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Weird Gadgets Coming to an Office near You

Rollei’s booth


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Once a famous camera maker, now doing some weird gadgets and living in the past, showing their old cameras.

Any one of the gadgets below is sure to spice up even the dullest of office environments.

USB Aroma Therapy

For all of you new age office rats, this unique office accessory will make your office day a lot more peaceful and serene. This air freshener easily plugs into your computer’s USB port and emanates one of three scents. The scent is chosen with a quick click of your mouse.

Über Hygienic LCD Monitor

Are you concerned about catching the common cold or worse H1N1? Sometimes hand sanitizer simply isn’t enough to keep the doctor away. Thank goodness Korea has come out with a bacteria killing LCD monitor that releases negative ions into your office environment that will kill bacteria and protect your eyes from your LCD monitor.

iPod Nano Tie

This will certainly add a little spice to your long office day. This awesome tie features an integrated pocket that works perfectly for your iPod Nano. Even better, the tie has been constructed from 100% silk and comes in a wide variety of colors.

Sleeping Bag Body Suit

Do you work long hours? Well instead of making the trek back home at midnight only to return the next morning at 6am, camp out at the office. The Selk’Bag by Muschouse is a comfy, warm and wearable sleeping bag that will make your late nights at the office much more comfortable.

Mind-Reading Typewriter

Typing can be real monotonous after hours and hours. Luckily there is now brain-to-computer devices that will essential read your mind and convert those thoughts into cursor movements on the screen. Freaky right? It sure sounds great; however, in order for it to work you’ll have to have 128 electrodes placed on your scalp to decode your thoughts. It’s also not the most time efficient device, as it takes about 10 minutes to type out a simple sentence.

Now if only they would come out with a USB compatible paint ball gun that I could discreetly aim a my co-workers with just a click of the mouse.

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Weird Gadgets Unusual Gifts Ideas – Le Whif Chocolate Inhaler

Japanese Baby Nose Cleaner

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Weird Gadgets Unusual Gifts Ideas – Le Whif Chocolate Inhaler

Why not spend all day inhaling the heady aroma of eyeballs frying in a heady stew of neon and static. That’s why we’re always on the lookout for exciting things to tantalise our taste buds. And thanks to Le Whif we think we’ve found the best yet.

Le Whif is a lipstick-like inhaler that delivers a powdery hit of chocolate or coffee without the calories (well okay, one measly calorie per whiff). Simply place it between your lips, breathe in and savour the ‘phsssht’ moment as your tongue is showered with heavenly micro-particles.

So how does it work, we hear you yell in choc-craving anticipation? Well, this highly Heston-esque cylinder utilises particle engineering to form chocolate and coffee in microscopic sizes, small enough to become airborne but too large to enter the lungs. Created by a professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard University, Le Whif represents the first commercial step towards breathable food.

But you don’t care about all that scientific guff. You just want to pop this nifty inhaler in your bag or pocket so you can get a quick chocolate/coffee fix without all the chewing, slurping and tell-tale crumbs. Your tongue won’t know what’s hit it!

Each Le Whif allows for eight to ten puffs and can be closed and re-used as desired. Who knows, it could even replace choccy bars and espresso as the accessory of choice amongst sweet-toothed fashionistas. Go on, take a breather.

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10 Weird Weight Loss Products

Article by Neelima Reddy

With obesity a major health risk for many people in the world today, the search for miracle cures has never been more expansive. Though a good routine diet is the obvious long-term answer, there is no shortage of short-term solutions.

Here is a list of really weird gadgets related to weight loss.

1. Diet Plate: Portion control is one of the most important buzzwords when it comes to dieting, and though it is within everyone’s realm to exercise discipline, there’s no harm in making it more fun.

Demarcated into separate compartments, the dinner plate helps you to eat the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats, as well as fruits and vegetables.

2. Aoqili Diet Soap: Based on a 400-year-old seaweed healing recipe from the east, this unique soap is made from elixirs of undersea plants.

Besides providing natural skin care, the soap also has unique qualities to defeat agents that assist in the accumulation of fat layers. Traces of vitamins and minerals help to reduce the accumulation of series fluid and estrange the skin.

3. Animal and Celebs Weighing Scale: Banish the stigma of numbers that make your over weightness seem even more terrifying. Instead of using numbers to signify your weight, this scale gives you an animal or celebrity to correspond to your weight.

4. Diet Aid Toothpaste: Using chromium that reduces blood sugar levels, this miracle toothpaste also is touted to help you lose weight and give you shiny teeth at the same time. By suppressing the appetite, the toothpaste goes a long way to aiding weight loss.

5. Lip Balm Diet: Endowed with a mixture of botanical extracts and plants that curb food cravings, this compact 8ml lip balm helps you to control appetite and thus lose extra body weight. A built-in lip applicator helps you to absorb the ingredients into your system to curb food cravings and lasts for about a month.

6. Small bite: Fitting into your mouth neatly over your own teeth, this nifty device restricts your usual jaw movements, forcing you to take smaller bites and limit your cravings for calorie-filled delights. Usable for six to nine months, the main aim of the device is to make you eat less food.

7. Clamor Weight Loss Spray: Using Clarinol as its main ingredient, Clamor is a weight loss supplement that is scientifically proven to help the body eliminate fat cells.

After you have sprayed Clamor on your food and digested it, your body metabolizes Clarinol, which then performs its magic. Available plain or in delicious flavors of butter, garlic and olive oil.

8. Weight Loss Lollipops: Available in 30 different flavors, these weight loss lollipops contain hoodia to help control food cravings and shed extra body pounds.

