Archive for the ‘Funny Gadgets’ Category
Friday, April 9th, 2010 |
Inspector Gadget is a televion cartoon series developed in the 1980s which originally ran from 1983 to 1986 and remain in syndication until late 1990s. The series was coproduced by studios from France, Canada and US and had a great success. Shortly, the story tells the adventures of a crazy and clumsy inspector named Inspector Gadget who is part man, part bionic machine. Due to his duplicity, the Inspector has various gadgets built into his body, that are originally made to save him from dangerous situations, as well as saving the day and the humanity. Often clueless stumbling through any case he is given, Gadget usually makes foolish and clumsy mistakes pertaining to surroundings and current environment and he always gets in trouble, instead of avoiding it or, why not, even repair it. But because every superhero needs a helper, and Batman knows that the best, our Inspector Gadget its also “provided” with a wonderful and helpful friend, in the name of his niece, Penny.
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She is the one that always gets him out of trouble, due to her unseen help she provides and also with a little help from the part of her dog, Brain.
As said before, Penny is Inspector Gadget’s niece, a pretty blond young girl who wears pigtails, a red and white shirt, green pants and red shoes. She is also the only one who changes outfits during the series and doesn’t always appear in her original clothes, having a quite diverse range of outfits depending the season or simply the episode.
Penny is a master of amateur detective and technology expert who always manages to help her uncle and usually solves the cases her uncle was assigned. In terms on relationships, Gadget appears as her legal guardian and throughout the show, her parents are never mentioned.
Penny has a range of gadgets that she usually appeals to in order to help her uncle who always gets in trouble. Through her devices, the ones worth mentioning are a computer book she always carry which assists her in searching for useful information. Among others, she also uses a wristwatch with a laser beam, a communicator which she uses in order to call Brain. her dog, Chiem Quimby, her uncle’s boss and Gadget.
Penny is usually the one that investigates the clues and helps solving the case by discovering M.A.D.’s evil plans. She is also the one that solves almost all cases using her computer book or changing the devices M.A.D. intents to steal, from reals to fakes. Furthermore, it is irrelevant to mention that she completes all these tasks with full discretion and so subtle, that not even the criminal anti-hero, Doctor Claw realizes that his true enemy isn’t clumsy and silly Inspector Gadget, but the little girl herself.
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Monday, April 5th, 2010 |
Inspector Gadget’s journey began in 1983 when the merge between studios from France, Canada and US united their forces to create an animated television series about a funny and clumsy detective called Inspector Gadget. Built on the model of a clumsy super-hero more humanized, the Inspector is a fictive character part human, part bionic machine. Created by Andy Heyword, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, the Inspector Gadget show originally ran between 1983 and 1986 and it was distributed worldwide, making it a successful cartoon.
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Due to its success, in 1999 the Disney company transformed it into a live-action movie starring Mathew Broderick and Rupert Everett. Later on, in 2003 the Inspector Gadget sequel was released directly to VHS and DVD but none of the 1999’s movie actors played anymore. The sequel is considered better than the original, as the first movie was poor in details and lacked that touch of comedy that is a major problem of almost all cartoon series which later became real actors movies.
References to the cartoon are many, so practically the real actors movie continues the same goofy line like the cartoon’s episodes. Not far from its original cartoon roots is also
IG’s behavior, which shifts between his unprofessional, goofy way of acting and the fact that he always resolves the cases in the end, one way or another, with or without dumb luck or help from the others. Though, a difference is that, in the movie IG seems a lot more wise than he appeared in the cartoons and he can never seem to make his gadgets work well as they are supposed to in order to catch the bad guys. A lot of similarities between the original cartoon series and the
IG 2 movie convey also from the way the main characters are described, seen or acted. Such share points are: Inspector Gadget’s behavior, the fact that Dr. Claw takes after his Mad Cat always, unlike the first movie, or that Dr. Claw’s figure is never to be seen except his mouth or in one scene one of his eyes.
The second movie also gives a romantic ending to the story between Inspector Gadget and Penny, so that after they reverse the effects of the laser prone to kill the humanity, the two characters fall in love. The ending scene includes a kiss and fireworks comming out of their hats and, of course, the always mad faces of the chief and the mayor.
During the decades the show was rolled, fans discovered similarities between the Inspector Gadget’s clumsy behaviour and other characters such as Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther series. His stupidity always leads him into big trouble, but he always finds a way out thanks to his gadgets, Penny’s unseen strings pulled or pure luck (most of the times).
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 |
Ah… probably the coolest thing invented in the 19th century, one that has spread across the Globe, an item that will never die but can be forever replaced – the simple t-shirt. T-shirts, as a piece of cloth without buttons, originally became popular in the United States when they were issued for U.S. Navy soldiers in the 19th century. These were a crew-necked, short-sleeved, white cotton undershirt to be worn under a uniform. Named the T-shirt due to the shape of the garment’s outline, they soon became popular among workers in different industries, just like jeans became popular to golddiggers. The T-shirt was light fitted, easily cleaned, and inexpensive, and for this reason, it became the shirt of choice for youngsters and, in time, the world know statement of casual clothing.
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T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any imaginable combination of words on display, so that everyone can wear the one it best describes themselves. Also, as an un-exhaustable source of combos, the regular shirt has become nowadays one of the best ways to express emotions, feelings, likes or dislikes. Just like other pieces of clothing wore initially as uniforms which only after became true fashion statements, the tee shirts have evolved massively during the centuries and they are now, more than ever, the object of hundreads of designers’ work, collections and tribute.
As stated before, t-shirts come in different forms and shapes, colors, materials or slogans so the range is as infinite as the human imagination supply. But from all the variations, the ones that come in hand as the best sellers in the last decades are the slogan ones with messages varying from funny quotes to politic or religious affiliations.
