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  • Digits makes any gloves play nicely with touchscreens

    Digits makes any gloves play nicely with touchscreens

    The quickest and easiest way to make your gloves touchscreen friendly. Too bad it's spring.

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  • Quirky Switch pocket-knife is modular-tastic

    Quirky Switch pocket-knife is modular-tastic

    Say you’re going on a picnic and don’t want to bring a huge bulky pocket knife. What would you bring? Maybe a knife, a bottle opener, and a corkscrew. Or say you’re planning on dismembering and eating a baby seal? What would you bring then? Probably the same stuff. But the Switch from Quirky makes [...]

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  • Someone obviously wants the crowd-developed Cable Caps, but I don’t

    Someone obviously wants the crowd-developed Cable Caps, but I don’t

    Wait, before you write these things off, hear me out. Cable Caps are actually kind of cool in a quirky sort of way. They are cable organizers that are designed to protect the male ends of USB cables, while also keeping the cables neatly wrapped and organized. Neat, eh? The only thing is that the [...]

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  • Scratch-n-Scroll mousepad

    Scratch-n-Scroll mousepad

    scratch-n-sniffWe've been hearing for what feels like decades about the "paperless" revolution, wherein everything will be written on computers. The problem is that computers -- even smartphones and tablet PCs -- still make it unnecessarily complicated to jot down a quick note. You know, the kind of thing that doesn't have any lasting permanence but something you're going to forget in the next five minutes before you need to use it. Sure, you could use a Post-It note, but that involves the killing of trees and who really needs that on their conscience? The quirky Scratch-n-Scroll mousepad may be worth your consideration.

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  • DigiDudes: crowd-sourced keychain / tripod thingies

    DigiDudes: crowd-sourced keychain / tripod thingies

    digidudesFresh on the success of their SplitStick double-sided USB stick, the cats at quirky now offer DigiDudes: a keychain with a built-in camera tripod. Unscrew the DigiDude's head, pull out his feet, and voila! Instant tripod!

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