The Micro Mosquito makes me think of Super Grover, because it flies in ways you really don't expect it to. Super-tiny - literally fitting in the palm of your hand - the Micro Mosquito uses BladeRunner coaxial rotors to fly up, down, forward, reverse, left and right and even hover. Brilliantly lit up green, you can see its entrails piston as it do that flying voodoo it do. The bad news: it takes six (!) C batteries for its charging station plus a 9 volt for the remote. Why not just have the charging station do something crazy like plug in to the mains? Did I miss a memo? [Camille]

Micro Mosquito [via Spungle]

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Why wreck your knees on a bicycle when you can wreck your whole body flying off an iSlide? This new spin on an old board incorporates self-balancing gyroscope technology and electric propulsion via hydrogen fuel cell. The result is a one-wheeled plank that's not only safer than it looks but apparently just as much fun as you'd hope. It's also light and easy to take on the bus or tube. Still in the prototype stages, but nonetheless an exciting development. [Camille]

iSlide: Segway meets skateboard in radical urban transport concept

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Fly your Halo 3 freak flag in your lavatory, with the Halo 3 Toilet Seat feauring the MASTER CHIEF. This hand-decorated solid oak accoutrement was wood burned by George Eckersley with a full figure representation of the enigmatic, rocket-launcher toting Halo centerpiece. Protective clear coat to ensure this piece of furniture remains glossy and sharp for years to come. And, in case you're concerned, "THE SEAT FITS THE NORMAL". Ships worldwide. [Camille]

Halo 3 Toilet Seat feauring the MASTER CHIEF [via Hawty McBloggy]

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Surrounded by dangerously stupid television programs? Whip out the Ninja Remote and take command. The Ninja Remote works on most major brands (Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, Sanyo, Aiwa, Mitsubishi, Philips, JVC, Sharp, etc) and allows you to mute, raise or lower the volume, channel hop, and even, turn it OFF altogether! (Well, you can also turn it on.) Keychain sized convenience, works on most European models. $9. [Camille]

Ninja Remote

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Speakers take up a lot of space, and subwoofers especially want to sit on the floor where your feet ought to be. The solution is to integate them into something else useful, which is what Pieter Maes has done with the AMP speaker and desk. Harking stylistically back to the time when radios were enormous pieces of furniture, the AMP houses a mosfet amplifier and a 3-way speaker cone-set with a minijack that makes it compatible with pretty much any modern music playing device. While the prototype has come out on the bulky side as part of its metaphor, the basic idea of building speakers into the desk is a great one and I hope to see it exploded in future. [Camille]

AMP speaker and desk [via Coolest Gadgets]

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Lick it and stick it - on your wall! With DNA 11, you can have your DNA rendered into an abstract art piece suitable for framing and showing off (so long as your genes at least superficially look good, since as you know beauty is all you need in order to get ahead). Available in a graph-like "portrait" or the "fingerprint" style, which represents your DNA in a more organic curvature. Portraits start at $200, and Glowframe backlit artwork starts at $800. [Camille]

DNA 11 [via Gizmowatch]

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Face it, your mobile is simply too small. Clutched in your massive manicured paw, it's making you feel like Godzilla's second cousin produced offspring with King Kong's nanny. You need something that makes you feel like a dainty little lady again - the ThinkGeek Bluetooth Retro Handset. Just sync up with your mobile and you can chatter away to wireless nothingness while slugging bourbon and nuzzling your fedora on your brow. Compatible with Bluetooth 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, it allows you to make and receive calls and operates in a 30' range of your mobile. (Mobile not included - surprise.) A delightfully modest $35. [Camille]

ThinkGeek Bluetooth Retro Handset

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The iPhone Pink Lady Mirror Leather Case is pink, it's leather, and, er, it has a mirror in it. It's strappy and special! Honestly, the idea on this thing is pretty good and it seems to have some nice details - the magnetic closure, removable strap, and design to ensure ready access to all your iPhone controls, but there's something a bit sickly about the shade of pink they've selected, and in any case, do we really need another pink mobile case, however deliberately girly it might be? Could we maybe see it in sunny yellow or a cool grass green? Maybe Ash Wednesday gray? $35. [Camille]

iPhone Pink Lady Mirror Leather Case [via Gizmodiva]

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HazMaPo is a tiny robot that exists to protect you from anything from KGB spies to Cuban missiles to Falkland invaders to flouride in your precious bodily fluids. So, okay, HazMaPo's priorities are a few decades out of date, but his primary mission is to 'protect us at all costs'. Which he does by patrolling the surface of your desk in tiny, simple-but-deadly botto fashion and looking ultra-hip and cool while he (she? they?) does it. Limited edition, $19. [Camille]

HazMaPo

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Celebrate New Year's Eve in crystalline splendor with the Waterford Crystal Times Square Ball 100th Anniversary Collection. The package includes a votive, footed hurricane, disk ornament, toasting flutes, martini glasses, a crystal globe, and the ball ornament shown here. Located in the cap is an LED on a sensor, so you can drop the ball and light it up whenever you decide it's New Year's according to your personal calendar. The entire kit goes for $15,000, but you can pick up the ball alone for a very modest $98. [Camille]

Waterford Crystal Times Square Ball 100th Anniversary Collection [via Luxist]

