Archive for December 2009

These cake balls are perfect representations of the classic Katamari Damacy…: they’re sticky and colorful, and they look like they’re a lot of fun to use (eat). Pieces might occasionally pop off mid-use, too. Hey, nothing’s perfect.

Once you start looking at these up close, you start to realize

Six years ago Motorola released the RAZR series of mobile phones. Now a Chinese company has pwned Motorola – and all other phone manufacturers really – by coming up with a literal razor phone, the Shave Mobile. At one point, the Google-translated version of the CNET Japan write-up on the…

No one wants monotony. And if the monotonous thing happens to be necessary to survive, then you come to hate it even more. Because if you could escape it altogether anytime you wanted you wouldn’t have any reason to hate it. What am I talking about? You like games right?…

Here’s a wonderful little bit of robotic choreography and general weirdness from a recent Christmas special featured on a South Korean television show. Highlights include a robot chorus line and surreal reactions from Korean boy band members and their fans. Good times.

It doesn’t hurt that I have no idea…

This unusual looking contrivance most definitely isn’t your everyday roller skate. Chariot Skates combine the mobility of rollerblades with movements that are reminiscent of skiing.

To ride in a pair of Chariot Skates, you place your foot in the stirrup and then strap your leg into the top half. Pushing…

This badass looking weapon won’t hurt a fly – but it will kill any RFID tag you point it at. The Rfiddler gun can be aimed at unsuspecting RFID tags and destroy their data by simply overloading the tags with a very strong electromagnetic field.

Codeninja built this device using…

This incredibly designed dress will react to the air quality and pollution levels by pulsating hundreds of LED lights.

This dress was created by Diffus. It’s kind of amazing that it includes all of those LED lights. If the level of pollution increases around it, the lights start pulsating faster…

If you want to pretend to be a DJ, you could always go out and buy DJ Hero…, but if you really want to scratch your own tunes, check out ION Audio’s Discover DJ – a real turntable controller for your digital music applications that costs about the same

Now this isn’t just another cool-looking humanoid robot from Japan, this robot will actually go one sale!

For now, this robot is so new that it doesn’t even have a name. It’s the result of a collaboration between Nippon Institute of Technology, Harada Vehicle Design, ZMP and ZNUG Design. It’s…

NZXT just released their new PC case today, which they want everyone one to call a chassis. It’s called the Hades and aimed at gamers.

Even though it costs about 10 times less than the new Thermaltake Level 10 case designed by BMW, the Hades …is no slouch. The case