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Now here is a scale that is definitely worth checking out, and when you see it, you do ask yourself sometimes, how come no one has thought of it before? Designer Junji Kawabe’s Lamp Scale is a lighting fixture that functions not only as a scale, but also as a lamp, too! The brightness level of this bad boy depends on just how heavy of an object you place on top of it. In a nutshell, should the object be heavier, the brighter the lamp will shine. A gravity controlled lamp, if you will.

This special concept will basically enable users to control the amount of light based on the number of grams that are sitting on top of it. Through the subtle action of adding as well as removing weight, you will be able to find the perfect balance of brightness that you so desire with darkness all around. This is made possible thanks to a spring-loaded mechanism, and according to Kawabe, “Light, weightless thought it may be, “weight” of indirect matter and consequences always exist: resources and material, lives of people who extract them, by-products released to environment… with a lift, we feel the “weight” of light.”

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The name says it all. Late last year, Intel quietly introduced the Next Unit of Computing (NUC): a miniature, barebones desktop PC that represents a modern take on the traditional beige box. The NUC sits a mere two inches tall and comes nestled within a 4-inch square chassis. It also retails for just shy of $300. Don’t let its diminutive size or price fool you, though. The Core i3 system is speedy, stable and more than capable of handling day-to-day computing tasks. Yes, it’s a hell of a departure from the noisy monstrosities we lusted after just a few years ago. And it’s a lot quieter, too.

Before you get too excited, though, let’s temper that enthusiasm just a bit. As with any bare-bones kit, you’ll need to install your own memory, storage, wireless networking components and operating system. In other words, unless you’re willing to get your hands a bit dirty, the NUC isn’t for you. And then there’s the question of its price, which becomes a lot less tempting once you factor in the laundry list of necessary components. So, is the NUC deserving of its “Next Unit of Computing” title? Let’s explore this question together.

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“There’s an app for that…”, or so the saying goes, and we are quite sure that iPhone as well as Android owners have far more installed apps than stock apps on their respective handsets. While Apple might seem to be on the backpedal when it comes to their iPhone at this point in time in terms of market share compared to the expanding Android footprint, do bear in mind that Apple’s App Store is a well respected cash cow for the Cupertino firm, so to speak, as the App Store still outsells Google’s Play Store by a rather hefty ratio in comparison – and we all know that there is money at the end of the apps rainbow. What happens when you take into account hardware accessories as well? This is where this unique iPhone microscope accessory would come in handy for the medical field.

An international team of researchers recently reported in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that they managed to make use of a very simple microscope which was self-constructed, where thanks to a lens that costs just $8, it has been placed over the iPhone 4S’s camera and held in place with some sticky tape, and it was successfully used to detect the eggs of soil-transmitted parasitic worms, otherwise known as helminths, if you want to get technical about it. When compared to the results shown by a proper microscope when diagnosing children in rural Tanzania, it was discovered that for some nematodes, the iPhone microscope is more than capable of detecting worm eggs.

Well, what can we say about that? It would be nice if this makeshift solution was able to measure up to the kind of performance found in actual microscopes, but I guess that further refinements need to be made to ensure that this will happen sometime down the road.

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[ iPhone microscope helps out the naked eye copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

You might think that making your own Boba Fett lamp would be expensive. Not so. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a good looking bounty hunter lamp.

Major League Mods came up with this awesome Boba Fett helmet lamp that can be easily built from cheap parts. In fact, it’s almost all stuff you can find at a thift store. The only thing that can’t befound at a thrift store is the RGB remote LED light bulb – unless you have some really cool thrift stores in your neighborhood.

You can see the entire build over at Instructables. After some hard work, you will have yourself an awesome Boba Fett helmet that lights up like a Mandalorian angel. Lamps don’t get better than this.

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