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| Sep 10, 2018 | The Boring Company proves life can be a video game | The Boring Company just posted a video on Twitter showing its latest digging machine can be controlled by an Xbox One controller. Because, if you’re going to dig holes, why not make it a bit of fun?
Software makes it easy to map PC controls... |
| Jun 2, 2017 | Компании, которые появились благодаря Lego | Обзор 11 стартапов и решений, использующих в своей технологии детали популярного конструктора.
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История Lego — пример того, как компания сумела вовремя найти свою нишу. Фабрика по производству деревянных игруш... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | A Million-Dollar Robot Suit Is Available On Amazon Japan | A few years ago we wrote about something called a Kuratas, a robotic mech suit that allowed the wearer to fire a BB Gatling gun whenever they smile at their soon-to-be vanquished enemies. When it appeared in 2012 everyone thought it was a f... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Abandoned Detroit may become 200-acre Zombie theme park | Here at HousingWire, one of our favorite tactics for delaying actual work is talking about tactics for overcoming the inevitable Zombie apocalypse. Just today, we decided that floating in the middle of a pool with a gun probably wouldn’t de... |
| Jun 10, 2012 | Play Minesweeper In Real Life With These Scratch Cards | Get up from the desk and take a step into real life with these Minesweeper scratch cards. They’re just like the classic Windows game except losing actually means something since the cards cost $2 a piece. You can’t click New Game with these... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | Speech recognition trial uses DS consoles to help children with hearing difficulties | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nintendo is helping to implement the use of speech recognition software in Japanese schools, in partnership with telecom company NTT. A... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | Speech recognition trial uses DS consoles to help children with hearing difficulties | Nintendo is helping to implement the use of speech recognition software in Japanese schools, in partnership with telecom company NTT. As part a project currently being trialed, speech can be captured from a classroom teacher, and relayed as... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Smart hangers help consumers mix and match | Smart hangers help consumers mix and match
Teamlab has developed smart radio
RADIO The radio interoperability solution provided by Omnitronics has been proven in a variety of operating environments.
frequency identification (RFID) clothing ... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Watch Out For Lightsabers In Tokyo’s Subway Cars | In case you missed the news, Star Wars launched on Blu-ray this week. Lucas & Co. never miss an opportunity to soil their brand and so, along with turning to annoying in-game advertising, recently wrapped the handrails of several Tokyo ... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Atari’s New iPad Joystick Meant For Budget Gamers? | ThinkGeek’s iCade certainly has a sense of visual flair going for it, but discerning iPad gamers who could do without the retro throwback may soon have another choice. The existence of the Atari Arcade Duo-Powered Joystick was recently conf... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | Video: Lockheed’s “Samarai” Drone Spins Like A Maple Seed | Anyone who lives near a deciduous forest knows the joy of the maple seed, or as we called them when we were kids, helicopters. Their single wing spins the seed, slowing its descent — so why shouldn’t a similarly-designed wing be able to spi... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | For The Geek Who Has Everything: A Gold-Plated Atari 2600 | One thing most 30-something people in tech have in common is video gaming nostalgia. Generation X (and Generation i) can go on for hours discussing the merits of our favorite Nintendo games, our programming experience in school, and of cour... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | DIY Instant Camera, But Not The Kind You're Imagining | If you’ve been wildly despondent at the death of the Polaroid, there is still hope. This DIY “instant camera” by Niklas Roy uses a simple digital camera and printer to take and print images. Here’s the bad part: the camera has no memory so ... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Homemade Combination-Secured Flash Drive Is Steampunk Done Right | Once again, an example of how Steampunk can actually be pulled off. This one-off flash drive was created by a Russian guy, who modeled it in 3D, had the components cast or printed, and then assembled it himself (you can see the whole projec... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Fanboys! Bow Down To The 1/6 Scale Action Figure Of Steve Jobs | Apple’s ninja-like lawyers quickly “took care of” the last figurine made in Steve’s likeness. Maybe this one will fare a bit different. At least with a reported $160 price tag, this 1/6 model will likely be a more limited run and might run ... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | What Does The World Look Like Through 50 UV Filters? Blurry, Apparently | There’s some disagreement on UV filters in the photography world, but we can probably all agree that if you’re going to put one on your lens, it shouldn’t be some five dollar bargain bin filter. After all, you paid hundreds, or maybe thousa... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Video: A Scary Realistic Iron Man Mark I Suit | Detroit doesn’t need a Robocop statue. Hell no. They need guys dressed in Tony Stark’s first Iron Man suit patrolling the street. Even this recreation looks awesome and weighs in at 110 lbs thanks to the Ethylene-vinyl acetate frame, “worki... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Must-Have For Minecraft Fans: Grass Block Mousepad | If you’re deeply into Minecraft, as I know many of you are, you might find this grass block texture mousepad fulfilling (there’s a Creeper one as well). Etsy seller DesignNoy has a ton more of iconic game graphics, if blocks and building ar... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Why Not Print Your Own Keys? | 3D printers can make pretty much anything but they seem to be tasked with making just novelty items. That’s what the creator of this project thought as well and so set out to replicate keys using his RepRap 3D printer. Spoiler: He did it.
T... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | ThinkGeek's USB Mushroom Lamp Provides Light, Not Super Abilities | Power up your desk with this USB Mushroom Lamp from ThinkGeek. It’s only $10 bucks, which is a small price to pay for the eternal satisfaction of a functional conversation piece. The light comes by way two super bright white LEDs powered by... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Available Now: An Atari 400 Keyboard For Your Modern Computer | Ah, the 80s, an era of unparalleled aesthetics and design savvy. Take this Atari 400 keyboard, for example. What kid wouldn’t want a keyboard in orange, brown, and tan complete with oddly shaped chiclet keys and no concern for ergonomics. T... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | This LEGO Lunchbox Wants Nothing More Than To Hold Your PB&J | Bring the fun of interlocking bricks to the cafeteria. This officially-licensed LEGO lunchbox isn’t anything fancy, but it’s a sure fire way to meet fellow brickheads. (Is that what LEGO nuts are called?) The only downside I can see from my... |
| Feb 12, 2011 | Powertrekk Fuel Cell Charges USB Powered Devices | We’ve been hearing about using fuel cells as batteries since fuel cells existed. So far, nothing too interesting has come out. But if you’re interested in getting in on the tech early, check out the Powertrekk. The Powertrekk is a fuel cell... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | This CD Player Is A Late Addition To The Steampunk Movement | This is either a steampunk CD player or an evil pneumatic crab. I’m hoping the latter of the two. Can’t you just picture a horde of the little guys angrily chasing after protagonist in a Beauty and the Beast steampunk mashup? Too bad it’s n... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Today Is The Day You Become A Man: Hand-Welded AT-AT Available For $450 | Conceptually, this AT-AT made of old computer parts is amazing. It’s well-detailed, includes real battle scarring, and it looks like it could stand in for one of the AT-ATs in the second Star Wars movie, The Wrath of Kahn. Practically, howe... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Somebody Buy Me This Oak And Ostrich Leather Arcade Stick, Pronto | Every once in a while I get a hankering to burn through a few virtual quarters playing Samurai Shodown or Metal Slug X on a NEO-GEO emulator, but the truth is I get little satisfaction out of it when I have to use a keyboard. Sure, I could ... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | U R Not (Red-E) For This Pair Of PlayStation Nike Air Force 1s | U R Not (Red-E)
You’re now looking at a pair of Nike Air Force 1 sneakers. But these are special in that they have the classic PlayStation logo on them. You’ll be the coolest kid in Long Island City, the new new Williamsburg.
