While it may look like it belongs on the lesser-known reality TV show, Pimp My Wheelchair, Min-Goo Kim’s “Roll Charge Light Protect” wheelchair is all about safety, not bling. The rims are equipped with LEDs that get their charge from the motion of the wheels, which helps in two ways: it helps the occupant see the terrain around them, as well as making them visible to others and motorists in the dark.
Curiously, each wheel also has an LCD on it, which allows one — uncomfortably, we imagine — to check the amount of charge the LED lights have stored up.
Via Tuvie
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Maybe you’re not getting enough attention lately. In that case, you need a pair of these Sleek Audio CT6 Aura earphones, custom-fitted to your ears and available in a variety of gaudy colors. They light up with a phosphorescent glow, probably most visible when you’re in the dark or boogying next to an ultraviolet light.
Besides that glow-in-the-dark gimmick, these sophisticated headphones are each one-of-a-kind. Like many high-end earphones, they’re customized. First, you get some goo pressed into your ear by a certified audiologist, who makes a mold of your ear canal and sends it off to Sleek Audio, where they create earphones fitted just for you. The company can even adjust where the cable connects, and tailor the sound to your specific tastes. We could do without those tacky-looking initials, though.
Save up your money, though, because these babies are $375 — that’s 25 bucks more than the same CT6 phones without those crazy green, blue, orange, yellow, or white colors.
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Now you can give a scientifically accurate answer when someone asks what kind of mutt you’re walking on the end of that leash with this Genealogy Kit. Just swab some goo from your dog’s cheek and send it into the lab, and they’ll do some sophisticated testing to figure out exactly what breeds are present in your dog’s DNA.
The $59.95 price gets you a fancy certificate, spelling out exactly what percentages of 93% of the most common breeds in the U.S. encompass the ancestry of your beloved bowser. Or, if you’re an A.K.C.-registered purebred snob, this will be further proof of pedigree. Now you can strut around, confident that your dog is what you say he is.
Just hope when someone asks what kind of mutt that is on the end of that leash, the questioner is not talking to the dog.
Via Hammacher Schlemmer
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