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USB Necktie

Remember those neck fans and ice packs that wrapped around your neck to keep you cool? The theory is this: cool your neck and you can cool your whole body.

Well you might want to purchase this tie if you want to cool yourself down and do it in style. The tie pulls down to reveal a fan. The fan is charged via USB found in the skinny part of the tie (which finally gives the skinny part a full use). Hence, you can plug the fan in to charge up, but when you are on the go, the fan still keeps you cool!

Best part is you don’t need to figure out a Windsor knot. This is not like the conventional clip-on tie. An elastic band around the neck, with a latch keeps people from ripping the tie off your body.

You can find the USB Cooler Necktie at Thanko. It’s only 2980 Yen (about $35 dollars). It’s in it’s 3rd generation with this tie. No mention if this comes in other colors than the burgundy red displayed in the picture.

So Apple will put together a special press event on Friday. Most people are speculating it will cover the iPhone4 antenna issue for people holding the phone in their left hand. Some say it will be a $1.5 billion recall. However, I think they will go a different route. I’ll go old school to fix my bad cell antenna issues.

This device can be applied to the back of the phone and increase the cell reception. It’s not going to fall off like any rubber bumper. Best part is it only cost $4 to apply.

Let’s go retro and get increase our signal strength, too!

Alien Abduction Lamp

Well, kids. We’ve all heard the stories. TV shows like the 4400 and movies like Independence Day talk about it. Now you can get abducted by aliens in the comfort of your own home. It’s the Alien Abduction Lamp!

This desk lamp is molded like a saucer-style spaceship and it’s beaming a cow from the ground. The best part is it’s energy efficient. Using LED technology, the beam will light up, the cockpit of the spaceship will glow either green or yellow and there are even glow-in-the-dark aliens in the cockpit.

Cows Get Abducted

The cow is apparently removable from the lamp. You could get creative that way, I suppose. Put a Star Wars figure in there, maybe a picture of a friend or family member.

The lamp is made by Tiger Global Limited and can be found at Abductionlamp.com. The website itself is pretty cool, for if you grab the ole red-blue 3D glasses, you can enable the 3D page and see the images pop out at you.

Right now it looks like the lamp is only available in the UK, Germany or Australia. But I would guess the invasion will happen in the US pretty shortly. So get ready to run.

Price is £63.97 – about $94.502881 US.

Iron Man USB

Tyme Machines, makers of licensed USB drives, launches the Iron Man USB thumb drive.  The drive is a completely sculpted replica of Tony Stark’s alter-ego, Iron Man, and is fully decked out in his new armor that sports a triangular chest plate.

Of course, this is part of an ever growing line of specialized USB drives to store and transfer music, pictures or documents. Tymemachines also offers USB drives of Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, Yoda and the Twilight emblem.

“We at Tyme Machines pride ourselves on bringing beloved characters, such as Iron Man, to life in full 3D and making them available to fans across the world,” said John McDaniel, Chief Marketing Officer of Tyme Machines.  “We expect the Iron Man 2 movie release to generate many more fans of this great superhero and feel we have created a product that any fan can be proud to tote around and show off.”

They are available for sale now on www.tymemachines.com, they range from 4GB to 32GB starting at $34.99. Expect the 32 GB to be pretty pricey, but ready to save the day in the end.

White Lightning T-shirt

Saw this shirt and just had to post. There is another shirt that has a microphone in the middle, but I think there was a hidden meaning on that, so I didn’t post.

Let’s just enjoy the look and feel of Vinyl. Thanks to White Lightning for the laugh.

Check this out – you take a video, upload it and within a few weeks you will get a notepad. But this notepad is different. It’s a flipbook of your video.

Remember the flip book? I remember taking notepads and drawing images on the bottom corner to tell a story. For the most part they were stick figures, but one time I recreated a panning of the inside of the Sistine chapel. Ok, I didn’t, but I did once make a more elaborate flip drawing.

The best part is pricing is pretty good on this. The lowest price for a single flipbook is $8.99, but if you buy in bulk, you can see $4.99 per book. Add $3 for shipping and you have a memory that can also be a great gift.

Check it out – the company’s name is Flipclips

When I first saw this I thought – Why? They’re like fingerless gloves, so why wouldn’t I get fingerless gloves? Then I realized that these were like a second glove to keep your hands warm. For that, I still said “WHY?”

