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Friday, November 26, 2010

Latest Posts on Coolest Gadgets

iBoss – Keeps kids safe without all the yelling.
Here’s a DIY Laser-guided Slingshot
Huey the Color Copying Chameleon Lamp
Tony Sale’s 60-year-old Robot, George
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iBoss – Keeps kids safe without all the yelling.

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:44 AM PST

My daughter is only 7, she has her own computer but has yet to develop a cruising style. She goes to a few kid-friendly sites, plays some PC based games and has a limited e-mail account. She is not allowed on Facebook or MySpace and would have no idea what to do there without my help. But I am keenly aware that the need for some sort of internet security is fast approaching, and Mom the eagle eye just isn't going to be enough.

Enter the iBoss, an internet filtering device that allows you to control the on-line activities in your household with computer hardware, not an easily bypass-able software program. The iBoss lets you to share your Internet connection safely at home with all of your wired and wireless computers and provides a powerful system that lets you control AND monitor internet usage, without all the yelling

Detailed parental controls allow you to restrict access to specific categories of information and allow you to decide how much time, and at what times internet access will be available. If a bypass of the system is attempted, you will be alerted. If access at an inappropriate time is attempted, you will know that too. The system will also generate internet activity reports that can be e-mailed to you automatically. Wow, the little weasels that live in our houses wont be able to get away with anything… I like it!

Simply connect the iBoss to your broadband Internet connection to safely share and protect all of your family’s wired and wireless computers for $49.95 includes a 1 month subscription. Also available for business.

Source: ibosswebfilters.com

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Here’s a DIY Laser-guided Slingshot

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST

The slingshot is one of those devices that hasn’t changed much since its invention however many years ago. Of course, leave it to DIY inventors to give something a technological upgrade to something that probably doesn’t need a technological upgrade.

As you can see from the picture, this DIY guy has created a slingshot with a laser sight. Its construction looks relatively simple, and it has a special handle to store his pistachio ammo.

Apparently, it does actually improve his accuracy, even though the laser sight is located on the side of the slingshot fork and not the center. I would have instinctively put it in the center, but I’m guessing there is a reason for that construction. You can see a video of how to construct one of these bad boys after the jump.

Yeah, I’m not certain if you would want to make one of these things for a kid, because he or she might use it. I guess this is something an adult has to make just to prove that he or she can do it.

I can’t help but wonder what other child’s weapon would work well with a laser sight. How about a spitball launcher with a laser targeting function? Maybe that’s the next DIY video.

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Huey the Color Copying Chameleon Lamp

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 07:30 AM PST

This is Huey the chameleon, and he is a lamp that has the power of changing colors.

All a user has to do is place Huey on any surface, and he will emit a glow equal to that of the ground below him.

There is a video of this after the jump to show Huey in action, and I was surprised at how quickly he can change color. I sure that even real chameleons don’t color shift as fast as this one does.

I believe that Huey works by having multiple LEDs of different colors mixing together to form the precise color needed. That color will be whatever Huey detects on his optical sensor, located just below his belly.

According to my Source, Huey will cycle through the various colors in his spectrum if left alone, and he can be “locked” in a specific color if squeezed.

Too bad that Disney toys didn’t get a hold of this idea. I believe that their latest animated feature Tangled has a chameleon named Pascal in it. This would have made the ideal movie merchandise/toy.

As it is, you should be able to purchase Huey the Color Copying Chameleon Lamp for about $29.99 from our friends at ThinkGeek.

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Tony Sale’s 60-year-old Robot, George

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 07:00 AM PST

The guy on the left is Tony Sale, and he is the inventor of George, the guy on the right.

George is a robot that is made from the aluminum and other scraps of a crashed bomber sixty years ago. Apparently, he has spent a large percentage of that time in a storage shed.

However, he had his fifteen minutes of fame in and around 1950 as they showed him pushing a vacuum cleaner. In reality, he wasn’t able to push a vacuum cleaner, but he could pull it. I suppose that the photo was taken to show the world that the future was robots who do all of our housework. What wife in the fifties wouldn’t want one of those?

George is going to have a permanent home at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England. This is the same place where Tony Sale’s rebuilt Colossus computer is also on display. For those who don’t know about the Colossus, it is the “world’s first recognizably programmable computer” and it is most famous for breaking a complicated Nazi code known as the Lorenz Cipher.

I’m certain that we could build a more advanced version of George today, and it probably wouldn’t look like a cross between the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz and a human-sized version of The Iron Giant.

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