Ice Cream Sandwich

The classic, and edible, types:

Homemade, but sadly not by me...
Cheesecake ice cream, plus caramel !

Recipe from the nice lady @ Triple Scoops
(click to go there)

Storebought...
This chocolate-chocolate one is a winner.

@ Lord & Taylor's cafe, NYC
(click to go there)

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versus the newest (non-edible) type:




Google's new OS, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich.
(not quite sure why...)

The new features tempt me; they seem quite jazzy:

- visual voicemail
- incognito mode
- panorama camera
- time lapse images
- photo editor
- beam data transfer
- more wireless access
- plus 'Peoples' & other apps

VERDICT:
Cool new product. And lets hope it will be unlike my other OS's and my other ice cream sandwiches, and won't ever 'freeze up'. :)

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Unveiling their new symbol @ Google's office:



For TT's 'Ice Cream' day
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Zoom Zoom Zoom

Electric unicycle with a stabilizer !



SoloWheel is balanced by a gyroscope, and its supposed to be easy to ride, like a Segway. I love riding on a Segway, and this works the same way - Solowheel accelerates when you lean forward and slows down when you lean back:



Going downhill the battery recharges, so you can go up to 12 mph, and get more than two hours on a charge.

I have e-unicycle envy... I want one.

Anyone have a spare $1800 I can borrow?

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Fresh Take on Old Spice

I have a confession.
I mute all TV ads, even for shows & products that I like.

But rules were made to be broken, and
for these Old Spice ads I made an exception:

*first 12 secs appear normal...


Quick visual tricks and nonsense? = worth viewing.

Now here's
'Behind the Scenes' as they film a new one

... all in *one* take: (in the first minute)



If they go to that much trouble, I'll pay attention.
Even if I have no idea what that 'spice' smells like.

Now, a non-Spice, but still fun: NY Fest winner, 40 sec

All for fun, & TT's Spice day.
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Wearing A See-Thru Shirt

Now everyone will be able to sneak a peek... as long as you keep your battery charged.



A camera on the back linked to an LCD on front.
Makes a 'Portal' costume, inspired by the game.

Cool - you can see what's behind inventor Ben Heck.

The real fun part? You could win it.
Enter Here, by Friday, Nov. 5, for the chance to win an autographed portal t-shirt created by Ben & Jason.

p.s. When you get to the 'quiz'?...
The Answer is {C.} Tweezers

Hm, He could sell millions to golfers,
as their 'Hole In One' Halloween costume.
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Agitating Aquatic Animals

This is Yan Lu's new 'water conservation' invention. It fools aqua-wasters by making it appear that the goldfish's water is being drained to wash your hands. Its water is actually pumped to a hidden reservoir.

Yes, its an interesting trick, but I'm sure it freaks the fish out to have its life support pumped half-away every time a human turns up.

Or how about the life of these Asian fish:

*seen in market in Kowloon

Can goldfish die of stress?

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But at least Goldie's safer than these crabs:



Yes, live crabs in a vending machine.
This gizmo is in a subway station in Shanghai. Do they pocket a live crab or two before boarding the train? And what's in those bottles at the bottom? Sauce?, or beer, or maybe an aquatic anesthetic?

I can just see the headline:

SE Asia Watery Wildlife Worried Weekly

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Cool Wave Pool

Smart water trick makes shapes with waves.

Now they've rigged it in a regular pool, see video:

via Geekologie:


'AMOEBA' (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), is a water tank created by Mitsui that is able form images, and 'volcanos', with waves.

Could make playing word games at a pool party fun.

Suppose it would work in a tank of mojitos?

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Satisfyingly Sunny

This lucky ducky passively promotes smiles in miles of rivers on four continents. Now its here for TT's yellow day!

^{*click for pages of pics of the places it's been}

For action lovers - the Yellow Cube Machine:




And for people who just love being perplexed,
A demo of a (yellow!) non-Newtonian 'liquid':



Imagine a jr-high class getting their hands in this...

*One thing's bugging me - that guy at the end reminds me of an odd old cartoon character - can't quite place who he looks like.

eta:
Ah - he's a bit like 'Kilroy', or Alice the Goon (from Popeye).

Music To Our Urls

Is your blog harmonious?...