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Yooooouuuu... light up my bed, you bring me, uh, snooze, uh, no, you know, there's something inherently unusually ridiculous about Dream, the illuminated bed. While it seems pretty enough from here - a polyethylene framework in white and forest green with puzzle detailing and built-in shelves - you just know this bed is going to show up in the "Where Are They Now? Secrets of the Lost Stars of Daddy's Generation", 2023 edition. With you in it. Having been briefly famous for inventing a hilarious new combination candy bar-hat and Christmas cake, which turned out to be the origin of a new kind of cancer. Seriously. This bed is not for you. [Camille]

DREAM [via Born Rich]

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Available in pink, blue or green, Glow Fingernails will "make all 10 of your fingers glow through the night!" Makes you enchanting at raves, rounds out your Halloween costume, and alarms small children who aren't yet convinced the bogeyman is fictional. Best of all, there's a bulk discount, for when the non-standard additives you ingest as you nervously nibble at your nails become addictive! $5.75 for 1-2 sets, discounted onward to $5 for 25 sets. Settle your Christmas shopping right now! [Camille]

Glow Fingernails

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Grosso's Adam & Eve Flash Drives are unusually stylish and sleek looking relative to even conventional fashion flash drives. Each is made from African Mahogany or African Blackwood and studded with genuine diamonds. The drives come in the shapes of a bitten apple, a cross, or a rectangle, with a solid gold clasp, and will ship in October. Prices will start at $300 and top out at $1000. [Camille]

Adam & Eve Flash Drives [via Luxist]

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A fridge is one thing, but cold beer is quite another. But why not both? The HomePub™ provides way more space as your usual bar fridge, plus a dispenser pump on the outside for you to stream frosty cold brew without opening the front and wasting precious cool molecules. Inside, it holds 301 litres net volume, freezes 5kg in 24 hours, and has two vegetable crispers for celery and... more celery. It also has a pretty spiffy looking stainless steel finish. But mainly, it's about the beer. [Camille]

HomePub™ [via Crave]

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When a person is giving you a massage, the amount of control you have over how much yelling you can do about what you want done is totally proportionate to how much (that is, at all) you're paying them to give you an elaborate backrub. If you're willing to put out $5800, you can yell all you want at the Voice-activated Robo Massage Chair. This evil-overlord-looking black leather contraption does head-to-toe massages and comes with 5 pre-set programs, which can be modified with up to 20 preferences. Its 3d roller mechanism adjusts to give a deeper or lighter massage on your command. You'll feel just like you're being palpitated by dextrous Cylons. [Camille]

Voice-activated Robo Massage Chair

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The Elmosapien mod from Robots Rule is unusually unsettling. They've taken a Wowee Robosapien and shoved it into the guts of an Elmo hand puppet, which they've then programmed to speak a new set of language. There's nothing inherently wrong with any of this, but if you look at the video after the jump you'll probably agree that those glowing red eyes where Elmo's Adam's apple should be somehow suggest he's got a malevolent goiter. Watch at your own peril. [Camille]

Elmosapien [via Gizmodo]

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Don't grab that kettle the wrong way - it's hot! You know so because it's a Response Kettle that changes colour according to how heated the water within is. Sitting at room temperature, the embellishment is blue, but as the kettle heats, it slowly shifts to a bright warning red. So if you've got line-of-sight on the kettle but aren't close enough to hear it whistle, or want your tea water in the sub-boiling territory as to not scald the leaves, the Response Kettle is for you. [Camille]

Response Kettle [via ChipChick]

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Whoever Master Chief may be, you can show you love with the Halo 3 Mimobots that'll hit the streets October 18. Available in the gray Master Chief, or blue or red Spartan varieties, these authorized drives will be packed with behind-the-scenes Halo 3 goodies, artwork, and an episode of "This Spartan Life". Comes in 1GB, 2GB or 4GB, and like all Mimobots, both creepy and cute. [Camille]

Halo 3 Mimobots

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While we're not yet with the technology to make Star Wars style lightsabers that are essentially a sharp beam of light, we can do the Futurama-type police batons that are basically a lit-up billyclub. LaserSaber lets you make an expensive flashlight out of a laser in a Star Wars-style (not associated with Lucasfilm blah blah blah) base. You purchase a laser separately and install it in the LaserSaber, and then when you turn on your laser, it does indeed remarkably resemble a lightsaber. But it still won't cut anyone's hand off. $96. [Camille]

LaserSaber

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Did you know Hello Kitty is (probably) older than you? (Than us Shiny girls, anyhow.) To celebrate her 33rd birthday, Sanrio is releasing a very limited edition set of Solid gold Hello Kitty playing cards. Her sublime mouthlessness is laminated onto slices of gold that are only 7 microns thick - the result of some super-tech developed by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation. The cards are sealed with gaily coloured laminates showing Hello Kitty in various outlandish costumes. The back face of the cards shows her against a Union Jack in an apple shape, referencing that Hello Kitty was born in London, is five apples tall, and weighs three apples. (A smurf, on the other hand, is three apples high, and if boiled, turns into gold - possibly that's what these cards are made from.) Each set is about £2500. [Camille]

Solid gold Hello Kitty playing cards

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