Archive for July 2009
Kingston Data Traveler 256 Gb Flash Drive May be as Expensive as Your Laptop
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The latest member of Kingston’s Data Traveler USB drives is the Data Traveler 300, a flash disk with a gigantic 256 GB data capacity. 256 GB. That’s more than 50 DVDs. More than 40,000 songs. In your pocket. Mind blown. As always, cutting edge tech ain’t cheap: the “Buy” links… |
July 27th, 2009
Sushi Train Restaurant and Game: Sushinkansen
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Compared to all the other Japanese gadgets we’ve seen, the Sushi Train Restaurant and Game is only mildly Japanese – i.e. not so weird. It’s a literal take on the popular conveyor belt sushi restaurants, which are also known as – wait for it – sushi trains. The set includes… |
July 27th, 2009
Lite-Brite Cubed: Makin’ Things With Light 4x
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I have fond memories of playing with a Lite-Brite when I was growing up. As a matter of fact, I can’t get that damned commercial out of my head at the moment. Of course, most of those childhood memories were those of frustration from either losing half of the colored… |
July 27th, 2009
Parajet Skycar Now Available for Pre-Order, Governments May Need to Prepare Driving-Flying Licences
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Why have I not read about this before? The ParaJet SkyCar, invented by Giles Cardozo, is the world’s first street legal FLYING CAR. As in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flying Car, except that it uses a nylon “Paramenia Reflex” wing to control its flight. The car is able to fly… |
July 26th, 2009
LEGO-Like Fridge Concept Allows Thieves to Steal Your Fridge One Stack at a Time
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Designed by Stefan Buchberger, a student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Flatshare fridge concept gives you your own fridge space, perfect for roommates. And wives with messy husbands. Since the modules are stackable, you can just pile them in one spot like a normal fridge. And… |
July 26th, 2009
Sky News Samples 6 Computer Repair Shops in London: Guess How Many Tried to Scam Them?
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A recent Sky News exposé gives PC repair shops a bad name. A really, really bad name. Sky News conducted a test of 6 repair shops in London. They intentionally broke a laptop by loosening a memory chip – a problem whose solution is just the reverse: put it back… |
July 26th, 2009
Pokemon Hand Towel: Gotta Fold ‘Em All
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If you absolutely must share your love of Pokémon with the world, this is not a bad way to do it–by stitching little pocket monsters on your towels. It’s attractive, simple to match with other bathroom gear in bright colors, and anyone who isn’t a fan gets to wipe their… |
July 26th, 2009
Start a Fire With Style – Pac-Man Style
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If you have to have a lighter, it might as well be a Zippo… and if you have to have a Zippo, it might as well have Pac-Man on it. This is logic, people, born of science…. Don’t try to dispute it. 30th anniversary Pac-Man lighters, just the |
July 26th, 2009
Mini Bento Box Flash Drive Offers Extreme Portion Control
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I could definitely go for some Japanese food for lunch today. Writing about this tiny flash drive in the shape of a Bento box special definitely put the idea in my head. But on closer inspection, the miniature foodstuffs in this minuscule USB storage device don’t look all that appealing.… |
July 25th, 2009
Here Come the Thought Police: Fmri and Mindreading Studies
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Science is now a little bit closer to revealing the true you, thanks to research from Rutgers and UCLA researches on fMRIs, or functional MRIs. Can these brainscans read your thoughts? Not quite, but nosy scientists can get a general idea more than half the time! The researches scanned the… |
July 25th, 2009
