province's drug administration and is now available in drugstores in the country.

Windows Laptop Sushi

ahhh! derrricious....arigato!

Smart Doorknob

The BioKnob is an advance-technology biometric door lock shaped like an elegant doorknob. At the center of the outside knob is a tiny sensor that registers the pattern of users, thumb or fingerprint patterns. Up to 100 users can have their fingerprints enrolled in the BioKnob for entry.
Users no longer have to carry keys, or worry about losing or forgetting them.

Top 10 Movie List for 2005

This is the critics' list of 2005 movies.

Fight Tooth Decay With Electricity

The Israeli company Fluorinex Active has developed a new technology for fighting tooth decay. The company is currently working on a small device which together with a gel will impose an efficient ion exchange process through an Electro-chemical reaction in which fluor ions displace the Hydroxide ions at the outer layer of the tooth. This is intended to produce a new mineral layer with significantly improved chemical and physical resistance to the aggressive bacteria and the resulting acidic environment in the mouth.
The technology uses an existing fluoride-based gel along with a device which produces a small electric current (6-9 volt, at low amperage) to achieve activation of the teeth that will enable the formation of a genuine electrolyte when activated. This in turn enhances the fluor ion attraction to the teeth and its exchange that transforms into a highly resistant and protective mineral layer.
read article...

Top 10 Weirdest USB Devices

George Foreman USB iGrill

USB heated slippers

USB heating gloves

The USB vibrator. WHAT????? That's crazy!

check the others out

What Does The Moon Smell Like?

...like gunpowder. The latest installment in NASA's Apollo Chronicles is all about the smell of Moondust.
What is moondust made of? Almost half is silicon dioxide glass created by meteoroids hitting the moon. These impacts, which have been going on for billions of years, fuse topsoil into glass and shatter the same into tiny pieces. Moondust is also rich in iron, calcium and magnesium bound up in minerals such as olivine and pyroxene. It's nothing like gunpowder.
So why the smell? No one knows.

Anatomy Gallery

A gallery of anatomy artworks.

CarDesk

Some people just can't let go of their car. The Mini Statements Mini Desk sells for £2500 (about $4,422 USD), perfect for those people who miss their mobile office.

Bullet Pictures

You can't take pictures like these at home, but if you join the High-Speed Imaging at Edgerton center you can. The photos taken by the students are absolutely awesome.




see more pictures

This was sent to me by vasco on email.

Plastic Package Opener

Open those stubborn plastic packages with ease!

Stylish Surveillance from Panasonic

Peek-a-boo!

It looks like a fancy hanging lamp that you would see in a fashionable Architectural Digest home. But it's really the WV-CW960 surveillance camera. It has a 300x zoom lens, and a digital flip function to follow moving objects. And for a mere $5,200 you can keep an eye on Al Qaeda conspirators, or the WMDs in your backyard.

The Moody Media Player And Other Inventions

(image from masterdigital)

A media player that selects songs based on its owner's latest mood.
The device has wrist sensors that measure body temperature, perspiration and pulse rate. It uses these measurements to build a profile of what music or video the owner plays when they are hot, cold, dry or sweaty, and when their pulse is racing or slow.
The device then comes up with suggestion to fit each and every profile, either using songs or videos in its library or downloading something new that should be suitable.
read article

Ethanol Can Replace Gasoline

Putting ethanol instead of gasoline in your tank saves oil and is probably no worse for the environment than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The researchers note, however, that new technologies now in development promise to make ethanol a truly "green" fuel with significantly less environmental impact than gasoline.
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Britons Unconvinced on Evolution

(image from the legacy)

The BBC is reporting that more than half of Britons do not believe in evolution, with a further 40% advocating that creationism or intelligent design should be taught in school science classes. Someone said, "I'm a Brit myself, and I thought most people over here thought these views were outdated and lacked substance. None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected. Maybe I've been blind to the views of the majority in this proudly secular country?"
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