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Alt.CES – EyeClops digital optics toys

Alt.CES – EyeClops digital optics toys

The Jakks Pacific EyeClops brand made waves back around the 2007 holiday season with their super magnifying camera toy, which set a successful design strategy they’ve since followed up on with their Night Vision 2.0 and PROJECTOR NAME toys: Take a professional piece of digital optics and make a functional $50 toy version.

I bought both their active night vision and video projector toys for my nephews this last Xmas. The older of the two, Michael, agreed to review them for us:

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Alt.CES: Flexible e-paper newspapers

Alt.CES: Flexible e-paper newspapers

Oddly, electronics manufacturer LG chose not to announce their revolutionary-seeming invention — flexible e-paper in A3 size — at CES. From their press release: LG Display has announced its development of a newspaper-size flexible e-paper. The 19-inch wide (250x400mm) flexible e-paper is almost as big as a page of A3 sized newspaper. The product is […]

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CNN on today’s ‘golden age of inventors’

CNN on today’s ‘golden age of inventors’

Todd Greene is the Los-Angeles-based inventor of the HeadBlade, shown above, which is an ergonomic razor intended specifically for close-shaving of the head, rather than the face. It was chosen as one of Time’s Ten Best Designs of 2000. Greene, who claims to have made millions selling HeadBlades, is one of several inventors and inventing “gurus” featured in this interesting article on CNN.com about the groundswell of ambitious inventing in the United States triggered by the recession.

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