Use Big Balls to Crack Your Nuts

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It may sound like a horrible rock opera featuring those 80′s hair bands you love to hate/hate to love but the Heavy Metal Nutcracker is a cool kitchen helper. Like the new rollercoaster at Six Flags, it’s a real ball dropper. This nutcracker uses the simple physics of gravity to crack the ...

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Nintendo in a Shoe Mod

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Here’s a really awesome video gaming mod- it’s a NES in a sneaker. Someone took a regular Nike Air sneaker and hollowed out a slot in the side for the Nintendo cartridge and inner workings of the gaming system. I could see this sitting on the shelf at a regular shoe store with ...

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DataSquid Flash Drive Unfortunately Doesn’t Have E-Ink

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It would be totally fitting if the DataSquid had some sort of E-Ink display but alas it’s just a supercute USB flash drive inside a plush squid. A pricey squid at that- $95 for 8 GB of storage. That’s a lot of calamari, if you know what I mean. nifnaks via read more on DataSquid Flash Drive Unfortunately Doesn’t Have E-Ink...

Rotating Solar Powered Display Turntable

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Here’s a cool little gizmo that will let you display your collectibles, merchandise, or food on an automatically rotating turntable. It’s solar powered, so as long as you have some light, your items will go ’round the merry-go-round. There are solar panels on all four sides to catch the rays. The rotation will ...

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Windex Alert: Touchscreen MP3 Playing Bathroom Mirror

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Break out the Windex and let’s take a ride into fingerprint city. The Maitre mirror from Italy’s Stocco adds a sleek digital touch to your bathroom mirror. A touch screen console features an integrated radio, clock, and barometer. I’m not sure who besides Al Roker would actually want a barometer INSIDE their ...

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Talky Talky is a Pen that Can Read

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Most pens write but Talky Talky is a pen that can read. Recently shown at the Koreannovation show in NYC, the Talky Talky (My Friend for Language Education) from Gemkid Horizon is designed to help kids learn how to read. Your child presses the tip of the pen onto the words in ...

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Office Toilet Paper Making Machine Turns Waste Paper into Paper for your Waste

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There’s a new machine for your office coming from Japan (of course) and it takes discarded copy machine paper and other paper waste and converts it into toilet paper. Yep- a toilet paper production machine right in your office. If that doesn’t make you want to go to work and drink a double ...

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Rotary Phone iPhone Case is Retro Coolness

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Turn your iPhone into an old school rotary phone! Well not really, but with this felt case for your precious 3G phone you can at least make it look a bit like the rotary dial phone. Admittedly the case does look a bit rough and school-projecty, but conceptually and visually it is undeniably ...

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