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Hey is there an echo in here here?

More signature crammar from the oversized irrelevant pest...

He may have been referring to this:

https://www.thinkgeek.com/prod...

http://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/tactus/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/9836/
https://store.artlebedev.com/for-programmers/objects/optimus-popularis/

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff...

Actually, I wouldn't mind having a small wireless communicator badge that, if you tap it, it connects over the Internet to talk to the computer.

Right here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...

Pet rocks are/were pointless too.

There are USB pet rocks too. Which presumably can be modded with a USB killer.

Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war .... or if you're on a budget. http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...

Stop all shooting? Not possible. But shooting by Evil Guys (tm)? Well, that's simple... Ban all guns and then put these cuties on every corner with a program to shoot everyone who pulls out a gun, a knife, a bomb, smelly socks, is ill (clearly spreading biological weapons), or, to sum all the reasons, is a human: http://www.thinkgeek.com/image...

obligatory T Shirt

I have a shirt with this on from a good few years back... Remember ThinkGeek?

They may have a harder time with that here, though. I doubt they will find a lot of capital C consumers here.

You have got to be kidding me. The geek has an insatiable appetite for pop culture. ThinkGeek, This Is Why I'm Broke

That would be a unacceptable sacrifice in safety.

If that were acceptable we would have microwave based.. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff... wireless charging today.

Wifi is only safe because it is so low power even though it operates at the same frequency as your microwave.

Just use bacon salt. No science needed.

I think you have Nerd and Geek culture mixed up with plain Geeks.

I think the best use for this would be to power a USB Pet Rock.

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Like this? http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...

Do not buy anything these companies offer. No cable, no movies, no music. Nothing. Do not feed their useless parisitism on our culture and public domain.
If you must be entertained, find alternative sources, from indie stuff all the way to pirating.

Disney has been taking significant risks with films with serious geek cred --- Wreak-It Ralph. Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero Six --- and has been handsomely rewarded in return.

The geek is defined by pop culture and his talk of boycott is hot air. ThinkGeek

The paying customer gets programming like Sherlock and The Game of Thrones and a voice in future productions.
The pirate gets whatever crumbs he can sweep off the floor.

Right here.

You may want to think twice about watching that movie on your phone if you're going to need to pay for a cab at your destination.

Taxis were one of the last to accept card payments, so you usually (down to merely "often" or "almost always", depending on location) require cash. So again, your problem is one that is shared by someone that relies on cards.

Or, at least, always make sure you have a charge cable with you.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ... Such a shame that portable re-charging options are so large and expensive. Or they are the size of a couple AA batteries, and cost under $10.

Solar battery takes care of the problem.

Not in Michigan woods. Not even in the middle of summer, with several days of clear skies, using this. And yes, I speak from experience. Especially when you're in areas with poor signal that drain the battery faster.

Leaving aside issues of unexpectedly not being near your chargers for too long even in day-to-day life, etc.

Clearly you're happy with your battery life. Congratulations, felicitations, mazel tov, and so forth. That doesn't mean that people who are not satisfied are wrong, however.

I just verified that Thinkgeek doesn't have smallpox

They destroyed all copies. But there might be some survivors hiding in a closet.

I just verified that Thinkgeek doesn't have smallpox

ahhh, nostalgia!

They already have lasers, have you been living under a rock, or behind the moon?

And, if you forgot, the original laser sharks were created during the American civil war.

I saw that and thought I just saw that shirt the other day but it wasn't his.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...

> my kinetic (ie self-winding) windup watch will always be able to tell the time, so long as I keep it wound and don't break it.

And, it will always be correct at least twice a day!

Only if you forget to wind it.

If you're that worried/forgetful, you could just go get yourself one of these.

No winding necessary.

... When you can just order it online?

I hear there are cookies and bacon there. Or was that a different Dark Side?

I have a better idea. Get a bunch of foam spheres, cut them in half and apply sticky tape to the flat side. Then get a plunger along with a whisk and put a sticky mount on each end. And as a bonus, hide the electronic guts of one of these inside of a half sphere and modify the switch to activate every 10 seconds. Bonus points if you attach a bigger speaker.

Then simply "decorate" the security bot. Your defaced security r2-d2 should now look something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dalek_2010_Redesign.jpg

EXTERMINATE!

I have access to both a MFC-7840W and a MFC-9325CW.

Well, there's your problem.

In my experience, Brother HL-series black lasers get questionable after about 150,000 duplexed pages due to roller wear, but other than that that they're solid. I don't much care for their MFCs though; besides the build becoming awkward due to integrating a scanner, the fax capability is usually about as useful as a USB pet rock, and the driver software they come with is frankly crap -- doubly so if you use the network-based interfaces.

As for personal use, my venerable HP LaserJet 4L continues to serve, and its no-corona-discharge-wire design is a nice touch. Old enough that it could probably use some new rollers to reduce misfeeds, but it still works.

