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Ah, religion. The one thing people take without asking questions. However, some people have different intentions when consulting the Holy Book. I believe that you all know who are The Simpsons. Ever seen the episode where Homer would “consult with the Bible”, that had a flask of alcohol in it. Well, now you can “consult” this way too.

Let’s get something clear first - you should not do this. Alcohol is bad for you (well, a glass of wine everyday seems to be just the thing for prolonging your life and keeping away cancer, but that goes for wine only). If you want this toy so you could get drunk, close your browser now so you wouldn’t be able to click on the link and buy this :). Of course, if you intend to keep juice or soft drinks in there, then go right ahead!

In any case, I think there’s not much to say - like they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words (that’s an insult to my writing skills actually). It’s a Holy Book with a flask inside. Now, even though it does look like the real thing, I somehow don’t remember the Bible being called the “Good Book” - then again, I steered away from religion as soon as I became a little self-conscious (8 years old or so).

If you want to have God with you all the time (and be committing sins at the same time), this will cost you £14.00 ($28.00). I can’t comment on the price, because I have no idea how much the flask inside costs. All I know that if you have a flask and a Bible, you can make something like this in 5 minutes.

If you decide to buy it, this is was found at gogo-gadgets.

Humans are lazy. Don’t believe me? OK, I’ll prove it. Let’s take an ordinary TV remote control unit. Why do you think it was invented? I can answer that - so that lazy humans wouldn’t have to walk to the TV and switch the channel - with the remote, they are able to do it without moving their lazy butts.

However, being a geek means being extremely lazy, but creative. And we use that creativity to make our lives even lazier. There’s always room for improvement.

It seems like operating a remote control is too much work. At least that’s the first idea that I got after seeing The Voice-Command Universal Remote Control. The remote is supposed to be able to control your TV, VCR, DVR, DVD, cable, and satellite. And everything using voice commands. It comes with pre-programmed commands, however, you are allowed to program your own commands (if you program some commands in your language, even kids should be able to use this). Of course, you can always do it the old fashioned way by pressing the buttons.

Another great gadget from Hammacher. This store has the best toys, but most of them are way expensive. However, at $49.95, this seems to be an exception - and it’s really worth the money.

Being a geek involves many things - computers, electronics, gadgets etc. But we all have one thing in common - we’re dead lazy. We don’t really care about what we eat - as long as it doesn’t take a lot of time to prepare it. When was the last time you prepared something edible that took you more than 10 minutes. Think…think…okay, enough, I won’t live that long. However, this seems to be the answer to our troubles for good.

The Home Pizza Maker Oven will cook us a pizza and we won’t have to sacrifice time or work to do it. You just leave it to heat up for 5 minutes, then you put in a frozen pizza base (should be easy to find at a supermarket), sprinkle it with anything you find in the fridge, put on a good amount of cheese and leave it for 5 minutes again. After that, you get your pizza.

Of course, that’s too much work for you, and you won’t bother with the “I’m proud because I made the pizza by myself” crap, and just buy a frozen pizza, and cook it with this. However, in case you have a change of heart, there’s a book of recipes in the complect.

Now that I think of it, this is the first gadget that I’ve written about that actually makes our lives easier :). Anyway, if you want it, it’s £67.99 at gadgets.co.uk.

The Sonic Boom Alarm Clock can certainly solve the problem for those people who sleep right through the clock’s alarm in the morning - it’s really hard to ignore. But what if you’re one of those people who wake up, turn of the alarm and go back to sleep, and can’t remember a thing when they finally wake up? Well, the solution is obvious - you only need to be disallowed to turn off the alarm.

And that’s just what the Flying Alarm Clock is good for. It’s really hard to reach for the clock and turn off the noise when the clock is flying around the room (well, actually, only the top of it flies, but you need to catch it and return it to the base to turn off the alarm.).

Yeah, I know, I also want all of it to fly, but we’ve got to settle for this at the moment. Coming at £19.00 (about $40) it’s quite reasonably priced. And think about it - not only does it wake you up, you’re forced to exercise to catch it. After that exercise you’ll feel a lot more awake. You’ll save a fortune on coffee (it’s bad for you anyway).

Found at gogo-gadgets (well, who else thought of an old cartoon?)

Say, how are you at getting up early in the morning? Well, most people hate it. They either sleep right through the clock’s alarm, or (like me) tend to awake for a few seconds, turn off the alarm and go back to sleep, and they can’t remember a thing about it when they finally wake up (the only indicator of that is that I find my cellphone (I use it for an alarm clock) clenched in my fist when I wake up). Well, there are some people who don’t bother with that, and they just throw the clock into a wall, without even opening their eyes.

Well, the good thing is that if any of those three types of people has anything that resembles you, this is a gadget for you. It is suitable to be used if you have any one of the above problems (well, in the last case, you might wanna keep the clock within a distance fro your bed). The Sonic Boom alarm clock, while looks like just a relatively stylish clock, is actually capable of emitting a 113dB alarm (to allow you to compare - that’s about the same as standing a meter or two away from a sledgehammer). In case you try to hide under your pillow and ignore it (loosing your hearing is certainly worth those extra minutes of sleep, right?….well, not really), the clock also vibrates. And, as stated on the product page, “There is even a pulsating light display just in case you can ignore the noise” (unless you’re deaf, I don’t see how that’s possible). While the clock uses electricity from a wall socket, it has a battery backup, so don’t worry - a power failure won’t save you from getting woken up the roughest way imaginable.

