There’s now a free app (iTunes link) available for your iPhone which will allow you to wake up the same way Disney characters do, with the sounds of 2D chirping birds. For added illusion, you can stick your iPhone in this BirdBox and tap the screen in order to see your potential wake up call nesting inside. The BirdBox is made of high quality heavy card, is easy to assemble and is available in four different colors. The only problem is if you smash this alarm clock in the morning, you’ve killed a bird and ruined $100 phone. You don’t want to start your day that way.
There have been several Vader alarm clocks in the past, but the latest exclusive from the official StarWarsShop might very well be the most effective at getting you up. You see, each morning will be met with an alarm and the projected shadow of Darth Vader on the wall, ready to strike. There are no details on how big the projected image actually is, but if it’s life-size, you might be headed back to bedwetting.
Strap yourself in and feel the G’s that come from playing video games, eating and channel surfing in Alexander Christoff’s Formula One chair. The seat is made from molded fiberglass and features chrome legs and an upholstered adjustable headrest to create the ultimate F1/seat hybrid. However, at this point the chair is only a concept, so for the time being you’ll have to put your dreams of racing the Grand Prix to obesity on hold.
The best way to combat insects is to turn one of their own kind on them. When you tilt this mosquito shaped bug vacuum down and yank on his tail you create suction that sucks the bug into the mosquito body. It also includes a clear viewing area so you can revel in its imprisonment and ignorance of impending doom.
It looks like Grandpa Clock retired, moved to Vegas and ditched his dusty old clothes for some loud-ass shirts. Some LEDs (arranged to produce a cool tunnel effect on the clock face) and a little steel create a grandfather clock unlike anything you have ever seen before.
One of the real-life inspirations behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Vlad “The Impaler” has taught us all a very important lesson. Murder enough people and you might get a high-end action figure of your own 500-600 years later.
Vlad Dracula’s terrible reign in Wallachia began in 1456, when the Romanian nobleman escaped years of captivity with the Turks to reclaim his father’s throne. He gained a sinister reputation for his harsh punishments, treating the offenses of beggars and common trespassers the same as armed military enemies. Soon, he had earned the nickname Vlad the Impaler for his favorite means of execution: suspending victims on sharpened stakes set into the ground, leaving them to die painfully and slowly. His name becoming synonymous with blood and terror, Vlad the Impaler’s vicious and unforgiving tactics are said to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire Count Dracula.
One of the world’s leading purveyors of curios and miscellania, Fred and Friends, has unveiled their Spring 2010 catalog. In case you missed our posts over the holiday weekend, here is a list of the best new stuff.
Airplane Food Placemat: Placemats that can be folded into several different paper airplane designs.
360 Degree Pen: Turns your finger into a hula hoop star.
It works just like a normal clock, but that second hand has some sort of developmental disorder. It will just wander off randomly, doing as it pleases. Probably relying on instinct mostly. At any rate, this is what you get when clocks keep it in the family.
