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A relaxing day at the beach calls for a great summer reading paperback novel. What vacation would be complete without a few Tom Clancy, Agatha Christie, or John Grisham books to help pass the time? But we’re faced with a problem. If you want to get an even tan, you’re eventually going to roll onto your stomach, and as your probably know, reading while your back picks up some sun is not the most comfortable experience on a beach chair.

The 3-in-1 Ostrich Chair is your summer beach reading solution. A solution which allows you to comfortably read your paperback as you pick up those sweet UV rays. Inspired by the design of massage tables, the Ostrich Chair provides a padded face hole on a classic beach chair. When you flip on your stomach, all you have to to is place your face in the special hole, and you’re all set to continue your beach reading.

The Ostrich Chair provides you with 5 different back position settings, and an additional 3 foot position settings. However you feel most comfortable, the Ostrich Chair is sure to find your favorite position. Its extra large arm rests contain a built-in beverage holder for storage of a frosty brew, and a padded flap covers the face hole when it’s not in use.

For your next vacation do yourself a favor and be prepared for the relaxation you desperately need. The 3-in-1 Ostrich Chair is available for $79.99 from Brylane Home. The price might be a little extravagant for the casual vacationer, but for beach bums, it doesn’t get much better.

Product Page via 7Gadgets

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Alright, I admit that this technically isn’t a gadget or at least not by most standards.  In all fairness though, I looked up the word just to see if there was a loophole in the dictionary and it turns out there is.  A gadget is also any ingenious article, so although I find this key chain to be beyond ridiculous I’m sure someone thought it was ingenious.  Likely they were inebriated at the time of thinking it, but surely someone did indeed think so.  Personally, I just find it highly disturbing.

For those that don’t live in heavily wooded areas or just don’t really ever go camping, ticks are annoying.  Annoying and gross, they have to be removed in such a way that they won’t cause Lyme disease.  Typically, we used something hot to get it to back out of the skin and that worked well enough.  It didn’t cost us any money, which is always grand if you’re feeling particularly cheap.  However, for those that would like to add another key chain to their key ring there is this odd little Tick Grabber.  Just put the tick’s body through the largest part of the opening and then slide it to the smallest.  Then you of course, pull.  The device is being sold for $5.99.

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At a time where furniture design is more focused on form than function, there is always a cult of rebellious designers who say “Screw that!” regarding the typical standards of the design trends. While it’s not a typically pretty piece, Luis Eslava’s Welcome Table is a brash rebellion against the tables of Ikea and other decor fitting home surfaces.

Inspired from the hospitality of door step welcome mats, the Welcome Table invites your guest to make themselves at home, moving the floor mat to the table surface. Want to put your legs on the table? Don’t worry about being rude! This table is made for your rudeness!

So rather than having your guests sit uncomfortable planted to their chair, the Welcome Mat is, well, pretty darn welcoming when compared with the cold design of traditional furniture. It feels so much more inviting to actually be encouraged to make yourself at home, rather than feeling like a rude nomad because your legs are hanging uncomfortably against the floor.

The Welcome Table is especially effective for those who own Swiss-made ergonomic chairs. The ones which require you to contort into awkward positions in order to be comfortable. If you’re willing to make your home more of a welcoming atmosphere, the Welcome Table could be for you. At least, if it ever hits the general market.

Design Page via Idealist

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If you’re like me, then you hate the high costs that you have to pay on your electric bill. In the past ten years that I have lived in my current home, my energy bill has doubled.

Perhaps I should find a way to supplement the cost of my energy bill by using renewable energy sources that aren’t tied to “the man”. And what better renewable energy source is there than the power of the sun?

In all honesty, I wouldn’t know where to begin with installing solar panels. I mean, how do you hook them up so you can get some practical power going? I do know that installing solar panels can be just as expensive as the panels themselves.

I could use some solar panels that have a peel-and-stick backing. Say, now there’s a great reason to purchase the Power-Ply 380 Peel and Stick Solar Panels.

All a user needs is a flat roof for these individual 8 x 4 foot tiles, and installation costs alone are reduced by 70 percent. This sounds like one those “too good to be true so it probably is” devices, but I think it is a step in the right direction for individual energy production. Any way to reduce the energy bill is always a good thing.

