Category Archives: New Products & Gadgets

Highlighting new gadgets, tech innovation, products and services.

Creepy Old Man Mask

When it comes to creepily life-like silicone senior citizen masks, SPFX has the market cornered. They also have an old lady lask, an inbred mask, and an assortment of monster masks. They’ll cost you though. Expect to pay $800 or more!

(via TDW)

Getting a pair

bar-nouculars flask

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You may now safely smoke in bed

I would have used this when I smoked. Maybe there are a few around still. Check eBay. By the way, I kicked the habbit 8 years ago.

cigarette holder

(Thanks James (a.k.a Tower of Power))

Taco Bell now WINNING with Doritos

Sweet mother of all things holy…

Dorito taco shell

The Dorito taco shell is a reality. There has been a Facebook campaign (aptly titled “Taco Shells Made From Doritos Movement”) for quite some time but according to the page, they were not informed that the product is now actually in development. It is unclear if or when this product will be nationally available, but if you’re in the Toledo, Ohio area, you may just be in luck, as it’s one of the test markets for the bright orange nacho cheese shells.

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Contagian billboards promote with real bacteria

To promote the Steven Soderberdh film Contagian, Warner Brothers Canada turned to Lowe Roche to create two billboards that functioned as giant petri dishes which were then injected with bacteria. Over the course of a week, the bacteria grew to form the name of the movie being promoted.


(via AdRants)

Random Duck stuff

bono1. A new U2 documentary will air on Showtime at the end of October. They are also going away for a long time. Jared, do you have Showtime?
2. Karma is a bitch. Boy Throwing Rocks At Cars gets a crossbow arrow to the abdomen. That’ll learn ya!
3. What? Romney and Bachmann both slipping in the polls? This can’t be right. Oh yeah, I forgot that Perry was vetted by the GOP years ago.
4. Bummer to learn about former Wild player Pavol Demitra (and others) dying in that Russian plane crash Wednesday.
5. Not the best segway here, but virtual boarding agents might be coming to an airport near you. The lifelike 2-D holograms make eye contact, blink and smile while emitting automated phrases, such as “bonjour” and “bon voyage.” Does anyone else think this is spooky?
virtual boarding agents
6. A new online video game is out called, Tea Party Zombies Must Die. Players can take aim at characters as the “Sarah Palin Zombie” and the “Michele Bachmann Zombie” and kill them. I wonder how Gabby” Giffords would feel about this?
Tea Party Zombies Must Die
7. KARK 4 News meteorologist Brett Cummins is in some hot water after being found in hot tub with naked dead man wearing a dog collar. (Read more)
8. Buttrock definition – If you have heard this term and don’t understand what it means, then let me enlighten you. Buttrock is a subpar genre of music where every song sounds exactly the same. It is usually produced by a band trademarked with cheap, unoriginal song lyrics, and a music that sounds manufactured and predictable. Current music that falls into this category includes Nickleback, Hinder, and Daughtry. It’s not a new term though. 15 years ago, my friends and I considered bands like Winger, Firehouse, and Warrant to be buttrock.

Gimme, gimme, gimme. Please, please, please.

The Samsung Galaxy Skin concept was on display at The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) recently. Right now, the phone is just an idea that they are working on that seems influenced by the art of Salvador Dali.

Features:
4-inch Super Flexible AMOLED screen, 800 x 480 resolution display, an 8MP camera with 720HD video capture, and a projector.

Samsung Galaxy Skin

Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. Here are the pictures.

Lockheed - Before

Lockheed - Before

Lockheed - After

Lockheed - After

Lockheed was set up like a movie studio production. They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead.

The net over the plant was strong enough to walk on. Lockheed hired people to ride bicycles and move around as if they lived there to make it look authentic.

Employee cars parked under the net to avoid being seen from planes above.


*Original photo sources unknown. Info on this can be found all over the web.

Incredible wingsuit flying video

I recommend watching the whole video, but skip to 1:15 if you want to see a terrifying close call. I have jumped out of a plane before, but there is no way I could do this. I wonder if these wingsuits have a military application? Could you imagine flying through a combat zone in one of these? Talk about the element of surprise!


(via Today I Learned)

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