Archive for April 2010
Nintendo 3DS Concept is Awesome
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I really like Olivier Demangel‘s take on the Nintendo DS. It’s true that the DSi XL has got larger screens, but Olivier’s design makes them even bigger. He calls it the Nintendo 3DS, which happens to be the name Nintendo has been using for their upcoming 3D console.… |
April 5th, 2010
Apple Sells 300k Ipads on Saturday
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The big news this weekend (and last week and this week for that matter) was the launch of the iPad. The device landed in stores and on doorsteps on Saturday to hoards of geeks jumping up and down with glee.… |
April 5th, 2010
Thanko USB Board has 80 Things That the iPad Doesn’T have
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…80 USB ports, that is. The board measures about 8 inches on each side and is powered by a 100 v AC adapter. And yes, it’s for sale. Thanko is selling the board for ¥14,800 (approx. $160 (USD). Order one now and start that USB-charging business you’ve always wanted to… |
April 5th, 2010
Email-Counting T-Shirt: T is for “Too Much Tech in This”
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Chris Ball and his wife Madeleine created an email-counting shirt. If you’re looking for a valid justification for the existence of a shirt that can count new emails in binary form then you must be new to technabob. Welcome! And remember, hackers and tinkerers don’t ask why. They ask what… |
April 5th, 2010
Japanese Scientist Makes Robotic Clone
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Only the Japanese would make robot clones of themselves. Check out this latest robot by Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University. Instead of cloning himself, which is what he did before, he decided to clone a woman. The Geminoid-F is pretty freaky, especially when you see the lady it was modeled… |
April 5th, 2010
Skyrates: the Game That Doesn’T Want You to be Addicted to It
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Originally a project by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, the award-winning Flash game Skyrates is centered around the idea of “sporadic play”, letting players be part of a persistent and ever-changing massively multiplayer environment without requiring them to spend huge amounts of time playing. In Skyrates, players can… |
April 5th, 2010
Roland Micro-Cube Amp: Big Sound You Can Carry Around
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If someone in your family suddenly develops an interest in learning how to play the guitar, giving him or her the 2-watt Micro-CUBE amplifier by Roland will help ensure that your neighbors won’t kill you. That’s not to say you’ll be giving your loved one a gimped amp; the Micro-CUBE… |
April 4th, 2010
Desktop Connect Vnc App: and Just Like That, Flash on the iPad!
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If you ask me, the perfect tablet would be a combination of the iPad and the JooJoo; i.e. an iPad with a camera, support for Flash and a USB port. Fortunately for (future) iPad owners, the Desktop Connect app by Antecea takes care of two of those missing features. In… |
April 4th, 2010
Pacman the Movie: No Fun and Games
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So you think Pac-Man likes eating those yellow pellets huh? You think the brightly colored maze and ghosts are cute? Think again! I didn’t know that that yellow wakka wakka wakka-ing mouth is actually a living, breathing person trapped in physical and drug-induced mazes by a cruel man who clearly… |
April 4th, 2010
Golden Xbox 360 Shines, Sparkles and Spends Your Entire Salary
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You’ve gotta hand it to the guys at Computer Choppers. They know how to coat gadgets in fancy metals. Today’s gold-plated electronic creation, the 24-karat Xbox 360. Both the Xbox and its controller received the full golden dip, and would look great alongside your gold chains and gold grills. Oh… |
April 3rd, 2010