I carry one of these, actually.

"So apparently they were being marketed as "toys" at some point."

But not, as far as I know, children's toys, and especially not small children's toys. Go to ThinkGeek and look at all the toys. But they aren't being marketed for children, much less small children.

"I don't know how you do it in America but in the UK the law generally works on the basis of what a "reasonable person" would think and assume. Clearly a reasonable person would not consider a cleaning products, a car or a power tool to be a suitable toy. What a reasonable person does think is ultimately up to a jury though."

Of course, the U.S. is also a Common Law country, so we also have the "reasonable person" standard. But isn't that the whole point? If a manufacturer clearly marks something Keep Away From All Children, as Buckyballs clearly did, is it "reasonable" to hold the manufacturer responsible when your kid swallows them?

Or is it more "reasonable" to blame the parents for putting something known to be hazardous within the reach of small children?

I have the perfect teaching tool we should be using as early as first grade!

It's a numerical computer...

Have you tried using a tablet as a keyboard for touch typing? You may be the exception, but for most people it pretty well sucks. The little nubs on the F and J keys, the indentations of all the keys themselves, the fell of the edge of the key letting you know how far off dead center your click is, and the feel of the space bar under your thumbs are all generally use as non-visual cues to let you know exactly where on the keyboard your hands are placed.

I assume that I am not alone in the fact that I could be blind folded, sat at a desk, and then proceed to type with a very high accuracy rate.

By the way, This sounds like what you are looking for.

Does it work trough the RFID Blocking Wallet?

I own this http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8cdd/?rkgid=275668648&cpg=ogpla&source=google_pla&device=c&network=g&matchtype=&gclid=CJP-74zKyLgCFc4-MgodGFgA3g

It works, I have to take my wallet out and open it for the reader to register my card at work.

How much does a working SNES go for?

Checking Amazon, a working used SNES goes for about $40.

What other hardware can play SNES games?

This, for one. Or this. Or this. Or, if you have transferred the ROM contents to a PC-readable file, a PC running an emulator.

I kept telling ThinkGeek, "I only have a shower stall, you insensitive clods!!!" and that their landscape oriented periodic table shower curtain doesn't fit correctly.

Now I can get a new style periodic table that fits a shower stall that's taller than it is wide!

This is a typical (if not standard) map projection. What would you suggest? East Up?

Why not?

And I thought astronomers drew maps upside down?

Ha, I know the proper place to get "Tea Earl Grey Hot(TM)".

I just bought one of these a couple of weeks back:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8cdd/

It's surprisingly good quality for $20, too.

I decided to buy it after reading this:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/04/23/mb-smartphones-skimmer-credit-card-winnipeg.html

It might be useful if you were infected by one of these.

Really? Because this is from MS this is uncool?

This, plus kinnect, could be the interface of the future. Install it on the ceiling and you could project a video or keyboard on any flat surface. Never have to look for a remote again. Need a calculator, a recipe, a note pad, facebook, etc?

It looks promising for enhancing the immersion value of relatively small screens; but as an interface it would have to be taken in very small doses. Anyone remember those so damn sci-fi you think that the future just travelled back in time and punched you in the face laser projection keyboards? They suck. Horribly. The ghastliest laptop you've ever had to touch would feel like a Model M, even after spilling something sticky on it, compared to one of those.

For a few big buttons that you only need occasionally, the convenience would probably be worth it; but the nastiest $2 rubber-dome cheapies are so much nicer than 'typing' on a projection that it just isn't fair.

Obvious. They can work for ThinkGeek.

Not necessary. There have been some interesting experiments in retaking human senses. There have been tests retask the tongues’ nerve cell to receive sonar.

Or this - http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f358/?srp=2

To throw something wild out with about 60 seconds of thought – could one use a Kinect to track and translate the baton motion? I would assume it would mean putting some obvious at the end of the baton – red foam ball? And then you would need to translate that into something – more specialized hardware.

When they missed putting 'http://' in front of their link to thinkgeek.com ;)

No... I believe that so far this year, from what I've seen so far, that honor would go it Thinkgeek.

Thinkgeek has April fools jokes nailed.

Something people would like to see, and at the same time being close enough to what is actually possible that the believability factor is relatively high.

Bah on backpacks or messenger bags, so last decade and before. What you want is one of these babies:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c616/

The Grab-It Pack Gadget Holster - much more nerdy than a mere backpack, and much cooler than a messenger bag :P

I've got an idea. Everybody go get a couple of these. Put them in some sort of suspicious enclosure with blinky lights. Go through the border with the device blinking merrily. Get it confiscated.

The DHS will stare at the device, likely confiscate it, eventually get bored and put it in some forgotten corner.

Wait a little while until their brains have fixated on the next Alfalfa.

Drive the local DHS folks bonkers.

Sit back and enjoy a job well done.