Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we started the day with an arboricultural look at a genuine power plant, then mocked CNet’s inability to indentify a blue screen of death. A matrioshka-like nesting bowl captured Brownlee’s fancy, then railed against the aesthetics of bacon.
There were iPhone cases that glittered like Christmas lights and a Lilluputioan Mac Pro. Eyes rolled back, Joel spent himself lusting after a 1970 Nissan 270X Concept Car.
We spotted a watch made of old spaceship parts that had a dash of Le Voyage Dans La Lune to it. Joel looked at a strange wireless peripheral that tickles the O-ring during gaming or movie sessions and a wind powered Times Square sign.
Neat: pictures with their own moving shadows. Neater: an African incerator that turns slum garbage into heat. Beschizza spotted a watch that gloats at your gastropoidal lack of inertia, and a stick-of-gum sized set of speakers that are dismal, but less dismal than most of their ilk. And he openly pined to strap a boombox to his wrist.
Otherwise, Joel had no idea that Jodorowsky, Giger and Floyd (Pink) conspired to make an adaptation of Dune. Jury’s still out on how this is about gadgets. An awesome clavitar one-upped the ageless keytar, and Joel inadvertently revealed some bedroom awkwardness as he admired some easy apply prophylactics.
Finally, there was a giant rubber band perfect for Road Runner style pranking, an electronic chewing sensor, a sci-fi novel delivered by mobile phone and a horribly racist Christmas ornament. It was a fun day.