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by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 7:23AMCheck it gamers, things are about to get like, so extreme in Q4. RegHardware has it from “motherboard-maker moles” that Intel will be loosing its smokin’ Nehalem architecture before the end of the year starting with a trio of quad-core “Bloomfield” processors aimed at desktop users. A top o’ the line 3.2GHz Extreme proc brings 8MB of L3 cache, connects to 1333MHz DDR3 memory, and rides Intel’s new QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) bus capable of delivering 4.6 billion transactions per second. Front Side Bus, be gone.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 9:30AMFor the love of all that’s humane in this world, it’s about time someone stepped up and put an end to this lunacy. Okay, so maybe that’s overstating things a bit, but we’re joyous nonetheless to hear that the Kent County Council in southeast England has “become one of the first in the UK to ban mosquito gadgets from its buildings.” Here’s a refresher: so-called mosquito tones are high-pitched frequencies that can only be heard by the younger sect (you know, those with outstanding hearing abilities). Apparently some businesses have been using said gizmos to keep kids from loitering and the like, but higher-ups in Kent feel this method of detraction isn’t fair. If all goes to plan, councilors are hoping to ask the government to ban the devices altogether, but only time will tell if the notion will catch on elsewhere in the country.

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 12:38PM It still hasn’t quite made the rounds of US carriers, but it looks like that hasn’t stopped the Palm Centro from hopping across the border to make its Canadian debut on Rogers. If that’s the moment you’ve somehow been waiting for, and you’re an existing Rogers customer, you get your hands on one now for $199 with a three-year plan and minimum $45 monthly service fee, while new customers will have to fork over $299 and jump through the same contract hoops. Of course, there is also that other little phone that’s making its long-awaited Canadian debut on Rogers next month, but we’re guessing that anyone planning to go that route has already pretty firmly made up their mind.

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If the idea behind this bag design is to deter thieves, I think they’ve done a pretty good job. Whether you want to walk around looking like radioactive waste is up to you.

That would be neoprene radioactive waste actually, since the sleeves are made of neoprene rubber.

The 13″ sleeve goes for $34.95, the 14.1″ for $36.95, and the 15.4″ for $38.95 at Designer Sleeves.

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 8:01AM
Nokia’s finally fessing up to its latest E series QWERTY phone, but took this one in a seriously surprising direction… for Nokia, anyway: thin. The E71 is one of the thinnest phones we’ve ever seen exit the doors of the Finnish giant, at 10mm thick, but there’s still plenty of room for everything you’d expect out of an E series phone like WiFi, HSDPA, A-GPS and even a 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing camera for video chat — the main place the E71 differs on specs from its new E66 sibling is the 2.36-inch QVGA screen, just a fraction of an inch smaller. The E71 even manages to squeeze in extra battery, with 20 days of standby, 10.5 hours of GSM talk or 4.5 hours of 3G talk. There’s 110MB of built-in storage and a microSD slot if you grow out of that, and the same business / personal switcher of the E66. Folks accustomed to previous Nokia QWERTY phones in the form factor like the E62 will find the screen noticeably smaller, but with the same number of pixels and an incredibly pocketable form factor there’s plenty to love about this new entry. Unfortunately, the $500-ish pricetag isn’t quite alluring, and like the E66, Nokia doesn’t have any carrier subsidies lined up just yet. The E71 should arrive in the States — and yes, with full 3G US bands — sometime Q3 of this year, and will be available in grey steel and white steel.

Gallery: Nokia E71 confirmed and oh-so-slim

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 11:21AM
Icon’s foldable airplane is meant to fill that all-important gap between, say, hang gliders and commercial jets. This 2-seater Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) was unveiled last week to much applause by people with all sorts of cash. From a gadget standpoint, though, the Icon is worth a little deconstruction. It’s powered by a rear-facing, reciprocating engine, can be configured for water landing, has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,320 pounds, has a max airspeed of 120 knots (138 mph), and features a dashboard that’s meant to be familiar to car drivers. Unlike the Terrafugia, the Icon is not meant to drive up to your house, but we figure you’ll be cruising around in some expensive SUV with this thing in tow anyway. And better yet, you can order this thing online with a credit card and a $5,000 deposit. Check out the video of the Icon’s unveiling after the break.

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