Face Mug looks different

Now look at this mug – it is definitely a totally different design from what you’ve seen before, as it will surely make your guests sit up whenever you serve them coffee with this. The Face Mug, as it is obviously and affectionately called, might cost a rather pricey $18, but at least it comes with a hungry mouth orifice that allows you to hang a cookie from it, making it ideal for serving milk as well as cookies, or you can always opt to throw in coffee and doughnuts if that’s your cup of tea (pun not intended). Of course, there is no provision made to contain those crumbs as you chew on the cookies, and it won’t be able to hold as much coffee as some of you might prefer. At least the white ceramic in which it comes in can be artistically painted over by the more enterprising of folks out there.

Victorinox introduces Slim, Slim Duo and Secure SSD USB devices

Victorinox has long been a staple name where Swiss Army Knives are concerned, and it is nice to see the company keep up with the times with their latest range of devices for the ever hungry mass market – we’re talking about the Slim, Slim Duo and Secure SSD USB devices. For those of you who managed to attend this year’s CES and made up part of the 140,000 entourage there, you might have chanced upon Victorinox’s booth. Well, good news if you didn’t manage to simply because there wasn’t enough time to cover the showfloor – at least we are able to bring you official word on a trio of new products – the Victorinox Slim, Victorinox Slim Duo and the Victorinox Secure SSD.

The new Slim range will comprise of an advanced USB flash drive that will cater to the more utilitarian man, as well as those who are frequent travelers since flight friendly versions are also available. Just like how you love to be unique yourself, these will come in a range of its very own designs, colors and slim dimensions alongside data storage of up to 128GB. For those who are wondering where can they lay their eyes upon the world’s smallest 256GB SSD (solid state drive), look no further as Victorinox’s Secure SSD (as pictured above) is where the money’s at, delivering three times faster read speed and more than double write speed when compared with standard high speed USB Flash devices.

As for the Victorinox Slim and Victorinox Slim Duo, both of these additions will combine portable data storage in the form of a USB device alongside a standard Victorinox pocket knife that will boast various functions such as blades, nail file and scissors – of course, as mentioned earlier, you can always look for the flight friendly version if you’re part of the globetrotter clique. Both of these puppies are waterproof and shock resistant, so don’t fret whenever you drop it by accident due to your boss walking up on you while you were surfing some NSFW sites. Since life is not in black and white, you can always choose from different colors such as red, blue, orange, pink, green and silver.

Epson PowerLite D6150, D6155W, and D6250 offer sufficient bang for your buck

Epson is back with a trio of more projectors that intend to blow your mind (and eyes) away, thanks to the following models – the PowerLite D6150, D6155W, and D6250, where either one of the three will be able to deliver sufficient bang for your hard earned money, although there are minor differences among the three in which we will look at in greater detail right after the jump. Part of the now famous Epson PowerLite D6000 series, these robust projectors will target the higher education sector, where they will deliver high brightness and exceptional picture quality with a dust resistant design, a 10,000 hour electrostatic filter and lamp life of 5,000 hours so that you (or your organization) need not blow the bank while owning it.

The Epson PowerLite D6150 is capable of delivering 3,500 lumens of color and white light output with XGA resolution. As for the PowerLite D6155W, this puppy will release 3,500 lumens of color and white light output with WXGA resolution for widescreen content. Last but not least would be the PowerLite D6250, featuring 4,000 lumens of color and white light output with XGA resolution.

Among the shared features that the Epson PowerLite D6150, D6155W and D6250 share when it comes to the higher education arena would include an extremely robust design, where they are dust resistant while sporting exhaust vent shutters that make these projectors work just fine even in dusty environments. An electrostatic filter with a 10,000 hour life and lamp life of up to 5,000 hours using Epson’s exclusive E-TORL lamp technology will also translate to a relatively low total cost of ownership. As for its cable cover, that will help protect connectors from dust and prevent uninvited tampering. With HDMI and USB connectivity, you can be sure that digital audio and video can be transferred seamlessly, although we’re quite sure that some of you out there would prefer to see wireless streaming capability – perhaps in the next iteration of the 6000 series, hmmm?

The Epson PowerLite D6150, D6155W and D6250 will retail for $1,649, $1,799 and $1,799 as all three will hit the market in April later this year.

Check out the Lunchtime Lengthening Clock

You don’t have to work for the “man” long to know how slow the clock moves during worktime, and how fast it goes during lunch.

Fortunately, this Lunchtime clock is designed to speed up twenty percent at 11 AM and then slows down twenty percent at 11:48, which adds 12 precious minutes to lunch.

This will allow for an extra hour worth of lunch for the whole week. Not only that , it will be back in sync in 1:00 PM real time when the 1:12 PM lunchbreak ends.

