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Thanko USB Morse Code Machine: Can You Dot Me Now?

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 ...

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MP3 Watch wirelessly broadcasts to Car Radio with FM Transmitter

Before you run out and buy a FM transmitter for your iPod, consider this. This MP3-playing Watch comes with its own FM Transmitter. The watch has everything built in to have tunes blaring through your car stereo whenever you want them too. And although there has been other wirelessly transmitting MP3 watches, the difference with this one is that it ...

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Swim with your iPod Shuffle and bone-conduction headphones

When we want music, we want music everywhere, some of us even want it underwater, so somebody created the underwater MP3 player. The problem of listening to music underwater is that the earphone lines are going to tangle, let alone the fact that your ears would feel uncomfortable because of the super tight earbuds; another danger would actually be not ...

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Japanese lantern also dubbed as speaker

Japanese lanterns look great, the only problem is that they use candles, and they’re made of wood and paper. How about having something that looks pretty much exactly the same as those lanterns, saves the candles, can be powered via USB and also dubbed as an external speaker? That’s right, you can pick up one of these for 37USB from ...

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Bodybuilding with your mouse

Not sure if you have ever heard of EMS (electrical muscle stimulation), it’s basically using an external electrical source to stimulate your muscles to work, hence mimicking the very act of working out. Not sure if it works, and not sure how well it works. Anyway, some Japanese company is combining this with your mouse, so you would have EMS ...

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Pick up your bone conduction headphones and start looking like a dork today

If you see someone on the street wearing headphones in front of the ears but not over the ears, that person is probably not crazy but probably the smartest dude around here, because he’s using Thanko’s Vonia bone conduction headphones. Instead of pumping sound into your ear canal, it relies on the part of temporal bone in front of your ...

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Thanko USB Wiimote Charger

Thanko Japan’s USB Wiimote Charger is something many gamers have been waiting for. Having to go out to the store to buy new batteries twice a week just isn’t cutting it for us Wii players. The USB Charger comes with a cradle, a special Nickel battery, and a battery cover compatible with the charger. The charger works on any USB ...

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New MP4 Watch Tells Time, Too

Thanko’s new MP4 watch has many more functions than the name implies. While you can watch video on its spacious 4cm x 4cm screen (well, spacious for a wristwatch, anyway), it also plays mp3s, records audio in mp3 format, displays still images, and even tells the time. With up to 2GB of storage, this would make an excellent spy listening ...

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