Archive for January 2010
Solar-Powered Dragonflies Are Beautiful, Flightless
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Despite its disproportionate body-to-wingspan ratio, there’s something ever so graceful about a dragonfly in the air. Now, thanks to the guys at Japan’s Tamiya, you can can watch these amazing natural creations any time the sun is shining. The pair of dragonflies use a solar-powered motor and a mechanical wire… |
January 2nd, 2010
Woof Dachshund Speaker: More of a Tweeter Than a Woofer
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This little desktop speaker is just like a real dachshund – cute from a distance, but horribly annoying once it opens its little yap and won’t shut up. The WOOF Dachshund speaker plugs into your computer or MP3 player’s audio port, and lets you listen to your tunes through a… |
January 2nd, 2010
Posimotion Helix: Get a Grip on Your iPhone
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This new add-on for the iPhone and iPod Touch gives your handheld extra gripping power for playing motion-controlled video games. The Batman logo-esque Posimotion Helix clips onto the back of your iPhone or iPod Touch, and adds large hand grips on either side of the device. The grip is designed… |
January 2nd, 2010
Brickarms: Outfit Your LEGO Minifigs With Guns and Knives!
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If you’re into playing with LEGO minifigs, here’s a great find for making your little LEGO characters just a wee bit more dangerous than just a choking hazard. The guys over at Brickarms make a variety of custom-molded miniature weaponry to put into the hands of your minifigs. Whether you… |
January 1st, 2010
What You Write is What You Get: Scribblenauts in Real Life
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Made by Steven Zhou and Syed Olmer Gilani of the National University of Singapore’s Interactive Multimedia Lab, What You Write Is What You Get (WYWIWYG) is a visual way of learning about language. Just like 5th Cell’s critically-acclaimed DS game Scribblenauts…, WYWIWYG can analyze written words and come up |
January 1st, 2010
Take Your iPod to Sleep With This iPod Touch Bedding
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If you love your iPod Touch, then maybe you should get yourself this nice bedding that’s just been made available. You’ll be snug as a bug in a rug all night long under the covers of your iPod bed linens. This design is being made available through a Swedish store… |
January 1st, 2010
Wearable Pet Air Purifier So Fido Can Breathe… What About You?
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This new gizmo assures you that your pet is only breathing quality air. Meanwhile, you can breathe all of that bad air, but hey, you better make sure that your pet is breathing well! This is called the Mini Wearable Ionizer Air Purifier for Pets and is supposed to help… |
January 1st, 2010
Lightsaber Mp3 Player: Great for Playing Music by Slash [Star Wars]
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I think George Lucas has now officially licensed the Star Wars… brand onto every item in the universe. From trash compactor bookends to Darth Vader mint gum to Jawa garden gnomes. Now you can get your hands on a lightsaber MP3 player. The officially-licensed Star Wars Lightsaber Kei MP3 Player |
January 1st, 2010
New Year’S Resolution Generator Reminds Us We’Re Not Perfect
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On one hand the New Year’s Resolution Generator is an absurd piece of code; surely you know what you need to change or work on or do to improve your… life. The person who can’t come up with a new year’s resolution (whether or not one sees the point of |
January 1st, 2010
I-Sobot: the Rambo of Toy Robots
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A while back we featured a video of the versatile Tomy i-SOBOT shooting at a bunch of rectangular sponges with a bow and arrow. It turns out that the hurting didn’t stop there, as YouTube user paxshikai eventually came up with an armory’s worth of custom weapons for his/her robot,… |
January 1st, 2010
