Seems like with all of the issues with the Kindle and the new IPod being equipped with text to speech, there's much more awareness of text to speech engines. I keep seeing different remixes using the technology like the one below. It's Abbot and Costello's "Who's On First" performed by/in synthesized speech using different voices.
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Gizmodo has a great video and article on the Lego vault that has every set of Legos manufactured (all 4,720 of them) going back to the 50's.
I'd love to see the Weebles' vault. Yes, "They weeble. They wabble, but they don't fall down." For a bit of Weeble nostalga, check out the Weeble fan site, with a great gallery of weeble and accessories. They even have the Weeble pirate ship I had as a kid.
Psychoanalyist fingerpuppets get Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud and Jung (and a finger couch) for $20 via Uncommon Goods
Also Available are Freudian Slippers (get it?)
Over at the Unemployed Philosophers guild, you can get a Freud Watch, Wind up Freud, Freudian Sip (now, did you get it?),
I'm a sucker for psych stuff (I have a Freud action figure on my desk, thanks Dad).
Anyhow, if you're not a fan of the old boy, then perhaps Archie McPhee is more your taste. Archie's is the only place I know where you can get Inflatable Toast, Gummie Haggis, and a Corn Dog air freshener and have categories like Bacon.
I hope you find something for the whole family.
Here's to thinking "outside the box"- Japanese researchers are testing a smoke alarm that alerts people using the smell of horseradish. Reportedly, those with hearing impairments were "partiularly quick to wake up."
Though it said that all subjects (14) woke within 2 minutes, I don't want to wait that long if there's a fire in my house.
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On another note, engineers have rigged up an Etch A Sketch to work with a computer mouse. Sounds fairly complex, but follow the links in the article if you think you'd like to give this project a crack. <LINK>
