Shocking Memory Game Will Punish You For Failure
Most memory these games these days tend to want to make you feel good about your improving memory. Brain age, Brain Academy, and others take the exact opposite approach than what you’ll see from this Shocking Memory game which is a twist on the old Simon game.Rather than a “better luck next time” you’ll get an electric shock to the face (or hands, but face sounds scarier so we’ll run with it). Naturally the game is for older foolish people only (14+), since only a crazy sadistic parent would give little Timmy a memory game that zaps them.
Still the voltage can’t be cranked up very high or I’m sure the makers of the game would have been crushed with a lawsuit by now. oddly enough the game is available for purchase on Amazon. Given the niche market represented here I thought it’d be fairly inexpensive, but I was wrong. The price tag runs from $29.99 all the way up to $69.99. If I wanted to drop $70 to shock myself with electricity I can open the trunk of my car and grab the jumper cables. You know, like that guy from the recent A-team movie. Of course that might be just a smidge more dangerous…and by a smidge I mean a whole lot. But at least it’d be free.
I tried to find a pinpointed amount of voltage but no luck. Since it only takes 3 AAA batteries it can’t be all that much juice, and customer reviews from the Amazon page say it’s “enough to scare you” but hardly enough to really bring the pain. I wonder if it has a team setting, because I bet my friends would be just stupid enough to want to bust this out at our next family fun night. It would also make for a great gag gift for an older parent like an “Over the Hill” party or some such. I think the concept could be applied to a number of other games as well. Want to sacrifice your pawn in a game of lego block monster chess? Zapped. Let that goal slip by with your soccer season nike foosball table? Electrified. Oh yeah, this could be fun.
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HannStar Display shells out $30m to settle LCD price fixing case
Another day, another company pleading guilty to their role in a massive global price-fixing conspiracy surrounding the MSRP of LCDs. The Taiwan-based HannStar Display agreed (grudgingly, we surmise) this week to cough up a whopping $30 million for its role in the scheme, marking the seventh company to “plead or agree to plead guilty as a result of the department’s investigation into the LCD industry.” All told, the US Department of Justice has seen some $890 million paid out and 17 executives charged, with HannStar in particular being pegged for violating the Sherman Act during its participation in the conspiracy from September 2001 to January 2006. So, anyone up for being lucky number eight?
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CRKT Eat’N Tool
Sure you ain’t no MacGyver who can come up with great solutions to all of the tight situations which you’re in, but sometimes, just sometimes, you might be able to rescue a situation simlpy because you have the right tool (without thinking about making one out of your surroundings). What we bring you today would be the CRKT Eat’N Tool, where it was invented by NYC designer Liong Mah. Looking like a mini spork of sorts at first glance, it offers far more than that, being full well capable of popping bottles open, functioning as a screwdriver for quick fixes to your equipment or even help you pry open canisters. Apart from that, each $6.99 purchase comes with a trio of metric wrench reliefs (10 mm, 8 mm, 6 mm) and a carabiner. What we like most about this pocket-sized tool is, you won’t need to use your hands to eat food anywhere else again.
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Balanzza Mini Digital Luggage Scale
Don’t you just hate it when you go to the airport and check in your luggage, keeping your fingers crossed that a nice, broad smile with a wink will help you squeeze past the additional kilos onto the conveyor belt without forking out insane amounts of money that airlines charge? Well, you can easily avoid such a potentially embarassing situation if the attendant turns down your request (suggested via body language or otherwise), making you look like a miser who can afford to buy a plane ticket but can’t fork out the extra dough just to get that huge suitcase across the Atlantic. Well, best be prepared from home we say, with the Balanzza Mini Digital Luggage Scale more than ready to help. This £19.99 device lets you know how much your luggage weighs – all you need to do is attach your bag to the strap, pick it up by the scales and get a reading through its display. Switchable between lbs and kgs, it helps you bring only what is necessary, so that you can use the saved money on your vacation. Be warned that it has a maximum weight reading of 44kg or 111lbs.
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Dew: a Futuristic Wearable Mobile Device Concept
Given the popularity of science fiction concepts, it is hardly surprising that products with a futuristic touch are invading other areas of our life, like in Dew. Dew is a future wearable mobile device concept can be called the future of mobile phones in the world today, with its unique design and ability to project in 3-D hologram.
This mobile device concept is absolutely stunning in design. At the first glance, it resembles a sleek and stylish wrist watch.
The ball in the center acts as the main controller or in other words, functions as a mouse along with being the color changing indicator.
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Virus Outbreak Mask
Masks have constantly featured in the public imagination in the new millennium. The first time the ubiquitous white mask became a symbol of survival was during the outbreak of the SARS epidemic in Asia. More recently the H1N1 influenza made masks a necessary survival tool. However, fashionistas wished they had a better looking alternative. The new Bob Basset Mask is here to cater to their needs.
Inspired by elements of fantasy and science fiction, the Bob Basset leather mask on display is definitely a cool piece of fashion to own. Going by the looks, it seems that it can also serve as a breathing apparatus during a virus outbreak.
Bulging blue, opaque eyes lead to a rust colored mouthpiece hammered in by golden pellets. Two tubes, small in size, extend out from the mouthpiece. These elements are held together by jet-black leather. Crafted from the finest leather, the artisans have embedded metal, resin, and glass elements into the fine leather to give the mask a gothic -Victorian feel.
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DIY Lego foosball table advances to Nerd Cup semi-finals (video)
Expert Lego builder Sariel managed to impress us a few months ago with his fully-articulated robotic arm, and he’s now back with a particularly well-timed project: a foosball table built entirely out of Lego. While it’s not fully automated (and therefore ineligible for the Robo Cup), it does use some WeDo motion sensors to automatically keep track of the score and announce goals on a laptop connected to the table (not to mention on some sliding Lego bricks above each goal), and it even packs a built-in ball return mechanism to help speed up play. Head on past the break to check it out in action.
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