Popular phrases
A popular phrase on the front of T-shirts demonstrating T-shirts’ popularity among tourists is the humorous phrase “My friend who went to ____ and who loves me very much bought me this T-shirt” (examples better stated in European countries).
Marketing
Designers forecasted this items’ success as a marketing product so in the late 1980s the first designer-logo shirts appeared as a sign of individuality or a certain social standard (it is known that regular shirts can vary costs between 2-20$ depends on various factors, but designer logo shirts can go up to sever hundreds or thousands of dollars). Examples of designer t-shirt branding include Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Nike or the quite newly exclusive Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier shirt collections.
Coolest tee shirts
When it comes to which are the coolest tee shirts in the world, opinions vary; some say that the coolest ones are the ones representing different movie characters, actors or singers, some might say that you won’t get cooler than that if you wear a funny quote or character shirt.
All in all, no matter what you wear, a shirt is always the coolest if its worn with the right attitude…or if it’s from one bad-ass worldknown as ridiculous expensive designer.
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010 |
So you are probably all familiar with that funny tall guy who dresses like a mammal, right? You know the one, with a pointed-ears hat, black cape, who jumps off buildings as a regular job. Oh, and he fights crime also in a city called Gotham City. As most of us grew reading comic books or watching cartoons starring the Batman, everybody was at least once fascinated by the cool gadgets that he has. Some said they are all pure fiction, some tried to actually invent them during the superhero’s history, and some almost made it. But most of us keep on dreaming on having at least one of his gadgets once in their lifetime.
Also known as The Dark Knight or The Caped Crusader, Batman used his history some of the most discussed gizmos, found at the edge between fiction and reality. But what are his trademarks, the things that we immediately associate with the Gotham City hero?
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The Batsuit
Batman is universally known because of the suit he wears. This suit has gone from a tailored pair of gray tights, to a full-body rubber suit, to a high-tech, custom designed set of combat armor. The suit is capable of deflecting gunshots so long as they aren’t direct shots and also protects him from wounds or some direct attacks.
The Batmobile
Batman’s sweet ride. The Batmobile has evolved a ton from the 1966 Lincoln Futura-inspired roadster Batman and Robin zipped around in, becoming more sleek and sinister for Tim Burton’s Batman movies, and imposing for Batman Begins. The closest gadget found at the edge between fiction and possible, the Batmobile is probably the car one will always associate with Batman, becoming a sort of trade mark for him. As we are talking about a super-dupper car with awesome characteristics featuring an astonishing speed and guns all over, engineers across the Globe have been obsessed with re-creating the fiction automobile and trying to make it suitable for ordinary people. Good thing so far they have only created Ferraris and Lambos.
The Batarang
And because no ordinary Batman could go on a fight without a bat-shaped boomerang, they called it the Batarang. Batman’s metal bat-shaped boomerang has come in hand in many ways: with a line attached to it for scaling walls, as an explosive, or as a boomerang with an electric charge, just to name a few. His fancier batarangs such as the exploding variety haven’t really been explored here in the real world, though maybe the idea of taping a grenade to a throwing knife just hasn’t appeal to many sane people.
The Grapple Gun
It first hit the silver screen in 1989’s Batman, being a spear-tipped, spring-loaded projectile. Ever since its appearance it racked oh, so many brains more than the global warming problem. Though one might thing that the idea of tossing up a hook trailing a line seems simple enough -well, it’s not! But here’s the good news: if you have a proper weight, people from MythBusters have proved it is possible. But just don’t go across the block trying that with your ordinary fish hook and teeth floss, because it might just not work…
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 |
If you don’t know that kind of present to purchase for your loved one, the gadgets are always inspired ideas because they are cool and unique, just like your loved one. These cool toys can be found all over the Internet and in the next lines we will give you some gift ideas by presenting you a few cool gadgets.
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The fist one is the Bluetrek Levis Bluetooth Headset – this cool device comes with voice alert that will help you control the your phone calls, redial a call, reject a call and it even tells you the battery level of your mobile phone. With this gadget you will have up to 10.5 hours of standby and 7 hours of connectivity. You will find it on the WirelessGround.com website at the price of $64.95.
A nice and useful
gadget are the Whiskey Stones and what is so special about these stones is the fact that they want to substitute the ice everyone uses at parties or at home, when they want to drink a cool or chill beverage. The hard water (ice) after you put it in your beverage starts to melt and the beverage becomes a watery drinks and all the taste of that drink is gone.
This is the moment when the Whiskey Stones are better than water, because they don’t melt like water and you can use them all over again, all you have to do is to rinse them, dry and put them back into the fridge. You will find them on ThinkGeek.com with the price of $19.99.
The next
cool gadget is a great blend of nature and technology – presenting you the WoodStation Weather Display. This device is made from a piece of wood and, as the name, implies, it comes with a display where you can view the weather information. The wood covers a LED display that projects the information through the wood and this is not all, because the gadget comes with a motion sensor and you can get close to it, the sensor detects motion and turns on the display of the WoodStation.
The display will indicate the following: time, date, indoor humidity and temperature. The WoodStation comes with five weather icons: stormy, rainy, cloudy, partly cloudy and sunny and it also has a built-in alarm with snooze.
You have the possibility to mount it on the wall and it is powered by AA batteries or from AV power. You can choose from light or dark wood and you will find it on ThinkGeek.com at thr price of $79.99.
If you are looking for cool toys or gadgets you can try the website mentioned above where you will find many cool geek toys, gadgets, computer stuff and many more. You should also check out Amazon, because you will find many interesting toys on that website.
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