Find out by going to the quirky site above, 'CodeOrgan'.
(new window)

Enter any url, and it will pop out a tune based on the highs and lows of the html code. This is judged by little pixies and gremlins in DLKW's own program, I assume.

My blog turned out to be a dirge. So I'm intrigued to find out if any of yours produce an awesome anthem, and out-tune the rest of us.

p.s. Once you get your tune, the site lets you send your result to facebook, or tweet it to your pals... or your enemies. Make haste!

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To My Delight He Came

Mabel & hubby Alexander Graham Bell
(ha - inventor of the phone married MaBel :)

My post-title comes from Bell's famous notebook ( actual page) where he talks about Watson and the first telephone call. As handy as that invention is, we're not talking about that part right now.

Instead, a Theme Thursday Bell quote:

'Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally...'

He took his own advice and began inventing kites.

...at age 60, & throughout the rest of his life.

*some of these lifted men off the ground easily


And some were made of silk, no less

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Bell's adage means to me:

There are always new things to try.
So we'll never be bored.

Amen to that.

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Click this kite for a website that sells a few multi-faceted kites that are based on Bell's designs. Since I have no bell at home, instead I'll fly one to honor Barry's last chemo!
Spring Fever, anyone? ;-)

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Mirror, Mirror, on the desk

Now my computer will get no rest.
Sounds great - just wave your umbrella at the MIR:ROR disc and 'voila' it tells you if you really need it that day. Your kid waves his keys at it as he walks in the door, and you get an email that he's home safe.




But then you get to this part...

'Your friends can send messages to any of your objects'

...'What??'...

So my BFF can IM to my Mr. Coffee: 'Decaf Only!'?
And my SO can text the DVR to tivo 'Jersey Shore'?!


Hm. 'Brave New World', my @ss. I think I'll live without any input from know-it-all appliances that are busy chatting up my pals, thanks. ;-)

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More 'sounds like Geek to me' readings:

link: MIR:RORs are made by Violet.net
wikipedia explains RFID/ Radio Freq ID tags
link: Turn RFID readers into toys

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link to more Theme Thurs posts: 'Mirror'

nubile Brezhnev

Wait, come back! - No funky history lesson, honest.
And no pics of that Ruskie as a young man either, because, 'Ew'.

The image above is just a screen-cap of the oddest captcha (word verification) that I ran into this week.

But since nowadays, it seems like the chosen words are more closely linked to the content of what I'm viewing - Where did this one come from?

I assure you I wasn't browsing bloomin' bushy-browed Bolsheviks.

I was actually looking at blogs w/ clips of quirky pets.

So unless a lot of people named their pups, or maybe their platypii, after past Soviet leaders, I'm stumped. Anyone?

p.s.

Isn't there a site that collects strange captchas?...

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Hm. No. Not even if said pet had giant eyebrows.



Imagine yelling 'Yasser! or Brezhie! out the front door...

* of course, they won't come... they're dead

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_{info credit, Wikipedia and Wiktionary, thanks!}

Twoddlers Twitter

TweedleDum and TweedleDee
can go high Twech



Yes, you heard that right, a Belgian university group set up a toddler toy so every touch on its board sends a 'tweet' to the web. Are the Belgian taxpayers proud, or what?

Love that the newsies decided that Jr's tweets were:

'I miss you'...
....'I wanna play'...
...'I'm having a tantrum !'

Stair Down

Normally I don't grab the handrail but...

sea-sick stair


tightly tucked-in stair, via marieclaire


can you imagine if you forgot something?


Yes, its skateboards


I'd think you'd -twang- going up or down


'floating' staircases...


who needed to go up this rock that badly?


KPMG building (Munich) staircase

Here's A Toast?

Odd toasters I've run across recently
*click* images to go to original links.

I see it now; my toaster lacks ambition.

A Truly Hot Pad

...but nothing to do with cooking.

(*click* for their site)

I love wireless recharging - no plugs.


You get a matching 'skin' (from Wildcharge) and set your phones/pdas down when they need more juice. That's it, no need to find a cord for any of them because it holds multiple pdas at once. And now 'ta-da' they released a powerup skin for the newest iPhone...

Cool.

Now I can justify getting a new phone, right?