Odd Gadgets and Objects

Sanrio will start selling in Japan at the end of November a 5Mpix digital camera using the shape of the head of Hello Kitty for its body. The Shutter of this camera will be located on the left ear of Hello Kitty, and the lens in the bow tie. Our camera will have a 2″ LCD, will support SD Cards, will have 32MB of internal memory, and a 4x digital Zoom. 85×25x71mm for 80g.

Read it in full on Akhibara News

A next-generation credit card that incorporates a 12-button keyboard, a microprocessor and an embedded alphanumeric display promises to provide unprecedented security in phone and online banking transactions.

Appearing in the standard form of a payment card, the Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device has a number of authentication ‘modes’ for use in online, phone, or ATM transactions. For example, a user can enter his or her secret PIN into the card’s keypad to receive a numeric passcode for one-time use. To authorize a banking transaction, the passcode is entered into an interface and instantly validated by an authentication server. This process removes the need to enter a PIN into an unsecure device such as a web browser and provides a user-friendly defense against electronic banking fraud.

Read it in full on Gizmag

A retired technician from China invented a nifty fly-catching device “based on the principle of how frogs catch flies, using a vacuum to trap them — the bait is a piece of raw fish.”

he tested the device in Wuhan Steel Mill where flies were not so concentrated and found that 400 to 800 flies were caught daily. He claimed that the device is capable of catching more even reaching the thousands if deployed in flies concentrated areas.

Read and see it in TechEBlog

A collection of weird jewelry ideas from Open! Design and Concepts Studios that has been designing extraordinary designs since 1996.

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Printed in a classic dot matrix font with the first 3,000 digits of pi this tear-resistant wallet is designed without any stitches. It is one single sheet of high tech tyvek folded to create this seamless design. Tyvek is made of thousands of long plastic fibers creating a surface that is both lightweight and durable yet super thin and tear resistant.

Read it in full on Dynomighty