These shoes we... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Fujifilm's Anti-Counterfeiting Watermarks Are Just Cool-Looking | If you’re a big manufacturer of media and components like Fujifilm or Sandisk, you need to make sure that products on the market are actually from your factories and not some knockoff that just copied your packaging. Counterfeits can be rem... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Edible Concept: Tetris Sugar Cubes | I believe I saw something like this a year back that looked like it was created by licking normal sugar cubes and sticking them together, forming tetrads. As fun as that sounds, I’d just as soon have my Tetris pieces fully formed right out ... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | This Is a Boba Fett Spartan Helmet | This is a Boba Fett Spartan Helmet. No, you can’t have one. The guy who made the helmets for 300 painted this one to look like the Boba Fett helmet in Return of the Jedi. You will see nothing cooler than this today nor would you even want t... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Fling Brings Joystick To The Top Of The iPad | Ushering in the new era of touch panels come the lack of feeling any mechanical feedback. Just when we thought it was too late, Ten One Designs comes out with Fling, a tactile game controller for the iPad.
Simply snap it down onto the iPad ... |
| Dec 16, 2010 | Leather iPod Nano Watchband Wants To Be Tough | Is it just me, or is this iPod watchband thing getting old? Jobs makes one off-hand comment during a product announcement and suddenly a cottage industry pops up.
Well, regardless of my opinion, there’s a new watchband out there, and it doe... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Full-Size, Target-Tracking TF2 Sentry Gun Installed At Valve HQ | We’ve seen sentry guns before, working ones in fact, but this one takes a special place in our hearts… like everything Valve-related. This particular one isn’t a DIY project, though, it was put together by none other than WETA, famous for h... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | The ZAGG invisibleSHIELD Swears To Protect And Defend Your New MacBook Air | Zagg wants to protect your new fancy MacBook Air. The solution is the same transparent film they sell for the iPhone and other mobiles. This version was specifically cut for the new Air so all you’ll need to do is peal and stick. The result... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | The Dreamcast Ain't Dead Yet: SD And MicroSD Card Adapters Released For Sega's Classic Console | How many of you out there still have your Dreamcasts tucked away somewhere? Nice. Me too. I mean, when you’ve got classics like Chu Chu Rocket, Skies of Arcadia, Soul Calibur, Rez, and more all still looking as good as they did in 1999 (act... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Sterling Silver NES Controller Belt Buckle. That is All. | Do you have the chops to rock this NES controller belt buckle? I don’t know that I have the power in me to do so. I think maybe only the Power Glove-rocking kid from The Wizard has the right to wear one of these.
Regrettably, it’s not full ... |
| Sep 17, 2010 | Cut Your Apples And Bananas On This iPad Board | This clearly states that the iPad‘s form is so iconic that it trendsences traditional product barriers as it’s replicated in other fields. I fully expect to see cheap Android cutting board clones now. [myBrett via leetlady via technabob]... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Glass Speakers? What Are You, Crazy? | We’ve seen mini speakers, ceramic speakers, pig speakers, and jet engine speakers, but I’ve never seen anything like these glass speakers, if they’re for real. These speakers appear to use glass as a resonator, creating 360 degrees of sound... |
| Aug 3, 2010 | Wipeout Goes Corrugated On This Cardboard Race Track | http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9056286&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0
As a child of the 80’s, I spent more then my fair share o... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | Wooden NES sculpture fails to sell on eBay | Why no one wanted to pay hundreds of dollars for this NES made out of wood is beyond me. It’d go well with my wooden horse, my wooden shoes, and my wooden teeth. Hello, I’m George Washington, and I approve this message.
Really, though. It’s... |
| Jul 15, 2010 | Optimus Prime set to protect China against Japan's Gundam | The stage is set. The lines are drawn. It’s the battle of the ages. Optimus Prime vs RX-78-2. Transformers vs Gundam.
Optimus Prime stands 40 feet tall and weighs in at 6 tons. He’s fittingly constructed of recycled car parts such as engine... |
| Jul 15, 2010 | n gear 64: mod a Sega Game Gear into a N64 | So you really want a portable Nintendo 64 unit. Well, modder Evil Nod can build you one, using a Sega Game Gear, and a N64. The end result may not be ergonomically correct, but at least you’ll be able to take your N64 games with you.
