Yesterday at Boing Boing Gadgets

John Brownlee 6:50 am Tue Feb 10, 2009

Yesterday at Boing Boing Gadgets:

• We discovered that cheap LCD handheld games have always been there, and always been bad.

&bull Rob shook his head and clucked his tongue over some Swarovski encrusted headphones.

• We marveled at a retrofuturistic electric cannon.

• Humidifying through solid state technology, aka concrete.

• We looked at some incredible junk art robots by Mike Rivamonte.

• All nixie tube clocks look the same, which is to say, awesome.

• We learned how to turn an ordinary flashlight into an eyeball melting, balloon popping laser pointer.

• Brownlee's favorite netbook, the Samsung NC10, got even better.

• A soused-up Doctor Who played grab ass with Richard Dawkins' wife in some retro computer ads.

• A springwound clock ripped from a nuclear submarine equaled CCCP chic.

• Amazon finally announced the Kindle 2 ebook reader, which is thinner, has better battery life and will read to you aloud. It is pretty rad…

• …but a helpful reader mocked up what the Kindle 2 should have been

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