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Circuit Board Pendants: Be the hippest geek couple in town

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As developed by ZDNet and some students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, there are definitely new ways to recycle circuit boards. They are done by mixing up a nonmetallic dough made of the main ingredients polyester and crushed up circuit boards, which doesn’t sound very tasty to us even though they called it “dough.”

This is exceptional, why? Because studies on waste shows that “printed circuit boards (PCBs) form about 3% by weight of the total amount of electronic waste” and that “disposal in a landfill is the main method for treating nonmetallic materials of PCBs, but it may cause secondary pollution and resource wasting”

So why don’t you and a significant other share something in common and save the world at the same time. Adorn yourself with these circuit boards pendants. Measuring form a little over 1.5 inches in width and come on an adjustable-length waxed cotton cord, this recycled circuit boards are pre-consumer waste or they’ve been printed wrong, so they’ve never been soldered and thus safe to be reused. They come in a gift box for ease of gifting.

Note: Each necklace is unique, just like every snowflake. Only with more circuit board than your average snowflake. So yours won’t look exactly like the one in the picture, but it’ll be the same shape, style, and size.

Buy one now!

Valentine’s Gift: Heart Mouse & Mouse Pad Set

heart1Usually, a guy is the most common form a geek. But, there are also girls out there. The thing is, it could really be hard thinking of something to give her that reflects your appreciation of her geekiness. The heart mouse pad and mouse would surely show that.

The heart mouse and mouse pad set is a very nice gift this Valentine’s day. The very nice design on the pad would surely tell her how you feel. It has sweet words on it like “I Love You”, “Forever”, and “Love” with heart designs all around it. It also looks clean and modern so she could bring it at her office to show everyone how loving you are. The mouse on the other hand also looks nice with its heart shaped body and transparent red color. The laser underneath it sure looks great as it flash red lights all around it.

Available at Amazon for $16.90, this surely is a great Valentine’s gift. Be sure to hurry on your purchase though since you still got a few days left till V-day.

Laser Stars Projector: ‘Give you the moon and the stars on a silver platter’

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Now, with the brilliant minds of today’s geekie geniuses, this phrase is no longer just a pickup line, a cliché or a hyperbole — it is reality.

Inspired by one of the episodes in the infamous series Gossip Girl (only they have snow there), the Laser Stars Projector boasts of a bamboozled star rupture that could definitely make your girl fall in love with you over and over again. At least each time you close the lights and open this wonderful device.

This is a 10-inch tall device that could project a combination of green laser stars and blue (slightly ultraviolet-ish blue) clouds onto your ceiling, walls, pets, etc. Plus, included in the show are moving clouds and morphing stars just like the real thing.

There are two ways to wow your girl using this device, first you can pivot the projector itself 180 degrees horizontally around the base so that you can control where it is projecting in your room. Or it can literally fill up an entire ceiling and portions of several walls at once. And the other thing you can adjust is the intensity of the blue gaseous clouds, from zero to full intensity.

Using the Diode Pumped, Solid State (DPSS) green laser technology combined with custom developed multiphase diffractive holographic optics, super luminous diodes and precision motors, are producing the laser stars effect. The coherent light produced by the DPSS laser passes through a passive diffractive holographic optical element, which in turn passes through a circular periodicity electromechanical wheel, which is driven by a precision motor to create the soothing motion of the star field.

Features:

  • Uses Green Laser and Holographic technology
  • 2 built-in precision glass lenses
  • Creates thousands of stars with or without blue cloud formations
  • Ac Adapter Included (US Only – 120V)
  • Unit Dimensions: 10″ tall x 9″ wide x 7″ deep

Get one before it becomes a cliche!