[via T... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | 3D Tetris on a screen made of water? Yes please | http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/2227271001?isVid=1
We’ve seen water-based screens and tech before, and in fact the “illuminated drop” technique specifically has been used to good effect probably for years. Some research... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | First shots of Optimus Popularis keyboard emerge | We heard tell of the Optimus Popularis in May, but it had a completely different look. The new one, with its dedicated display bar and lack of number pad, is in my humble opinion a vastly superior design. The LED (not OLED) keys are, after ... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | iPhone cassette tape case is retro-practical | Can’t get enough of the cassette tape nostalgia products? Well buddy, forget those other ones, because this is the best I’ve seen — mainly because it’s the most like the real thing. As long as you don’t need to put your phone in your pocket... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Spotted on eBay: Nintendo 64DD and all the games starting at $500 | Many of the eBay auctions we write about are sorta “meh,” but this one gets the incredibly valuable Nicholas Deleon award of “hey, this is pretty neat.” It’s a Nintendo 64DD and every single game released for it. The bidding is currently at... |
| May 28, 2010 | Ultra-rare Sega Action Chair up on ebay | Awesome. Simply awesome. How could I have gone through my childhood not knowing that I could have played my Sega Genesis games on the Sega Action Chair. The beauty here is that the chair itself is the controller with a joystick pad located ... |
| May 14, 2010 | "Balancing Cube" robot balances well enough – but is not a cube | What qualifies as a robot, exactly? This thing appears to be a sort of polyhedron that stands on its tiptoes. Sure, it’s impressive — but “robot?” But that’s neither here nor there. This project, called the “Balancing Cube,” is an experimen... |
| May 14, 2010 | Does your MacBook need a colorful keyboard? | “Oh, neat.” Thus spoke Nicholas Deleon when he saw these MacBook keyboard decals, and it was Good.
So yeah, it’s a vinyl decal that you affix to your MacBook keyboard to give it a little bit of personality. At some point it became fashionab... |
| May 4, 2010 | Boba Fett helmet for your Star Wars-loving mom | Does your mom like to wear helmets? Does she want to be a bounty hunter? Does her dad have millions of clones? Then you’re going to want to hook her up with this $45 Boba Fett helmet.
Sadly, this is actually for the kids so you and I won’t ... |
| May 4, 2010 | Look at this portable GameCube mod then quit the Internet, it won't get any better today | It’s the handiwork of a modder going by the name of techknott, and it’s his second such portable GameCube mod. (I don’t know where the first one is, sorry.) You’ve got an LCD screen, integrated controller, and a headphone jack.
You simply p... |
| May 4, 2010 | How Goldman Sachs' "Wonderful Life" Magnified Toxic Risk | To hear CEO Lloyd Blankfein tell it, Goldman Sachs (GS) is just the modern version of America's most benevolent banking icon, George Bailey. During his recent interview with Charlie Rose, Blankfein used It's a Wonderful Life to explain how ... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Konnet Power Pyramid Supreme: charge your controllers with style | If you’re looking for a new accessory for your PS3 or Xbox 360, check out the Konnet Power Pyramid Supreme. This futuristic and stylishly designed charger allows you to charge up to two PS3 and two Xbox 360 controllers at once. It even has ... |
| Mar 29, 2010 | The Century USB 3.0 2.5-inch HDD enclosure lets you test USB 3.0's water | USB 3.0 hard drives are little on the expensive side right now. But there’s a new option in town that will let you give the faster interface a-go with a spare hard drive.
The external enclosure has USB 3.0 interface and a screw-less design.... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | For the programmer who has everything: Android pillows | Need a DIY gift for the phone programmer who has everything? Consider getting him or her some Android pillows. These pillows show the eventual move toward the iPhone OS – more fluff.
