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Pocket screwdriver is small enough to fit in your...well, you know the rest

By Doug Aamoth

Pocket ScrewdriverFrom the "I wish I'd thought of that" department comes the pocket screwdriver. It's basically a coin-shaped doodad that features a beveled edge ranging in thickness from 0.030" to 0.090" as you make your way around the perimeter.

As far as I'm concerned, there are two other certainties in life besides death and taxes.

One is that if you put two cables in the opposite corners of an empty room and left for an hour, when you came back they'd be all t » READ MORE

November 07, 2007
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Light-emitting wallpaper goes from incognito to hey, that's neato

By Doug Aamoth

Light emitting wallpaper

The next time you leave the house, will you have to remember to turn the wallpaper off? Designer Jonas Samson has created "high-tech light-emitting wallpaper" that makes it "possible to use a two-dimentional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object. As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper."

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November 06, 2007
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iPod Clickwheel Coasters

By Doug Aamoth

iPod Scrollwheel Coaster

Show your guests that you mean business - twofold business. These iPod clickwheel coasters say, "Hey, I'm serious about protecting my table tops and I'm also serious in my convictions that the Apple iPod is one of the greatest digital music players ever created. Hence, the coasters."

There's a plain old white version (seen above) for just shy of $6 or for $2 more, you can get a fluorescent orange version that almost seems to glow in the dark.

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November 05, 2007
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