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Are the ladies not impressed by your old school flash drive or classy wine cork USB drive anymore? Crooks and Castles has the solution. They’ve designed a badass flash drive that’s encased in a machine gun bullet. Nobody will mess with you when you’re carrying your files around in this thing.
Hypebeast spotted the 1GB bullet USB drive at a trade show and it doesn’t seem li…

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Nixon is planning to release a watch made from recycled skateboard decks. Part of Nixon’s Rotolog collection, the RePly watch features a colorful wristband and a stylish analog display. Skateboard enthusiasts are bound to go nuts for this thing even though it’s not waterproof and the colored stripes look pretty ridiculous. Nixon hasn’t announced when the watch will actually go o…

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Wow, a Solar Powered Laptop Bag that doesn’t look like it came out of the Hermann Munster Lab of Socially Inept Devices. OK, so it’s still not going to win any major design prizes, but from small steps are great things wrought (copyright Arnold Swarzenegger). $598.00 (ouch!).
Using high-efficiency solar cells, this bag charges a laptop, […]
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Finally a controller only the great Andre the Giant could comfortably handle.  Inspired directly by Kyle Downes’ NES coffee table, Matt LaBoone worked all summer on this impressively gigantic SNES controller. I can’t imagine having a group of friends sitting around this thing each contributing their part to one button as they mash away while playing Street Fighter 2.
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Sure, watching the most impressive athletes in the world sprint a 500M is probably the most entertaining thing you’ve see in a long while, save for these racing robots from the the annual Robot Athletic Meet in Tokyo’s Akihabara district.
Check out the robot on the left. He’s playing for keeps. It might appear as if it’s falling over due to his unstable infrastructure but,…

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TGIF. Happy hour starts at 3pm today, right? Either way, you can still win a cool prize this weekend.
Baller 1985 Casio White Wristwatch
Step furniture?
D’oh!
Rappers alike are bound to love Dragon’s Machine sunglasses
I’ve got the power (redux)!
Most likely the best implementation of solar power yet
More Colette x GAP clothing!
Pippi Legostocking
A nice book bag roundup
A-R-D-U…

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Found on Flickr user Jmarler’s page, these EEPROM cufflinks are extremely beautiful. Soldered in place forever, these won’t be good for powering your Arduino but they could get your laid with a hot mom…
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