Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets

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Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets, we saw a powerful point-and-shoot from Nikon, a backlit coaster, a remote controlled robot zombie, and a demented erotic chess set.

There was a pretty engraved MacBook Pro, a beautiful retro handset from Sony Ericsson (and a handheld PC design fantasy we based on it), and a cyborg goatee shaving guard. Some hackers got kicked out of a hacking conference for hacking, and Lotus wants to make hybrid cards noisier.

John spotted a great handheld SNES, General Electric's television of today from 1978 – "Do you have a seraglio of a thousand slaves to help you lift it out of the store?" – and found a forest nymph to be the light of his life.

Rob found a $1,975 set of energy phase-correcting wooden blocks for audiophiles, imagined what Ikea's cell phone might look like, and wondered why everything ever is "stylish and elegant." Then he was struck on the head by a bad-assed 3lb heavyweight tape dispenser.

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