I thought Thanko represented the weirdest gadgets Japan had to offer until I heard about Chindogu, a concept that describes that special kind of gadget that defies all description. You read about one such gadget right here with the Baby Mop, a onesie that featured dust mop fibers, allowing your baby to crawl around freely and clean the floor while doing so.
Another Chindogu gadget is the Hay Fever Hat, a picture of which you can see directly above. It’s basically a toilet paper roll mounted to a hat, so that the toilet paper flows down your face and allows you easy access to a way to blow your nose, as well as possibly being able to block sneezes. It’s enough to make you wonder if someone’s just trying to pull one over on us.
As useful as it is to have an easily reached quantity of nose wipes handy, especially during hay fever season, there’s no way to avoid the fact that anyone wearing this hat winds up looking like a complete tool. That and the paper in question is actually toilet paper, so you’re basically wandering around with a roll of toilet paper on your head, plus the hat is chinstrapped into place, so now you need a chin strap to cart around your roll of toilet paper.
This kind of thing apparently only happens in Japan, because I’ve never seen anyone walk around with one of these on their head, and I visit Wal-Mart on a regular basis.
Redefining quality Star Wars products seems to be a top priority these days for Marc Ecko. The newest entry is his line of Star Wars inspired watches from Timex and they actually look pretty cool.
These pictures are merely serving as a teaser and pricing and availability has yet to be announced. I’d expect that there are more pictures to surface soon, cuz you know there’s a hairy Chewbacca watch for sure. An R2D2 would also be an easy one too. …Continue reading: New Star Wars Watches By Marc Ecko And Timex
Alternative watches may soon become all the rage so it may be in your best interest to stay abreast of up and coming weird watch tech. This one from Nooka is called ZAZ and takes a more simple approach to the alternative timepiece. As you can see in the picture, hours are represented by blocks and minutes and seconds through stacked dashes with incremental indicators.
The face of the watch is silver but the bands can be of three different colors: black, white leather, or a silver mesh. No word on price or release date. Cool or not cool?
The Rationalizer is slated to be the newest tool in a stock trader’s arsenal, but when you hear about it, you might find it just a little familiar. You fasten a small bracelet to your wrist, and the wrist measures stuff like skin temperature and galvanic skin responses and whatnot to show you how your emotions are acting in a certain situation. It shows you by–get this!–sending a radio signal to a nearby bowl. The bowl then glows a certain color, giving you a graphic representation of how you feel.
Yes, folks, it seems as though the MOOD RING has made a comeback. This time, of course, it’s a bit different and way more high tech, but it’s still kind of cool. The Rationalizer can show you, visually, when you’re starting to get a little hopped up emotionally. From there, you can take a break. I personally think this is a fantastic idea, and wouldn’t mind having my own emergency mood display in case.
2 Love My Lips is already an established lip gloss and cosmetics company that is now offering roofie test strips when you buy a lip gloss container. Having known someone who was recently roofied, I can’t help but think how important it is for a woman to carry these around in her purse. Just as long as she is coherent enough to remember to use it.
Capable of testing for such date rape drugs as GHB or Ketamine, even dude friends should have these. They should actually be free and readily available.
On sale now in Europe, it will be around $16 when it makes its way to the US.
In an effort to “keep they heads ringing”, this new Equaliser music hat uses a sound reactive blue luminescent display to actively show the world around you that you’re listening to music by a constant surge of ascending and descending lights you’d typically associate with a digital equalizer. Nice giant sentence I just cultivated!
Looking a a bit to close to the WiFi symbol, you’ll probably be mistaken for some type of roving bandwidth experiment. To that effect, this could work it’s way into someone’s creative Halloween costume no diggity.
As you can see from the picture, all you do is plug your MP3 player in and the hat will play the music back through embedded speakers and also do a little EQ light show.
You can pre-order the hat now but stock won’t filled until next week. The pricing is at $32
I just don’t understand why you’d buy a watch that you’d have to be constantly explaining how it worked. Looking stunningly chiseled, the DOGN watch by Cognitime uses an innovative but convoluted figure 8 design to display hours (24 hour). with a circular dial showing minutes.
Priced at about $1200, the DOGN watch is available in brushed rose gold, polished steel, and high gloss black. The Riddler would probably excited to rock one of these clocks, and he would be the only person I wouldn’t have to judge for having one.
I’m an avid bike rider and attend the good old gym on a regular basis. One thing I’ve long failed to do is keep track of my workouts – I don’t even have a little black book to record my mileage or ’sets’ completed. Enter the Garmin Forerunner 310XT.
The Forerunner 310XT is Garmin’s first fully fledged GPS watch to offer not only a myriad of workout and tracking options, but is waterproof up to 50m. Aesthetically it’s a bit on the large side, but that lends itself to a reasonably large screen, all things relative of course. The wrist band is finished in bright orange, so there’s no mistaking this thing for anything but a workout watch, although I’m relatively confident that runners and triathlon nuts could get away with wearing it year round, though they might be a bit hampered by its 20 hour battery life.
And despite that sounding like a short battery life I assure you it’s not, especially if you use the Forerunner 310XT specifically for your workouts. To streamline the charging process Garmin has included a clothespin like charger that grasps the 310XT at two contact points, making charging the device a snap (pardon the pun). …Continue reading: Garmin Forerunner 310XT Review
It was just Monday that we saw Columbia’s Bugathermo heated boots. But honestly, in retrospect, those fell short on the complete package, especially after bearing witness to Mountain Hardware’s Refugium (men’s) and Radiance (women’s) jackets.
Hidden in the inner lining is an array of flexible lithium-ion batteries that provide power to 3 heating sources – 2 in the front and 1 in the back. But wait, there’s more! Located in the front left pocket is a USB output that can provide power to any gadget that requires 10 watts or less of power; so think phone, MP3 player and other small gadgets. The jackets have 3 temperature settings and can provide up to 8.5 hours of continuous heat. Both versions are available now and cost $374 with the necessary battery pack, or $229 without – ouch either way.
These currently sold out Cufflink Lighters will say more about you than you ever imagined. At $40 for the pair, the product page claims that these are real working mini-lighters that were dispensed in gumball machines over 50 years ago. Huh?
What else can be said about these cufflinks that’s not already going through your mind? Pimp, swank, debonair, lavish, overindulgent, and d-bag are all ways to describe how you might be perceived at your next ultra-lounge outing. Note that you must disconnect the cuffllink before lighting.