There is sadly no way to buy this thing at the store, but you can find out how to make one at my Source Link. Unfortunately, there isn’t any instruction how to make it as a digital clock.

Now, here is the real problem, whether or not your boss will fall for that. Of course, I lose track of the clock all the time, and as long the time eventually caught up with itself, would anyone even notice? Let’s just put it this way: would you be willing to bet your job over it?

I wonder where else I can use this? Perhaps I can shave time off of football games. Of course, the clock stops and starts all the time, so who would notice?

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Meco Press creates giant Lego blocks made of mud

What you are seeing here is not a Lego block, but a building brick made of mud.

A CEO named Thierry Perrocheau has come up with a method that will allow people in third world countries to build homes and other buildings out of a material that they have a lot of: Mud.

These bricks are made with a Meco Press. With a little bit of binding material and a whole lot of mud, you have a stacking brick. It looks like the brick only come in one size: 1 x 4 x 4.

The Press could be used to construct blocks in eighty percent of the known world. I wonder if this guy is going to make his Meco Press in all shapes of Lego pieces. That would be an interesting way to build a house: just follow the Lego house from the catalog.

Unfortunately, it takes about 30 minutes to create one of these blocks. From there, it is possible for the user to create structures that are two stories tall.

All in all, I hope to see more of this. As my source says, who wouldn’t want a construction site where materials are found on the site itself? Perhaps a machine could be made to make building materials out of anything.

Dog Dung Vacuum

Caring for Fido is no mean task – not only do you need to make sure that your pooch is potty trained around the house (be it indoors or outdoors), you will also need to make sure that your four-legged friend is well behaved in private and in public, where going through an obedience class is more often than not something most dog owners should take up if they want to have an outstanding canine citizen. When it comes to the issue of poop, I am still amazed that there are people out there who do not bother to pick up after their own dog, so if you know someone like that, perhaps getting the Dog Dung Vacuum might do them a world of good (while dropping a subtle hint, of course). This device will vacuum your pet’s waste into a disposable bag, doing away with the need to bend over and scoop the excrement by hand. This is made possible thanks to a 30,000-rpm motor that makes quick work of sucking up dog waste from grass, concrete, or even snow-covered ground into a plastic bag that removes for ease of disposal. A 12-hour charge offers up to 50 suction moments, making every penny of the $99.95 spent on this well worth it.

Epson PowerLite 1835 projector unveiled

Epson has pulled up the curtains that have been hiding the PowerLite 1835 projector all this while, where this model will target both the corporate and higher education markets by delivering setup flexibility, future proof connectivity, advanced networking, 3,500 lumens of color and white light output and XGA resolution, all rolled into a single package. It isn’t too expensive either at $1,199 a pop accompanied by a two year limited warranty, so if your company or home is in need of a new projector without having to think about wireless HDMI and all the newer technologies, then the PowerLite 1835 is shaping up to be a pretty attractive candidate.

What the Epson PowerLite 1835 delivers is setup, connectivity and networking features that is perfect for just about any boardroom or classroom, where among them include image adjustment capability that lets the horizontal keystone square the image even if the projector is placed off-center from the screen. The Quick Corner function will enable any four corners of an image to be adjusted independently for a perfectly rectangular picture. As for positioning flexibility, you will get 1.6x optical zoom that enables larger images to be viewed from shorter throw distances while doing away with the need for dead spaces. As for its 16-degree tilt, this enables images to be projected higher on the wall for better viewing anywhere in the room.

Connectivity options are aplenty – while you won’t get wireless HDMI, stock HDMI is more than capable of delivering a similar high-quality digital video and audio experience although you will still need to watch out for those snaking cables around the home, with USB Plug ‘n Play transferring image, sound and mouse control via a single cable. There is also a PC-free Presentation option, letting you access your plugged in USB memory devices sans a computer as a middleman, while an optional wireless connection allows for peer-to-peer presentations as well as advanced wireless networking.

LEGO Angry Birds

Well well, what else can we say about the Angry Birds phenomenon that seemed to have swept across the whole world, starting off with the iOS platform before it hit the other markets? Here we have the Angry Birds franchise appear in all its blocky glory, making you wonder whether that is what the game would look like if it were to be translated into an 8-bit program. We’re talking about using good old LEGO bricks to construct these Angry Birds, where the entire collection looks deadly enough if you happen to hurl them at anyone. Of course, the three little blue birds that are split from a solitary one looks far too small to be of any worth, but you know what they say – a bird in hand is worth two in the bush. The giant red bird and Mighty Eagle are missing though, but Tsang Yiu Keung, the brains (and hands) behind this, is working on both.