Lee’s Journal

Dr. Hryhory Chausovsky, an Ukrainian scientist, has invented a 15-cm plate that is weight sensitive. If you overload the plate with food, a palm sized computer attached to the plate is activated and audio alerts are triggered.

As your personal weight-watcher, it will say things like, “Stop right there! And what about excess weight?” and “Where’s your willpower?” So, better follow the rules if you don’t wanna embarrass yourself in front of the public.

via ShinyShiny - Smart Plate - stops you eating all the pies

Hmm.. would you like to wear wedding gown made of condoms?

The wedding dress on the right side of this picture is made of 12,500 individually colored and stitched-together condoms. It was specially made to commemorate the 19th World AIDS day on Dec 1st, 2006 and displayed in New York.

via Spluch - Condom wedding gown!

Looking for a tech gadget that can reveal your future? You can get Zoltar, the classic animatronic fortune teller. In case you want more, you can try the Psychic USB key - in Japanese only.

Released by Princeton, a Japanese company, the Psychic USB key (they call it Seven Angels) comes with 256MB, 512MB or 1GB of memory, preloaded with software based on the well-known Japanese psychic, Masako Mitaki.

via Akihabara News - Buy a psychic USB key to discover your future!

There has been some pretty interesting lamp designs in the past that require some sort of user interaction to activate, such as snapping your fingers, clapping your hands, or even blowing at it. And now, here’s the Pupa Lamp from Progetto25zero1 (Milan-based design studio) that requires loving caress to turn it on!

The Pupa Lamp is custom made from fibreglass, a couple of 15-watt fluoroscent bulb and no regular on/off switch but a fur switch instead.

via Ubergizmo - Pupa Lamp requires stroke to turn it on

Here’s a project by Alex Habegger, Ramun Liesch, Peter Ulrich and Nicholas Buchi - an Interactive Pillow. The pillow will turn on the lights inside when it senses low-light situations. It also reacts to sound, pressure and touch!

Watch the video after this jump.
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