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It’s always great when modern design can have a slight geeky twist.  This edgy lamp may be called the Joker, but it definitely has a Batman type feel to it.  Which apparently it was meant to come off that way judging from the kid sitting under the lamp with a batman mask pinned to the top of his head.  It is nice that it could still look perfectly natural in any home and still remind you of your comic loving side.

Despite that the lamp looks so modern and new, it was actually created in 1970, when it won 1st prize at a Scandinavian Lighting fair.  It was created by Christian Raeder and despite that he created it in 1970, it’s still worth a great deal to purchase brand new.  It comes in white as well as black, black of course will appeal more to those that like the batman style look.  The light is currently up for sale on Morba’s online shop for $285.

Source: CraziestGadgets

I’m not really a fan of the Sony PS3, I’m more of a Wii guy. I guess I like the simplicity of the Wiimote compared to the button munching, finger cramping PS3 controller.

It appears that someone has developed some new controllers for the PS3 that are a little less burdensome on the digits. The first is the mLani Wireless FPS Controller. This is designed for those players who love PS3 games like Fallout3 and other First Person Shooter games, but would rather play them like they would on their PC. There is a mouse and what looks like a tiny joystick.

The second is a concept called the DualShock Vortex. This is simply your average PS3 controller, with a twist. The twist is that hinge in the middle there.

I’m not certain why, but someone designed the Dual Shock Vortex who the user can control it by twisting. I suppose this is for Hang On type games where the controls are like motorcycle handlebars. I’m not certain how this would come in handy for the aforementioned FPS games.

Maybe you should keep both controllers on hand for both types of gameplay. Unfortunately, none of my sites have any word on price or availability, for now.

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Conductive Wire Glue

Wire Glue is great for repairing wires, gluing together electronic kits, and really, is a great safe (i.e. no heat) way of introducing children to electrical engineering. Get some now, and get in on the microcarbon revolution early.

The full post can be found on RGS.

The Great Sleeping Bear

According to designer Eiko Ishizawa, this unusual sleeping bag was created to illicit a variety of different emotions including feelings of being eaten by a bear, being a bear as well understanding what it would be like to wear a bear skin. One thing for sure is this sleeping bag will get a few laughs on your next camping trip. Just be careful not to get shot by an overzealous hunter or worse, be violated by a bear.

The full post can be found on coated.

Baby Mop, Put Your Infant to Work Around the House

Babies make a lot of mess, so why not put them to work by turning them into a miniature human mop? The idea is pure genius, the baby will do the things that he or she normally does and in the process leave you with sparkling floors.

The full post can be found on UberReview.

Shuttle XPC D’VO D1000 Gets 7-inch LCD Treatment

Shuttle latest cool Quad Core Barebone PC, the PC D’VO D1000 comes with a built-in 7-inch touchscreen LCD to let you control your media center on-the-fly and also act as a secondary display.

The full post can be found on Hardware Sphere.

Oboe: Japanese Robot To Make Human Memories Immortal

The Oboe was designed by Arnaud Deloustal as a robot that would ‘hang-out’ with the elderly and carry memories of them

The full post can be found on EliteChoice.

Wear a Gadget, Find a Friend

The users will have to enter their personality traits and preferences and the computer program will make it possible to be read by the small portable device

The full post can be found on TrendsUpdates.

The iChange: An iPhone Controlled Car

The iPhone already has the ability to tell you how to get from A to B, but now it will actually get you there. The iChange is the latest iPhone accessory… and it’s a car. The iChange doesn’t have a key slot or button to start-up its engine, but is controlled by your iPhone. To get your car going, clip your iPhone into a holder next to the steering wheel and a green “start” button will appear on the phone’s display. Simply touch the button and the iChange will rev up and be ready to take you off on your pizza run.

The full post can be found on Gaj-it.

Harmony 1100 Advanced Universal Remote Control

The Harmony 1100 Advanced Universal Remote Control is a great gadget especially if you have a problem with loads of remote controls lying around the house. This gadget supports more than 225,000 devices spread over 5,000 brands. The Harmony Universal Remote Control is sleek, stylish, easy to setup and use with its fully customisable touch screen capabilities.

The full post can be found on Tech Styling.

Fauna Sauna Spa Beds — Radiant Heat-Enhanced Pet Beds

A new line of Fauna Sauna Spa Beds has been announced. Fauna Sauna Spa Beds are the first radiant heat-enhanced beds for pets. Non-contact radiant heat, also known as far infrared, is comforting, soothing and safe for dogs and cats.

Research shows that radiant heat, where the heat source never touches the body it is heating, is superior to conductive heat, such as heating pads, and is commonly used medically for pain relief, reducing inflammation, skin irritations, swelling, arthritis, anxiety, injuries

The full post can be found on Super Cool Pets.

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This isn’t the first time that I have reported on the Pocket Album by Digital Foci, and I am glad the company gave me the opportunity to try out the Pocket Album Deluxe.

The Pocket Album Deluxe has an OLED 2.8 inch screen, which brings out the beauty of digital photo files with a contrast level of 10,000 to 1. Downloading the pictures to the Pocket Album Deluxe was simple, as the frame comes with special software that the user needs no CD for.

