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Goofy Light Switches Might Turn You On

Those Brits are a wacky bunch, decorating with tacky wallpaper and now topping it off with some of the most unusual light switches on the planet. Just turn this pool ball, dolphin or Mini Cooper clockwise to turn the lights on, and as you turn, it adjusts brightness, too. Too bad these are all 400-watt…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 8

An Orange Clockwork

Okay my little droogies, your humble narrator brings you a 10-inch timepiece that will remind you that it’s time to stop listening to Ludwig Van and get back to the old in-out. You won’t have to commit any of the ultra-viol to get one, either, because it’s just $15.99. Product Page [Ironic Sans]

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 6

Weird Combo of the Day: Free Batteries With Your Booze

We’ve heard of getting a free ice cream scooper with the purchase of two boxer briefs, a free calculator with a pair of socks, and now you can get a couple of free Maxell batteries when you buy a bottle of Japanese grog, or as they call it, sake. Is this some kind of ancient…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 6

Beatles ‘Let it Bii’ Shirt Lacks Words of Wisdom

Nerdy Shirts came up with a lamebrained idea: let’s mix up the Beatles with the Nintendo Wii, supposedly combining the best of both worlds. Let it Bii? Certainly the Beatles didn’t authorize this. We’re thinking the creators of this T-shirt will soon find themselves in times of trouble of the legal variety, and Mother Mary’s…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 1

Lego Belt: We’re Warning You

If you ever, ever want to get laid again, don’t wear this $20 belt. Just don’t. You’ve been warned. Oh, it’s for girls? That’s different. Never mind. Geek Couture: The Lego Belt [Uber-Review]

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 25

M&Ms: Apple Logo Melts in Your Mouth

A tipster who works for the sister company of M&M Mars picked up a few bags of the chocolate candies at the company’s outlet store where he works in Australia, and what did he find but Apple logos printed on some of the M&Ms inside. A fluke? Part of an upcoming promo campaign in Australia?…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 24

Happy Fish Speaker Needs Stainless Steel Teeth for Complete Alien Look

Yeah, it’s supposed to look like a Happy Fish, but it looks more to us like some sort of alien head, flashing its ominous warning in purple, green, blue and amber. Hook up a couple of these $16 speakers to a nearby USB port and your Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon nightmare will…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 22

Olfactory Gadgets: Play-Doh Hits The Perfume Bottle

The fragrance world has evolved into unexplored areas, and now Play-Doh has gotten into the act. Celebrating its 50th birthday, Hasbro decided to release Play-Doh Cologne Spray in a limited edition for $18.99, reminding you of that time in kindergarten when you decided to see what Play-Doh tasted like. That, a side of paste and…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 19

Expertise 3P Screen Mist Chases Away Those Killer Electro-Waves

You never know when your brain might be fried by those harmful electromagnetic waves, swirling around us and ruining our lives, electron by electron. That’s why you need this extra special Expertise 3P Screen Mist from Clarins. It’ll protect you from all those electronic creepy crawlies, and the stuff makes you look younger, too. This…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 18

Desk Wind Turbine: Symbolic Talisman Runs on Solar Energy

Whaddaya mean I’m not green? I have this wind turbine sitting right here on my desk! Its prop is powered by solar energy, and that desk lamp you have there is enough to keep it turning all day. Sure, it doesn’t generate any power, but it’s the thought that counts. An intriguing distraction for $39.…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 17

Ping Pong Ball Prowess: Miraculous Shot After Shot

We’re just wondering how long it took this guy to perfectly nail so many shots of those ping-pong balls into a variety of glasses. Just look at some of those ricochet shots. The entire video is just downright remarkable. Another amazing video involving quarters and shot glasses, after the jump: These videos must’ve taken an…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 2

Talking Tape: Scratch and Listen

Here’s the audio equivalent of a flipbook: it’s a thin strip of plastic with tiny ridges that talk when you run a fingernail over them. Oddly enough, you can’t really hear the tale of the tape unless you scratch it while holding one end of the strip between your teeth. Or, you can hold it…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 27

