Category: just plain weird

2 October 2008

USB Teddy $17, Nightmares for life $0

Filed under: just plain weird - 02 Oct 2008

From our “What the…” department comes this new usb storage drive enclosed in a teddy bear.

To use the drive, you have to remove the bear’s head, apparently the designers were watching too much sleepy hollow….

25 September 2008

Instant Ramen In A Can

Filed under: Big in Japan, just plain weird - 25 Sep 2008

Only in Japan–and specifically, only in Akihabara, can you buy the ultimate geek food–…

11 September 2008

Sarah Palin Action Figures

Filed under: just plain weird, toys - 11 Sep 2008

While I usually try and avoid talking about politics on my blogs, I couldn’t pass up these Sarah Palin Action Figures. She is available in …

10 September 2008

Need Your Gadgets Blessed? Go to Japan!

Filed under: Services, just plain weird - 10 Sep 2008

Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a way to get your gadgets blessed. Shinto shrines are everywhere in Japan, and the …

1 September 2008

USB Exercise Dog

Filed under: just plain weird - 01 Sep 2008

I’ve seen numerous things hook up to your USB port. Heck, I had a fishtank at one time. But a dog that works out to maintain …

29 August 2008

Writing Spoon

Filed under: just plain weird - 29 Aug 2008

The Writing Spoon is a rather interesting utensil. Or is it a pen? Artist Julia Mariscal describes the spoon this way:
I spend my life …

26 August 2008

A SatNav From the 1920s!

Filed under: gps, just plain weird, steampunk - 26 Aug 2008

Back in the 1920s, they didn’t have portable computers. Or satellites. Or many roads. Or many cars.

For those that had a car and needed …

8 August 2008

The Lock Cup

Filed under: just plain weird - 08 Aug 2008

If you share a kitchen area with a lot of people, this rather interesting coffee cup from designer Efrat Gommeh might be …

5 August 2008

Will an iPhone 3G Blend?

Filed under: apple, just plain weird, mobile phones - 05 Aug 2008

The folks at Blendtec have a really funny series of videos that ask the proverbial question: Will It Blend? They have blended oh-so-many interesting things with these blenders in an effort to prove that if their blenders can blend …

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