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In these modern times the sound of water fountains and birds chirping may not be enough while you are relaxing in your garden. You may be in the mood to enjoy some additional noise. What you really need to enjoy your time out in the garden is a 42″ plasma screen to compliment your leafy surroundings. This crystal clear television display for the patio also has a 4. super surround sound system, just in case the neighbors have missed the last episode of “Three’s Company” and need to hear the laugh track.

This “tasteful” garden television is called the Cal Flame’s U8000 BBQ accessory This is basically a huge box that looks very innocuous from the outside. However inside is luxurious big screen viewing that you can see right from you lawn chair or the family picnic table. When closed, the device functions as a bench, but hidden inside is a 42″ plasma display with an integrated 4.1 stereo system.

Basically the Cal Flame u800 comes with a rising and lowering function. It is available in various colors and trims. Most of the basic unit colors are Ameristone hues in grays and stony browns. The trims for the units are available in natural stone and porcelain tiles in every color from sky blue to mustard yellow to charcoal grey.

The bench looks quite solid when you look at it when it is closed as it looks like stone. The tiles too give it a heavy Roman looks so it would fit in nicely with a lot of décor like stone paths and stone fountains. Word is the bench that conceals it is a little lightweight and although it can protect your technology from the elements it may collapse under the weight of a fat relative.

This unit offers you entertainment while you garden and you could even put in a tape of your favorite gardening show to make sure you are dividing the lilies right this year. Yet another application might be to use it to do Yoga, Pilates or some other type of exercise out of doors. Of course it has many applications when it comes to entertaining and you can have parties out of doors where people gather to watch sports or favorite television shows. It would also look good propped up in front of a hot tub.

One could see this being quite a functional toy for corporations who like to hold demonstrations and meetings out of doors. One could also see this type of screen having all kinds of applications. It could be used to display art out of doors in public parks or rock concert footage when concerts are held out of doors in public places. In the future we might even see them on the streets with screens popping up to entertain bored people stuck waiting for a bus.

In the past six months or so we have seen the invention of quite anew gadgets that are quite out there in terms of design and concept and are probably not going to forward with humanity in the near future.

An example is the $150 Chilled Shot Maker Machine, which allows you to plunk your liquor bottle on top of it and then shoot a chilled shot out the bottom. The only flaw in this is that most people prefer to drink shots that are room temperature.

Another very weird gadget is the EZ chord kit which for $42.50 allows you to plug it into the guitar and it will play the chords automatically for you. This takes air guitar to a new level. The E-Z Chord replaces difficult finger moves with just four numbered buttons. All you have to do to change chords is push buttons at the right time. The product comes with a 24-page songbook, which allows you to learn to play every type of music: Country, blues, gospel, bluegrass, rock, rockabilly and more.

One of the weirdest things offered by Skymall, and often at half price is a pair of canvas chairs that can be suspended from a trailer hitch from the back of a trailer. This really is an unstable ridiculous looking contraption. They look like kid’s Jolly Jumpers suspended off the back of a truck.

Another weird novelty gadget that came out recently is those animated animals toy puppets that attach to the back of your hitching post on your vehicle. These are deers and fish with bull’s eyes marked ironically in the center of their chests. There is also flapping duck. Basically they mount on top of your tow ball on your hitch. These probably won’t go on in history because the message is a little ambiguous – do these gizmos represent an anti-hunting statement or a pro-hunting statement.

One of the scariest gizmos that was invented last year was the Live Animatronic Elvis. This is like the supersonic version of the Elvis that used to sit on kitschy mantelpieces only it is lovingly crafted to look exactly like the real live King.

With this gadget you can experience “The King” in four modes. Press the “Alive” button and Elvis comes to life talking his sweet talk. If you select the Monologue function he will share an anecdote from his life with you. You can even Sing Along with Elvis using the Karaoke function. In total he is programmed to sing eight songs.

It costs three hundred bucks and comes complete with a glittering remote control that looks like a microphone. Unlike the tacky old ceramic versions, which usually depict in him in his blue or white glittering outfits this depicts Elvis in his leather gear. This makes the animatronic Elvis look “cooler than most animatronic busts.

One of the most incredible developments in dieting gadgets is a talking floor. The Diet Floor is a “smart” floor that is a ceramic tile. You install it in front of your fridge and it will verbally abuse you if it catches you spending too much time in front of the open fridge door. You can also program it to chastise you if it catches you spending too much time in front of it between meals.

You can program it to say something milder like “Watch out for those extra pounds!” and even

Floor is a “smart” talking ceramic floor that will talk to you whenever you spend too much time on top of it at the wrong times. In other words: you go to the kitchen in between meals, stop in front of the refrigerator to see what you can nib on and it will shout something like “Watch out for those extra pounds!” or ” Get away you Pug nosed fat nosed monster.” or something like that.

However this floor has even more applications than that. You can use it in the office to stop employees from gathering around talking. For instance you could place it in front of a water cooler and have it say something like “Enough gossip! Get back to work.” You could put it in front of the employee lounge refrigerator and remind people to “Eat Your Own Lunch.”

The applications could also extend to office bathrooms. Female employs could be prevented from spending too much time in front of the mirror if you program your talking floor to say, “You look gorgeous now get back to work!

These unique Diet Floor tile were created by a Spanish ceramics company called Tau Cerámica and by. inventor Pep Torres. The floor works because it has weight sensors that trigger it to speak to you.

Yet another bizarre feature is that this floor is capable of spying on you. It can detect individuals and record their activity in front of the fridge or anywhere else. For instance if you are spending too much time at the Xerox machine and you do not have photocopying privileges the floor could tell the boss on you. In fact this tattletale floor could tell on you no matter where it happens to be placed in a home or an office.

These types of tiles have been in existence a while but not many have ever been programmed to speak to you.

One of its more interesting applications might be in the educational system where our children could grow up thinking that it is normal for the floor to make comments to you all of the time. We might also see them cropping up in spas and gyms where they might start to tell us how much we weigh. Time will tell whether or not this is destined to be a good thing.