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Coming in great handy if you were to ever become lost at sea…with a computer. The USB Morse Code Machine, from who else but useless USB gadget masters Thanko, helps you to master the lost art of Morse Code. Teaching you to dot and dash until you can’t dot and dash no more.

Soon enough you’ll be having full conversations in Morse Code, with any else who’s listening having no idea what the hell that damn beeping noise is. Score one for mystery.

Editor Note: This is in fact a USB mobile charger. It resembles a morse code machine so much, even we geniuses were fooled! Psh, it happens. Thanks for pointing that out Steve! — Andrew Dobrow

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Here’s a pretty cool little DIY idea from some guy on the Hacked Gadgets forum. For whatever reason, he has made a Morse Code Oscillator out of an Altoids can. It’s usefulness is questionable and it’s appearance is interesting, to put it nicely. The maker of the Oscillator says there is still problems he’s working out, such as an over heating issue, but he hopes to clear it up by changing some components with different materials. All in all, the Altoid Oscillator is Dangerously useless (couldn’t help ourselves, but to make an Altoids joke). Other then the fact that the main component is a container for a popular mint, it looks decently LoFi enough to pull off the DIY chic. — Andrew Dobrow

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