If you like spoiling your kids and buying them things they’ll use for a week and then lose, then Bandai’s Smart Barry is worth a look. If you’re wondering why I’m being so hard on this device/toy, read on. The Smart Barry is a game/text messaging device that grants you to send messages […]
If you like spoiling your children and buying them things they will use for a week and then lose, then Bandai’s Smart Barry is worth a look. If you’re wondering why I’m being so hard on this device/toy, read on.
The Smart Barry is a game/text messaging device that allows you to send messages to 4 other devices that are no more the 10 meters away. On top of that your message can only for 64 characters long, which is even more limiting than standard text messaging. But to try and make up for that limitation, they toss in a virtual pet game.
Now I comprehend that is toy, and not a text messaging replacement. But when I found out the price of this thing I nearly kicked a wall. The thing costs 96 dollars, for a toy that you can only use with other 96 dollar devices in a 10 meter range. I don’t see anything here that justifies that kind of price tag. Did I miss something?
[”Smart Barry,” I love it. Couldn’t bring myself to correct that. — Editor]
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I could use one of these. I love sesame bagels, but they rain seeds down like no other and i usually end up with a rather farinaceous desktop. These cute-as-a-button mushroom vacuums (we’ll call them mushruums — oh my god, I’m a genius) are for picking up after such an event. Little, battery-powered, and only […]
I could use one of these. I love sesame bagels, but they rain seeds down like no other and i usually end up with a rather farinaceous desktop. These cute-as-a-button mushroom vacuums (we’ll call them mushruums — oh my god, I’m a genius) are for picking up after such an event. Little, battery-powered, and only $12, these strike me as a decent tiny investment for those of us with consistently crumb-strewn quarters.
Plus, they’re obviously Mario-inspired and it’s a good way to show your retro gaming pride. [via Shiny Shiny]
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Reporters attending a press conference on the success of the police department’s anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot when a confiscated gun went off in an officer’s hand. One reporter needed surgery, while two others suffered minor injuries from the homemade gun. The press conference, in the Chinese city of Nanchong, was to promote the department’s […]
Reporters attending a press conference on the success of the police department’s anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot when a confiscated gun went off in an officer’s hand. One reporter needed surgery, while two others suffered minor injuries from the homemade gun.
The press conference, in the Chinese city of Nanchong, was to promote the department’s campaign against illegal explosives and weapons.
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Savvy NYU Personal Science major Shirley Palma wanted to be able to update her friends about her mood on twitter without having log on to her personal or mess around with text messaging, so she rigged a handkerchief to do it for her. Called the Hanker-‘tude, a post on sewing blog burdastyle, explains how it […]
Savvy NYU Personal Science major Shirley Palma wanted to be able to update her friends about her mood on twitter without having log on to her personal or mess around with text messaging, so she rigged a handkerchief to do it for her.
Called the Hanker-‘tude, a post on sewing blog burdastyle, explains how it works: “when the soft switch is shut by tying the handkerchief, the ‘Lilypad Arduino’ detects it. A Bluetooth module called a bluesmirf, attached to the ‘Lilypad Arduino’ then sends the message that the switch was shut to a Nokia n80 phone…Palma wrote an application in Mobile Python, a mobile programming language that takes the information about the handkerchief being tied and then updates twitter via e-mail with pre-selected messages.”
As Palma explained about the project, “Having to interface continuously with a gadget to update your on the internet presence is a drag on your real-life presence. Using a bandanna/handkerchief instead is at least briefly pleasing and requires only minimal setup typing.”
For more about Palma, and pictures of her dog modeling the Hanker-‘tude see her blog.
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