Mar 23 2007 Rocket Belt is within your reach
For $250,000 you can own your very own rocket belt and finally be able to live out that James Bond fantasy of yours. You know the one. Where you strap on a rocket pack and then end up in the hospital after flying straight into a building and blowing up.
Mar 23 2007 Buy an antique ray gun
Weta, the special effects group that worked on The Lord of the Rings, is selling anitque-styled sci-fi ray guns for $621. Sadly, they don't actually work and only 500 of each style will be made, although if they actually did work they'd probably cost around $50 million each. Which is slightly more than I have saved up. Slightly.
Mar 22 2007 Nintendo DS Cake
That's not a super gigantic, very poorly made Nintendo DS. Oh, no, my friends it is not. That is a cake. The edible kind.
A couple more pictures after the jump.
Mar 22 2007 Gun operated alarm clock
Roger Ibars has designed a gun operated alarm clock that you have to keep shooting until it turns off. Right now it's just a hack made from a retro gaming light gun and a vintage digital clock radio, but I would buy this in a second if it became retail. You'd get the satisfaction of shooting your alarm clock with the wakey uppyness of having to aim and fire. And yes, "wakey uppyness" is a word. Can't find it in the dictionary? Maybe you should look it up in my fist!
Mar 22 2007 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels
Here's a list of unintentionally funny comic book panels. Although I suspect many of them were intentionally meant to look unintentional. How could you have the Joker talking about a "boner" for an entire paragraph and not realize it would be hilarious?
Mar 22 2007 Hold booze in your sandal
Lord knows why, but Reef has created a sandal which can hold your booze. The Dram Sandal costs $45 and the heel of it holds up to three ounces of your favorite liquid. Can you imagine using this thing? People would see you pouring liquid out of your shoe and then drinking it. And even if they knew, you'd still be pouring liquid out of your shoe and then drinking it.
EDIT: Holy crap, I spelled "pouring" "pooring". I never was very gude with the wurds.
Mar 22 2007 Red Cross tries creative advertising
This is some clever advertising being used by the Red Cross. You won't get the full effect unless you're standing at a very specific spot, but by golly if you're in that spot prepare to be blown away. By me. Because that's where I store my dynamite.
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Mar 21 2007 Interactive mirror for robot women
Designer Nanette Lepore has begun testing interactive mirrors in her department at Bloomingdale's in New York. The mirrors are high-resolution digital screens that project digital outfits for potential buyers. The resulting image is then forwarded to a webpage where friends or the public can view and rate the outfit. It's a good effort to ride the social networking wave, but it's absolutely going to fail. Shopping with girlfriends is a social experience that can't be replaced with a computer. Plus I already invented an interactive mirror. You punch it when you're angry and then your fist bleeds. It's genius.
Mar 21 2007 Polished steel rock table
Designer Arik Levy has created this polished steel rock table, which is exactly what it sounds like. And I bet using it feels like you're in the Stone Age and the future at the same time. Which is perfect, because I've always wished I was a time traveling caveman.
Mar 21 2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spotted in New York
People dressed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle outfits were seen walking across the upper level of the George Washington Bridge in New York yesterday morning, most likely a publicity stunt for the new TMNT movie opening Friday. Either that or they're real. Just like I knew deep down in my heart that they were! People used to laugh at me for drinking toxic waste but who's laughing now?!
Mar 21 2007 Nintendo Mario Kart DS Track Race Set
The video game seems so much more fun, but if you're really into Mario Kart you can get this Mario Kart DS Race Track. It looks pretty neat, but only has two vehicles (Mario and Yoshi) and the track looks super duper basic. It's only $29.99 though, so set it up in your apartment and say goodbye to sex forever.
Mar 21 2007 Semi-automatic banana peeler sort of works
I don't speak German so I really have no idea what's going on in this video, but it's allegedly of a semi-automatic banana peeler. The video doesn't actually show any peeling but I'm assuming it works? Why am I assuming this? Because the video would be too stupid to comprehend if it didn't. And in case you're wondering, yes, a semi-automatic banana peeler is 100% necessary.
Mar 20 2007 Chrome Wii case is really shiny
XCMLive is selling a chrome replacement shell for the Wii called the Chrome I-Case for $37.00. It apparently just snaps on, and looks like it cost $2,000 so that's cool. Plus if you ever lose your mirror it's nice to know you've got a really really shiny Wii lying around.
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Mar 20 2007 The ultimate lay-z-boy
The Wave Chaise is a multifunctional chaise longue concept designed by Roberta Ramme and incorporates everything a person would ever want in the comfort of a chaise longue. It has a built in TV, DVD player, CD player, phone, study, internet, etc. The only thing I see missing is a giant bowl of spaghetti and a built-in toilet.
Mar 20 2007 Adopt a giant stuffed squid
If you've got a ton of spare cash lying around you can visit Adopt A Squid and adopt a giant stuffed squid. $399 will get you the 7' one (above), but if you're serious about your adoption of fake giant squids you can spend a whopping $1800 on Anthony, who comes in at 15' (below).
See that black and white peeking out the bottom? That's a person. A human person. Not sure what you'd do with something like this but I bet it'd be awesome.
Mar 20 2007 Best unedited fight sequence ever
This is a fight sequence from the movie The Protector featuring Tony Jaa (of Ong Bak fame). It was shot using a stedicam and lasts almost 4 minutes with no cuts and no edits. Plus I'm pretty sure two or three guys actually died while filming this because they were either thrown through a door or off the balcony. And, yeah, it's perfectly okay if watching this gives you a boner.
Mar 20 2007 Search with Kevin Federline
For some reason that doesn't make any sense at all, Kevin Federline has launched his own search engine called Search With Kevin. Apparently he felt Google just wasn't doing it well enough and thought he'd throw his hat into the ring. The page offers prizes everytime you search like going to Kevin's birthday party. Although that's sort of like offering a kick to the balls as an incentive. I don't know what sort of talents Kevin Federline has, but I'm pretty sure they don't involve writing search algorithms. Or rapping. Or, well, doing anything more involved than asking people if they want ketchup with their fries.
Mar 19 2007 Maserati covered with 1,763 lbs of shattered glass
This is a Maserati Quattroporte covered with 1,763 lbs of shattered glass. It was put together by Italian artist Luca Pancrazzi and is currently outside the Moscow Museum of Modern Art welcoming guests to the second Moscow Art Biennale that runs through April 1st. If this was a Ferrari or Lamborghini I'd probably be on the floor right now, cursing the heavens and crying like a little baby.
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Mar 19 2007 Aurora uses light as jewelry
Aurora is designed by Kyeok Kim and creates a pattern of light on the body as decoration. The light is controlled by rotating a ring (which contains a magnet) towards the main jewelry piece. This is a beautifully executed concept. At least better than my version, which was taping a flashlight to my face.
Mar 19 2007 Tell time using small orbiting planets
This planetary orbit clock uses rotating planets to tell the time. Each ring represents an hour, minute, etc, and the only way to tell the time is from looking at it from directly above. It costs $35 and looks really cool, but I'm pretty sure I'd never ever be able to actually figure out what time it was.
More pictures and confusing diagrams after the jump.
Mar 19 2007 Digital hour glass watch
The Sand+Time watch is a digital watch that would combine a regular digital watch with the classic egg timer hour glass in digital form. It's just a concept, but I like the idea of combining old and new technologies. Which is why I glued my computer to my guitar. Ahh, inventing at its finest.
