Two months worth of Twilight talk has resulted in this homage that we lovingly refer to as "goth-lite." Take a walk on the dark side with the Gadgettes and special guest Natali Del Conte.
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EPISODE 146 |
Skull phone shows just how wild and crazy you are
Report: U.S. military developing robots that eat human flesh
Gory intercom system a savagely funny concept
iKey's AK-39 wearable keyboard is about as weapon-like as it sounds
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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The SkullyBoom SB1.
(Credit: Delicious Drips)If you've been looking for a speaker that accurately mimics the look of Hello Kitty's decapitated skull, the SkullyBoom SB1 ($60) should be right up your alley. The grim, little speaker box uses a rechargeable lithium ion battery to power a single 2-inch speaker, all packed inside a cartoonish, vinyl skull.
But you'll need to wait until June 2010 before getting your hands on one. As the first product out of the Delicious Drips boutique, the company is gearing up for production and currently accepting preorders.
If you're short on patience and desperately need a SkullyBoom, the Instructables blog features step-by-step instructions on making your own, using $40 in parts (and check out the Munny speaker project while you're at it).
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We're not trying to give robots too much power over our lives, but let's face it...there are some things that we'd rather not have to do, and our robot underlings would be perfect fill-ins. That is, of course, until they become self aware and jump onto our faces until we surrender to their immense robotic power. But that won't happen for a long time, so don't worry about that just yet.
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Episode 115 |
DanBall the finger massaging robot looks like anything but a finger massaging robot
Roofus the snow-sweeping robot protects the roofs of large buildings
Magic system fills glasses from the bottom up somehow
Pink Watch
Sony announces Bluetooth headphones, travel-friendly speakers
A propos (of) nothing
Erasable Shower Tablet for inspired moments (thanks HollyHock!)
Here it is for sale!
What the hell?! (Vibrating stool edition)
Vibrating Toilet Seat
Mario Mushroom vibrating stool (thanks Dr. Karl!)
Gender Gap
Tomahawk Skull Gauntlet
Tool Time (baby edition)
Badass Oakley Roddler stroller gives your kid an early chip on his shoulder
Electric-drill-powered stroller should come with a Father of the Year award
Pretty……..
BMW unveils electric Mini Cooper
Dirt-cheap Christmas crap
Walmart offers $128 Blu-Ray
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When we first saw a photo of someone wearing these "Vibe Body Sound" earphones by Outi, we thought they'd been put on backward. So we didn't stare or say anything for fear of humiliating the poor sap, just as mom always taught us.
Then it turns out that it was the right way to wear them after all, because they use that body-conduction technology we keep hearing about. This pair clips to the skin and cartilage of the outer ear just above the lobe and sends the sound vibrating through the skull, according to Coolest-Gadgets.
We've seen other headgear based on the same principle, but usually the in-ear variety is reserved for underwater use. Either way, it's enough to give us a massive headache just thinking about it.
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Here's one prediction for 2008 that we dearly hope does not come true: goth as the big tech fashion trend. We wish the recent spate of dark products were only Halloween novelties, but the fact that we're only in the first month of the year does not bode well.
In the last week alone, Akihabara News has highlighted a full desktop complement consisting of a macabre keyboard, mouse, and mousepad. That followed a cobra-wrapped Webcam and a pair of skull speakers that made their disturbing debut only a few days earlier.
In retrospect, the most telling sign of this burgeoning trend surfaced back in November--when even Hello Kitty began wearing black.
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Yes, we know Halloween is almost here, but we're still not sure what people find so fascinating about diamond-covered skulls. But if you get to be as big as Kylie Minogue, you can do pretty much whatever you want with them--including using them for microphones.
Minogue crooned into her bejeweled cranium for the video of her single 2 Hearts, according to BornRich. (There's no confirmation on what kind of stones they are, for the record.) To complete the ensemble, however, she missed a golden--or diamond--opportunity: a set of crystal-encrusted headphones.
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There's now a discreet way to declare one's allegiance to the swashbuckling lifestyle without being obnoxiously preppy or hiding it in the parking lot. The "Crystal Pirate" is an 800-dpi USB mouse that combines "booty and bling," as Popgadget aptly describes it.
And it should come as no surprise that this $135 skulled peripheral comes from Pat Says Now, the Swiss specialty mouse house that's been responsible for novelties ranging from the Halloween ghost to the $24,000 "Diamond Flower." The only downside to the pirate model it has succumbed to the Swarovski empire.
'For the Love of God'
(Credit: Damien Hirst/White Cube)While this certainly goes into the what-else-can-we-encrust category on Crave, it's also a coup de grâce for the art world.
This work by Damien Hirst, titled "For the Love of God," is made of diamonds, human teeth and the platinum-plated skull of a 35-year-old European male from the 1700s rumored to be a monk or minor saint (hence the name).
The diamond-encrusted skull sold for 50 million pounds ($101 million) on Wednesday. In fairness to Hirst, the skull did cost him $20 million to produce. Hirst is part of the investment group that bought the piece, according to a Bloomberg report. White Cube, the hottest contemporary art gallery in London and Hirst's sole seller, said the group plans to resell it later.
Hirst is the richest artist in the U.K., though not from this sale alone. White Cube made 130 million pounds ($262 million) in sales in June from Hirst's other works, the gallery told Bloomberg.
Hirst's pricey artworks, which are usually just as outrageously expensive to produce, are often not even considered finished until someone has bought them, as the sale of the art and market value placed on it is part of the artwork itself. It's an expression of the excess of our times and how the world's super rich spend their disposable wealth as others live in poverty, according to a friend at one of New York's premiere fine art galleries.
Whether his intentions are decadent or not, this artist is still walking away with most of that money in his pocket.
I'm not craving the skull per se, but I am craving Hirst's power to get people to pay $80 million for an idea.
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We're so over the whole wireless audio thing. Even though we were frothing at the mouth over the issue only a few months ago, it seems like ancient history now. The hot new audio technology? The human body, of course.
Teac is the latest to prove that point with a new pair of headphones that uses "BCT," or "Bone-Conduction Technology," according to Akihabara News. Like other products of its kind, the Filtun/HP-F100 relies on the skull as its major conduit for soundwaves.
We have no idea how well the Teac headset works, but does this mean that we have only ourselves to blame for poor transmission? If so, that wouldn't bode well for our plans to become a human router.
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Are we the only ones who get freaked out by the idea of having soundwaves shooting through our bones? Apparently so, judging by the number of products on the market that do just that.
The latest skeleton-rattling device comes from China, where a company called Temco just released a "bone conduction" Bluetooth headset that forgoes the usual earpieces and sends your tunes via vibrations directly through your skull, Akihabara News reports. But it looks kind of clunky, especially considering that it apparently doesn't have a built-in MP3 player as similar products do. And what good are these things if you can't take them under water?
