Today at Boing Boing Gadgets , we applauded Microsoft's attempts at creating an booze detecting bar countertop , and so we did as we usually do. We ridiculed the photoshop disasters of Lexar and puked in our mouths a little about e-mail notification lamps.Beschizza considered buying a rug covered in roadkill and lusted after Nokia's WiMax tablet . We even looked at totally stupid weaponry , a Final Fantasy Tactics clone by Square Enix for your clickwheel iPod. Meanwhile, Beschizza commenced a flurry of posting. To be fair, his first post's title was a bit obvious , but he quickly reached his stride as he wrote about LEGO clones of the 1970s, a novelty electric chair and a tiny little Korean monitor for corralling your contact lists . Joel looked at a wonderful steampunk (read: "stimpank!") mouse while a network admin held San Francisco hostage with his own Dr. Strangelove style Doomsday Device. Joel looked at a not-so-humble four track and a new Casio that perfectly captures the rust-aesthetic of Star Wars . RFID allows an elderly Japanese wife to have an unsettling discussion with her dead husband. The early BBS cowboys were re-examined through the antiquarian literature of GIF News . We chuckled over cornflakes at XKCD's oh-so-true take on piracy , and tested it with some rotgut served in Rob's tacky Pac-Man shot glass set .Our thirst for alcohol temporarily satisfied, we looked to slake our thirst for violence, and fell in love with a Mac vs. PC video that was one part Reservoir Dogs . A walking house was discovered, although it was slightly disappointing and nowhere near as arachnid-like as we'd all hoped. Beschizza liked an iPhone speaker system that looks like an old console pulled out of a Buck Rogers episode. Swoon.Brownlee found a Terminator skull DVD player and a pair of color changing spectacles only David Pescovitz could ever get away with wearing. There was a stupendous set of home-made steampunk goggles and a wonderfully morbid hangman lamp. Google added WiFi geolocation to its services, and the Nintendo World Store has a hard drive Wii . And that's not even to mention an invasion by LEGO bots .And the headline of the day was: I have no mouth and I must bark. Link
