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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/8/2008

Spy calculator is watching you account - Boing Boing Gadgets

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spycalc.jpg Seen on an average, everyday desk, Chinavision's calculator would be a discreet example of technological banality, its design exactly as functional now as when the molds that made it were forged in 1983. But this isn't just a calculator: it is a spy calculator. The camera is tiny and ...

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tv.boingboing.net - 10/6/2008

Boing Boing TV

— 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 ... (more) Boing Boing TV

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/15/2008

Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — 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 ... (more) Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/8/2008

A strange and wonderful wooden safe - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — 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 ... (more) A strange and wonderful wooden safe - Boing Boing ...

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Chinavision Calculator is spy camera; now I’ve seen everything
SlashGear — ... a standard calculator but it also has a small camera mounted on the side that spies on whatever is going on to the side of you. This camera no doubt records in bad quality video, but that’s okay. This is just meant to be a little spy gadget anyway. We don’t know the specs for this one, but it could be a decent way to make sure no one is stealing your pens or office paper. Even so, the cool factor is knocked down several pegs due to the $193 price tag. [via Boing Boing Gadgets] ...

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 ...