A SomethingAwful user has posted dozens of photos of the house he shares with his mother, who has some compulsion to order tchotchkes from eBay well beyond her ability to display or use them, so that the house is full of hundreds of unopened boxes of glass paperweights and god-knows-what. It's like a garbage house, but with bubblewrap and Mailboxes, Etc boxes instead of kittylitter (though she does have a lot of parakeets).
The Audio Study Mate was a "multimedia briefcase," as Hackaday's Al Williams puts it, combining a cassette player with a 35mm film strip viewer to create a 1970s audiovisual smorgasbord.… READ THE REST
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TL;DR: Protect your privacy while you travel with this hidden camera, GPS, and bug detector, now on sale for $39.99. It seems like every few weeks I see a video on… READ THE REST
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