Archive for January 2009
Recharge Your Gadgets With a Hand Crank
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Ever find yourself out and about when your cell phone runs out of juice? Did you know you can recharge your portable gadgets anywhere, even when there’s no available power source? Just plug your gadgets into this handy hand crank charger and get to cranking. The SUPERBattery from Datexx lets… |
January 16th, 2009
Ruben & Lullaby Opertoon – Strangest iPhone App (So Far)
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Ok, how’s this for a concept? Take two moody lovers on a park bench. Put them inside your iPhone or iPod Touch. Shake them vigorously. Watch the sparks fly. Yep, that’s the idea behind interactive artist Eric Loyer’s new iPhone app, Ruben & Lullaby…. By jostling your iPhone, you’ll |
January 15th, 2009
U-Fizz Makes Anything Fizzy and Bubbly
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Can’t drink any more Coca-Cola? Pooped out on Pepsi? Sick of soda pop? Thanks to the miracles of home carbonation, you can turn anything you want into a fizzy lifting drink (lifting not guaranteed). Just get your hands on the $6.95 U-Fizz kit, a box of baking soda, some vinegar… |
January 15th, 2009
Heartbeat LED Watch Performs Cpr on Itself
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This funky modern watch out of Japan tells time not with hands or numbers, but with a tiny little electrocardiogram machine that sits on your wrist. OK, the EIN Cyber Heartbeat LED watch doesn’t actually tell you if your heart is still beating, but its LED graphical display is styled… |
January 15th, 2009
Left 4 Crochet: Zombie Amigurumi
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Let’s be frank here: Left 4 Dead’s… zombies are kind of gross. There’s the Smoker, who has a truly gargantuan tongue that shoots out, often from some distance, only to wrap you in deadly zombie saliva, and there’s the Boomer, whose projectile vomit summons a flood of other undead, and |
January 15th, 2009
Sense This Picture Makes None: Stormtrooper Driving Car
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I hope the person who took this shot wasn’t blastered to bits. Drive it like you stole it dude. The Sith Lord can’t be far behind. |
January 15th, 2009
Off to Hyrule? Take This Zelda Cross Stitch Map
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If you ever find yourself in a pixelated 1992, and you find that green crystals pop out when you cut grass, you should be fine as long as you have this map with you. And as long as you arrive after… the Triforce has been touched. Sprite Stitch Board member |
January 15th, 2009
Look Out, Rock Band: Here Come the Musicals
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Do you linger in the corner at parties when people whip out their fake plastic instruments? Do you long to take the mic, not for Metallica, but for a couple of show tunes? Then the latest from Andrew Lloyd Webber will thrill you down to the tips of your little… |
January 14th, 2009
Obsolote Floppy Disk Becomes Equally Obsolete CD-R Disc
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Feeling retro? If you’ve got a hankering to cram an old 3.5″ floppy disk into your computer, but it has no floppy drive, now you can live out your floppy fantasies by stuffing one into your almost as outdated CD-R drive. These CD-R discs may be square, but they’ll work… |
January 14th, 2009
Just Cooler Notebook Coolers With Built-in Speakers: Not Just Cool
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I’m sure some of you have seen Brando’s quirky notebook cooling pads, the ones that have HDD slots that leave the attached drive’s butt hanging in the air. Just Cooler’s cooling pads aren’t as weird, but they have their own gimmick: their latest models have built-in speakers. One of them’s… |
January 14th, 2009
