Bastard Japanese Toliet Prank

Japanese toilet prank 

The Japanese have a strange concept of humor. It must be because of the lack of land available for living on or all the anime that is over there. Whatever it is, it produces this:

TV crew sets up a porta-loo (toilet) at popular locations in Japan and booby traps it with a uplifting surprise! Users get caught absolutely off guard with the ten second trap… Absolutely hilarious!!!A must see is at the end of the video, where a fast boat trip absolutely finishes off all the poor victims!

I mean, if you did this in the US you would become lawyer fodder faster than you can say whiplash.

Hilarious Toliet Prank!

Credit Card Money-clip

Credit card money clip I like this a lot. What more could you need while out on the town? Ok, your ID would be handy but in this post 9/11 world your never without it anyway, right? You have credit for the dinner and cash for the tip. Classy.

[via Core77 Design]

 (The link is a Flash site so you have to dig for the goods. Silly designer, you think they would know better.)

Credit card money-clip

HX-2142 – Micro DV Recorder

Now, this could be used for things like R/C airplanes, model rockets, and just to have in your backpack in case your buddy makes an ass of himself while your out drinking. Its got a 300K pixel CMOS sensor and 2MB of built in memory but you can stick a 64 MB SD/MMC card in it. It can only do 20 min of 20 fps video at 320×240 but  if you want better quality  at a lower frame rate (12fps) you can shoot at 640×480. Ok, it’s not going to replace your camcorder but you have to admit, it darn small. Looks cool!

[via red ferret] 

Micro DV Recorder

Chumby

Chumby

I was reading Hack-a-day this morning and saw that there is a new ultra cool hacker friendly device called a Chumby. The Chumby is a wifi enabled iPod’ish PDA like appliance that

Hardware:
266 MHz ARM controller (the MX21 by Freescale)
32 MB SDRAM running at 133 MHz bus speed
64 MB NAND FLASH ROM
320×240 3.5″ TFT LCD with PWM-controlled LED backlighting
Stereo 2W speakers
Headphone output
Ambient light sensor
Bend sensor (to pick up when you squeeze the chumby)
Two USB 2.0 ports, one on the main board and one on the outerware electronics
WiFi connectivity via a USB dongle plugged into the main board
Circuitry to detect the presence of wall adapter power and auto-fallback to backup battery power
Switching power supply network that can eat between 6V and 14V
Available microphone input on the chumbilical bus
Available SPI bus on the chumbilical bus
Serial debug port set to 115200 8N1

[via Christine.net, Scottjanousek ,hack a day]

Chumby