Archive for April 2009

We already have leather boots and snake skin bags, so why not crocodile skin laptops? Sony Japan’s latest addition to their Vaio laptops don’t really have lizard hide, just plastic made to look like its crocodile skin. Red, brown or pink crocodile skin.

According to popgadget, the  ¥104,800 (approx. $1,047…

The classic anime series Patlabor… was set in the late 90′s/ early 2000′s. In it, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police use giant humanoid robots to fight crime. While they’re not quite there yet,there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Japanese will reach that level of awesomeness, such that

Here’s a unique mod: a bulldozer! This one’s got it all, and by “all,” I mean colorful lights and moving parts. You can paint a case all day long and glue on all the setpieces you’d like, but movable parts beat all.

The post title above is misleading, however; Russian…

Nintendo DS owners and RPG fans alike have been looking foward to Square Enix’s Blood of Bahamut… since the game was first announced last year, and now a few incredibly lucky people (in Japan) are going to have a chance to get their hands on the game (in Japan). Anyone

This flying saucer-like apparatus from Bandai is a modern day take on a classic kids’ toy – the spinning top.

Just flip open the collapsing handle on the Bandai Luminodisc and give it a spin. As it goes round and round, a persistence-of-vision LED display tells you how many rotations…

What do you get if you combine the charm of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy with the gimmicks of classic Pac-Man and Kirby, and also the recent Prey the Stars…? Not a mess, as you might think; that does sound like quite a combination, doesn’t it? No, the

What do you expect to happen when you pop the lens off the front of your Canon EOS 450D camera? Certainly not this.

That’s because this isn’t an digital camera at all. It’s actually a intricately detailed 2GB USB flash drive version of the popular digital camera. The tiny dSLR…

Keys? What keys? For busting down locked doors, all you need is a gun. An electronic power lock pick gun.

The electronic lock pick gun can be used to “open most of pin tumble locks, dimple locks, cross locks, 2-side and 4-side auto locks.” It runs on 6V rechargeable batteries…

Listen up, gaming cakes, you’re gonna have to be careful–there’s a new contender in town: the twake. That’s Twitter cake if you’re not trying to save on characters, and it’s the new birthday sensation. See? Twitter really is… taking over the world.

Not only does this particular cake offer

Wanna know who fills the hardware needs of covert operatives? Fujitsu. The company will deny it of course, but the sharp eyes over at GetUSB just released some top-secret info regarding Fujitsu’s prototype USB flash drive that can erase the data it contains after a set amount of time, or…