Tablet Pedestal For The Toilet

It's time for you to face the truth that the new toilet pastime is no longer books or magazines anymore, at least the paper ones, it's now phone and/or tablet time. I don't have to tell you that your tablet, worth hundreds of dollars, is different from your copy of Miniature Donkey Talk magazine. So don't treat them the same.

Give your valuable device the security it deserves with it's own pedestal. You never know when a case of 'back splash' is going to happen, and if that water is cold enough or you are not prepared you may drop it causing damage. While you may not tell a soul what really happened you'll know it was that ill-advised stop at the new Mexican place on the way home.

The CTA Digital Pedestal Stand For iPad (2/3/4 gen) can stand up to 32 inches tall with it's 10 inch flexible metal goose neck which rests on a 7.5 inch diameter base, and it all weighs in at 7.25 pounds. Of course the feature that makes it scream bathroom use is the toilet paper roll holder (which will come in handy unless you use an empty faygo bottle turned into a bidet).

You can grab one of these for $38.26 (at the time of writing) at Advance Electronic.

Toilet Tablet Tool [Coolest Gadgets]

Discolor Tyre Tells You When You Need New Rubber

How many times have you seen an improvement on an existing product and thought to yourself "How have we been using this product up until now without this improvement?". It may be twice as shocking if the improvement is a major safety upgrade. Well, we may be looking at one of those improvements now.

Tires wear out. That is a fact, but what if that inevitability actually let you know what kind of shape your tires are in? What if the tire let you know that it needed to go live on a farm upstate with your old dog Mr. Plugs? Yanko Design posted a concept that does just that.

The concept is that tires could be made with a thin layer of brightly colored material so that when the normal material wears down it exposes it giving you a warning that you need new tires. It's so simple it's brilliant.

At this stage it is a concept from people who don't make tires. It'll probably take time to reach the desk of someone that does and, after all the testing need to make sure they can be safely made -- it could take awhile.

I'd say it's better than using coins, but that's just me.

[Yanko Design via The Awesomer]

Collective Cables Bring Style To Your Setup

When people talk about setting up a new PC or desk for their PC you'll often hear about 'cable management' which is just a sneaky code phrase for hiding all their cables. I get that making it look like your PC can run with out the need of cables looks cool and futuristic, because that is the future, but why not embrace cables now while we still have them.

Eastern Collective is on the right track in paying homage to cables with their line of woven cloth covered accessory cables. They offer micro USB, lighting, apple 30 pin, and AUX cables for items like cameras, iPods, and iPhones and so on. The cables come in a great range of bright colors and patterns. They also offer longer cables which are labeled as XXL.

While I love that these cables are available I can see they are shooting for the 'cable managed' crowd that want their device cables to look good because they are not so easy to 'mange' but I would love to see Eastern Collective veer off into HDMI, DVI, and VGA. You know, the cables people tend to 'manage'.

The cost ranges from about $13 to about $28 depending on the connection type and how long it is.

Check the cables out at the Eastern Collective shop!

Collective Cables [Cool Material]

Polaroid Comes Out With A Mobile Photo Printer With iOS Support

Do you find yourself in the position of needing to still have physical photos but don't really want to take the time with those photo printing kiosks that you have to travel to. Maybe you don't want to buy an entire printer just for that feature either.

Polaroid may have just solved a problem for you especially if you happen to be a photographer who likes iOS devices.

A Homemade Auto Loader Copies That Floppy For You

In the grand scheme of things I really haven't been a computer owner for all that long and as such never had a storage medium go obsolete on me. I've never had to look at a box of floppy discs and think "what's on these and how am I going to get the information off without wasting my life?". That's a question Ozzy Dweller had to ask himself, and he answered it with a vengeance!

Instead of taking the time to copy the floppies by hand he engineered a device to do it for him. Whether the time making the device was shorter than the time it would have taken to convert the floppies is irrelevant -- just because. Now watch the machine in action:



He talks more about the machine on his blog (which you should read).

Homemade Autoloader Archives Collection of 5,000 Floppy Disks [Tested]