This program works right out of the box. All a user needs to do is simply plug in the Pocket Album Deluxe into his or her computer via USB to mini-USB cord, and the software program can be downloaded from there.

I couldn’t find any way to get the pictures to the frame without downloading the program. This is different than most picture frames, which are often recognized by the computer as a thumb drive.

The Pocket Album Deluxe has some other interesting features such as a calendar and various slideshow options. While it may not be used as a keychain like the original Pocket Album, it is easily portable, and comes with a carrying case and stand.

For more information on the Pocket Album Deluxe, feel free to read a related article here. If you want to go and purchase it, feel free to go over to the Digital Foci site and lay down $89.00.

We’ve reported on Personal Stress Relievers like the emWave before. Considering the stress levels some of us live at, I’m surprised there aren’t more products like it to help us keep our collective stress levels down.

I got to chance to try out the emWave at CES, and I was surprised that it worked so well. It would appear that someone has invented a personal stress reliever, or meditation device, that can connect directly to the user’s computer.

The HIMS Brain HUBI biofeedback device can take a readout from your fingertips and then displays a graph that shows your state of mind. I’m guessing that the user is going to need to breathe or somehow relax to keep their numbers on healthy levels.

So, is this the beginning of PCs that give a digital readout of your brain? I don’t see why not. In fact, could someone design a meditation device that is put into a mouse, then you would always have a mental readout of your stress levels. You would then learn how much stress your job really gives you.

The price of this device is about $206, which might give you more stress. Yes, I just can’t seem to escape the irony that much of our stress is invariably caused by technology. It’s nice to know that someone is making tech to bring our stress level down.

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It’s not uncommon to see designers pushing the barriers of design, to see what they can come up with.  A lot of times it’s with luxurious items that even if they became available the general public, it wouldn’t benefit them.  With this new design, it’s highly possible the general public won’t benefit, but you have to appreciate the designer looking out for those in zero gravity conditions.  It’s pretty obvious that any liquid would be difficult to deal with in zero gravity, well with this mug astronauts could ditch the heated aluminum bags and straws and drink coffee like it was meant to be.

The designer is technically Travis Baldwin, however, it comes straight from the brain of Donald Petit who was an astronaut during the mission STS-126.  Travis Baldwin offered up his services to help turn the design into an actual product.  By giving astronauts back one of the luxuries they give up while in a spacecraft, that luxury being their morning cup of joe.  They admit that it is difficult to predict how the cup would fair in zero gravity, but it should work.  The coffee is held by surface tension in the narrow bottom of the cup, the deep groove then acts as a wick that draws liquid up as it is removed.  The lip depression should hold the bead of the coffee in place at the top of the groove.  The entire thing features thin walls making it possible for this to be made out of disposable materials.

Source: Uberreview

You might actually recognize this tripod, it was shown here a couple years ago after being featured at CES.  However, at the time there was zero purchase info and not much general information.  What’s great about this tripod is when you go on vacation either alone or with your significant other, it always bites that you can get no shots of you posing in different areas (if you’re alone) or pictures of you standing affectionately with the significant other.  It always seems like everyone has those couples pictures while they were out traveling, but it just doesn’t seem feasible.  Either you brave trusting some random stranger to hold onto your camera or you attempt to set up a tripod and timer.  Most tripods are bulky and would be difficult to set up in a busy area.  Now with this Monsterpod it’d work out great even in the most busy areas.

The Monsterpod is said to stick to virtually any surface (over 1,000 different surfaces), it can even hang upside down.  The stand can then tilt and rotate to get the angle you want and is waterproof and dirt resistant.  If it does get dirty though it can be washed with water.  It will hold any camera up to 20oz, so you’d have to know how much your camera weighs.  Likely the larger cameras are going to be pushing it a bit, since a Nikon D70 Digital SLR weighs 21oz.   As long as the camera is under that weight it will stay in place for 1-10 minutes and sometimes even longer than that.  You can purchase it for $30 from Photojojo.

Source: Geeky-Gadgets

Apple’s very lucrative fee sharing arrangement with AT&T over iPhone fees may be coming to an end in favor of a new carrier … Verizon Wireless. If Apple’s interim CEO Tim Cook considers what to do with the current carrier arrangement over the iPhone, rumors are flying that Verizon wireless may be courting Cupertino for a similar exclusive arrangement for Apple customer loyalty. But most tech reporters agree that changing one deal with the devil for another is just as bad and Apple should consider tossing iPhone use wide open for all carriers, and customers to enjoy.

The initial arrangement with AT&T for subsidizing the cost of the iPhone was supposed to be for 5 years. In the course of such an arrangement, Apple has enjoyed a very lucrative profit sharing position as provider of what many call “the Jesus Phone.” But it seems that support for sticking with AT&T seems to be waining in the hallowed halls of Apple and considering that Verizon has been nipping at Apple’s heels since the iPhone’s inception back in 2007 with a promised iPhone killer (get in line) could it be that Cupertino is finally taking a look at the popular wireless carrier as a potential replacement to MaBell?

Rumors are rumors and Apple is no stranger to them. But frankly, it would be complicated, but a much more lucrative arrangement for Cupertino if they got out of the exclusive deal and opened the iPhone wide open for any carrier to carry. They’d probably sell ten times more phones that way.

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