[via Technabob] |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Smart as hell: "Outlet Regulator" ejects plugs when they're done charging things | http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9392135&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Now this is a power outlet mod I can get behind (not all are good). I’m sure you gu... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | The LG Serie 1 Retro Classic TV is the definition of retrosexy | Who cares if this LG TV is just a 4:3, 14-inch CRT. I still want one. Look at it and tell me that there isn’t a spot in your home for the little guy. The chrome legs, soft styling, rabbit ears. There’s even a little switch that changes the ... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | VHS tape external HDDs from Etsy. That is all | One problem with all those external drives out there is that they aren’t really stackable or easy to tell apart if you have more than one of the same. There are a thousand and one ways around this, of course, but can you really tell me that... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Fun Fact: New Super Mario Brothers is totally amazing when you play it with a sniper rifle | I’m not sure how we missed these charming little PS3 and Wii sniper rifles (you know, for kids) at CES. However, as Technabob points out, both look like AK-47s, which aren’t very useful as sniper rifles.
You can buy these for about $40 and ... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Resident Evil on NES? Now wait just a darn minute | It was a long time ago but I could swear that Resident Evil came out on the Playstation. Yes. I’m sure now. Definitely not the Nintendo Entertainment System. Then why is there a Famicom cartridge with some sort of quasi-Resident Evil availa... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Looks like someone can check ‘Own Super Mario Bros. Sweater’ off his bucket list | See the young man in the above photo? He’s older than you think. His wife made him that sweater. I don’t know his wife but I can tell you right now that any future argument the two of them have can be ended rather quickly by her saying, “I ... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Chumby Sunfury tablet coming? | We missed this one. But then again, the onle mention of the Chumby Sunfury tablet at CES ’10 was in the Marvell booth. We were too busy palling around with Stan Lee to notice anything else. Good thing the nerds from technabob has our back a... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | Ever wonder what FFXIII Elixir tastes like? Now you can know | Here’s one for the really dedicated Final Fantasy fan. The beverage company, Suntory, has teamed up with Square to offer a limited edition drink collection, featuring 16 special art cans of Final Fantasy “Elixir”. The set also contains a co... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Here's how to pay too much for an SNES emulator | So, you want to play some Super Nintendo games. You’ve got some ROMs, but you don’t want to play it on one of the many devices already out there. No, you want to drop some serious cash on a homemade version of a portable player. Well, this ... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Game Boy hacked into a TI-83. That is all | It’s one of those mods just for modding’s sake, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t awesome. Can you imagine rocking this thing in Math class? I mean, I got by with Drug War, Cave, and racing game that was pretty much Cave: Vertical Edition. If ... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Luckily, only 500 of these ridiculous Pac-Man watches will be made | As a fan of retro game stuff in general, I’m always on the lookout for cool Pac-Man/Space Invaders/Robotron 2084 stuff. Unfortunately, retro game gear isn’t usually very understated. When it comes to watches, I’m more of an old-school guy, ... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Presenting an apple pie molded after an Apple computer | It’s an Apple pie. Get it? [Geek Crafts via technabob] |
| Nov 25, 2009 | The Xbox 360 Elegant Edition | Does your Xbox 360 look out of place on your equipment rack? Does it just look too juvenile with the concaved case? Are you a boring old fart that still want the the Xbox 360 but need it to look more like a VCR than a gaming system? If so, ... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | This could be the ultimate HTPC controller | This little controller is butt-ugly and crude, but I still want one really bad. Maybe Santa will bring me one.
Right now there isn’t many good ways to control a PC from your couch. Full size keyboards are a pain, standard mice are awkward, ... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Some dude in Japan marries a video game character | While I would totally go out with Princess Peach (provided all the parts are really there, and they must be because those Mario Brothers have been after her for years), I find this story to be quite disturbing. A Japanese man married Nene A... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | The motherboard as art: The Mona Lisa | Well, I think we finally know what Asus does when they get a dead motherboard. They take it apart, and turn it into a picture! Behold the loveliness that is the Motherboard Mona Lisa, a model of PCI and AGP slot beauty and mystery.
