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Elica Lamp to User: Blow Me

You’re not the only one who gets turned on when you’re blown—that’s how you switch on the Elica Lamp, too. It’s interactive, it’s emotional, it likes being blown. We can relate. But its $190 price might just blow the budget. Product Page [Progetto25zero1]

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 2

A BananaGuard a Day Keeps the Bruises Away

Bananas are among the more delicate fruits, in need of protection inside a lunchbox or backpack. If you’re a banana aficionado like we are, you’ll need the Banana Guard, a hard plastic case for those phallic fruits that will keep those icky brown bruises away. Hey, BananaGuard also makes a great Halloween costume for that…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 31

Cursors That Kill: T-Shirt for the Self-Flagellators

Why beat up on yourself when you can get your T-shirt to do it for you? Get people talking, and maybe even feeling sorry for you because you’ve martyred yourself to your PC. Or maybe this cursor attack was not your idea. Perhaps it’s fighting back, punishing you for all those long nights when you’ve…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 19

Fraidy Cat: Cross-Eyed Kitty Scares Fools, Annoys Kids

Fear not. This Halloween, let Fraidy Cat do it for you. This crazy kitty will mesmerize you with big green plastic crossed eyes, crouching on your windowsill at midnight, shivering and shaking, quivering and quaking, to the scary sounds of “Somebody’s Watching Me.” It’s $15 at Walgreens. Oh, my. Am I scared, or what? Product…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 10

Musical Condoms? WTF?

The picture tells the tale—that’s right, it’s a musical condom. Its tone varies with your position and intensity, but if you can keep it up with that tinkly little noise going on down there, you’re a manlier man than I. Maybe it could be made to recite baseball scores to keep things going a little…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 9

Elevator With No Floor? Go Ahead, Step Inside

Sometimes things aren’t what they appear to be, and here’s a case in point: the floor of this elevator car is painted to give the illusion that there’s no floor at all. It’s a trompe l’oeil that’s realistic enough to convince the roadrunner that there is indeed a tunnel on the side of the mountain,…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 4

Tiny Town Fast Food

We’re still trying to figure out why they did this, but here it is, the tiniest fast food meal we’ve ever seen. That burger is only an inch wide. All the ingredients were handmade down to the micro-fries and their teensy bag, and even the itty-bitty soda, and it all reportedly “tasted awesome.” You’ll walk…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 29

Cassette Generator: Your Name On Tape

You remember cassettes, don’t you? Go to this website and make it look like you have your own album, old skool. Tell your friends you’re a Nashville Cat, been playin’ since they’s babies. OK, commenters, your turn: how would you label a cassette featuring your intrepid Giz editors? Cassette Generator [SaysIt, via Boing Boing]

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 28

Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive?

Freak out your friends and avoid lawsuits with these glow-in-the-dark pebbles, appearing to be mild-mannered gray rocks by day but glowing with an eerie green radioactive aura for about six hours each night. Get a bag of 350 for $10. Product Page [Collections, Etc., via OhGizmo]

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 27

Crazy Blender Alarm Clock: Early Morning Brain Scrambler

Add this to our list of goofy alarm clocks, and this one looks like a blender that would have been used by the hepcats back in the 60s. It wakes you up by agitating its styrofoam beads and playing your choice of four absurd tunes. It’s probably the last thing you’ll want to see and…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 21

Lick Your Wounds Candy Scabs: Eeew

If you’re still stuck in a time when scabs, snot and boogers are the stuff of hijinks and hilarity, you’ll need to pick up a box of Lick Your Wounds Candy Scabs. Strategically place a few of these sticky Band-Aids with their tasty treats hidden underneath, and easily gross out that schoolmarm you already loathe…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 7

Shockulate Vault: Torture Thyselves, Oh Ye of No Will

You’ve done it to your dog, now do it to yourself—threaten yourself against unwanted behavior with an electric shock. https://gizmodo.com/stay-mat-wireless-crate-makes-your-dog-hate-you-even-m-188046 The Shockulate Vault has a timed lock on top, and if you try to get one of those belly-busting candies or deadly suckweeds out of there before the allotted time is up, you’ll be in…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 20

Will Return…Never

At first glance this looks like the ubiquitous “will return” sign, but then you realize the secondhand is moving. Hey, wait a minute. This is a clock that runs on two AA batteries. Set it ahead 15 minutes and leave it on your door, and then if seeing is believing, you will always be back…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 20

Cool Jewels Ice Tray

Give out the bling at your next party with this $8.95 ice tray that lets you fill up your glasses with 10-carat diamonds. Just pour water into these trays and the cubes come out looking like multi-faceted gems. Add a little green food coloring as you see in the picture here, and presto! Instant emeralds.…

Gadgets Charlie White May 31

Food For Thought Plates

You know those posters at the butcher shop that show you which cuts of meat come from which part of the steer? Well now you can have those illustrations right in front of you as you dine, with Food For Thought Plates, cheerfully inviting you to carefully consider where that juicy cut of red meat…

Gadgets Charlie White May 9

Happy Blackout: Electricity-Free Light Bulb

Happy Blackout from Stiletto Design is a stainless steel light bulb holder that you attach to the wall. Insert a (preferably used) light bulb and it’s good to go. Notice the business end of the light bulb is still exposed. Light a small candle hidden behind that bulb, and whaddaya know? Looks like the bulb’s…

Gadgets Charlie White May 4

Explosive Chocolate Bomb

Here’s a product from the Chocolate Trading Company in the UK that’s so goofy we thought it must be a joke—the Explosive Chocolate Bomb made by Braquier has what’s cryptically called a “quality dark chocolate shell and contents” that provide “ongoing entertainment.” You can tell there’s something mildly dangerous going on here, because it includes…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 21

Super-Mower Cranks Up the RPMs, Self-Esteem

From our beloved cousins at Jalopnik, a superbly modified lawn mower that can turn up the torque, spinning blades up to 12,000 RPM. If you’re looking for the most powerful dragster/lawnmower in the whole world, this is probably it. For suburbanites whose grass is so thick, so lush, and so perfectly grown that it takes…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 8

Elica Lamp to User: Blow Me

A BananaGuard a Day Keeps the Bruises Away

Cursors That Kill: T-Shirt for the Self-Flagellators

Fraidy Cat: Cross-Eyed Kitty Scares Fools, Annoys Kids

Musical Condoms? WTF?

Elevator With No Floor? Go Ahead, Step Inside

Tiny Town Fast Food

Cassette Generator: Your Name On Tape

Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive?

Crazy Blender Alarm Clock: Early Morning Brain Scrambler

Lick Your Wounds Candy Scabs: Eeew

Shockulate Vault: Torture Thyselves, Oh Ye of No Will

Will Return…Never

Cool Jewels Ice Tray

Food For Thought Plates

Happy Blackout: Electricity-Free Light Bulb

Explosive Chocolate Bomb

Super-Mower Cranks Up the RPMs, Self-Esteem

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