archive for June, 2007

This strange restaurant combines the delights of dining with a thrill of well, a thrill ride. You’ll travel about 150 feet into the sky before you chow down on a gourmet meal prepared mid-air.

Dinner In The Sky uses a mobile crane to lift its entire 22-seat open-air dining room over city streets all over…

Bring the solar system into your living room with these floating lights from Japan’s TakaraTomy.

These Fuwarito lamps look like the earth and the moon, but are just simple helium-filled mylar balloons with an LED built into the bottom. Each light comes with a two cans of helium gas and weighted base to keep them…

Well, now that I’ve had about a day to try out my new iPhone, I’m ready to give you guys my initial impressions.
First off, my purchasing experience was surprisingly painless. I arrived around 5:20pm on launch day at the AT&T store that’s by Harlem and Irving Park Avenues, just Northwest of Chicago.

There were…

Look what I just got my grubby little hands on…

After a brief, uneventful visit to my local AT&T store (on the Northwest side of Chicago,) I managed to score one of the last couple of 8GB iPhones in stock. They only had about 35 or 40 total phones in stock, and it seems as…

When I think of gourds, I usually think of cheesy Fall harvest centerpieces on the cover of Family Circle. So it’s nice to see gourds put to some good use with these unique handcrafted speakers.

Japan’s Bird Electron decided it would be nice to see some speakers made from natural materials, so they came up…

This cool hack takes videos from YouTube, converts each frame to ASCII text, then plays them back in all their alphanumeric glory.

Warren Harding (Linux geek, not the 29th President) put together a script which uses the text-based Lynx web browser along with Mplayer to to render the video.

Unless you’re a real Linux geek,…

After what seems like an eternity of waiting, Comcast has finally given the “green light” to TiVo’s software for release on their DVRs.

The two companies reached an agreement way back in March 2005 to offer TiVo’s applications running on Comcast hardware. The most significant integration combines TiVo’s best-in-class user interface with Comcast’s substantive On…

Whether you’re holding off on that new iPhone purchase until version 2.0, or you’re already camping out, this fun online plaything should keep you occupied while you’re waiting.

The wonderfully-named iSmudginator is a bit of interactive Flash that lets you simulate what will happen to your shiny new iPhone after you’ve put it through it’s…

I was checking out Bandai Japan’s website earlier today when I came across this new micro robot that they’re coming out with later this year.

The Hex Bug series of miniature insect robots scurry along on six legs, just like real bugs. The tiny battery-operated robots automatically avoid obstacles and will change direction when you…

Here’s a great little gift for any Mac fanatic. User interface designer Susan Kare makes these fun notecards that feature her original designs from the classic Apple Macintosh computer.

All of your favorites are there: the smiling computer, the watch, the paint bucket and the dreaded bomb among others. The cards come in a pack…

Much of the industry is already saying that Blu-ray is winning the high-def format wars, so it’s actually surprising to hear that the Blu-ray Disc Association is hedging their bets even more by giving away free discs with the purchase of their players.

That’s right. Starting on July 1 and running through September 30, purchase…

This wireless presentation controller lets you remotely operate your Windows computer using a similar interaction to that of the Nintendo Wii-mote controller.

The ZMotion Wireless Space Presenter looks like a super-slim remote control, but does a lot more than just flip pages in a PowerPoint deck. Using internal sensors it can measure your movements along…