9. Weight Loss Glasses: Based on the fact much of the appeal of food is due to its appearance and that blue is the least appetizing color, these blue shades aim to make food appear bland and unappealing. Go blue and watch your appetite diminish!

10. Chung Shi Weight Loss Shoes: Endowed with a curved sole and central reflexology bar, these Chung Shi shoes enhance core stability by utilizing unused muscles and encouraging a more upright posture.

In this way, weight loss is encouraged by raising fitness levels during your daily routine.

About the Author

Neelima Reddy, author of this article writes for WeightLossDietWatch.com. This blog publishes weight loss & diet related information and news from around the world. Visit WeightLoss Diet Blog

Boing Boing Gadgets: boingboing.net Finally, the drunk Canadian chemical engineering student dressed in a furry Yeti costume makes his BB video debut. We saw a lot of weird stuff out at CES this year. Here’s a quick montage of the strangest stuff, with Xeni, Rob, Joel, and Brownlee from Boing Boing and Boing Boing Gadgets.

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Weird Gadgets Unusual Gifts Ideas – The Slanket

Weird beauty gadgets

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Weird Gadgets Unusual Gifts Ideas – The Slanket

Loafing around on the sofa is where it’s at. But only if it’s nice and warm. Unfortunately, what with this pesky credit crunch malarkey, heating a room costs about the same as fuelling up a 747 with liquid gold. So thank goodness for the Slanket.

This gigantic fleece blanket is soft, light and ludicrously snuggly. ‘But so are most modern blankets,’ we hear you yell. Well yes, but this quality slice of 100% polyester microfibres features large, loose sleeves so you can keep your entire body covered, arms ‘n’ all, and still use your hands. Clever, eh? Your remote will love you for it.

Just think, no more cold arms when you need to grab your popcorn, wipe away the tears during an X Factor sob story or high five your flatmate following a hard fought Halo victory. Better still, you’ll look a bit like a lounging Jedi knight or a recently unmasked phantom off Scooby Doo.

Swathing yourself in a Slanket means you can turn down the heating and stay toastie all over without having to hide under the duvet with legwarmers round your arms. Brilliant.

By way of an experiment we recently wrapped ourselves in Slankets and gave the sweaty-vested stokers down in the Firebox furnace the week off. The result? We were warm and cosy and saved a small fortune. Yes, our heads were a bit chilly but we were all out of balaclavas.

Machine washable, the Slanket is so comfy it’s liable to completely sabotage your social life. But seeing as telly is so fantastic and nights out are so pricey, that can only be a good thing. In fact, getting up off the sofa once you’re enveloped in its fleecy embrace is virtually impossible. Hands up who loves the Slanket!

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Wacky, Weird, Whimsical Christmas Gifts For Mom

butter girl


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My family has a weird tradition of giving odd kitchen gadgets as christmas gifts. Butter girl certainly qualifies as weird.

by Ben Dodson

It is that time of the year again, when gifts are received and given in a flurry of hugs and kisses, festivities and feasts, stress and laughter. But even with all the harried and hurried Christmas shopping, you must never forget to give Christmas gifts for Mom!

However, your gifts need not be the usual diamond jewelry, expensive home d?cor, leather designer items and haute couture dresses. Instead, you can choose to make your Mom laugh with your unique choice of gifts this Christmas. Why not try these ideas of Christmas gifts for Mom this year?

The Albert Einstein of the House

Remember how you and your siblings used to drive your mom crazy because of your long forays in the bathroom reading, playing the guitar and just dilly-dallying with your ablutions as kids? Well, now is the time you introduce her to the pleasures of mind additions while doing body subtractions!

You can provide her with rolls of Sudoku toilet paper, which allows her to solve the 9X9 logic-based number-placement puzzle to pass the time while her toxins follow the logic that they should line up and place themselves in the sanitation system of the house.

You have to consider, however, that with the Sudoku toilet paper, you are also condemning yourself to the pains of your mother when you were kids while she is enjoying the mathematical puzzle at your expense. Still, this might be one of the most enjoyable Christmas gifts for Mom!

The Thomas Alva Edison of the Home

Now, if your mother loves to invent new thingamajigs out of old, ordinary things in the house, then books on the Japanese art of unuseless things called chind?gu are a good bet. You will save money on Christmas gifts for Mom when you encourage her to putter and tinker around the house because you don’t even have to buy her expensive appliances!

Just give her the chind?gu books and she is all set to be the next Thomas Edison of unuseless things, which in the far distant future can become useless things. There is always hope for her idea of an apron with all sorts of kitchen gadgets – ladles, knives, can opener, and potato peeler, to name a few – hanging from it because she wanted everything to be within reach, literally! Shush, never mind that like all chind?gu, it made for funny and embarrassing moments.

The Epicurean of the Heart

Instead of your mother slaving over the stove for Christmas dinner, you can take her to exotic restaurants that serve good food and good drinks albeit in weird and wacky atmospheres. You might even get a pat on the back for coming up with the most hilarious Christmas gifts for Mom! You can take her to these dining establishments:

- Dog restaurants that are animal-friendly to the extreme. Your ordered dishes will be served in plates that allow for cats and dogs to eat directly from them, with chairs custom-made for the purpose! Of course, you and your mother can accompany your pets and bark and meow over the delicious food, too.

- Toilet restaurants that allow you to eat in the atmosphere of well, toilets. Just whose idea this was, you can thank him because there is something good to be said about eating poop-shaped and poop-look food while sitting on toilet bowls and eating out of toilet-shaped dishes. Whatever good that is, you decide.

Indeed, why settle for humdrum gifts when you can give hilarious Christmas gifts for Mom that will be the stuff of family legends?