Archive for December 2009

It’s beginning to look a lot like a Star Trek… holiday season. First we’re faced with killer (and economical) stockings, and now a pair of etched wine glasses, for the grape-loving fan in your life.

Perfect for a little Springwine, am I right? And they’re nice, thick glass, so they

After the fabulous reception for Mega Man 9, it seemed inevitable that there would in turn be a Mega Man 10, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s Mega Man… and Capcom has a certain penchant for tacking ever-higher numbers onto the titles of their

Keita Watanabe, Ph.D., and Shota Matsuda of Japan’s Keio University have won a couple of awards for their crazy, yet somehow logical concept for a microwave. Called the Castoven, it eschews the transparent glass panel typically seen on microwave ovens in place of a 10.4-inch LCD display. When the oven’s…

Compared to 15 pixel videos of games, these minimalist prints of video game characters are much more recognizable. Of course it helps that the characters shown are very popular.

Or did they become so popular partly because they have such recognizable features? Hmmm.

Whatever the case, one thing’s for sure:…

The guys at Japan’s Gakken Otona no Kagaku Magazine are at it again, this time, they’ve created a really cool kit that lets you build your own mini electric guitar. Now, I’m not talking about the type the comes with Rock Band or Guitar Hero… either. This smaller-than-life guitar actually

Most of the Wii gun controllers out there require that you slap your Wii-mote into some sort of add-on accessory, and usually feature questionable ergonomics. The new Penguin United CrossFire does away with such concerns by integrating their own Wii-mote into the gun itself – which as far as I…

The fact that you own an iPhone doesn’t mean everything else has to be the cutting edge of new technology, right? Even the smooth, sleek lines of Apple’s phone can’t replace the classics, so why not let them live in beautiful harmony with this NES controller iPhone dock?

Even if…

It’s not every day you can start drawing comparisons between the Paris Hilton and the star of Final Fantasy XIII…, and really, I’m not sure you’d want to. Beyond the light hair and the sometimes-questionable haircuts, I’m betting Paris and Lightning don’t have much in common. Except now? They

We’ve yet to see a gadget really… compete against the iPhone, to the extent that subscribers in the U.S. are willing to endure the sometimes horrible service of AT&T so that they can keep using Apple’s revolutionary product. If you were a designer or engineer and you were asked to

The AQ Amigo is made of plastic, but it’s so thin it seems more fragile than a pair of ceramic speakers. At 0.98 inches thick, it’s just a bit fatter than a typical laptop screen.

The speaker is equipped with two 1.2-watt 19 mm “Exciter” drivers. AQORD Ltd. says that…