Joy of Gadgets

From our “What the…” department comes this new usb storage drive enclosed in a teddy bear.

To use the drive, you have to remove the bear’s head, apparently the designers were watching too much sleepy hollow.

The usb drive is available now from USB Geek
Lifelong therapy for your kids not included.

Via Geek Alerts

Only in Japan–and specifically, only in Akihabara, can you buy the ultimate geek food–ramen–in can in a vending machine. Must have nourishment while you shop in geek paradise.

I don’t really know what to say about this. I’m curious in the way a driver seeing an accident slows down to look. I’m wondering just how horribly awful this stuff must taste. I also wonder just exactly how bad this stuff is for you. It’s not like normal ramen is great for you either, though.

Via TOKYOMANGO

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Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a way to get your gadgets blessed. Shinto shrines are everywhere in Japan, and the Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine is within walking distance of Akihabara, Tokyo’s world-famous electronic and geek mecca.

Guess what this Shinto shrine will do? You guessed it, it will bless its devotee’s gadgets with a plaque designed to emulate a microchip. The plaque will supposedly protect your gadgets from all things imaginable. What about the unimaginable?

From Newlaunches via textually.org

I’ve seen numerous things hook up to your USB port. Heck, I had a fishtank at one time. But a dog that works out to maintain washboard abs?

Does it do anything else? Nope. It’s not even a flash drive. It’s just a dog that does sit-ups. Well, at least it doesn’t hump your computer like the USB Humping Dog does.

Product page via TOKYOMANGO

The Writing Spoon is a rather interesting utensil. Or is it a pen? Artist Julia Mariscal describes the spoon this way:

I spend my life drawing: while I think, as I speak on the phone, have a cup of coffee, talk with my friends… at this moments a pen usually appears on the scene and I start drawing using whatever is at hand like the napkins, sugar, sachets, the bill, any sort of card… This spoon helps you to scribble, and accentuates the texture of the espresso, cappuccino or chocolate, which I prefer using to the ink of a pen.

Leave it in the drawer with the rest of the spoons, let it be a spoon until you want it to be something else.

Indeed. Unlike a lot of the “artistic” gadgets I’ve run across, this is actually for sale for 20.86 Euros at Vincon. A mighty expensive spoon, but like he says, let it be that way until you want to be something else.

Via Coolest Gadgets, Trendhunter

Back in the 1920s, they didn’t have portable computers. Or satellites. Or many roads. Or many cars.

For those that had a car and needed to know where to go, you had the only one option: paper maps. This little wrist-watch sized device provided the maps in a smaller, more portable form than even today’s GPS devices.

You could only “load” one route at a time from a series of “scrolls” inserted into the watch. You most certainly didn’t get anything like real-time traffic or up-to-date maps from the cellular phone network. Or the ability to play music and watch videos.

You only think trying to mess with your GPS while driving is dangerous today. I can’t imagine trying to insert these scrolls into the phone while driving as being easy.

Daily Mail (UK) Via Make Blog

If you share a kitchen area with a lot of people, this rather interesting coffee cup from designer Efrat Gommeh might be just the ticket. The coffee cup has a hole that can only be filled by your key, thus preventing your office mates from using your cup.

It’s an interesting idea, though it’s only a concept. It doesn’t seem to be for sale anywhere. I can only imagine the product liability lawsuits stemming from this product. It’s gonna have ridiculous warning labels all over the box.

The folks at Blendtec have a really funny series of videos that ask the proverbial question: Will It Blend? They have blended oh-so-many interesting things with these blenders in an effort to prove that if their blenders can blend the crazy stuff they show in these videos, it will do just fine for your household or commercial blending needs.

Given that they did this before with an iPhone, do we really need to ask the question about whether the 3G version will blend? We know the answer:

Did they put the phone up on eBay? Of course they did.