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Lamp levitates, but how?

Leslie Katz | Nov 02, 2007

The cool thing about this lamp is you don't have to play the slumber party classic Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board to get it to levitate. It does that on its own.

Or so promises Crealev, an Eindhoven, Netherlands-based company that specializes in levitating products. Designer Angela Jansen presented her creation during Dutch Design Week recently, and design blog MoCo Loco has posted a video of the lamp in action.

It's unclear just how the lamp, or other Createv products, such as the hovering Buddha, do what they do.

Createv will only say that its proprietary technology has something to do with diamagnetic fields and that the company has "discovered a new levitation concept which is able to produce a very high levitation height combined with a low power dissipation and excellent stability."

Translation: Boil, bubble, toil, and trouble. Now, just toss a witch's hat on the thing and you're ready for Halloween.

Via Crave CNET

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In-home donut machine

Tim Moynihan | Nov 02, 2007

In case you were wondering, there is a God.

The Dough-Nu-Matic, available via the SkyMall in-flight catalog, is a miniature version of the Krispy Kreme fryer/conveyor belt that forms and fries savory donuts.

For just US$130, you can make very small donuts at the clip of a dozen every 6 minutes. That means you can eat 120 miniature donuts every hour without leaving your home. You can make donuts in your bathroom and eat them in the shower. You can place donuts on each of your fingers, then eat them off like the magical Mr. Donut Hands. You can buy a kiddie pool, fill it with donuts, and swim in it while wearing donuts as water wings.

Dials on the side of the machine let you adjust the cooking temperature, but alas, there is no "jelly" setting. You'll need to hollow out the donuts and inject jelly into them yourself.

You'll need your own dough, and SkyMall doesn't mention whether oil is included in the package. You may need that, too, but the machine's enclosed, covered oil fryer means you won't get splattered with hot oil while you watch the donuts get ready for business....the business of shoving them into your pie-hole.

I repeat: You can now make donuts in your home and eat the living hell out of them.

Via Crave CNET (source: Geekologie)

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