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• Nokia’s Magnetic Tattoo Could Kill the Ringtone (But Probably Won’t)

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  We’ve all either had it happen to us or been there when it happened to someone else: you’re somewhere where cell phones are verboten and the contemplative silence is shattered because someone forgot to switch their phone to vibrate. Nokia has just filed a patent application for a radical solution that has the potential to change all of that. The patent application describes the technology as follows: “…a material attachable to skin, the material capable [...]

   

• Open-source Guitar Teacher Uses LEDs and Smartphones To Teach Music [Tabber]

  In Concept, Gadgets

  

  Tabber is one of the more interesting Kickstarter projects we have seen in a while. It is an open-source light-based guitar teacher that uses LEDs that are set up on the neck of a guitar to teach the user how to play. The system is controlled via Bluetooth, through software that can be run on a mobile device. Tabber is an open-source LED guitar teacher. Tabber creates a whole new field of visual learning for [...]

   

• Foldable Bicycle Helmet is Meant to Be as Effective as the Real Thing

  In Concept, Transportation

  

  The Overade is a concept helmet designed by Patrick Jouffret of French studio Agence 360. It folds in half and is meant to offer the same amount of protection as a regular non-folding helmet. Being a concept, such claims are essentially meaningless, but a less bulky helmet, that can be packed away easily, might encourage more people to ride – or wear helmets – both of which are good things. [The Awesomer]

   

• Crashed Ferrari Table

  In Concept, Design, Furniture, Gadgets

  

  If you are looking for a new DIY project, you could try making yourself a crashed Ferrari table. Building the table looks like it would be the easy part – it’s finding the crashed Ferrari that is likely to present something of a challenge. Of course, there is no need to limit the automobile to a Ferrari – Hummer H1 dining table, anyone? If you want to find out more, or make an offer to [...]

   

• Twist-timer Wall Plugs

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  The energy-saving concept that you see in the picture above is the work of designers DanBee Lee, JangSoo Kim, KyoYeon Kim & WooRi Kim. It is pretty simple really, a twist timer is built into the outlet – to shut off the power in case you forget. Personally, I’d rather just have remote controlled everything than have to worry about stuff turning off before I was ready – but that’s just me. [Geekologie]

   

• Electrical Flight With 16 Rotor Blades Sounds Interesting, Looks Scary

  In Concept, Technology, Transportation

  

  The e-volo multicopter is an experimental electrical aircraft that achieves lift by way of 16 rotors that spin around below the pilot. At first glance it looks kinda goofy, but on closer inspection it just might work. While the e-volo looks like a complicated mess, it is designed to be simple to fly. The aircraft’s onboard software makes flying more intuitive turning it into a Segway for the skies. The weak point, naturally, is battery [...]

   

• Levitatr, the Coolest-looking Tablet Keyboard You Will See All Week

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  Touchscreens, you can love them and hate them at the same time. Over the years they have gotten a little better, a little more accurate, but there is always a space in this old traditionalist’s heart for a real keyboard. There is no shortage of portable keyboards on the market and they all do what they are designed to do: transform your keystrokes into text on the screen. Most of them look ugly, but they [...]

   

• Darth Vader as Hair Dryer

  In Concept, Design, Geeky

  

  Sadly, this Darth Vader is just a concept from a designer by the name of Tembolat Gugkaev… but it does serve as a timely reminder that George Lucas could have been conceiving of cool money-making merchandise ideas like this instead of wasting his creativity and destroying my fondest childhood memories with that ridiculous Jar Jar Binks. [Nerd Approved]

   

• The Ostrich Lets You Sleep at Work Sans Pride

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  Meet the Ostrich, your own personal sleeping sack. The owner hopes that you will take it to work and use it to take a power nap. Basically, you stick your head in the warm, cave-like interior and shut out the outside world (sorta like booze but without all of the other pleasing side effects). OSTRICH offers a micro environment in which to take a warm and comfortable power nap at ease. It is neither a [...]

   

• Have Your Floors Cleaned By Robotic Puppy

  In Concept, Robots

  

  Cleaning sucks, I hate it with a passion and avoid it whenever possible – but I might be more inclined to keep my mess off the floor if I had a team of robotic puppies automatically vacuuming my floors each day. The Puppy Robotic consists of four robot puppies and a mother dog base station. When they are in cleaning mode, the little dogs run around your house picking up dust. When they are full [...]

   

• Art Lebedev Gun Dog Leash Looks So Wrong it Must Be Right

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  Okay, I’ll admit it, the Art Lebedev gun dog leash thing that you see above, nicknamed Povodokus, looks pretty nasty. It is not a real gun, but it looks like one – which probably makes this dog leash a good way to get yourself shot (or at least tased). Before all of the PETA acolytes start busting out the soap boxes I should probably point out that Povodokus is just a concept and thus probably [...]

   

• Zoomin, a Clever Way to Make Analog Watches Easier to Read

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  By replacing the watch hands with magnifying glasses, designers Gennady Martynov and Emre Cetinkoprulu have created an analog watch that is just as easy to read as a digital. That has some advantages – especially in situations where you don’t want to be caught looking at your watch. Unfortunately, it is just a concept, but it looks great and who knows, some adventurous watchmaker could pick it up. [Yanko Design]