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Odd Beethoven wearing sunglasses clock

The famous bust sculpted to Beethoven’s image is now an odd clock. For the sole reason of displaying the time, sunglasses were added on to the bust. The hour shows up on the left lens and the minutes show up on the right. We would love to own something like this, but there seems to have been only 100 of ...

Solar powered cellphone means no more lost calls or annoying low-battery indication beeps

Hi-Tech Wealth, a China-based company, is displaying this solar powered cellphone at CeBIT, called the Light-Energy Mobile Phone. The clamshell design offers a solar panel taking up one of the sides of the flip phone which is constantly sucking in power to be used for the phone. When the phone is on standby the charge stores itself “forever” claims the ...

NukAlert Radiation Monitor and Alarm saves you from nuclear fallout

This seems as about as effective as hiding under a desk in school, but for all of you paranoid Cold War conspiracy nuts, here is a gadget that might put you at ease. The NukAlert Radiation Monitor and Alarm system monitors your surroundings 24/7. Keeping you attuned to the invisible, yet deadly radiation that could cause serious damage to your ...

First visitors file on to the Grand Canyon SkyWalk, only half of which wet their pants

The Grand Canyon SkyWalk has finally received its first visitors. The SkyWalk, which will open to the public on March 28th, 2007, extends 70 ft out from the canyon’s rim and can sustain winds of up to 100 mph. Viewers on the SkyWalk will get a grand scale view at a height of 4,000 feet, more than twice the height ...

Hey, do I look like Miiself?

Elder gamer website IStillPlayGames.com has a cool gallery of photos of people standing next to their Wii Mii characters. There’s also a few children thrown in as well. Byproducts of the elder gamers, we guess. — Andrew Dobrow Link [via]

LG working on a speedy next-gen Prada phone

Pictured above is said to be the LG KS20 Smartphone, the follow-up to the LG made Prada phone. The Prada phone was originally designed to take on the iPhone, and besides being a designer phone, lacked the features to do so. The LG KS20, while not sporting the Prada brand name, is a sure fire clone of the Prada model, ...

Gears Of War movie confirmed, on the way from New Line

New Line has announced it has won the feature film rights to the game Gears Of War. Although Epic Games, owners of the “Gears of War” brand, are yet to announce an official announcement of the sequel to the popular video game, we can see the release of the game and the movie happening around the same time. Epic has ...

Homi USB eye and back protection

Being slouched in front of a computer all day causes disastrous effects on our eyes, necks, and backs, yet we hardly notice, or try to remedy it. We’ve even gone as far as lying to ourselves. “Oh, my lower back just hurts from sleeping on it wrong.” The Homi USB is placed at the top of your monitor and alerts ...

The Super Mario theme has lyrics?

Despite our love for the infectious theme of the Super Mario Bros. game, we never knew the melody had actual lyrics to go along with the tune. The song is actually called “Go Go Mario”. The video above has both the Japanese and English versions. It’s intriguing to us that we are only learning now about these lyrics. What else ...

45 years of the mouse

2007 marks the 45th year of the mouse’s existence. As Wired shows through a documented visual archive of the history of the mouse, it remains one of the only peripherals that hasn’t changed entirely that much since its use. Add a few wheels, buttons, and optic lasers, and you have pretty much the same concept of the mouse that was ...