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By Evan Ackerman

Those damn squirrels. Every time they eat a nut, they keep a tree from growing, which is pretty much exactly the same as cutting down a tree with a chainsaw, setting fire to it, and then injecting the ashes directly into the ozone layer. So, it’s good to see that the old fashioned nut-powered squirrel has been replaced with a much more eco-friendly version that runs on solar power. Just stick him outside somewhere that gets sun during the day, and at night, you’ll have yourself a glowing squirrel. And having a glowing squirrel is very, very important, for a truly marvelous reason which this margin is too narrow to contain.

The Solar Illuminated Squirrel is $55.

[ Eco-Lights ] VIA [ Nerd Approved ]

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Check it out, all you budding G. Gordon Liddys — if the usual assortment of spy gadgets isn’t doing the job, Sony’s got something in the works that should be right up your alley. According to a little site called Siliconera, Sony’s European arm has filed a patent for a remote-controlled car uses the PSP as an interface. This bad boy is equipped with a camera that feeds video back to the hand held and allows the user to upload the footage to a website. If that weren’t all, the patent makes mention of an augmented reality racing game incorporating virtual markers and paths that the players physically create — that is, the junk in your apartment is incorporated into on-screen game play. Innocent fun, right? Well, perhaps — at least until Iran gets involved. They’re still pretty bent by the whole squirrel thing.

[Via Joystiq]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Whenever I go camping I’m happy to walk away from my cellphone, computer and the small arsenal of electronics I carry with me every day, but the one thing I refuse to leave behind is my deep fryer. You thought freshly caught salmon was delicious? Try deep frying it. And while squirrel cooked over an open fire is ok, after just a minute in the deep fryer it’s like nature’s real candy.

Thankfully Coleman’s Frywell portable fryer makes it easy to travel with 6 quarts of boiling oil since it comes with a metal basket that can not only hold up to a pound of food, but also features a collapsing handle so the whole thing can fold up for easy storage. It’s also powered by a standard 16-ounce propane cylinder which means you don’t need to carry a generator just so you can enjoy delicious beer battered raccoon. The Frywell is available on the Coleman website for $159.99.

[ Coleman Frywell Portable Fryer ] VIA [ BallerHouse ]

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Flush with the success of its G13 gameboard, Logitech is now creating a whole series of peripherals that will all work together to celebrate the seventh letter of the alphabet. The G-series line includes a new $199 G19 keyboard, offering a 320 x 240 color LCD mounted on top and 12 “G-keys” that can have up to three macros assigned to each. Next up is the $129 G35, a 7.1 surround-sound headset with integrated “voice-morphing” options for those who’d rather sound like a space squirrel than domestic gamer. Finally, there’s a new flavor of the G9 mouse, dubbed the G9x, which loses the photo-overlay in favor of a maximum DPI of 5000 — that’s a whole 1800 more than before! Those extra dots will set you back $99 when the G9x releases in April, while the keyboard and headset should come about a month earlier.