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Tech is always evolving – creating new solutions to problems so we can be insanely productive… or silly. We find the cutting edge products that help us do both because you can’t be a creative without a little fun. Scroll down for a look at some of the wildest, coolest, bizarre and amazing inventions that have recently arrived.  Your colleagues will be jealous of your new toys.

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Sleep Talk Recorder: an app that records what you say in your sleep

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Saturday 27 April 2013

An app that records and monitors what you speaks in your sleep at night? Yes, it exists. That’s not all. In fact, a documentary is now being shot revolving around people whose lives have been changed since they started using the app. As the trailer shows, a guy discovered his singing voice, while a woman [...]

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Meet Z machine, the world’s largest pulsed energy facility

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Friday 26 April 2013

Touted as ‘the Earth’s most powerful and efficient laboratory radiation source’, the Z machine is located at Albuquerque and is part of the Pulsed Power Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Here, concentrated electrical energy is converted into short pulses of enormous power to generate X-rays and gamma rays. The facility is used for serious science [...]

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Cute Little Printer makes a newsletter from your smart phone

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Friday 26 April 2013

This little guy will be your smartphone’s new best friend! Just tell Little Printer what social media and other feeds to subscribe too, then schedule how often you’d like it to print. The little guy makes the cutest newsletters that sort of resemble grocery store receipts. Anything from To-Do lists to awesome photos, Little Printer can print [...]

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Mood Tuner: this app changes your emotions

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Thursday 25 April 2013

Do you have trouble controlling your mood swings? Then Mood Tuner is the app for you. It’s a cleverly designed little game that encourages you to exercise your emotional awareness. Just choose a mood, turn the dial, and follow the instructions to complete the pick-me-up practices. It’s a mini mood therapist for your pocket.

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Some of our past Favourites

Water-to-wine cooler

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Thursday 25 April 2013

Whoa, look what we found via Make Magazine: a contraption that actually turns water to wine. Well, sort of. Dreamt up by Party Robotics’ Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael, the water-to-wine cooler has only been rigged and gutted in a really clever way, that’s all (‘Our solution was to hide an identical water bottle below, [...]

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LaCie Blade Runner Desktop Drive

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Thursday 25 April 2013

LaCie Balde Runner, designed by Phillippe Starck, is a top of the line desktop drive to make all your colleagues jealous. Its goregous design combines the hard edges of blade-like shapes with an organic, bean-like center structure. Oh, and did I mention its 4TB drive and high-speed USB 3.0 interface, which can handle the toughest tasks.

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Real time weather web browser in Auckland

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By Darwin Cosico in Tech on Wednesday 24 April 2013

Due to its changeable weather conditions, Auckland is well known for experiencing four seasons in one day. MetService, a weather website in New Zealand, has built this unique outdoor web browser that shows the weather accurately. The idea promotes that the MetService website reports the weather as fast as it changes – rain, hail or [...]

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Treadmill desk: sculpt your calves and thighs at work

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Wednesday 24 April 2013

Let’s face it, you’re getting fat. That desk job you dreamed of has become the end of the “Greek God Bod” you were planning to work on this year. But don’t lose hope: this treadmill desk will whip you into shape. Now long days at the office will mean rock hard calves an chiseled thighs that [...]

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3D scanner will clone your objects with ease

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 24 April 2013

Wow, this is completely bonkers. The Photon, a 3D scanner that’s positioned by Toronto-based Matterform as the world’s first, truly affordable 3D scanner for anyone, basically lets, well, anyone take a physical object and turn it into a digital 3D model. The possibilities are seemingly endless there: print out the model as a 3D replication [...]

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Drum karaoke as you drive? With Smack Attack, you can

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 24 April 2013

Are you a closet drummer? To complicate things, are you a closet drummer who drives? Smack Attack by Palo Alto-based builder G-Man (or Gregor Hanuschak) will let you drum wirelessly with any song on your iPhone or iTunes music library. Simply put on the Smack Attack steering wheel cover (yes, it fits any steering wheel), [...]

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An activity tracker that counts fun, not calories

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 24 April 2013

This is pretty cool: a rugged activity tracker that purports to ‘count fun’ (not calories) and measures movements unique to action sports like surf, skate, snow, moto, MTB, BMX, and the likes. It’s built to withstand snow, surf, dirt, and hard pavement knocks and is a modular device that can be worn anywhere on the [...]

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SmartWallit: Smartphone alerts you when your wallet gets lost

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 24 April 2013

Now this is what we call a smart idea: the SmartWallit is an anti-lost accessory that connects with any smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0 or BLE (think iPhone 4s, iPhone 5 or Android). All you have to do is strap on the super-thin anti-lost device to any object you like — such as your wallet — [...]

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Game-changing sex toy to deliver thrice as much good vibrations

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Ooh, kinky. If ordinary vibrators don’t quite cut it for you, maybe the world’s first sonic vibrator will. Developed by a Seattle-based technology company after two years of R&D, the Revel Body sonic vibrator zaps down common complaints from vibrator users — such as loud noises, dubious reliability, poor battery life — and, yes, goes [...]

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3D printing for every single one of us

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Looks like we’re all going completely potty about 3D printing. Recently, our celebrity crush Dita Von Teese donned the world’s first completely 3D-printed dress, and even an entire building is slated to be made from 3D printing in the next year or so. What’s left? Well, accessibility to the rest of us plebeians, that’s what. [...]

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FlashFlow lets your lights thump to your favourite tunes

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Sometimes an invention rocks so much, we have no idea how we partied before that. Case in point: FlashFlow, dreamt up by Sunderland-based Matthew Ryder, which promised to breathe life to your music by synchronizing your lighting to the music you love according to its volume, tempo and frequency content. The device lets you synchronize [...]

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