Arcade 1UP 3/4 Scale Arcade Cabinets Let You Live Your Ricky Schroder Dreams

One of the shows I liked back in the ’80s was “Silver Spoons” with Ricky Schroder. It didn’t have an awesome talking car or a jacked dude that turned green if you made him mad. What it did have was a rich dude and his son living in a mansion and they had their own video game arcade… and Buck Rogers’ girl. I wanted that arcade way more than I ever wanted my mom’s car to talk. Thanks to Arcade 1Up we can all live out our “Silver Spoons” dreams.

These 3/4-scale arcade cabinets that have the real arcade artwork, real arcade controls, and a 17-inch LCD inside the cabinet. Each measures 45.8″ x 23″ x 19″ making them shorter than the real deal, but they look great, and that design lets you have more machines in less space, and let you play the games seated or standing.

Plus, Each of the cabinets has multiple games inside. The Asteroids cabinet has Asteroids, Tempest, Major Havoc, Lunar Lander. The Rampage cabinet has Rampage, Gauntlet, Joust, Defender. The Street Fighter cabinet has Street Fighter II Champion Edition, Street Fighter II Turbo, Street Fighter II The New Challengers. A fifth cabinet has Final Fight, Ghosts ‘N Goblins, Strider, and 1944: The Loop Master.

You must assemble them, but the pricing is so insane it’s hard to believe. GameSpot has them available for pre-order now for just $399 each. I was ready to throw my money at GameStop and then Walmart stepped up and offered pre-order on the Street Fighter 2, Centipede, and Asteroids cabinets for just $299 each. They’re expected to start shipping on September 25, 2018.

[via HotHardware]

Under the Cabinet Swiveling Knife Block

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Get that bulky knife block off your counter top! The Wusthof 8001 Under-Cabinet-Swinger Knife Storage Block Under the Cabinet Swiveling Knife Block is a beautiful oak knife block that keeps your cutlery off the counter. It easily mounts under your kitchen cabinet with just 3 screws and a drill. The block swivels 360 degrees to keep the knife handles out of sight when not in use.
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The block has slots for 8 knives with up to 10 inch blades and another slot for your sharpener. The knives are held in with magnetic strips. Measures 10.25″ by 7.25″ by 3.5″. Not only will your kitchen counters have more useful space, they’ll also look a lot neater. Or as we say here in Gadgetville, USA- more room for other kitchen gadgets.

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Under the Cabinet Swiveling Knife Block

Smart Filing System Knows Where Your Paper Files Are, Never Needs a Defrag

Even with cheap hard drives and scanners and all this talk of moving data to the cloud, the truth is most of the world’s offices still have tons of paper documents. A company called iMicroData aims to bring the convenience of digital filesystems to physical archives with the Smart Paper Filing System.

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The Smart Filing System uses RFID tags and Wi-Fi to keep tabs on physical files. iMicroData claims that their system can keep track of up to 4 billion folders, the equivalent of 40 million standard size file cabinets. The drawers in a Smart Filing System file cabinet have conductive rails on which special folders with built-in LEDs rest.

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The idea is for users to enter the name of a folder on the Smart Filing System’s program, along with any relevant keywords or tags. I’m not sure if the program then automatically reserves a space in a particular filing cabinet or if the user also has to mark the folder in some way. iMicroData just says that “[t]here is a motherboard installed in the cabinet, which generates the system address of a given folder.”

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But after that mysterious indexing process the user is free to forget where he placed the folder. As shown in the top picture, when a user searches from the application the drawer that houses the folder automatically unlocks while an LED on its door blinks. Inside there’s another blinking LED that points to the folder itself. There’s also another LED that shows if a folder’s tab is properly connected to the conductive rails.

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Users can also tell the smart cabinets when they have moved a file by pressing a re-file button on the cabinet, which prompts the system to save the new location.

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According to C|NET, iMicroData is selling a master filing cabinet for $2,000 (USD) each, while secondary linked cabinets go for $1,500 each. It sounds like a primitive version of the file system on computer operating systems doesn’t it? Plus it still leaves a lot to humans. The indexing thing is the system’s weakest link. Not only does it depend on whether the person filing a folder uses tags and titles correctly, it sounds like a massive effort for companies with lots of existing files. I can say the same thing about the whole re-filing thing. But I suppose it’s a lot better than expecting a few people to know exactly where a single document is.

[via C|NET]

Easy Under-Sink Spray Bottle Storage Solution

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In most house, the under-sink area is a mess of spray bottles and other cleaning supplies all jumbled in a disorganized pile. Maybe you’re tried unders-ink shelving or bins or drawers but those rarely do the trick well. The solution is simple. Cue up the Craziest Gadget Solutions Logo! Here’s your typical before shot:
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Does your sink area look like that? Oh no, worse? Let’s clean it up, or at least get all those big spray bottles out of the way (why do we have so many different ones anyway?) Just insert a simple spring mounted tension bar across the width of your cabinet and hang all your spray bottles on it:
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Look at that. The bottles are out of the way and everything is easy to access. Did we just feature a basic tension bar as the gadget in this post? Yes we did. Thanks to de-cluttering genius Jen Grant Morris for this idea. So simple, yet so efficient. Now get to spring cleaning.

Easy Under-Sink Spray Bottle Storage Solution