Casio Magic Watch: Old Dog, New Tricks

If you don’t mind dressing up like a leisure-suit-wearing lounge lizard from the late ’70s, this retro-looking Casio Magic Watch might find a place on your wrist. Ace close-up magician Tomohiro Maeda has designed the five tricks installed on this sucker, letting you guess the number someone is thinking of, play con games, and engage…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 20

Power to the Pizza: Carry Your Laptop in a Pizza Box

Disguise your laptop as a pizza with the Power Pizza laptop case, a padded carrier for your fragile devices that looks exactly like a pizza box. It looks so much like a pizza box that, by golly, we think that’s exactly what it is. Confidently carry it inside anywhere there’s a sign reading “no food,”…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Chameleon USB: We Roll Our Eyes at Thee

Taking a nosedive into absurdity and back, we bring you the USB-powered eye-rolling chameleon, and it’s not even a storage device like that mutt humping the USB port that robbed us all of our precious dignity earlier this week. No sir, no such prurient mirth here. This is just a plug-in USB ornament that rolls…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 15

Beds For All in Live Classical Concert: Good Idea?

A mattress company in Tel Aviv decided to fill up a concert hall with 144 beds complete with pillows and blankets, giving music lovers the most comfortable way possible to listen to a classical music concert. But this could backfire. We were just at classical music concert not long ago where the audience was sitting…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 13

Charlie Brown’s Pathetic Christmas Tree

Now here’s a Christmas tree I can relate to: a 21″ exact replica of Charlie Brown’s pathetic tree before it was magically turned into something completely different by some energetic arm-waving. It’s yours for $24. Good grief. But I like it. And no, the psychiatrist is not in. Product Page [Urban Outfitters, via OhGizmo]

Tech News Charlie White Dec 8

Fishy Extension Cord

Something’s fishy about this extension cord with the male plug at its head and female receptacle on the other end. Not sure what kind of fish this is, but we’re thinking it must be an electric eel. Better tuck this sucker away somewhere so you don’t accidentally step on it. Check out the site for…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 6

Barbie Scoops Poop, Dog Desperately Hungry

This one has us scratching our heads: there’s Barbie with the pooper scooper, dutifully disposing of little turds, but what’s that in her dog Tanner’s bowl, and, uh, in his mouth? That must be one hungry dog. Do I detect a shit-eating grin on his face? Oopsy Poopy Barbie Doggie [Consumerist] Target Needs To Fire…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 30

Heady SkullCam: Evil Eye Keeps You In Line

The Chinese manufacturer of this skull-shaped webcam must’ve gotten its dates mixed up, this being more of a Halloween item than anything else, but what better way to conjure up a menacing mood for a dreaded WebCam meeting than using this SkullCam? Look to its glowing eye for inspiration, and humble yourself in the fact…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 28

Goofy Light Switches Might Turn You On

An Orange Clockwork

Weird Combo of the Day: Free Batteries With Your Booze

Beatles ‘Let it Bii’ Shirt Lacks Words of Wisdom

Lego Belt: We’re Warning You

M&Ms: Apple Logo Melts in Your Mouth

Happy Fish Speaker Needs Stainless Steel Teeth for Complete Alien Look

Olfactory Gadgets: Play-Doh Hits The Perfume Bottle

Expertise 3P Screen Mist Chases Away Those Killer Electro-Waves

Desk Wind Turbine: Symbolic Talisman Runs on Solar Energy

Ping Pong Ball Prowess: Miraculous Shot After Shot

Talking Tape: Scratch and Listen

Casio Magic Watch: Old Dog, New Tricks

Power to the Pizza: Carry Your Laptop in a Pizza Box

Chameleon USB: We Roll Our Eyes at Thee

Beds For All in Live Classical Concert: Good Idea?

Charlie Brown’s Pathetic Christmas Tree

Fishy Extension Cord

Barbie Scoops Poop, Dog Desperately Hungry

Heady SkullCam: Evil Eye Keeps You In Line

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