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Inflatable Shower Chair
Douchaise, designed by Daniel Harper, is a shower and a chair in one. What? The chair actually unfolds and becomes a fully functional shower with air supported walls. The base of the chair contains a blower, water heater, pump and filter which recycles water to reduce usage. The chair transforms in just 2 minutes and has another room for you to dry off in after your shower. Then once you're all clean kick-back and relax in your chair! (GUSH Magazine)
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Watur, designed by Daniel Harper, is an actual door made of constantly flowing water. I'm not sure how secure a water door is, but it looks funky. It consists of a frame with a catch basin at the bottom to catch the falling water. Custom sizing is available and will cost around $2000. (GUSH Magazin…
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Waterfall Door
Nokia has created a new cell phone that disassembles itself in two seconds when heated. The goal is to make it easier to recycle. Keep it away from the sun... |
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Nokia Creates Self-Destructing Phone
"The idea is to disassemble a mobile phone by a heat-activated mechanism without any contact. By using a centralized heat source like l…
A NEW FORM OF automated prejudice is set to make business decision-making far more efficient.
The intelligent carpet, invented in Japan, can tell ... the age, sex and weight of the person walking across it.
Analysis of the data collected can determine foot size, stride, walking speed, weight and ce…
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Intelligent Carpet Can Autodiscriminate
Why use two peripherals when essentially one will do? This simple yet undeniably brilliant concept is the driving force behind the new VAIO VN-CX1 from Sony.
No need to choose between navigation and calls — you can have both!
The model can transform in an instant from a stylish mouse boasting an…
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Sony VoIP Flip Phone / Mouse
Most likely in response to Skype's free North American calling offer, Gizmo Project brings free mobile/landline calling to 60 countries to its "regular" customers. Overall the Gizmo Project is very cool!
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Gizmo Project Takes-on Skype
We've seen a number of video games brought into the real world as art. Real Life Tetris, shown here, was created using crates on a giant wall in Melbourne. The art was created by "Sam. Jerome, Ed and Gab."
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Video Games in the Real World - Real Life Tetris
Since the dawn of time we humans have loved the beat of drums. Now we may not have managed to evolve much since the sun came up on time, but drums sure have, and now anyone can lay into a drum kit and thrash out the solo to 'In the Air Tonight' (that dates us...), and do it on their desk!
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Finger Drums
Night clubs are always looking for an inside edge, which is resulting in dozens of high tech innovations. The latest: iBar. iBar tracks any objects on the survace and creates dynamic interactive lighting effects. Far out.
From i-Bar:
Bar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter.…
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High Tech Bars - iBar Senses Drinks (VIDEO)
Electronic drum sets were being used by chart topping bands in the early 90s... but the trend continues. Now, even classic instruments are getting high tech. The Vivo2 violin, shown here, uses injection molding to create a hard core electric violin.
From Giz Magazine:
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Ultra High Tech Instruments - Violins of the Future
The Wet Lamp, designed by Scott Franklin, is safe despite my thoughts of getting electrocuted by it. Basically it's an exposed light bulb that floats in glass bowl full of water. It It operates by a silver rod that determines how bright the light is by how far the rod is inserted into the water. You…
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Wet Lamp (VIDEO)
Mitsubishi Electric has just recently completed construction of the world’s largest HD TV screen at a horse track in Tokyo. The screen uses Mitsubishi’s Aurora Vision LED technology and measures 37 feet by 218 feet, which is 8 000 square feet for your viewing pleasure. In order to set up the ext…
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World's Largest HDTV in Tokyo
If you liked the Moonpig Customized Cards posted earlier this week, you might also want to check out Remind 4 U.
For amazing personalised cards using technology allowing you to change the image on the front of the card to include someone's name, this site is a revolution for the card industry and…
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Custom Cards Revisited - Remind 4u
Exmovere LLC unveiled a Web-based Bluetooth-enabled biosensor wristwatch dubbed "Exmocare," which is designed to help provide elderly care assistance for individuals 65 years of age and older. (You know, for those "I've fallen and can't get up!" moments.)
Exmocare allows family and other caregivers…
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Bluetooth-Enabled Biosensor Wristwatch Helps Elderly
You've seen advertisements in the urinal, but 'talking urinals' takes the concept to a whole new level!
"Now it won't be possible for a man to pee in peace, as urinals across the country will be equipped to broadcast public messages. Urinals have been fitted with the Wizmark Urinal Communicator, a …
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