This Clever Chess Set Is Set up the Moment You Open the Box

It's called Preset Chess. There's no need to set up the pieces, probably dropping a few in the process. The magnetic pieces go into little compartments in their starting positions. So by opening the box, the pieces are already set up on the board. You're ready to play within seconds.

When you're done, just put the pieces back into their starting position compartments and you'll be ready to play another game later.

-via Gizmodo


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So it levitates the shade. A neat though unnecessary trick. Kind of a disadvantage really because it uses 72 WH/day just levitating the shade. And it looks bad if you don't leave the levitation on because the lines of the shade don't match. And it's €980.00! In a lot of countries for that much money you could hire a servant to hold the shade in mid air.
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Kind of cool, but so were lava lamps. Is it me, or does this video not show the illumination funtion of the lamp? It looks to me like it is not casting any light at all.
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whitcwa: Yeah, but that's 26kWh a year, or a couple of bucks worth; not much compared to the cost of the lamp. And what's with "latest LED technology"? LEDs are no longer a big deal; they're everywhere.
http://www.brillianz.co.uk/data/documents/Lumen.pdf tells me LEDs are still less efficient than fluorescents.
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