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Five Custom Gadgets You Can't Buy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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.

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  1. Worst Story Ever. by SlamMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  2. Re:Only one that was even remotely intersesting by datadriven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  3. Next week, 10 things you cant buy, ever! by ActionJesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    1: Jupiter
    2: My toe-nail clippings
    3: Profit!
    4: A profound sense of well being.

    My (not very good point) is that just because you cant buy them, doesnt necessarily mean youd WANT to buy them.

  4. Sure you can't buy? by rgarcia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You probably could buy any of these. Like with everything, it's only a matter of price.

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  5. None of these are wanted gadgets by xot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...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.

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  6. Re:Only one that was even remotely intersesting by igrp · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yeah, I liked that one, too. But it doesn't hold a candle to Simon's jet powered beer cooler.

    Of course, if I actually ever attempted to build something like that I would probably blow the whole house up. Hence, I'll stick with my regular old-school fridge.

  7. Re:Reason why this shit was posted by rolocroz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it was a pretty shitty article, so maybe Forbes is taking cues from Slashdot's journalistic style?

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