If you like to twirl your spaghetti on your fork, then the Twirling Spaghetti Fork is right up your alley. Powered by 2 AAA batteries, the Twirling Spaghetti Fork sports a motor that, with a press of a button, automatically spins the fork to wind the spaghetti noodles for easy (cleaner) eating. Isn’t getting sauce all over your face and clothing the entire point when eating spaghetti? But, I guess, nothing beats looking like a dork while eating pasta, right?
The Twirling Spaghetti Fork costs $9.95 at Amazon.
TosPom is a ball equipped with a camera and a color display that takes photos while you and your friends play ‘catch’. TosPom is designed to snap an image of the catcher’s face and show it on the built-in screen. Amazingly, somehow, the ball always manages to have the camera pointed in the right direction. It also has a gimmicky bracelet feature that you must wear to view past images. By simply placing the bracelet over the ball, past images are displayed on the screen.
Honestly, why can’t it take photos while in mid air? I think it would be much more interesting if you could throw the ball way up into the sky while the device snaps “bird-eye views” of the Earth down below.
Woot! Who doesn’t love Garfield? Now you can show your
fan-ism with the Garfield MP3 Player for only $7.99 at Surplus Computers. It sports the signature Garfield orange color
and matching earbuds, 256MB onboard storage, SD card
slot (1GB max.), and built-in microphone. One AAA battery
provides the power.
Matt Denton of MicroMagic Systems has upgraded his Hexagon robot, which initially only did face recognition, to be able to draw with a pen. It literally walks up to the sheet of paper and begins drawing a…uh, well…I don’t know what it drew. But, it draws!
“Using B.F.Hexapod with an additional floating pen attachment, and a utility I wrote to convert DXF files into translation commands for my p.Brain controller, I have got the start of a walking CNC router! Why… I don’t know.. it just seemed like a good idea at the time!
I still have to add a small routing head and test the cutting capabilities, but you get the idea. Resolution of the work area is pretty low, somewhere between 7 & 8 bit, with about 0.5mm repeatability, so it’s never going to make precision parts! Also I have only implemented straight lines within the p.Brain, so the utility converts arcs and circles into segments.
One obvious improvement to resolution & repeatability is to have a work surface (in this case paper) that doesn’t move around, in this video the only thing holding the paper in place.. is the hexapod’s feet. In order to keep the router out of the way while walking, I plan on attaching a servo to the router head to swing the head from a horizontal to vertical position. Or maybe I will have come to my senses by then!! If I’m really mad I could try some 3D milling.. as technically the hexapod Is a 6 axis CNC machine.”
In need of a teeny tiny lamp? Check out the Little Lamp from Gadgetshop. This thing is really small, but kinda cute. Powered by a D-sized battery, the battery acts as the lamp’s base. A LED light bulb then connects to the battery and a lamp shade is attached to complete the lamp. It even comes with a pull chain on/off switch.
For some reason, I don’t think it’ll be that bright. For £7.50 ($15), I think it’s a little on the expensive side for what it is.
