May GadgetChick Archives
During the day, the glowstone looks like a small granite landscaping decoration that naturally blends in with your flowers and shrubs. At night the glowstone reacts to motion and lights your garden for 5, 15 or 30 seconds after detecting movement within a 12 foot range. Pretty nifty I say!
“Glowstone’s granite finish is realistic, can [...]
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Published: 05-31-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Summer’s nearly here, and here’s an option for you if you don’t have a room inside your house or apartment that will accommodate that big screen you’ve been pining for – take it outside! The Big Screen Outdoor Theater is an 8-footer and is inflatable. You can set it up in minutes and (I guess [...]
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Published: 05-30-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Remember making shadow puppets when you were a kid? Here’s the grown-up version, and it’s simply gorgeous: the Lumen Oil Lamp by Adam Frank. I want one of these!
“lumen is an innovative oil lamp designed by adam frank for adam frank incorporated that also functions as a shadow projector. when lit, lumen throws a soft [...]
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Published: 05-29-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Wishing Fish has a new product called the Lumen oil lamp. This lamp will definitely get noticed by all our house guests as it lights up the wall and makes for an even prettier view!
“Candlelight is good, but these organic oil lamp shadow projectors by Brooklyn-based artist Adam Frank are much more original! These unique [...]
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Published: 05-29-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Engadget reports that the Plug and Play Ultrasound Probe System (PPUPS) isn’t available yet – still awaiting FDA approval. But once it’s available, you can plug it into your laptop or desktop and send the ultrasound images to your PC.
“Ppups is the first complete ultrasound imaging system built right into a small USB-compatible probe for [...]
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Published: 05-28-2006 | Link To This Entry
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I don’t wear ties myself (did you guess this one already) but the Tie Caddy seems to be pretty handy. Almost makes me wish I had a bunch of ties so that I could get them all organized.
Nah. I’m not that anal. No ties, no organizing. But if you did have ties …
“Ties will [...]
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Published: 05-26-2006 | Link To This Entry
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It’s a potty! It’s a bench! Nope. It’s a Potty Bench (not to mention a storage container, too.) Potties these days are definitely into multi-tasking. That orange thing is the deflector shield, by the way.
“The Potty Bench is a training potty featuring two enclosed side storage spaces for organizing potty training supplies, and a pull-out [...]
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Published: 05-25-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Fuse earrings! Got to say, can one really get much geekier? A rhetorical question, by the way, so don’t bother answering. Of course I can get geekier. Just not in this post.
“When we first saw these earrings we could not “re-fuse” the chance to make them available to you. Ok, that was bad. Really bad. [...]
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Published: 05-24-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Okay, I have to admit. I actually like spiders. Out of everything in the creepy crawly world, spiders rank up there below my favorites like ladybugs and fireflies. I think it’s because spiders set up those beautiful webs and eat the creepy crawlies that I really really don’t like.
Still … I don’t particularly like [...]
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Published: 05-23-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Father’s Day is coming up next month, so if you’ve got a couple thousand lying around not doing much good – you know, just picking up lint in your sock drawer – and you’re thinking of a an unusual gift that will upstage everyone else’s gift, check out the Computer-Controlled Stargazers Chair:
The chairs’ recline is [...]
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Published: 05-22-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Here’s a phone to make a gal swoon – the Goldvish Illusion collection. You can only really carry around a phone like this if you’re sporting mega-carat diamonds on your fingers and around your neck. That way you’d be too busy worrying about your jewelry to give much thought to the phone in your purse. [...]
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Published: 05-21-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Hosting a graduation party? Or maybe a 4th of July summer barbeque? Entertain with style with this high end fountain-style fondue pot. It makes a perfect centerpiece and your guests will be talking about it while enjoying the chocolate! Who doesn’t love chocolate?!!
You can add liqueurs for sophisticated flavors. Or cheese or BBQ [...]
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Published: 05-18-2006 | Link To This Entry
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We dress up our iPods, so why not our mobile phones? Why not, indeed. Well, now you can, with Phone Tattoos and Phone Tattoos By You! for Cingular customers who own either a Motorola RAZR V3 or a Motorola SLVR phone model. Phone Tattoos are pre-designed stickers (don’t worry – they are supposed to peel [...]
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Published: 05-17-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Here’s to going retro – the Old Century Baseball game is like a pinball game, only without the bells, lights and whistles. No batteries required. You launch the pinball and swing the bat. Sounds strange … nothing electronic to it.
“A tribute to the grand old ballparks of yesteryear, this pinball-style game provides players’ young and [...]
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Published: 05-16-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Do you have an elderly family member that you worry about? Or do you know someone that just had surgery and you worry about them being home alone? If so, the 3-Input Telemergency Alert Device is just what you need to help keep them safe while helping you rest assured they will be able to [...]
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Published: 05-16-2006 | Link To This Entry
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weemote: parental control made easy. I imagine it only works for wee ones. Hence the name. If you’ve got teens, you’re probably out of luck. There is no such thing as a parental control device (of any sort) for teens. Hey, I was once a teen. I know what I’m talking about.
“The weemote® TV remote [...]
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Published: 05-15-2006 | Link To This Entry
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Identify stars, planets, constellations and more with the new SkyScout handheld device that uses advanced GPS technology with point and click convenience. SkyScout will hit the market this month, keep your ears open!
“The SkyScout includes entertaining and educational audio and text information, including facts, trivia, history and mythology about our most popular celestial objects.
A [...]
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Published: 05-14-2006 | Link To This Entry
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These aren’t technically gadgets, but we’ll just say these are “manually operated” gadgets, okay? Lucky Cat is cute, but I’m rather partial to the Zen Monkey myself, and the Evil Troll is a riot … especially “Give all me”. I like the sound of that one.
“Lucky Cat – For thousands of years, the Lucky Cat [...]
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Published: 05-14-2006 | Link To This Entry
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I recently traveled to Boston for a business conference. While there I roomed with my dear friend Suzy (names have been changed to protect the innocent). Suzy had at least 8 bags with her and I found it rather funny considering I had only two.
One of Suzy’s bags contained her wireless keyboard (In addition [...]
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Published: 05-13-2006 | Link To This Entry
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So let’s say, you love to swim but absolutely cannot bear to be without your tunes these days – and you have no intention of testing out any of those cool waterproof iPod cases on your precious nano or iPod video (I’m hearing you right, aren’t I?) … Enter the SwiMP3 to get you back [...]
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Published: 05-12-2006 | Link To This Entry
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