Very Expensive Book, WoW!

If you have an extra $115,00 CAN lying around you might want to pick up a copy of this book.

The velvet-and marble-bound book will go on public display next Tuesday.

It takes six months to make each book, using Italian artisan skills dating to the Renaissance. The copy on display was donated to the library but more than 20 books have been sold.

Add comment November 27th, 2008

Cool RFID Toy

I am not really sure what this thing does but it sounds very cool.

Here is the product description:

Mir:ror is a simple and elegant device that connects to a computer. It recognizes the things you show it and performs the tasks you’ve assigned to them. Simply affix RFID Ztamps to your objects and they become interactive, content rich items. Examples of use are limitless: show your umbrella to a Mir:ror and it will give you weather forecasts; wave your keys on top of Mir:ror and it will send an email to your loved ones saying that you are back home safe; put your pill box on Mir:ror and it will recall you when you last took your medicine! RFID technology is getting hotter everyday. Mir:ror is the first mass market RFID reader with a rich set of applications and services. It is designed to be so simple that a two year old child can use it. With this empowering, intuitive and revolutionary device, Violet is once more expanding “the Internet of Things”, bringing the magic and the power of content, personalization and interactivity to the thousands of inanimate objects that populate our lives and homes.

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Mir:ror Starter Pack Pack content (starter pack) - 1 Mir:ror (USB cable attached) - 3 blank, user programmable RFID Ztamps - 2 Nano:ztags programmable micro Rabbits - 1 Mirror:skin - 1 Quick start guide Shipment expected December 15th $69.99

Add comment November 26th, 2008

Take a whiz with that prosthetic penis

Here is a new twist on an old appendage!  wo men whose company sold a device known as the Whizzinator that helped men cheat on drug tests have pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh.

George Wills and Robert Catalano each pleaded guilty Monday to two conspiracy counts.

They owned the California-based Internet company Puck Technology.

The Whizzinator is a prosthetic penis that comes with a heating element and fake urine.

U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan’s office says the goal of it and another device called Number 1 was to help people pass drug tests.  The devices were sold from 2005 to 2008.

The California men are scheduled to be sentenced in February and face up to eight years in prison, a half-million-dollar fine or both.  I would rename this product as the pee-pee machine.

1 comment November 25th, 2008

12 Million LED Lights at Walgreens

The 17,000-square foot screen built with 12 million LEDs and designed by D3 LED, was finally activated in the heart of New York City at Walgreens

Add comment November 21st, 2008

Hey that is not a tumor!

Doctors in Arizona got a big surprise when looking into a womans brain for a tumor.

Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She went to the emergency room twice and had a cat scan, but everything came up clear, MyFOXPhoenix.com reported.

It wasn’t until doctors took a closer look at an MRI that they discovered something very disturbing.

“Once we saw the MRI we realized this is something not good,” neurosurgeon, Dr. Peter Nakaji told the news station. “It’s something down in her brain stem which is as deep in the brain as you can be.”

Alvarez was wheeled into surgery where Nakaji and his colleagues were expecting to remove a tumor, but they uncovered a worm instead.

On a video of the surgery, Nakaji can be heard chuckling after he made the discovery.  All I can say is yuk!  That is totally gross.

Add comment November 20th, 2008

Nice Halloween Prank

Check-out this sweet picture that got the secret service all up-in-arms

Add comment November 1st, 2008