For $11.95 from Archie McPhee, you too can get a tidy-widy for the left and right hand. Just hope you don’t have a bully that gives you wedgies. I suppose a little extra work for him or her, but it may keep you away from a swirly or a noogie.

Since the  handerpants are made of 95% cotton and 5% spandex, you are able to have some tight fitting shorts on your palms. Better to show off the “Hand Package” I guess. Maybe some Handercameltoe?

Then again, I prefer boxers. I’ll wait till they come out with Handerboxers. No Handerthongs, though, please.

If this isn’t creepy – Imagine in the movie “Meet the Parents”, Gaylord was playing with the Grammes URN that actually looked like Grammes. If you saw an urn shaped like the head of the dearly departed, you gotta wonder if they didn’t preserve the head and burn the rest.

Cremations Solutions is using 3D facial reconstruction to create these pots to keep the ashes of the loved ones. The skull comes off so you can get to and care for the ashes.

If you want something prettier, then Cremations Solutions will do a 3D reconstruction of your favorite celebrity (or as the website says – ‘celebraty’). Maybe Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett or Michael Jackson? Then you can say your Pop was a famous TV show sidekick, I guess.

A full size urn will run you $2,600, while the keepsake will only cost $600. To compare, a casket starts at $500. The burial plot can run you as little as $50 or more. Cremation can range from $500 and up.

I guess it all depends which way you go.

I was over at the folks house the other day. I noticed in the garage they had a metal detector tucked away.I started thinking of cool things I could find with that metal detector. Then I went back into reality and walked away. I wonder if the reason was I didn’t want to carry around that dorky item.

Now I don’t have to.

The Metal Detecting Sandals let you walk and find all the cool stuff while your hands are in your pockets. Although some people may think you are on some “Home jail” program and you might get tackled by a couple cops every now and then. But you will be able to just walk and find. Pull out the sifting net and dig.

The best part is these sandals only cost $59.95. So if you were laid off and want to be a beach bum this summer, then these sandals are for you. Just don’t walk into an airport with them on.

Well, not really. But this Toilet will definitely be a conversation piece. The Fish n Flush is an Aquarium and a Toilet all in one! Aqua One Technologies created this Kings’ throne for those who love their fish.

It’s only a 2.2 gallon Aquarium, so don’t expect to put in fish that can’t handle smaller areas.They might just get jealous of the open water in the middle because they cannot get to it, but that will pass in 3 seconds.  It might even make the time on the John a little more peaceful and serene.

You can get this tank for $224. It’s a two-bolt configuration, so make sure your current Louvre is compatible.

Biking to work is a ‘Green’ thing to do. But the bike itself may be made from harmful materials. But what if your bike was made from eco-friendly items? Like – Bamboo?

Yanko Design showed an idea with an all wood frame. The site says “There are 60,000 woody plants worldwide but we use less than 300 of them”.

The Holzweg Bike frame is made from Bamboo. It’s got a great design and even goes farther than just straight bamboo shoots. It’s even a very light frame just in case you have to haul it up a flight of stairs. Not sure on the longevity of the bike, though. You could be going through more Bamboo bikes than aluminum framed ones. Especially if someone wants to check out their karate skills on your bike.

Check out the whole design and maybe this will be the Bike

I remember when the CableCuffs showed up – being able to wrap a cable and hold it down with the cuff was a great invention. It was like Velcro, but it’s locking mechanism made it more useful in some situations. So now, picture a cuff on a hanger…

That is the Claw by Lidwig, a company that creates quick clamp technology. The Quick Clamps are great for woodworking, but the Claw is something for the everyday household.

Got a Garden hose, rope, air hose or other cable? Well, just wrap it up, put it on the Claw and hang it in the garage. Running an extension cord and want to keep it out of the way? Run it through the Claw and hang it on a nail.

The Claw is made with a Reinforced Glass Composite. That means it’s a glass fiber weaved by plastic, therefore stronger than plastic. I talked to one of their team members and they say it can hold 30 kg, or 66 lbs. If that is the case, you might even be able to hold up something like a Bicycle by using 2 clamps.

At first the site says it’s coming soon, however their Lidwig team member said I can get it through their American Distributor (EagleAmerica.com) and it says the Claw is available for order. If you are looking for a useful item that can also act as an organizer, then the Claw may be for you.