Oh, and if for some reason you decide not to torment other people, the clock has adjustable volume, so you can turn it down a bit.

Priced at £29.99 (approx. $60) this is a great gadget - perfect value for your money. Even I’m considering getting one of these.

The product page doesn’t offer you the ability to buy anything. It does, however, list all of the models and their estimated prices. You can use google yourself.

I’m sure that quite a lot of you own some R/R vehicles - planes, jets, helicopters, UFOs, cars, boats, submarines, some of you have robots and dinosaurs. And for most of them there is an insane amount of brands and models to choose from.

Yeah, yeah, so you people have everything you can get your hands on. Boring! We wouldn’t be gadget freaks if our main focus wouldn’t be something that nobody else has heard about. Shove all that outdated stuff aside for a while, and get ready to welcome the new player - the DragonFly R/C Insect.

The DragonFly (I think it’s clear why it’s called so) is the worlds’ first R/C insect, directly from the creators of Robosapien. It has 16 inch wide wings - wings that work the same way as if they were on a real dragonfly. The exterior is made of carbon fiber, so it should satisfy everyone - it’s tolerant for beginners’ crashes and is strong, stable, and doesn’t appear cheap to a pro. Also, the insect’s can glow, blink or pulse - should be useful for night flying.

The remote can work in two frequencies, allowing to use two DragonFlys at the same time. It also acts as a charger for the toy - a full charge takes 20 minutes, which keeps the DragonFly in the air for 15 minutes - a really good ratio. It has two experience levels, for beginners and pros. The working range is about 150 feet (50 meters) - really not bad.

Found at CrazyAboutGadgets.

Do you still remember The Rubber Duckies for the 21st century? Personally, I think it would surely put any child in a good mood. However, not very suitable for adults.

And this is where the Floating LED Roses come in. While not as cute as the duckies, these toys have some charm. As soon as they are in contact with water, the LEDs inside them start to glow (they stop when you take them out of water/liquids). Romantic, eh?

There are a total of 10 LED Roses in the package. There is 1 each Mauve, Green, Yellow, Pink, Blue, Orange, Red, and 3 White Roses (look at the picture).

Each rose is 3 inches (that’s 7,62 centimetres for Europeans) in diameter.

This certainly has a wide range of possible applications - giving it as a present, parties, romantic dates, or just swimming in your pool with glowing roses around you. And a pack of 10 roses costs $34.99. It is really worth the money, because us gadget freaks appreciate the beauty of LEDs, and our female friends will certainly appreciate the beauty of roses.

You can buy them here.

Let me ask you something - do you know how a black-and-white TV looks like? Do you have any idea about the quality of the picture and the sound? Well, your parents/grandparents should know this for certain (I know this too - I actually have a working model, that still works flawlessly). Just imagine, how tough it is for your elders to live - when they were young, a middle-sized color TV was a sign of prestige. Now they have to learn words like HDTV/wide screen/LCD/plasma. After video iPods and similar electronics became popular, they most likely freaked out. I think it’s time to end their suffering by giving them a shock of their lives by showing them something that wasn’t even supposed to come until the era of flying cars (or so they thought) - The Home Theater Watch.

Basically, the Home Theater Watch is a watch, an mp3/wma player, a JPEG viewer and a video player in one. With 2GB of memory, it should keep you occupied for quite a while. This gadget comes with software to convert your movies into the format that the watch uses.

There are only two drawbacks. The first would be the wrist strap. The material it’s made of looks like hard rubber. This material is unpredictable - if you’re lucky, it may be stronger than rock, if not - ermm…. well, it doesn’t look like the wrist band is changeable.

The other drawback is the price. 150$ is a rather large amount of money for something that a mobile phone with a miniSD or similar memory card could do. However, if you’ve still got a heavy as rock old mobile phone model and you’re not going to throw it away (hey, those things are worth keeping - if you don’t believe me, compare the reception of it with the reception of a new flashy phone model while standing in the middle of the forest - an old phone has a reasonable reception even under a tree stump in a swamp (yeah, I’ve seen this event)), or you just want to look cool, those 150 bucks are probably worth it.

Found at SkyMall.

Well I guess everything can’t be powered by electricity. Today the guys at Halloweenexpress asked us to do a sponsored post about their site. First we where reluctant but then we noticed the sexy costumes category so here we go :).

“Halloween Express is one of the most aggressive and dynamic Halloween costume and costume accessory chains in the United States. By leveraging the huge buying power of over 200 seasonal retail halloween costume and costume accessory store locations we’re able to offer the absolute largest selection of costumes and related costume accessories you’ll find online anywhere.” - quote Halloweenexpress

Now it is not as dirty as it sounds but actually more about fun. A good example is the witch costume shown to the right.
Even though we focus on the sexy adult costumes, Halloweenexpress really have something for everybody: costumes for kids, pets, and holidays are just some examples.

Funny thing is the order of the categories listed is, adult, kids, makeup, etc … we assume the categories are listed in order of popularity and that the target group of the site are guys in their thirties looking to get a gift for them their wife and the kids at the same time.

So to finish off, to get an amazingly silly appreciated sexy gift, go to HalloweenExpress. Oh yeah … tell them we sent you