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Stuff I Want But Don't Need
- Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Meet Rockwell’s Jawhorse — I have a thing for portable work benches and their ilk
- Borosilicate Tea Kettle — just because I like saying it, “could you please hand me my borosilicate tea kettle?”
- Floating Wireless Speaker — there has to be a way to use this at Halloween.
- Vertical Macbook Dock — kind of cool looking
- Stylish Tape Measures — because they look awesome
Powder-Actuated Tools
Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Powder-Actuated Tools — a gunpowder-based power tool. awesome.
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Craftsman 1470 piece tool set – only $8,600
MAKE: Blog: Craftsman 1470 piece tool set – only $8,600 — early father’s day wish list. ha ha.
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Exhaust Air Jack
Exhaust Air Jack » Coolest Gadgets — wow I would never get under a car using one of these, i prefer nice solid steel supporting my car, not a puncturable/leakable balloon.
Cutting things
- What is Craft ROBO? :Craft ROBO-GRAPHTEC — cutting paper and other sheets. cool.
- Ponoko puzzles. love the idea of ponoko
- Book cutting. Huh. Didn’t know about this form of art. Very cool.
Stuff I Want But Do Not Need — Flamethrower edition
Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Weed-A-Pocalyspe! — I think I’ve blogged this before, this one looks even more streamlined. I have to get one of these. Probably a terrible idea to buy one, there are just so many ways this can go wrong.
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Stuff I Want But Don't Need — Tool Edition
- Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Grip Twist Avoids Knotty Situations — kind of cool, i would use if sitting around in the garage, tho I would never go search out
- Indexable ratchet — this i would buy in an instant
- and this foam cutter seems indispensable for halloween, but a crazy price
- why aren’t all screwdriver handles like this?
Simple but useful tools
- Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? All Tied Up With Flat Twine — more useful than tape in a lot of cases
- Nylon Pry Set — excellent idea
- SATA to USB adapter — will save your bacon when you need it. This is the kind of thing I always hope I can find at Fry’s but is never actually in stock.
Stuff I Want But Do Not Need — tools edition
- Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Jabsco Drill-Powered Pump — love things that leverage drill motors
- Plastic razor blades — what a great idea, i totally get it
- Coin-size screwdrivers – a simple yet useful idea. I actually ordered some of these.
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Stuff I want but don't need — grabbag
- The Gadgets Weblog: Wacom Bamboo Fun — I’ve always wanted a tablet.
- Painter’s Pyramid — actually seem highly useful
- 160Megapixel camera — on the road to gigapixel cameras
- Sandisk TakeTV. this keeps calling out to me as the way to get home movies down on the tv.
- 8 core macpro with decent graphics options
- Garmin forerunner 405
Custom Manufacturing
Ponoko one-off manufacturing service (via Make mag). I can see using this someday.
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Stuff I Wish I Had But Don't Need — Tool Edition
- Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Save Your Rear With LifeHammer — OK I actually got sucked into buying one of these…will I remember where it is when my car goes off the floating bridge??
- Heated Shop Floor Mat — handy when doing Halloween prep. Maybe I could combine it with this idea and it could be self-powered…
- Zibra tool to open vacuum formed plastics — OK I got one of these too and it is pretty awesome
- Hammer Stapler — not sure I do that much stapling but maybe I’d do more with this
- Sideways drill bit — OK I really can’t picture how this works, but it seems like an obviously good thing
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More stuff I don't need but want
- NITON XRF Analyzers for Toys & Consumer Goods — I saw this on a news program, testing toys for lead. totally cool. $1000 to rent for a week so probably ridiculously expensive.
- iStraw — well we just had a case of giardia in the extended family so this looks pretty good
- Urwerk Watch — another stupidly priced watch but awesome
- Electric bike. Absolutely no need for this.
- Two dimensional kid popup. This is a little disturbing for some reason.
- Pie slice ejector. I only need this about once a year, but when you need it, you need it.
- Hand made knives and tools. I’m not sure how functional, but they are cool
- Puke inducing flashlight. A thousand and one uses.
- Your Personal Moon.
Resistance is futile
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More stuff I don't need but want
- No-staple stapler is better for the environment (and looks cool) — I hate freaking staples. This looks useful and cheap
- B&W Zeppelin iPod speaker system. I would probably never actually buy this but it looks wicked.
- Powerkayak. Take a nice ecofriendly sport like kayaking, and jam some gas-consuming horsepower onto it! Wonderful!
- Tancher wrist beacon. I think this is just a concept but looks cool and is lifesaving
- Credit Card multitool. This would be super useful. TSA approved?
- Another HD hard disk videocam. Decent reviews.
- Digium asterisk appliance. Now if it would just use my cell service as the outbound line…
- A bunch of awesome watches all with a black theme.
- Emergency food supply
- Edge Brownie Pan. OK I actually got one of these. It works great — the fins really help with heat distribution.
Stuff I Want But Do Not Need
- French Ranges – Lacanche Stoves — beautiful ranges
- Pioneer music tap — in the sonos, slimdevice space
- d3o shock responding polymer — absolutely no need for this but it is cool
- Van Hoy Snap Lock Knife — cool opening mechanism
- Casio Youtube Camera
- Belkin Vision Router — i hate most of the belkin gear i get but this is a nice innovation on your standard ugly router box
- Remote Control Jousting Knights.
Stuff I Want But Don't Need
- Have to lead today’s list with the iphone. My lizard brain wants one. The rest of me has no idea why. I’m going to attempt to hold off until V2.
- Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Magnogrip Magnetic Wrist Band — wow this actually seems super useful.
- Nike floor hockey cleaning concept
- PuchiPuchi bubble wrap toy. Can you imagine having one of these on an airplane?
- Rich and Bob’s advice for lens cleaning tools.
- Phoneflasher. Not sure I can pull this off.
- Magnatag whiteboards. These appeal deeply to me tho I have no specific need. Maybe I can use one to manage my halloween efforts?
More stuff I don't need but want
- The Kwikset Smartscan. Ok I am not sure I really want this. What I’d really like is a lock that could be programmed to respond to my car’s fob. I have to carry the car thing around anyway, why can’t it open my house too? I don’t want my thumb to be the identifying device, I don’t want to encourage anyone to chop off my thumb.
- Crystal Weather Station. Looks cool. Why not available in US?
- Another doohickey to let you use your dremel — this time as a plunge router
- A Drobo storage robot. Sounds way cooler than “hard drive enclosure”
- Ceramic Jellyfish — awesome looking