Both kettle and pitcher, the One from Vessel Ideation can be set on a gas hob, its blue porcelain-like print becoming apparent when the water is at the right temperature for tea. Then place the pot on a trivet that attaches magnetically to the bottom and keep it on the table next to you. Neat, pretty, and nonexistent. (My apologies for posting a concept device, but I’m a sucker for housewares. As are others, apparently, as the One won an award at a recent Tea-Off design competition.) [via Cool Hunting ]

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Elegant One tea kettle does not exist

It plays Sega Megadrive, NES, SNES and Gameboy games, has a wimpy camera, and can do the tunes. Chinagrabber’s Game-800 even reads plain text files out loud, perfect for those upset by Amazon’s kill-switched Kindle 2 . You bring your own games to the machine via SD card (”You can freely expand your library of emulated games by downloading new ones,” the sellers naughtily declare) and there’s a TV-out function, too. The display is 320×240, perfect for the old raster stuff from the 1980s. It’s offered in a bunch of virulent colors. The only downer would be those controlsI can’t imagine beating any high scores with ‘em, even if it is just $70! Product Page [China Grabber via technabob and Nexus 404 ] Update : Here’s what you want, Rob: Doug Aamoth says it can play “NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy Advance, Neo-Geo, and certain Capcom arcade systems”, plus it’s just under a hundred bucks shipped. (Which actually seems a bit spendy and the 340 x 240 pixel screen is probably junk, but at least it has a proper D-pad.)

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Game-800 has camera, media player, retrogaming … and text-to-speech ebook reading!

James Randi’s YouTube account got suspended . A dollar says it’s another specious DMCA takedown.

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Randi off the ‘Tube

Dotdosh imagines the next iPhone with an unsourced pic: Could this be the next iPhone? A photo that was recently posted shows these images, but are to be taken with a grain of salt. If this is the next generation iPhone its pretty sexy and it looks to have a bigger screen and the silent toggle switch moved. As said before, take this with a grain of slat until Apple finally announces the next iPhone. It won’t be that thin, and that complicated speaker grille between bezel and touchscreen doesn’t look very Appley. Apart from that, though, it’s a damn good mockup! [via Gizmodo ]

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iPhone 4G: will it slice bread?

Though I thought Microsoft’s ad featuring Lauren De Long was its best yet , its reality TV scenario set off the internet BS alarms. Seth Weintraub found that the HP laptop she selected is junk with terrible reviews . Even the pretty star, presented as a random consumer given an impromptu shopping challenge, turns out to be a SAG actress doing a standard TV ad: Lauren’s under NDA not to talk about her experience . [Gizmodo]

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NDA! Laptop Lauren can’t say what she thinks of that $700 HP

Of course no one would actually use the MingleStick in real life . I’ve got a similar application for the iPhone but I’ve never once thought to use it when I meet someone else with an iPhone. But for conventions, which seems to be the main market that its gunning for, I could see the goofy little point-and-click radio fob actually being fun. Of course, web site copy like this is ill portent: “FAQ’s: Does the MingleStick work with all computers? Coming soon….”

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MingleStick, an electronic business card for serial schmoozers

Teenage Engineering is building a relatively small portable synthesizer and controller, the OP-1 . Here is their display test using a high-density OLED (I think). ( Thanks, Tom !)

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Teenage Engineer OP-1 synth & controller (sound test)

Praise be to he who provides Chinese copies of simple cables: the Monoprice Mini DisplayPort adapters, as used on the new MacBooks, are now available for around $13: Mini DisplayPort to DVI (Compared to $30 for Apple’s ); Mini DisplayPort to VGA ($18); and the long-awaited Mini DisplayPort to HDMI , which Apple does not even make. Relatedly, have you seen the bad reviews for the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter on Apple’s site? Sounds like those might be lemons. (I like Mini DisplayPort, too; I just hate paying out the nose for cables and adapters.)

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Monoprice Saves: Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapters now available

Moleskine is pushing a new ” MSK ” format for designing your own custom pages on your computer to be printed and attached to one of their famous notebooks. But I’m confused. While I understand the utility of custom pages, especially some of the pre-formated variants that let you print out a list of Plaxo or Vcard contacts or iCal events, I don’t understand how you physically attach them to your notebook. I suppose you can just fold them and slot them in, but that’s not very elegant—and certainly not as swish as the idea I had first imagined, in which Moleskine sold a new notebook with a little clip or binder that made it easy to couple custom pages to blank. It’s enough to make me want to simply print out the blank pages, fold them in quarters, and sew them roughly inside two flaps of cardboard.

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I feel like I’m missing something about the Moleskine MSK format

Woman’s Wear Daily is reporting that design house Louis Vuitton has tapped ornery astronaut Buzz Aldrin for a photo spread to be used in an upcoming advertising campaign. This image is not it, unless LV was finally able to talk the U.N. into letting them rent the moon. (Otherwise I’m guessing this moon was bought on Canal Street.)

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Latest Louis Vuitton model: Buzz Aldrin