For those of us retro enough to remember Pet Rocks (sold for a few quid, the simplest pet in the world – no walkies, no feeding, no petting even required. The inventor, Gary Dahl, apparently made his fortune on the official ones. Everyone had one. And as the owners have grown up, so has the [...]

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Are your fingers less green and more a sort of mouldy brown? Been asked to water your Mum’s plans while she’s in the South of France? You’d better hope that student Natalie King gets an investor for her Tulipe pot then! Photograph: BNPS Natalie, 22, designed the pot as a final major project at university [...]

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You know you’re a Facebook addict when you find yourself in real life looking for the like button after your friend has just announced their engagement/ got a new job/ bought peas from ASDA. If that sounds familiar then this is the gadget for you. The guys at Nation, a design studio based in London, [...]

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Want a little glimpse of the future? Imagine the year is 2020 and we’re all living in bubbles in space and being waited on by robots (if ‘Tomorrow’s World’ and ‘The Jetsons’ got it right anyway). You’ve made a small fortune somehow (completely legally we hope) and own this Audi A9. Why did you chose [...]

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A neat little concept gadget for you all today. And I mean little. Hungry Batteries are an idea from designer Mac Funamizu. They’re a definitive way to work out if your batteries are flater than flat, or if swapping them round a bit will eek out any extra juice. As the battery get used, it [...]

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I remember the days when computer games came on three, 3.5″ floppy disks. Hell, these days computers don’t even have to have a floppy drive! Ok, so those of us with a love of JRPGs have simply upgraded from three floppy disks to three compact disks, but I must admit a slight pang of nostalgia [...]

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Did you know that when you hit your head your scalp slides across your skull helping to deflect up to 60% of an injury? It’s a gross image but without it even minor head bumps could lead to serious injury. It works like this- It’s with that fact in mind that Dr Ken Phillips has [...]

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So this is a concept gadget, but a real contender for release apparently. Not content with annoying the hell out of everyone on the train by playing your music at loud volumes despite the fact that the whole point of headphones is to STOP everyone having to listen to your stuff? Well now you can [...]

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