Here’s a great way to wake up by throwing your alarm across the room to turn it off.  Get your stress out the moment you wake up with the Throw Soccer Ball Alarm Clock.

We know you’ve always wanted to throw that clock across the room…

These brilliant alarm clocks can only be turned off by bouncing them or throwing them - It’s the ultimate in morning anger management.

via 7gadgets

Check out some of these outrageous spoilers. Definitely they are probably just for cosmetic looks…

via ftlauderdalelimo

As part of a program in Amsterdam the Dutch Umbrella is a RFID tagged marketing tool, what happens is the umbrellas are located at certain spots called Rain Drops; these are the participating businesses that have signed up as sponsors for the program.

Basically the sponsors are paying around $100 per month to receive the valuable marketing information gained by the reports generated by the RFID tags, what they do is track the movement of all the umbrellas, so when it is raining a shopper can borrow the umbrella and the data can follow where they go until they drop off the umbrella at one of the participating stores.

What this will show is some great data on the movement of shoppers and if there are any patterns then this will be very valuable to the stores concerned.

Source [Daily Wireless]

Here’s a really simple cool way to use your icebox as a Photography Studio. Since I got one for fishing, I can use it for my photo shoots too! (except anything I put in the icebox WILL start to smell like the ocean)

I think this is their website.

You can check out more pictures from our flickr Maker Faire Day 1 and Maker Faire Day 2.

Yes, Phil was going around at the end of the show yesterday so we persuaded him to take a picture with us.
This week is amazing. My brain is about to expload from having the opportunity to see so much cool stuff.

Also check out photos and videos from Make Faire at Make Blog!

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Wow, check out some of these really cool DIY Thumb Pianos!

Sometimes an instrument you know can become something else altogether. Bob Collier has been constructing his own thumb pianos, adding amplification, effects, self-sampling features, and novel cases involving recycled camera bodies and faux fur. As Bob says, “Sometimes the crudest and roughest looking kalimbas can sound surprisingly good especially with the right context of fx and
amplification.”

I find kalimbas beautiful and delicate to begin with. Throw in some faux fur and Korg KAOSS Pad effects, and they take on a whole new life:

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I have been struck with the zzzzz sickness lately. I can get to sleep at night and feel like my whole
world is falling into (or needs to) the zzzzz world. If I start working out more often, this should be
better… (this flu is killing me!?!) Regardless, you can read about psychology today’s article on
how to get a better night’s sleep when you can’t sleep.

The biggest sleep robber of all, however, is work—the puritan ethic gone haywire in an era of global markets. To accommodate the relentless pressure for productivity, we’re sleeping less and spending less time in social and leisure pursuits; the resulting stress can steal away even more sleep. Consider this: We’re not only missing more shut-eye, we’re having less sex, too.

P.S. I have to agree, the last part should be more on top of our priority.