http://swongled.com Gadgets, Science, Humor, and more Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:31:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New, over at at the little shop of wonders known as thinkgeek, one can find the e-ink based watch known cleverly as the "E-Ink Display Watch". The E Ink technology used in this watch depicts digital time with the look of electronic paper and can be read accurately and instantly from ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/26/e-ink-watch-nerdgasm-inducing-timepiece/ [youtube]Bha8Nb4Rdoc[/youtube] This DIY project, dubbed "The Stunning Camera", will show you how to give an electric shock to unsuspecting users. Although this is clever, I have a more... persuasive way of showing people that you are a total douche. It's called the sucker punch. It's simple - all you have to ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/20/diy-douche-baggery/ C-Jump is sweet because it fuses my two favorite pastimes: board games, and throwing stuff across the room. If you've ever tried to program something, and have it fail over and over and over again, no matter how many times you try to fix it, then you'd know why ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/20/c-jump-because-there-are-few-things-more-entertaining-than-programming/ For those of you that did not think that enormous sunglasses were embarrassing enough, designer Matthias Ries has developed massive, plastic ears to dress your most decrepit old person in. These "batphones" are not meant to be a replacement for relatively low profile hearing aids, but are instead intended for ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/20/batphones-are-meant-to-further-humilate-elderly/ How To Make A Night Vision Headset> Video Jug posted this video (link above) on how to make your own night vision device from an old and obsolete video camera. This is a pretty sweet instructional video, but it can be a bit unsetting for those of us with stalkers. One ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/14/how-to-make-a-night-vision-headset/ If you're like me, then you used to take chewed gum, stretch it out and make shapes with it. My favorite shape was the sphere. It was easy to make - all I had to do was roll the gum around in my hands, turning the pink tooth-molded gum into ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/13/chewing-gum-sculptures-make-your-room-smell-like-chewing-gum/ Urban Outfitters (proprietors of all things hip, ironic, and kitsch), is now offering some cool bobble heads in honor of the Star Wars episode of Family Guy.  There are three models as of right now: Darth Stewie, ChewBrian, and Quag-3P0 (but I assume that if they sell well enough, there ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/12/family-guystar-wars-bobbleheads-nerds-and-collectors-rejoyce/ Pants in a pinch are pretty much exactly what they sound like: Pants that you can carry around with you, and then put on if you happen to soil yourself.  They will set you back $20, and only currently run in little kid's sizes, but I think there's something to ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/12/old-and-busted-diapers-new-hotness-pants-in-a-pinch/ Answer these questions as fast as possible. Ready? What is the periodic abbreviation for Cobalt? What is its atomic mass? Are you proud of yourself for answering that? So, you could answer without cheating; do you want a trophy? How about a ring? Well you can buy one, nerd. Itsnoname, a spousal ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/11/periodic-table-rings-are-inspired-by-periodic-table/ If you're like me, then you have loads of stuffed animals in your home. I'm not talking plush and cotton. I'm talking taxidermy. Yes, my home will creep you out more than Michael Jackson at the playground, or Michael Vick at the dog park, or me watching you sleep. It's ... http://swongled.com/2008/03/11/steampunkborg-taxidermy-is-um-unique/