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UltraLite: Recording Studio, All Shrunken

Portable audio interfaces are all over the place, but MOTU’s now-shipping UltraLite (under $600) FireWire box shows just how serious these devices have become. The 10-in, 14-out jacks are enough for surround setups (plugging straight into speakers, that is), and an independent headphone jack lets musicians and DJs cue. Among many pro-friendly features, there’s even…

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Laser Scissors

If you can’t eyeball and cut a straight line to save your life, these scissors project a line out for you to follow. The line will, of course, only be as straight as your ability to hold the scissors and therefore the laser itself perfectly steady. Good for adults then, maybe not so useful for…

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Smart Caddie UMPC from PBJ

Japanese company PBJ enters the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) Origami derby with its Smart Caddie, this one with a 1GHz Via C7M processor instead of the Intel Celeron that all the others are using with UMPCs. The Smart Caddie runs Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, has a 7-inch display at 800×480 and comes in a…

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Buggy Rollin’: Brain Damage on the Go!

Back at Carnegie Mellon University, where I completed my undergrad in drinking, they used to have something like this in which you stuffed a small woman—or man—into a little buggy and rolled them down a hill. I don’t think I watched a single match, but I think if they dressed people up like a Mighty…

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Samsung SCH-V910 Moneta Handset

I’m so tired of seeing cool phones. I saw them all last week, and now we’re just going to see more and more as we in the States suffer with call-dropping RAZRs and the rest of the world pays their massage-parlor bill with something like the SCH-V910. This is a pretty standard slider with Moneta…

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A Real Head-Turner: Your Profile in Wood

Immortalize yourself in wood with a Pirolette, a hand-carved art object from Turn Your Head that’s custom-made from your own profile by Tom Beshara. Notice the wood fills the space between two opposing profiles of your own face. It’s carved out of your choice of American black walnut, cherry or maple. Place it near a…

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Samsungss SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone

While details are scarce (read: non-existent) on this Samsung cell phone at the moment, we do know that it comes with an MP3 player, a two-inch QVGA display and a DMB receiver for TV reception. All this, plus the phone looks like a portable gaming system of some sort. N-Gage, anyone? Samsung SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone…

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Bustin Rocks with Asteroids Jacket

Relive your days as an Asteroids wizard with this softshell coat from 06.Jackets. It has industrial-strength waterproofing, so you can fend off those thunderstorms just as well as you used to fend off those pesky rocks playing roids back in the day. It’s got plenty of places to store your stuff, with lots of stash…

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Stiletto Heel Hooks, or Irate Neighbor?

British designer Susan Bradley offers these made-to-order Stiletto Hooks, perfect for hanging up clothes with their positive traction heels and appropriate angle to the wall. Sold by the pair, each is unique, created by Bradley from vintage shoes. Is it us, or does this look like the lady next door kicked through your wall with…

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Elegant Briefcase Made of Japanese Cedar

This aesthetically pleasing piece of the fine Japanese craftsmanship by industrial designer Takumi Shimamura is a briefcase made of Japanese cedar with a hand-stitched canvas edge, a leather handle and canvas interior. Take a look inside—its makers say the case is big enough for a 17-inch PowerBook with room to spare. A delightful side effect…

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Own the Soviet Space Shuttle, Just $500K

Look what you just missed on eBay: an exact 1/8 scale model of the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran. The BOR-5 is 15’6″ long with a 9’10” wingspread, and was actually used by the Soviets for aerodynamic testing between 1983 and 1988. That’s right, they launched this baby a few times, sending it up over 50…

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Light Sleeper Wakes You Up With Light

Who needs that honking alarm clock when you have the Light Sleeper pillow and duvet, a design concept for bedding with electroluminescent threads embedded into it? Designers at loop.PH note that exposure to certain bright lights makes you feel better, especially in the wintertime. Problem is, your body is only receptive to these bright lights…

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BioWall

You may need a degree in higher math to understand the assembly instructions, but once you get the PhD out of the way, the BioWall looks pretty cool. First you bend fiberglass rods make rings, then you use the rings to make dodecahedrons (I ll save you the Google – that s 12-sides) that are…

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USB Powered Microsope for looking at Skin?

If you ve ever met a doctor at a party and showed him your rash, you can now take that experience to a whole new dimension and email him pictures of that rash magnified 250x. Giving you all the features you’ve come to expect in a USB powered magnifier, the Skin Sensor switches between 50x…

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The Elvis Camera

Red Ferret points out the only reason left to buy a film camera: this one automatically vignettes your image next to Elvis. Elvis will look dreamily at you in his army uniform, while strumming a Ukulele, manning it up in a dude ranch background or any of three other settings. For better or worse, all…

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Minox LX Special Edition Walter Zapp

Engineer Walter Zapp invented the Minox sub-miniature camera in 1936. It subsequently went on to be marketed both as a luxury camera and as a spy camera—it was used by real spies the Falcon and the Snowman, and fictional spies like James Bond in You Only Live Twice. The high-gloss chrome finish LX Special Edition…

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Nokia Wireless AD-42W Audio Gateway

Nokia recently announced their AD-42W Audio Gateway, which lets compatible devices like phones or computers stream music out in one of two modes, to either home stereo systems or Bluetooth headsets. It works with phones with the A2DP Bluetooth profile; currently only the Nokia 8800 supports that but more are coming this year, maybe even…

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Moodoofree Plus Kit Helps You Park

Not quite the same as the Siemens ParkMate we showed you earlier that will park your car for you, the Moodoofree Plus Kit is a Bluetooth-enabled rearview mirror replacement that has a set of parking sensors attached to your car s bumper that show your distance from an obstacle or another vehicle. It even tells…

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Jabra BT325 Bluetooth/Wired Headset

Here’s a neat idea from Jabra. The BT325 is a pair of earphones that you plug into your MP3 player, but also inside is a Bluetooth headset that you can use with your cellphone. It’s smart, too, because when your cellphone rings, if you have a A2DP-enabled phone it stops the music and switches over…

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CeBIT ’06: Crap Edition

Believe us, we are swimming in a sea of crap over here. For every one awesome thing, there are handfuls of booths with absolute junk. Here we clearly are observing Oakley Thump knockoffs. This one is worse because it is a cheap knockoff and comes in colors that induce vomiting. After the jump check out…

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UltraLite: Recording Studio, All Shrunken

Laser Scissors

Smart Caddie UMPC from PBJ

Buggy Rollin’: Brain Damage on the Go!

Samsung SCH-V910 Moneta Handset

A Real Head-Turner: Your Profile in Wood

Samsungss SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone

Bustin Rocks with Asteroids Jacket

Stiletto Heel Hooks, or Irate Neighbor?

Elegant Briefcase Made of Japanese Cedar

Own the Soviet Space Shuttle, Just $500K

Light Sleeper Wakes You Up With Light

BioWall

USB Powered Microsope for looking at Skin?

The Elvis Camera

Minox LX Special Edition Walter Zapp

Nokia Wireless AD-42W Audio Gateway

Moodoofree Plus Kit Helps You Park

Jabra BT325 Bluetooth/Wired Headset

CeBIT ’06: Crap Edition

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