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The Mouse that Quacked/Went Ribbit/Did Whatever a Seal Does
Thanko has released a new range of animal-themed mice. Both Mac- and Windows-compatible, you can have one of three beasties—duck, seal and frog—floating inside. They look like bath toys and cost $12.50. By the way, what noise does a seal make? I need help. Gallery after the jump. More »
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Control a Dead Frog via the Web
Art or science? That's the question you'll be asking yourself when you see this dead frog with a server embedded into its guts. Suspended in a clear glass of inert liquid, the frog has an Ethernet cable coming out of its insides, which in turn allows remote "visitors" to issue commands and make the frog twitch its muscles. It's definitely the most sadistic thing we've seen done to a frog since that Miss Piggy's S&M video. [Conceptlab via BoingBoing]
ribbit
Dr. Frog Reminds You to Water Plants, Plays One on TV
If your plants always look like they came out of the jungle where Predator and Governor Schwarzenegger did battle, invest in Doctor Frog. He's an accredited Ph.D. in plantology, and uses what's left of the lower half of his body—he was in a horrific golf cart accident—to detect the conductivity of your soil. More »
the fifth carrier
Alltel Teams With Frog Design and eMusic, Launching Jump Music
Today, Alltel, the littlest big carrier, launches Jump Music, software that's iTunes-like in its dual nature as music manager and storefront. The announcement might seem like a non-event to most Giz readers—how many Alltel customers are even out there in the Giz nation? But you may want to start paying attention to the carrier: Like T-Mobile, Alltel has begun to address concerns of younger, more deal-conscious customers with unique pricing and unusual phone features. Alltel launched the "My Circle" network, which lets you pick 10 people from any network that you want to talk to for free. (OK, for "free.") Now it is getting into the music business. More »
cellphones
CUin5 Cellphone: Design Fiction by branko Lukic
The design of your phone is the result of countless business plans, TCO and ROI analyses. The CUin5 is the bizarro world version of that business plan. Every face includes a keypad, microphone and speaker.
Imagine grabbing it quickly - from inside your bag, from off a shelf, from under a car seat - and freely interacting with it without needing to turn it over or align it right side up?The "super-practical" interface is also one of several sci-fi design hybrids— or Design Fictions—that will be included in branko Lukic's upcoming book titled non.object. Lukic knows what he's talking about: he spent 5 years at frog Design and then moved to IDEO where he designed products like the TaylorMade r500 golf club and Zyliss salad spinner. The book won't be published until later this year, but a sampling of his absurd concepts will be debuting here in the coming months. More »
4:30 PM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Noah Robischon
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Latest by time4change: yeah, concepts are meant to open your mind, not close them off. Please divorce yourself from T3 magazine, Best Buy, and any other place where you find mass produced garbage and try to think a little differently - this, I more »
peripherals
Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker Set - Frog Family
If googly-eyed penguin speakers just aren't quite creepy enough for you, how about the Frog Family PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker set. Suggested by commenter wolfrider (thanks!) who says "go big or go home", every piece of this set, the keyboard, the mouse and the speakers are green frogs with wiggly eyes. Fun for kids sure, but bordering on freaky for adults. Although that's never stopped you before has it? More »
portable
Frog Design Mind
[Eds. Note: Even if you have never heard of frog design, you are undoubtedly familiar with the company's enormously influential design work—the Sony Trinitron TV, Logitech's QuickCam Fusion, AT&T's first digital answering machine, the Apple IIC and NeXT Box. This is the first in a series of frog's Design Mind columns that will appear every Monday on Gizmodo.] More »
