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Nanda Clocky Alarm Clock

Review: Nanda’s Clocky, the Alarm Clock that Runs Away

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Nanda Clocky Alarm ClockHow many times do you wake up to an annoying ringing alarm clock, hit the snooze (or worse yet turn it off) then fall back asleep. Even worse, you’ve hit the snooze so many times that the alarm turns itself off. What has your alarm clock cost you? You could have missed an important meeting, first period at school, your ride, Christmas, birthdays, morning bathroom trips – the list goes on.
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Touch Revolution Lets You Build Touchscreen Devices

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Ever had an idea for a great touchscreen product? Here’s your chance to make it a reality. TouchRevolution is a supplier of touchscreens of a variety of formats which can be used for almost any purpose with ease. It allows you to get your product idea off the ground without developing any touch hardware for it.

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Google Running International Science Fair for Teens

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Please note that the following is a sponsored article courtesy of Unruly Media.

Google is running another contest of an almost philanthropic nature with the aim of having teens around the world ages 13-18 compete with each in a global Science Fair.

As a competitor, you will need to create either a 2-minute video or 20-slide presentation and submit it by April 4, 2011.

There are a whole host of prizes including National Geographic expeditions, scholarships (up to $50,000), and an ‘experience’ at one of the partner organizations: CERN, Google, the LEGO Group, or Scientific American.

Take a look at the entertaining promo video that was created for the contest – it’s a Rube Goldberg machine, and you know those are always fun!

White Noise Generator Helps You Shut Out Auditory Distractions

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If you suffer from distracting background noise where you’re working you might want to take a look at Speech Privacy System’s White Noise Generator. The website does exactly what it says in the name – generates white noise so that you can ‘concentrate’ on your work.

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PHOSPOR Reveal Watches Use E-Ink To Display the Time

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Just when you thought no one could reinvent the watch, PHOSPHOR Watches did it. Instead of having a hand ticking round, or an LCD screen on your watch, PHOSPHOR use E-Ink to display the time.

The watches work by passing positive and negative charges over particles so that they produce a pattern, in this case the time. Full science details here. This makes them quite unique, and they look pretty good too. Pricing is an issue – they vary from $200 to $250. If you can achieve a similar effect with an LCD watch for $10 then it might not be worth it. Up to you!

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Mark Zuckerberg figurine

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Immortalized as a Figurine

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Mark Zuckerberg figurineHeh, too funny – Someone made a Mark Zuckerberg action figure, complete with a ‘Like’ button and logo. Well technically it’s just a figurine, because you ca’t take it off its stand and bend it and throw it.

Created by the same designer who also created a Steve Jobs figurine, this “Mark” will run you about $70 and only 300 have been created; about half of them are already sold.

via Craziest Gadgets

Wild Science Ant-O-Sphere – Perfect Gift for Your Child, or You?

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Most kids go through an insect phase at some point in their lives. If your child is going through this at the moment, it might be time to get them their own ‘Ant-O-Sphere’.

This contraption allows the easy viewing of ants in their natural form (but far from their natural habitat!) through magnification windows built into it. The ants can run around their playground and you child can look on fascinated.

It’s age 6+, but we promise we won’t tell if you’re really buying it for yourself…

Buy now!
Price: $34.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Utopia Steam Shower with Sauna Annex & Built-in Surround Sound

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Back in 2007 we brought you the Ariel Steam Shower – a shower unit packed full of features, even including a surround sound speak system. Now we’ve found an even better example – a steam shower with a sauna annex on the side, and with an equally long list of features as the Ariel Steam Shower.

The Utopia Steam Shower has is a ‘regular’ steam shower with an added sauna cabin with authentic wooden seating. The shower itself has 6 back jets and 2 overhead jets to add to the experience. Surround sound with CD and radio connectivity is also included.

Buy now!
Price: upwards of $5500.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Best Superbowl Commercials

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The football season culminates with the Superbowl, and starting in the early seventies marketers realized the potential and started creating ads targeted to the TV audience. In 1984, Apple’s Superbowl commercial using a “1984” theme changed the advertising landscape for Superbowl commercials.

In recent years there have been a few hits and many misses and this year is no different.

In my opinion, the Best Superbowl Commercial was a VW Passat commercial starring a mini-Vader. I loved this car commercial, and usually I hate car commercials.

Continue on to see which other commercials caught my eye… the list isn’t too long.
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Museu D'Art Contemporarian de Barcelona

8 Tech Museums for Gadget and Tech Geeks

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Museu D'Art Contemporarian de BarcelonaThere are museums catering to nearly every interest imaginable, and technology and the sciences make up a rather significant fraction. Almost every major city around the world boasts at least one, but some in particular stand out for their unique, notable and wide array of exhibits.

Whether looking for a field trip, to learn something or merely a good time, these museums are all worth a visit. And even if you can’t travel to them, still pay them an online visit – they usually have excellent websites filled with content.

Here’s a list of just eight (8) really top-notch tech museums.

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