Tag: Animals
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Weird USB: CowCows And Cat Tails
By Evan Ackerman USB weirdness often seems to show up in groups, and today’s examples are no exception. What I like to do is try and picture how it would look if you were to combine weird USB things into one ÜberSB monstrosity, and this combo is particularly bizarre: It’s a USB cow with fluffy…
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Hyundai Dolphin Phone Is Dolphoney
By Evan Ackerman For some weird reason which probably should not be analyzed too deeply, Hyundai has decided to create a cell phone based on a dolphin. For real. See the picture? Yep, it’s a dolphin phone. The side view is the only really interesting bit, otherwise the phone is mostly ho-hum, with a 240×400…
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Otters Now Taking Home Videos In Monterey Bay
By Evan Ackerman Looks like the recession hasn’t had much of an effect on California sea otters, one of whom was recently spotted in Monterey Bay with his own video camera. “I was like, did I actually see an otter with a video camera or was I hallucinating?” [Aguirre] said. The screen on Aguirre’s digital…
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Video Friday: Animals Using Smartphones
By Evan Ackerman Evil hedgehog FTW! Oh, and this is an ad for the Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch cell phone. Or something. Whatever. But ZOMG CUTE ANIMALS! VIA [ Gizmodo ]
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Early Bird Alarm Clock Tweets You Awake
By Evan Ackerman We saw this bird alarm clock (or something just like it) in the international hall at CES this year, but I was forcibly prevented from taking a picture of it by a product rep. Go figure. Now it look like it’s coming to the US, so I can finally write it up.…
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Video Friday: Charge Your Cellphone With 72 Hamsters In Jackets
By Evan Ackerman This little hamster is wearing a special jacket with a nanogenerator in it that harvests the biomechanical energy that the hamster creates as it moves. Each generator module can produce up to 70 milliwatts, and researchers are hoping to make them smaller to power nanoscale devices, as well as to integrate them…
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LaserPup Will Drive Your Pets Crazy
By Evan Ackerman This isn’t quite the coolest pet entertainment hack we’ve seen, but it sure comes close. The LaserPup is a little device that you mount on your ceiling. It’s got a buzzer plus two servos that move a laser pointer around, all monitored via a webcam and controlled through a web interface designed…
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Teddy Bear Coat Looks Warm, Creepy
By Evan Ackerman No word on how many stuffed bears gave their lives to make this coat, or how your children will react if you wear it, or how much it costs. But, damn… Who comes up with this stuff? The same people who brought you the headless chicken duck lamp, apparently: Um, can I…
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Monster Skin Rug Looks Warm, Scary
By Evan Ackerman It’s been a long time coming, but finally, there is a physical trophy that those of us who are awesome at fantasy gaming can proudly display in our homes. This rug is the pelt of, um, one of these things (maybe), except of the vegetarian cave dwelling variety without sharp teeth or…
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Fish Tank Friday: WTF Is That Thing
By Evan Ackerman According to the resident OhGizmo marine biologist, the thing in the video above is what’s called a siphonophore. Although it looks like one single totally bizarre alien fish thing, it’s actually a colony of different individual invertebrate animals that live together as one single organism. Some of them sting, some of them…