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Glow Brick Lights Up Your Night
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Science,
Made from an actual light bulb, the Glow Brick collects energy from the sun by day and lights up your night. Each one is 3.3 x 3.3 x 5-inches, large enough to keep you completely out of the dark by glowing. The effect takes place when a small space between the container’s light bulb glass and acrylic resin shrinks during production. The photoluminescent lamp is available for $29.95. We applaud the idea that we can have a night light and conserve energy without really trying.
Read More 
| ThinkGeek
Gallery: Glow Brick Lights Up Your Night
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We don’t tell many people, but clowns creep us out, seriously. What better way to face our fears than with this 6 foot tall Animated Evil Clown with his blood-splattered costume. He will jab at whoever comes near with his knife while scary circus music plays. Sound activated, he runs on 3 AA batteries, not included, and the Fright Catalog mentions that he may come equipped with bloody
white gloves. For $89.99, we think this would be a much better watchdog than the real thing.
Read More | Fright Catalog
Gallery: Evil Clown is Not Just for Halloween
We haven’t been this excited since our last viewing of “Willie Wonka.” Flavorleague, a wall covering company in New Orleans, has developed scratch and sniff wallpaper. Still recovering from Katrina, the company is hard at work and recently introduced their Fruit Cocktail Collection. The Flavor Paper includes B-A-N-A-N-A-S, Cherry Forever, and Tutti Fruitti. We dig the fact that they contribute a portion of all sales to the Human Rights Campaign. We’re hoping that they will create Snozzberries to go with the rest of the collection.
Read More | Flavor League
Gallery: Don’t Eat the Wallpaper
This week, a hand grenade made its way to the Canadian border. Another one, which turned out to be a toy, was discovered at the McNamara Terminal at Detroit’s Metro Airport. Now you can join the group with the Hand Grenade Alarm Clock. Made of PVC, this clock has to be thrown to turn itself off. This is a perfect gift for those who want to vent their anger when disturbed first thing in the a.m. It’s available at CScout for $39.00.
Read More | CScout
Gallery: Don’t Carry This Clock When Traveling
Nestle Caters to Video Gamers
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Editorial, Smart Home, Video Games,
What do you do to attract attention by kids that are immersed in video games and no longer watch as much TV? If you are Nestle, you produce mini-bottles of water called Aquapod just for them. Then you set up a site that they can play on, run a contest designing empty bottles, and finally, don’t forget the tie-in to Wiis with Konami’s environmentally friendly Dewy’s Adventure. At least their promotional contest, which runs through November 1, has some nice prizes such as a 6-night trip to Costa Rica or a Wii with the game included. We remember when Nestle’s Quick simply made the very best….chocolate.
Read More | Nestle's Aquapod
Gallery: Nestle Caters to Video Gamers
Real-time Football Stats with the Sportscast Wireless Scoreboard
Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Wireless / WiFi,
We recently told you about Vroop’s Liveboard, a device that hooks up to your computer, and lets you keep up with baseball scores in real-time. Now comes a similar device for the football fanatic. The Sportscast Wireless Football Scoreboard keeps you up-to-date (stats and all) on every football game, and updates every 15 minutes. All without a computer, TV, radio, or subscription: it receives wireless information via satellite. Stats are maintained from pre-season to playoffs, while schedules, scores, and standings can be obtained for any team. It features a 5 ¼” screen, and requires 4 AA batteries (not included). Available for $99 USD. Go Cowboys!
Read More | Brookstone via Coolest Gadgets
Gallery: Real-time Football Stats with the Sportscast Wireless Scoreboard
That nice delay with higher temperatures has stopped the onset of evil winter so far, but it is coming nonetheless. Cozy Legs is a radiant heating panel that will help keep you warm when the temperature drops. Mount it on a cubicle wall, under your desk, or on an optional stand. The beige heater, at a size 1 x 22 x 16-inches, is available for $99.99 and the stand will set you back an additional $19.99. We think it would be a useful alternative to warming our legs by keeping them on our computer, like we did last year.
Read More | Stacks and Stacks
Gallery: Cozy Legs Keeps You Warm
We couldn’t leave the Neiman Marcus Catalogue without including one more item that we found especially intriguing. The Swami Conversational Robot knows who you are individually, carries on conversations, develops a rapport with you, and answers questions. He has micro-camera eyes, more than 30 robotic micro motors and runs off an (included!) PC laptop.This bot makes Zoltar look like child’s play, but then he is available for about 10 times the price at $75,000.00.
Read More | Neiman Marcus
Gallery: Swami Knows All, Tells Most
We came across this site that features some of the most cleverly created pumpkins we have seen. Tom Nardone is more of an artist than a carver and we just thought we would share some of his special veggies. Extreme Pumpkins also features how-to advice, fire, light and pyrotechnics, design strategy, preservation, and what tools to use when carving. Tom’s site holds a yearly Halloween contest for other creative carvers, so feel free to send them a pic of your own jack-o-lantern this year.
(Thanks, Joyce)
Read More | Extreme Pumpkins
Gallery: This is No Ordinary Pumpkin
Brian the Brain, Know-it-All
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Home Entertainment, Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Toys, Videos,
Meet Brian, whose brain contains The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, an English dictionary, and a world history timeline. He utilizes voice recognition or keyboard to respond, and can store phone numbers and dial via a phone jack, ask questions, and tell some really corny jokes. Brian contains an MP3 player jack, an integrated speaker, a digital clock, a calendar, and has thousands of bits of trivia stored inside his glowing, color-changing brain. At a size of 13.75 x 11.75 x 10-inches, the Brain is powered by three AAA batteries (not included,) includes a free 3-month subscription to Britannica On Line, and will be ready to play “Jeopardy” with you around October 19 for $119.95.
Read More | Hammacher Schlemmer
