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By The Man in Blue

(Via Etre)

I don’t wear a watch, they kinda feel like chrono-shackles holding me down. However, I do like shiny things so I’m often tempted by them… the new Casio G-Shock G8100A-5 is eyecatching, it’s made in this bronze colour to tap into the current zeitgeist regarding steampunk. Don’t get me wrong, some of the genuine mods are breathtaking but it’s all about materials… steampunk this ain’t, the things got a plastic strap.

(Via Oh Gizmo)

I don’t have much time for the mass produced, especially when it cheapens a genuinely creative movement. But in defense of retro plastic watches here’s some beauties from the archives of Watchismo.com.

Fine work by Betz White

(Technabob via Gizmondo)

Here’s a thought… fancy a facia on your window?
The scroll bar blind is a nice touch, and the blind itself is the dreaded BSoD screen… Nice.

(Via Gizmondo)

There’s an epic collection at Boingboing.

A group at the Carnigie Melon University have developed a miniature biocompatible camera-bot to investigate your internals, apparently the key was insect emulation… who knew?

(Article at Daily Galaxy)

This Way

(Via Dump Trumpet)

For some considerable time I’ve maintained the viewpoint that what board games really need right now to shake things up a bit would be a product which seamlessly combines everyone’s favourite 8-bit primate with the sheer visceral thrill of gently tugging uniformly-shaped pieces of wood from a precarious tower.

Step forward American board game manufacturer USAopoly, who’ve only gone and done the impossible: released a version of Jenga themed around Donkey Kong! What’s more, they’ve even introduced a brand new game mode in which you “climb the girders with your Mario mover” in a vain effort to save Pauline from the eponymous barrel-hurling subhuman.

Sounds very exciting: and indeed, the manufacturers guarantee “edge-of-your-seat excitement”, something which you just don’t get with a standard Jenga set.

(Via Kotaku)

These brilliant dinosaur lamps are a new addition to the Brando website, they come as 16 piece polypropylene DIY kit and can be yours for $26+$3 worldwide shipping…

Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops

(Via Neatorama)

On 10th September (the same day the Large Hadron Collider powers up) the European Space Agency is launching the GOCE (or the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Explorer… if you have time). It’s a superaccurate gravity mapping satellite which will hopefully teach us humans some interesting stuff… at the very least it’ll locate all of those gravity eating lizard ghosts.

The GOCE is the first in a series of Earth Exploring satellites – it’s companions will be CRYOSAT, SMOS, AEOLUS and the excellently-named SWARM. Five satellites in orbit with names like that – the European Space Agency have not confirmed that the quintuplet will merge to form a giant alien-battling robot in times of distress, but only because it’s so obvious it doesn’t need to be said.

(Via Daily Galaxy)