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There’s a Doraemon Time Machine Bed for Your Cat

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If you’ve ever followed the Japanese anime series Doraemon, you know that the robotic cat’s primary means of transportation is a rather silly looking time machine. While we humans may never get a chance to take a ride to other points in time, your cat is ready to go right now.

The guys at Japanese department store Felissimo have teamed up with Doraemon creators Fujiko Fujio to make this plush cat bed that looks just like the time machine from the series. Your kitty will enjoy playing with the cockpit controls, which can send them on an adventure to the past, future, or points unknown. That’s assuming it doesn’t break down as often as Doraemon’s machine does.

The time machine cat bed sells for ¥9790, or about $94 USD. That’s a small price to pay to send your cat somewhere far away when they’re trying to walk on your keyboard while you’re trying to type.

[via Toy People]

Hourglass-shaped table lamp helps you keep track of time using ambient-light!

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There’s something very intuitive and interactive about the way the Time Machine Table Lamp is designed. Made to look like an hourglass, the lamp features a freely rotating shade with a central pivot and LEDs on both ends. Switch the lamp on and the LEDs on the upper half of the hourglass illuminate. Over time, the upper half of the hourglass dims down and the lower half begins illuminating, almost as if light particles are passing through the central channel, like grains of sand would.

The Time Machine Table Lamp was designed to help provide an ambient bedside aura of soft light, while allowing you to intuitively gauge time as it passes by. It takes around 60 minutes for the light to transfer from one half of the hourglass to the other, and a simple flip helps reset the entire procedure. It’s a fun-yet-useful way of timing your nightly activities before going to bed… perhaps reading a bedtime story, or sharing stories about your day before hitting the sack. Besides, with its warm, comforting glow and unique interaction, it’s the kind of lamp your eyes AND hands will fall in love with!

The Time Machine Table Lamp is a winner of the K-Design Award for the year 2020.

Designers: Chu Dongdong, Liu Bei, Ren Peng, Lin Rulong & Weng Hang

DeLorean Time Machine Cake: Hover Converted Dessert

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London-based Tattooed Bakers have wowed us before with their Maleficent and zombie horse cakes, but they went all out for Back to the Future day. The dessert masters made a DeLorean time machine cake that looks more like a toy than something edible.

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Tattooed Bakers made the cake for software maker Bullhorn. It had lights everywhere, smoke coming out of its exhausts and as you can see it was in hover mode with its gull-wing doors fully open. It wasn’t a life-size model but was still huge.

DeLorean Time Machine Conversion Mod: Back to the Back to the Future

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Bob’s Prop Shop specializes in creating replicas of famous movie cars and props. Its most famous replica is that of the DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future, which it sells for $65,000-$75,000 (USD) and rents for $1,500 a day. But if you already have a DMC-12, the shop can convert it to its geeky incarnation as well.

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The shop says it works with Universal Studios’ restoration team for the permanent conversion, so you can expect to get pretty much everything that’s on the original movie prop cars on your DMC-12. That includes the flux bands, the aluminum rear vents, the side pontoons, Mr. Fusion (the plutonium chamber costs extra to add) and all the electronics inside, including of course the Flux Capacitor.

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Here’s the 13th customized DMC-12 that Bob’s Prop Shop built, from a car that it sourced on its own:

Get your browser running at 88mph and go back to eBay to avail of the conversion, which will set you back $30,000.

[via Mikeshouts]

Own Your Very Own Time Machine!

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This amazing contraption you see here is a time machine. Before you get too excited, you should know that it doesn’t actually work, but that doesn’t make the feat any less awesome. That’s because it’s actually an incredibly detailed scale model of a fictitious time machine, created by a professional film and TV model maker.

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This one-of-a-kind model took Steve Howarth over 1500 hours during a two year period to build, and it looks amazing. It’s made from perspex and styrene, and set onto a formica MDF base. The thing is loaded up with tiny LEDs to illuminate the scene, and even has sound effects and speakers built in.

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The model is currently for sale over on Etsy, with an asking price just north of $17,000(USD).While that may sound like a lot, I think the guy who built this deserves more than $11 an hour for his time and materials. Plus, the lucky buyer will get film rights for a story which goes along with the time machine.

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Time Machines: Silver platters

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Welcome to Time Machines, where we offer up a selection of mechanical oddities, milestone gadgets and unique inventions to test out your tech-history skills.

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It bears a passing resemblance to the vinyl record, but this futuristic concept was envisioned as more than just sound on a platter. The recording method involved electron beams and lasers; the base material was a coated, transparent plastic disc; and you'd get both an eyeful and an earful from the end product. Its intended goal in the market may have initially flubbed, but its core design has been patently embedded into a variety of successful formats ever since. Take a spin past the break to find out more about this invention.

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Foursquare Time Machine Checks In for a Visual Trip

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A social connection and human tracking facility, Foursquare is a wonderful way of keeping a record of the places you visit. Foursquare in coordination with Samsung launched a new Time Machine feature...