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60 S.S. Giftology: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt!

212cf_wifi_shirt_anim.gif Today's Giftology item is guaranteed to make you the most popular person ever at your local cafe, bookstore or street corner: The Wi-Fi Detector Shirt features an animated design on front with signal bars that actually glow blue as the signal strength increases. You'll be like the infallible Johnny Depp/Scarlett Johansson of horn-rimmed glassed-chicks/dudes everywhere you go!

The $29.99 shirt runs "for hours" on 3 AAA batteries and is machine washable, though you'll have to disassemble the glowing, animated decal, battery pack and all the other glitchy components. If you're contemplating wearing a Wi-Fi shirt, I think you can handle it.

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60-Second Science Seal of Approval: The Perry Bible Fellowship

9d38f_arnold thumbs up.jpg Every now and then, we come across something consistently wonderful that requires a righteous, 60-Second Science-style pimping. We then give this wonderful thing a seal of approval, which means that a) you can visit said item and be assured of finding something consistently awesome, and b) whoever is in charge of said item is bound to get laid more often after our endorsement.

This week's 60-Second Science Seal of Approval goes to the comic The Perry Bible Fellowship.

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Laser cuts pizza, adds unexpected tanginess to mozzarella

In my house, you don't cut pizza -- you'll just grab out chunks by the fistful and be glad for it. But if I wasn't a barbarian living in a hovel, there's only one way I would approve of precision-cut pizza, and that's with lasers. You already know I think they're the consummate answer to life's ills, but don't take my word for it:

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"Shocking" news: Tesla coils play Super Mario Bros. theme

OK, I'm as sorry at having to write that headline as you are having to read it, but can we all just get past that and celebrate the fact that these Tesla coils rock the heazy? Steve Ward and Jeff Larson showcased the best thing they'll ever do with their lives at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon in Baraboo, WI.

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Homemade robot wins contest, shames whatever you did this week

92c8f_johnny 5.jpg Dammit. I guess Pablo 247, my robot made from paper clips, didn't win iRobot's Create Challenge contest, because Danh Trinh's "Personal Home Robot" did. Great name, there, Danh.

Lame name aside (it's no Pablo 247), Personal Home Robot can water plants, control lights and appliances, play music and remind owners to take their medication. Unfortunately, it didn't remind Trinh to take his naming creativity pills or use paper clips in his design. But Trinh, of Towson, MD, still gets $5,000 in cash. That's a lot of paper clips.

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