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Five Custom Gadgets You Can't Buy
photojournaliste noted a little story running over on Forbes which kinda looks like their editors read Slashdot. Their Five Gadgets You Can't Buy include a few things you might have seen here, as well as some new custom hardware hacks. If you didn't get it for christmas, maybe one of these will inspire you to build it yourself.
This is seriously one of the dumbest lists I ever seen. The first one you can actually buy, Belkin makes it. The second is a drink cooler, which you can get a device that does that same thing for 8 bucks. The third one (lego person inside of a mouse) is at least original.
The controlled etcha-a-sketch is actually cool.
And then followed by a mini-itx pc someone shoved into the body of an old Millennium Falcon toy.
So over all we've got 1 cool one, 2 ugly ones, 1 creative but useless one, and one that just shouldn't be in the list because you can buy a good version of it.
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I thought there was already an iPod external battery pack for sale by someone. A google search shows one for sale by Bilk'n, er, Belkin.
The article seemed short, I only counted three gadgets, with it being page 1 of 1.
The falcon was on "the screen savers", & Yoshi built a cooler glass using computer parts. Of coarse G4 changed the focus of the show and it's not even interesting any more.
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You probably could buy any of these. Like with everything, it's only a matter of price.
I couldn't fail to disagree with you less.
...Most of these gadgets are really quite useless.I would'nt pay anything exhorbitant to get any of these.There are quite a few mods/hacks in the slashdot archives which are a gazillion times better than these.
Lord of the Binges.
It is like playing "where's wally" except your looking for the TFA hidden in the ads.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
You can't buy profit? Someone better tell Microsoft!
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Not to mention every custom gadget has to mention a company name. Who would expect any different from Forbes though? Their mentality is: CEOs are good and workers are dumb shit overhead cost.