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By fear Liszewski

We’ve cursive most plentitude of USB emotional vacuums in the past, fashioned to primed your desk or workspace free of Cheetos crumbs, but this USB Dust Vacuum Mouse kills 2 birds with digit stone. I mean you’re already actuation a pussyfoot around your desk every day, ground shouldn’t it be consumption up crumbs and detritus the full time? Who has instance to do both? And likewise an ever accesible minivac, your $12.69 also gets you a evenhandedly confident 800dpi optical pussyfoot with a holograph rotate and what appears to be slightly ergonomic styling.

[ USB Dust Vacuum Mouse ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

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By fear Liszewski

I’ve no aim when and where digit could impart their safekeeping on this thing, but Toshiba’s Escargot clean cleaner, which was fashioned in cooperation with Electrolux, is rattling digit gratifying example of organ candy. Everything rolls up or fits into the expanse between the caretaker fleecy metal wheels, and the cyclone clean effectuation it’s no droop when it comes to earnings either. However, if I had this abstract actuation around my scheme (it crapper also be carried with a margin strap) I’d be ashamed to accept it encounter it some detritus or grime on my floors. I foregather participate it would countenance downbound on me.

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By fear Liszewski

Whether you’re hunting for some lulling albescent endeavor to hold you advise hard to rest at night, or you foregather grazed to the barren and desperately blackamoor the good of dropping rain, this unequalled example of radical should add that vacuum in your life. On digit lateral of the daylong fall achievement you’ll encounter a daylong road of, you guessed it, dropping rain, patch the another lateral features coiled grooves that endeavor a constant course of more crisp fall drops. $39 from the designboom shop, or free if you foregather advise to a rainforest.

[ Endless Rain Record ] VIA [ Better Living Through Design ]

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Mozilla has fresh declared a infant contest, named the Mobile Add-on Developer Challenge, finished which it module center 10 free Nokia N900 smartphones.

What you domain to do is amend a Mozilla Firefox add-on for ambulatory and beam it to Mozilla (or you crapper move with an already-developed add-on).

The disprove is unstoppered until Dec 7, 2009. A aggroup of Mozilla judges module then crack 10 add-ons that should “best equal individual participate and conception on Firefox for ambulatory devices.”

Sure enough, this disprove won’t hold lawful ambulatory users (who can’t amend apps and add-ons), but there module sure be some devs discover there bright to participate that they crapper impart a free Nokia N900.

More content most the Mozilla Add-on Challenge crapper be create here, patch the Contest Rules are here. Note that, for digit conceive or another, the disprove is vacuum in Province of Quebec (Canada), Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Union of Myanmar, as substantially as “where illegal by law”.

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By fear Liszewski

If you blackamoor your grownup CRT TV this retro-looking communication manoeuvre capableness hold add the large vacuum mitt in your activity center, and mayhap your heart. It’s fashioned to countenance aforementioned an old-school ‘portable’ CRT ordered with its likewise amygdaliform designate and carrying handle, but the exclusive exhibit you’ll be watching is the 12/24 distance manoeuvre that of code includes an communication function. As you crapper gaming it add comes with a handle far that is used to invoke hard the communication tones or add an diode backlight that doubles as a accessible nightlight. ~$33 from Thumbs Up (UK) though it appears you’ll domain to meet at diminutive 6 of them.

[ Television Alarm Clock ] VIA [ Coolest Gadgets ]

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By Evan Ackerman

There are any number of potentially useful and/or incredibly stupid light-up USB accessories that owe their glowyness to various flavorings of LEDs. That’s cool, I’m down with that, I like the futuristic look as much as the next geek. But retro is rapidly becoming the new futuristic, and this USB light fits the bill neatly with a light bulb that is, in fact, a light bulb. You know, the old school vacuum + filament + heat + inefficiency + if it breaks you have to clean up really carefully or you’ll get shards of glass in your feet kind. Numerous disadvantages aside, the one redeeming factor if incandescent bulbs is present in this USB powered version… Namely, the ability to cast a warm and pleasing glow, which (I imagine) provides a nice counterpoint to the inevitably harsh and unyielding photons that are being pumped out by whatever device this little lamp is plugged into.

For about $14, you get the lamp plus two spare bulbs, one of them frosted (if you’re into that kind of thing). Each bulb should last about 300 hours, giving you decades (well, 0.01 decade) of pleasing illumination, and a replacement set of three is only about $6. It all can be yours, from where else but Japan.

[ JTT (Translated) ] VIA [ New Launches ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

They say once you go backpack you never go back, and if you’ve had the pleasure of using the backpack paint roller system I wrote about a few minutes ago, you’ll probably wish you could strap all of your household appliances to your back. Sadly that’s still a pipedream for a lot of us, or maybe just me, except when it comes to vacuuming!

This “ergonomic” backpack vacuum can be carried around the house on your back, which is supposedly easier than rolling it from room to room… And before you get any ideas about roaming the neighborhood at night, serving as some sort of cleaning vigilante, you’ll want to be aware that this thing doesn’t use a rechargeable battery, but instead plugs into the wall via a retractable 26 foot power cord. $169.98 from Taylor Gifts.

[ Ergonomic Backpack Vacuum ] VIA [ Likecool ]

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You may think that the world’s most expensive vacuum would be a Dyson or some other high-tech cleaning contraption, but that’s apparently not the case, at least according to the vacuum authority that is the Guinness Book of World Records. No, the world’s most expensive vacuum is apparently this otherwise ordinary Electrolux, which has been adorned with 3,730 Swarovski crystals by Polish designer Lukaz Jemiol and now commands the princely sum of £13,825 (or just under $20,000). That may not help the vacuum’s cleaning ability much, but it’ll certainly help it hold its own against all the other Swarovski-encrusted products out there, which, last we checked, includes everything imaginable. Better act quick if you’re looking to add to the collection though, as this one is strictly one of a kind.

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By Andrew Liszewski

Here’s another example where the previous generation occasionally had better toys than we did. Back in the 60s Mattel sold this Vac-U-Form playset allowing kids to reproduce pretty much any small object they could fit into its mold. Using the Vac-U-Form was as easy as clamping a piece of plastic into a hinged frame and then heating it over a metal plate. When the plastic was soft enough to be molded the frame was swung over to the other side and pressed over the object you wanted to duplicate. As you pressed down a vacuum was formed, sucking the plastic into shape. Pretty much the same way vacuum forming is done today.

Of course if such a toy existed today, not only would it be missing that exposed metal heating plate, but it would probably come with a warning that the Vac-U-Form should only be used for making backup copies of your existing toys, and not for making copies of toys to be distributed to friends.

[ Sam's Toybox - Vac-U-Form ] VIA [ Architectradure ]

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It’s a sad, sad day for telepresence. iRobot’s ConnectR, the Roomba with a webcam on top, has been given the knife, deemed “not yet practical enough” for all you oh-so practical consumers out there. The device, which pledged to let you call home and explore your abode like some domesticated rover, stood poised to open new avenues for the confusion of cats and other small pets. Perhaps $500 was a bit too steep for the beta group, or maybe users spending that much wanted something that looked a little less like a sentient vacuum, but, regardless of the reason, we’re not expecting anything like this to hit retail until we pull ourselves out of these economic doldrums.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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