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Has a lover of Hello Kitty stolen your heart? Capture your sweethearts attention by giving them something fabulous from the Hello Kitty Love Bandit collection from the NeatoShop. This dangerously cute collection includes something for every budget:
Items sold separately. Shower your valentine with a gift of all 6.
Don’t let Valentine’s Day sneak up on you. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more purr-fectly adorable Hello Kitty items and fantastic Valentine’s Day gift ideas.
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Joystick-It Arcade Stick (Mobile) – $17.95
Are you looking for a way to make your smartphone even more fun and interactive? You need the Joystick-It Arcade Stick (Mobile) from the NeatoShop. This fantastic removable and repositionable joystick uses a suction cup to attach to your screen. Remember to get two if your favorite game requires two controllers.
Larger version for tablets and pads also available.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Computer Gadgets!
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Sometimes we writers here at Neatorama come across some really strange and oftentimes borderline creepy stuff that just has to be shared–after all, if we have to look at it, why not share the joy? Such is the case with the new “hand case” for the iPhone4, a realistic hand that is something only the Japanese could come up with. I suppose if you are particularly lonely and want a hand to hold… this is it. Link leads to the Google translation.
Group product is handmade by skilled craftsmen to produce food samples for years, “hand of man” only cover reproduces the iPhone 4. Are made to take the type of real women and children’s hands. The test of courage, of course, when you propose to a woman, it can also be used to practice through the ring finger. Size “hand wave” W80 × H90 × D140mm is. ”Yamato’s hand” W75 × H80 × D125mm that.
Banana Handset – $14.95
Are you on the market for a new handset for your mobile phone? You need the Banana Handset from the NeatoShop. We think It is the most appealing ape-peeling handset on the market.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Mobile Phone Accessories.
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Moose Head Mobile Phone Stand – $7.95
Have you been searching endlessly for the perfect phone stand? Well, look no further! You need the Moose Head Mobile Phone Stand from the NeatoShop. This fabulous little stand screams I am one with the wilderness.
Now prop up that phone, get comfy, and start watching your favorite moose calling videos. Being outdoorsy is so much fun!
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun-tastic Mobile Phone Accessories!
Comments Off Ken Kulosa owns a green parrot named José, whose previous owner spent a lot of time on the phone. Turns out that when he’s alone (or thinks that he’s alone), José likes to … well, parrot, her phone conversations. So Ken snuck in and took this 1 minute cell-phone video. Check out this clip of the bird yapping and laughing away.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via 13.7 cosmos and culture blog
On April 3rd, 1973, 38 years ago today, Martin Cooper made a phone call while walking down the street in New York City. At the time, he was the general manager of Motorola’s communications division. He had promoted the idea that phone numbers shouldn’t be tethered to a place, but to people. And they should be able to take their phones with them, anywhere they went.
When Martin Cooper made that first cell phone call, he did not make it to another cell phone. People didn’t have them yet — who could he call?
No, he made the cell phone call to a land line — specifically, to the land line of his chief competitor at Bell Labs. Motorola had beaten Bell to become the first company to make personal cell phones work. Cooper, you might say, rubbed it in. Think how the Bell Labs research engineer must have felt when he heard Cooper calling him from the noisy streets of Manhattan.
That first cell phone was so big that it was often described as resembling a shoe, or a brick. It weighed 2½ pounds. Cooper would joke to friends and colleagues that the calls from that phone would have to be short in duration: Who had the strength to hold it to an ear for very long?
Cooper, now 82 years old, still works in communications. And he carries his cell phone with him everywhere -but not the 1973 model. Link -via reddit
A low-tech solution to a modern problem! Christopher Locke made an amplifier for his cell phone using a broken trumpet and scrap metal. No power cords, no batteries, no moving parts. And you can slip your Mp3 player in it as well. Link -Thanks, Chris!
