Archive for October 2009
Sony Soundville Ad Fills Icelandic Town With Speakers & Music, Serenades Citizens & Sheep
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Directed by Juan Cabral, Sony’s Soundville campaign turned Seydisfjordur village in Iceland into one large sound system for a week. Some of the songs that the sometimes bewildered citizens heard were from Bob Dylan, Death in Vegas and the Guillemots. And some Mastodon in the morning. I’m kidding. I don’t… |
October 13th, 2009
Ice Tube Vfd Clock Kit: Time to Get Retro
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There are certainly a ton of different ways to tell time, but this retro-modern digital clock is definitely one of the cooler designs I’ve seen in a while. The Ice Tube clock ($70 USD) gets its brilliant blue display thanks to an old-school Russian-issued VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) tube. It’s… |
October 13th, 2009
Blaze PS3 Motion Controller: PS3 Meets Wii
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Sure, the PlayStation 3 is eventually getting its own official motion controller from Sony, but while you wait for this bit of futureware, the guys over at UK gaming outfit BLAZE have announced their own motion-sensing PS3 controller. And it looks an awful lot like a Wii-mote.… |
October 13th, 2009
Ecohime Covers Up Your “Bathroom Noises” [Weird Japan]
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Nobody wants to talk about it, but who really wants to listen to your gaseous emissions? Not me. This weird gadget from Japan lets you mask your bathroom activities while you “do your business”.… |
October 13th, 2009
Pinkified Xbox 360 Controller
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As far as custom controller go, this particular project isn’t loud (though yeah, bright…), it isn’t overdone, and it isn’t sparkling with a bank of flashing lights… and that’s probably why the final effect is so entirely sleek and professional. |
October 13th, 2009
Get Hydrophobia in Slow Drips or in One Big Flood
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Hydrophobia… doesn’t really sound like something you’d want, really–water is important, after all, and fearing it is bad–but when it’s in the form of an multiplatform game? Well, that may be more palatable, particularly when it looks like this. |
October 12th, 2009
Teeny Tiny R2-D2 Ready to Hack Open Tiny Blast Doors
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MAKE is calling this the world’s smallest R2-D2, and who knows? It might be. I’m not sure whether or not there’s a movement out there dedicated to fitting a beloved ‘bot into a tiny shell, but if there is, this guy’s creation may just be the champion of all time,… |
October 12th, 2009
NES Controller Flash Drive is Like Spy Tech for Geeks
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There’s something unique about this unassuming looking NES controller – and no, it’s not that it’s a flash drive. Gaming peripherals turned storage devices are a dime a dozen, but this flash drive requires a secret activation code. Okay, maybe not so secret. I doubt Sydney Bristow would have much… |
October 12th, 2009
Bottle Tops: Dunce Caps for Canned Drinks
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When I first saw this I thought it was one of those so-simple-it’s-brilliant kind of things, but then I remembered how dirty the tops of canned drinks usually are. No rat piss on my Coke please, thank you. Not that rats piss on Coke cans here. They don’t, honest. I… |
October 12th, 2009
Sony Ericsson Satio Mobile 3g Media Phone Offers Beautiful Touchscreen, Mega Megapixels
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Sony Ericcson today announced their new Satio line of mobile phones, loaded up with a ton of promising media features. The Satio has a gorgeous widescreen (16:9) 3.5-inch touchscreen interface, with a super-sharp, auto-rotating 640×360 display. It also runs on the Symbian OS platform, which means there are tons of… |
October 12th, 2009
