I know what you’re thinking–there’s absolutely ZERO sense in turning perfectly good AC current into DC current!  Ah, but not so fast, folks–some of those great car gadgets that we talk about out here, like the Scrolling LED Message Board, for example, work mainly on DC current.  So you can forget about putting one of these up in your office or living room or bedroom.

At least, you COULD forget about it until the Portable AC to DC Power Converter.  One of these allows you to turn everyday ordinary household current into battery-esque current, allowing you to use all those cool things that you could ordinarily only use in the car in the house, too.

Perhaps the best part is that these aren’t really expensive.  A meager eight dollars allows you to lay hands on one of them, and then you too can start converting ordinary household power to usable pseudo battery current.

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Okay, remember how I was talking about the whole idea of putting an LED board in the back window, or the front window of your car so you can transmit your rage to other cars?  Or, conversely, so that you can thank people who do courteous things like letting you merge or take a turn first at a four way stop?  You know, that awesome stuff that people should do more often or at the very least get due props for?

Well, now you can take that whole idea to the next level of awesomesauce with the Scrolling LED Message Sign.  It comes with a remote and can apparently roll messages with no limit on word count.  You can also pick from your choice of ninety eight different stock messages.

I’m sorry, but this is either brilliant or idiotic, and I can see someone getting killed over this one.  But then again, it could inspire a whole new level of civility in driving when people get to see, firsthand, that their decisions have consequences for others.

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