Archive for January 2009
Rrod on the Road: Xbox 360 Car
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Remember the achievement unlocked: left the house shirt? Someone has found a cheat for that achievement: he or she stuffed 2 Xbox 360s, 2 projectors and 2 flat screen monitors inside a Suzuki. One of the two 360s appears to be embedded into the car’s dash.Why? Why not? The car… |
January 5th, 2009
Strenco St-2 Steambot: Your Own Steam Powered Robot
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Batteries schmatteries. Electricity shmelectricity. Who needs modern energy sources when you can have scalding hot steam to power your gadgets? This unique robot from Germany gets its juice from good old H2O. Strenco’s ST-2 Steambot lumbers along thanks to a tiny copper Wilesco steam engine that’s been implanted in his… |
January 4th, 2009
A Charge Cable for the Person Who has Everything
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If you can’t exist without the weight of several handheld gaming systems tugging at your pants, Brando has a new product that will make your downtime a little easier: the 7-in-1 USB charge cable. With this cable, you can use one USB slot to charge any Sony PSP or Nintendo… |
January 4th, 2009
Decaf Test Strips to Curb Your Paranoia
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If you’ve ever wondered if that decaf coffee is really devoid of caffeine, or if your waiter really brought you the decaf tea, Silver Lake Research may have a very convenient answer to your constant paranoia: decaf beverage test strips. This is science…, people. Sadly, it might not work |
January 3rd, 2009
Tiny Cylon LED Kit: Battlestar Galactica Gets Miniature
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This DIY electronic kit lets you live out your Battlestar Galactica fantasies in miniature. Dale Wheat’s tinyCylon circuit is a pint-sized version of the chasing red LEDs found in the helmets of everyone’s favorite Battlestar… baddies. The tinyCylon gets its tiny little brains from the programmable ATtiny13 controller chip, and |
January 3rd, 2009
Dreamgear Warbeast PS3 Guitar Perfect for Metal Heads
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For all you headbangers out there, the guitars that come with the Rock Band and Guitar Hero… games probably seem kind of tame lame. Well now you can truly rock out with this axe that’s more appropriate for your thrashing tendencies. dreamGEAR’s new WarBeast controller for the Playstation 3 has |
January 3rd, 2009
Best Buy Makes Impulse Easy at Airports
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Airports are terrible for impulse buys. Not only are the flights themselves often boring, thus tempting you to stock up on more entertainment than you need, but airports offer everything from food and booze to books and electronics, and it’s all often marked up into the stratosphere. Best Buy has… |
January 3rd, 2009
Sparebots Definitely have Feelings
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Bloggers/photographers/tiny mecha manufacturers Lenny & Meriel take cold and complicated computer innards and turn them into something heartwarming: Sparebots. The photo above is captioned, “I think we should try a 5.” Awwww. And that’s a robot dog that poops lead. I think. I also think that Lenny & Meriel could… |
January 3rd, 2009
Softwear by Microsoft: Dos Not Compute
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Looking to boost their quest for cool “I’m a PC” marketing campaign, Microsoft has launched their own clothing line, which the Redmond giant calls “Softwear”. Yup. If Apple can blind you with their fancy glass screens, why can’t Microsoft sell you shirts? The nonsense in that analogy is my analogy… |
January 3rd, 2009
Geek Washing Machine Sends Techie Reminders
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If you’re the type to put clothes into the wash and then forget to take them out again, there may just be a solution. Too busy mucking about in the living room to remember your clothes? No problem; there’s an alarm that sounds, annoyingly, as a reminder. Can’t tear yourself… |
January 2nd, 2009
