gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/8/2008
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bandsawsafe01-full.jpg I've read the description of Alex Schlegel's beautiful wooden safe several times, and I still have no idea quite how it works. The 13 drawers of this band-saw box rotate rather than open outward. Objects for safekeeping are placed into the large, central drawer through a ...
tv.boingboing.net - 10/6/2008
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tv.boingboing.net —
Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of
our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring...
you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. From the 17th to 19th centuries, millions of African people were sold into slavery, transported on ships ...
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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/15/2008
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Microsoft7.jpg Earlier today, Microsoft confirmed that its next
operating system, codenamed Windows 7, would in fact be...
called just that when it hits shelves at some point in the next few years. Good on 'em, I say: a simple, no-nonsense name suggests ...
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Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - ...
gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/8/2008
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md_001.jpg Here's an idea: custom wooden USB drives
with engraved designs. In this case, they've opted for...
a Mahjong theme, and it comes as either the blond-wood Lan-Xue ($490 for an 8GB stick, and $550 for 16GB) or the darker Li-Shui, which is $100 ...
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A wooden USB drive with Mah-Jongg characters - Boing ...
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A Safe So Complicated That No One Will Open It, Ever [Safes]
Gizmodo —
... into the large, central drawer through a hole in the bottom of the box. Since the arrows on the front of each drawer point toward the drawer's open side, objects may be moved from one drawer to another by first lining up the arrows on the two drawers and then rotating the entire box so that the objects fall from the first drawer to the second. Then again, maybe it's called the Band Saw Safe for a reason—the key is in the name. [Rogue Cheddar via bbGadgets]
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Today at Boing Boing Gadgets
Boing Boing —
Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, there was a Spy Calculator; a wooden safe like something from Myst; a giant ball made of vinyl records; a rugged handheld computer from Motorola; and a bizarre marble-spitting automaton.
John saw a toilet in the shape of a pipe; an ingenious Russian iPhone scam; and what can only be described as a Tamagotchi with a glory hole. He has a tank with a gothic church on top of it.
Poor-quality photos revealed what might well be the new MacBrick ...
where to put your money in this bear market
technabob —
... a hole in the bottom of the box. Since the arrows on the front of each drawer point toward the drawer’s open side, objects may be moved from one drawer to another by first lining up the arrows on the two drawers and then rotating the entire box so that the objects fall from the first drawer to the second.”
On second thought, now that I know how to get into it (and the fact that it’s made out of wood), maybe the mattress is a better idea.
[via Boing Boing Gadgets via MAKE:] ...
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