This Mon... |
| Nov 8, 2009 | SNEGENES "portable" console plays SNES, Genesis, and NES games | When someone says “portable,” what do you think? I think “fits in a bag or pocket,” but some people would go the “portable” generator route and say “is not physically fixed in position.” That seems to be the “portable” that the creators of ... |
| Nov 7, 2009 | Rubiks Cube-based real-life pixel art suggests too much time on someone's hands | Sometimes, the medium is the message. In this case, the medium is Rubiks Cubes. The message is that there’s an Irish guy named John Quigley who has too much free time. I mean, I suppose you could say the same of many artists, but this is so... |
| Nov 5, 2009 | Virtual pinball machine looks cool, may be missing flippers | A virtual pinball machine sounds like a really good idea. No less then 17 tables, on a LCD display (so the playfield doesn’t wear out). Best yet, the virtual pinball machine has some of the most famous Gottlieb games like 2001 and Gold Stri... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Lawyer bait: OS Calculators | Electronics design studio Mintpass is treading a fine line. They’ve come up with a pretty cool concept, bit it’ll probably never make it to market. What have they done that’s so controversial? Created calculators based on the designs in Win... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | Old $4 Sega PC turned into real computer | Well how do you like that? An old Sega SC-3000H from 1983 has been given new life as a fancy keyboard PC. An enterprising modder named Cuzza over in the TechPowerUp forums laid out $4 for the old-timey computer, rolled up his sleeves, and g... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Steampunk broadcast controller will get you kicked off of the set | It’s hard to get much attention at major conferences and it seems that Hi Tech Systems has figured out a way to make a bit of a stir. They created a steampunk console that uses their own products inside a case that looks like it belongs in ... |
| Sep 11, 2009 | Orginal Computer Space arcade machine up on eBay | If you have $2,500 laying around, you would be crazy stupid not to buy this classic piece of gaming history. Computer Space was the first commercially sold coin-operated video game and now you can own one of only 1800 working models ever ma... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Old-timey grenade-shaped Atari controller brings us back | If the action couldn’t happen on screen then it surely could happen off screen. This odd, made-in-Denmark controller was called the Terminator and was shaped like a very realistic grenade – complete with pin.
I remember the old style “stick... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Aluminum MacBook Pro, iPhone turned into cake | Look at that photo. All of that is edible, and likely delicious. The mouse, the iPhone, the aluminum MacBook Pro, all of it. The pens, the Post-It notes, the mouse pad, all made of sweet, sweet cake.
Constructed by BCake of New York, the “A... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | Store your data on an ice cream bar with deliciously easy file transfers | Ice cream bars and external data solutions are, without a doubt, two of my favorite things. Actually, I don’t back up all that often (I’m in the cloud!) and frozen confections give me headaches. But this concept actually makes a whole lot o... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | The Supertendo Portable SNES | I would buy this portable SNES. It’s probably one of the cleanest portable retro gaming systems ever made. In fact, it sort of looks like something that Nintendo would have made in the 90’s as a competitor to the Game Gear.
