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Technically, our recyclables are supposed to be divided into metal, paper, plastic, and others. Usually they just wind up in a vaguely spaced pile which seems to be separated by a coincidence. The Barcode Trashcan allows you to simply scan your soon-to-be recycled items, at which point a built-in computer figures out what material that barcode corresponds to, and ejaculates ...

They’ve been talking about it for over a year, but finally Philips has delivered on their AAA-powered mobile phone. The phone comes with the standard lithium ion battery, but also gives you the option of shoving in a battery to keep the phone on life support for an extra three hours.

Protesting with signs attached to sticks of wood is for hippies. As respected members of the tech community we all need something with a little more pizazz. The Wearable Video Vest is a cool way to garner some attention. Well, at least more attention that you’d get with a piece of poster board. The Video Vest features a full-on full-motion ...

Just to prove TV critics wrong about the media not being an art form any more, take a look at THIS! The TV Easel puts the TV right back where it should be. As a prominent platform for the art that is TV.

Continuing the series of edible phones, the Sandwich Phone is part carb-filled lunch, half telecommunications. Pull the pieces of bread apart and one of the slices acts as a receiver, the other as the keypad.

Coming in great handy if you were to ever become lost at sea…with a computer. The USB Morse Code Machine, from who else but useless USB gadget masters Thanko, helps you to master the lost art of Morse Code. Teaching you to dot and dash until you can’t dot and dash no more. Soon enough you’ll be having full conversations ...

Are you sick up to your ears of constantly buying new memory cards, only to have them lost somewhere at the bottom of your desk’s junk drawer. Flash drives are much smaller than cans of beer, so naturally they are hard to keep an eye on. Designer Tom Kenworthy designed this Flash Memory Card Holder to cut this lost flash ...

For a twenty-something year old moving into their first flea bag apartment, a surfboard takes up more storage space than they have to offer. Nicholas Notara has designed this Collapsible Surfboard for exactly this problem.

Forget about all of this Guitar Hero mess. What about a little fun for us real guitarists? iGTR from Wave connects your mp3 player to your guitar so you can jam out to your favorite tunes on your iPod (or a Zune, if you’re a dirty commie). iGTR also packs in 9 guitar effects, including wah, tremolo and phaser effects ...

Just be happy these Command Stools don’t say “delete” or you might be sleeping with the fishes. Designed to resemble a keyboard key, the Command Stools let you know that you have no choice but to sit.