Now You Can Download My Head!
Good news, everybody! My head, scanned at Makerbot Industries by artist Jon Monaghan with a high-resolution laser scanner, is now a Thing, available for everyone to own, covet, and place into terrible places.
That’s right: I’m now 3D-printable.
This 3MB file is all you need to download and print my head on your own rapid prototyping machine. Why not add rabbit ears or a longer nose? Why not give me pustules or place me on the hood of your old Ford Fairmont. Why not use me in a puppet play that is a weird and obtuse commentary on the banality of human existence. Why not use me as a sex toy? I’m game.
I’m not sure how I feel right now about this, but it’s a fascinating exercise. To think that my profile can eventually be printed in life size and/or an android mask can be made in my visage is humbling and a little scary. Why me? Why now? Why am I so puffy?
I can’t answer these questions, friends. But the future is here.
iChatr: Chatroulette for the iPhone
Oh, Internet, is there anything you can’t do? iChatr, a new app for the iPhone, is essentially Chatroulette for the iPhone. It’s pretty barren right now – I saw the same people once or twice – but the quality is pretty good and if you have a Sing-a-ma-jig, you can actually make dour iPhone 4 users smile. To move to the next person you simply swipe their face.
The app is free and was made by SKJM. It uses the iPhone 4’s front camera and makes an ad hoc connection with another camera on the network. It works over Wi-Fi.
Give it a try right now before it becomes a haven for masticators.
See through PermaFLOW drain is a boon to the hirsute
Listen, people, what you pour down your drain is your own business. But when you come to my house and wash down like fifteen pounds of hair and a pipe cleaner (you know who you are) then you’re on my S-list. Thankfully, there’s this thing.
The trick is that this thing has a turnable wiper that pushes goop out of the pipe and lets you grab wedding rings, bullet shells, and other precious items by pushing them out of the trap and up into the main pipe where you can grab them with a hook or your long, sticky proboscis.
It’s made of plastic, which could break eventually, but unless you’re manufacturing meth you’re probably not running much through the drain on a daily basis.
Put some of the powder on my lips, Bill.
Thanko’s USB powered, Dinosaur foot-shaped slipper keeps your feet warm
OK, now the USB gadget craze gets really silly. Tokyo-based crap USB accessory maker Thanko has been selling USB-powered slippers and gloves that are supposed to keep you warm in the past, but the new model, Dinosaur foot-shaped slipper(s) [JP] (of all things), is probably the silliest.
The thing isn’t only suitable for your feet, but can apparently serve as a warm bed for your pets, too (as Thanko shows in their official promo pics – see below). There’s a heater placed in the slipper, which is powered by USB, meaning the thing is even more useless without a PC in the vicinity.
Thanko is selling the Dinosaur foot slipper in their Japanese online store now. If you live outside Japan, head over to Geek Stuff 4 U and get them for $31.64 plus shipping.