[PSGallery=7yrqx... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | MyDeskFriend: Creepy Facebook connected Penguin robot | Here we have a robotic penguin named MyDeskFriend from Arimaz. MDF is an interactive robot that connects to your Facebook account and is akin to the Tamagotchi, but the level of interactivity goes beyond yourself and infiltrates your entire... |
| Jun 11, 2009 | Handlebar-mounted bike mp3 player sounds dumb but it's totally not | At first glance, this little doodad seems like a straight-to-SkyMall throwaway gadget. But I think the Bikeman is actually quite a handy device. First, it’s got a light on the front, so your handlebars aren’t going to look like some sort of... |
| Jun 10, 2009 | iPhone Ocarina played by one million users | Millions play iPhone as musical instrument and share their recordings online
Somewhere in Japan, the one-millionth user of the Ocarina app for the iPhone has just helped the company that developed it, Smule, reach a very important milestone... |
| Jun 3, 2009 | Old-school USB vacuum is tiny, really works | Please observe a fully-working, tiny USB-powered retro vacuum cleaner. It looks cool! Hope you live in the UK, though, as this £7.99 ($13) bit of fun costs a whopping £33.00 ($55) to ship to the US. If you simply must have the best in tiny ... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Want: Nintendo mouse | This NES-inspired mouse could probably be the hot-selling Wii of the mouse world if Nintendo ever decided to produce such a thing. I would buy one and you would buy one. Repeat that process until there’s a three-year supply shortage and, bo... |
| Apr 25, 2009 | Awesome handheld NES with wireless controllers and Zapper | For the retro gaming fans out there, these clone systems are making a lot of dreams come true. The FC3 system, for example, plays NES, SNES, and Genesis games, for only like $60. And this sweet portable NES, which uses actual NES cartridges... |
| Apr 9, 2009 | eBay finds: limited edition Star Trek pez dispenser | Some people use eBay for what it was originally intended for. Case in point, a limited edition set of 8 Star Trek pez dispensers. If you want one (and you know you do) you can pick it up for about $17 plus shipping until the end of the mont... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | She's a brick – dananaaana – mouse (that's gold) | Throwing ergonomics and good taste out the window, the gold brick mouse has to be one of the silliest products I’ve ever seen. I honestly can’t imagine who would spend $35 on a product like this, unless they were drunk. Can anyone honestly ... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Film camera "disguised" as enormous film canister | These aren’t exactly for the super-spy in your life, but for the ironic enjoyer of all things meta and mash-up, they might be perfect. It’s hard to say how big these cameras really are, but if that cup and saucer is any indication, they ain... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Wedding cake made from 80 Pac-Man cupcakes | Oh… my… word. As if a giant rendition of Pac-Man made out of cupcakes wasn’t enough, this thing is a wedding cake, effectively making the bride, the groom, and the cake maker the three coolest people in the entire world for at least the nex... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | R2-D2 translated (semi-NSFW) | Ever wonder what the little droid was really saying? I mean, C-3PO translated sometimes but you know he was always putting a politicly correct spin on it. Highlights from Episode one are above and Episode 2 are after the break. These might ... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | CrunchDeals: Dell Mini 9 for $199, today only | Happy Friday, deal hunters. You can pick up a Dell Mini 9 netbook for $199 today. Can’t you find a little extra room near your couch for an inexpensive netbook? Won’t you give the Mini 9 a decent home?!
If you can find it in your heart to a... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Bluetooth rotary phone for old school ringing, time-consuming dialing | Remember when people used to memorize phone numbers? How many of the phone numbers of the contacts in your cell phone do you know by heart? I know my wife’s and both my parents — that’s it. Assuming I’d want to get in the way-back machine a... |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Casemod: Widefault's Hackintosh Jr. | One fan of the Mac Pro tower decided to build his own hackintosh junior Mac Pro from aluminum sheeting and mesh. The best part is, it’s about the size of a Mac Mini. I like the idea, it’s a good look. It’s got really low power requirements ... |
| Feb 12, 2009 | You wanted a horror Star Wars novel, right? | Is Star Wars a bit to pre-teen for ya? Joe Schreiber’s Star Wars: Deathtroopers (scary name, eh?) aims to be a Star Wars horror novel set pre-A New Hope era. Details about the plot and whatnot aren’t available to keep fanboys guessing but A... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Tiny arcade machines for your train set | Awwww, they’re adorable little video game cabinets! Choose from seven styles: Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Centipede, Zaxxon, Phoenix, and Defender – all for $7.49 each. They’re technically for use on your model train set but if you, like ... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Know when it's time to wake up, analog style | Finding it too easy to read your current alarm clock? Check out the new “Time Tuner” from ATREP04 design, based out of Constantinople Istanbul.
Instead of using something like a numerical display, the Time Tuner uses a analog radio tuner, w... |