For this Friday’s Museum of Possibilities, I risk ridicule by sharing my past attempts to create a hands-free phone. Working for nearly twenty years at a metropolitan newspaper, I watched reporters spend a half-hour conducting a phone interview with a telephone crammed between their upraised shoulder and neck. It was easy to see how neck strain could result. Yet reporters had a problem: They worked in a busy, noisy newsroom where they could not use a speakerphone lest they disturb other reporters and also violate the need for privacy. Moreover, they didn’t like to wear headsets because it made them look like secretaries and therefore uncool!
(Image credit: Flickr user jamelah)
In the humor section of most bookstores it is easy to find books depicting ludicrous inventions that were filed with the U.S. Patent Office. The books include meticulous patent drawings and descriptions, and are good for a laugh. Inventing is an earnest but often awkward process of trial and error. In my cartoon-inventing sideline, I walked a line between seriously attempting to solve a problem in an unusual, but plausible way, and intentionally creating concepts that were obviously wrong and foolish, like those found in those funny patents books.
Decades before there were cell phones, and wireless “earloop” headsets, I was trying to figure out the future of the hands-free phone. These panels are mostly from the 1980s and early 1990s. The final panel, showing ladies using a PDA-type wireless telephone, was a reasonably correct prediction of devices that came into common use a decade later. Yet so far, I have not seen any version of my High Collar Headset! Nor have I seen another of my ideas: a headset built into a woman’s wig.
People dial wrong numbers all the time. What can really get you in trouble is printing the wrong phone number, especially on a product or advertisement or in a catalog. That mistake is compounded by the fact that so many toll-free long distance numbers are phone sex lines. The most recent case is Chad Ochocinco’s cereal boxes.
1. Ochocinco meant well by printing a request for donations to a charity called Feed the Children on his new cereal, but people calling to hand over some money actually may have been “donating” to an organization of the not-so-charitable kind: a phone sex line. For the record, the number on the box was 1-800-HELP-FTC when it should have been 1-888. Whoops! Funnily enough, the day the cereal came out, Ochocinco Tweeted, “order my cereal OCHOCINCOS. Start your day with a lil suga!” Insert immature giggles here.
Stacy Conradt put together a list of the ten most notorious phone number mistakes for mental_floss. Link
Telephone booth? What’s that? Oh, that’s where Superman changes into his costume! I can hear my kids puzzling over this now… but there are phone booths still surviving in the world. Some have quite a story behind them, as you’ll see in this list of ten, like this handy mobile pay phone on a boat in Uganda. Link -Thanks, Dave!
(Image source: The Payphone Project)
It’s one thing to play music on a modern gadget -many people can tap out “Happy Birthday” on a cell phone. It’s quite another to perform classical pieces! Believe it or not, this person is playing “Rondo Alla Turka” {audio file} from Mozart’s Piano Sonota #11 on four telephones. Link
This handy place to keep your iPhone looks just like the phones we used when I was a kid! Each base is cast and sculpted one at a time. USB cord not included, so consider it an art work. $195 from Etsy seller freeland studios. Link -via Nag on the Lake
We looked forward to the promise of video phone calls for fifty years, but now that they are here, no one wants to actually use them. The hassle of dressing up or cleaning the room for a phone call only explains part of it. Joel Stein captures the exact reason why video phone calls never caught on, despite the availability of Skype.
…Skype breaks the century-old social contract of the phone: we pay close attention while we’re talking and zone out while you are.
As soon as you begin to talk, I feel trapped and desperately scan the room for tasks I can do to justify the enormous waste of time that is your talking. I wash dishes, I file receipts, I read news sites, I make little fake suicide faces to my wife Cassandra about how much I want to hang up that cause her to yell “Joel, I need you now” in a really unconvincing way that I’ve asked her not to do, but I still can’t stop making the suicide faces. In desperate times, when I am on my cell phone in the middle of nowhere, I will pace. The only other time I pace is when I stub a toe or burn myself. But when I start talking, I assume that you are sitting perfectly still, rapt.
(image credit: John Ueland/TIME)
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