Archive for April 2010

Optoma is back with more budget-friendly projectors, and this time it’s focusing on gamers with its Game Time series. The GT720 is the most expensive model in the series, and its meant for PS3 and Xbox 360 owners. The GT720 has a maximum resolution of 1600 x 1200 and a…

Engadget has scored pics of what is supposed to be a prototype of the next version of the iPhone. The device, which looks a narrow, flat-backed iPhone, was reportedly found “on the floor of a San Jose [California?] bar”.…

Engadget has revealed that the device, whatever the hell it is,

Actually, I’m not sure you can actually refer to a Transformer as a balloon “animal”, so we’ll just call him a balloon robot from here on.  This 7-foot tall, 5-foot wide Optimus Prime was made from over 500 balloons.

Balloon sculptor HappyCabbie first made a Megatron sculpture a couple of…

I don’t know what it is with cheap-o novelty makers and their insistence on making mock versions of everyday objects that intentionally jolt you with electricity. I suppose we can blame those old Adams joy buzzer tricks for inspiring such malevolent goods. So here we have the latest in a…

A rare genetic disease called Williams Syndrome causes “mild to moderate mental retardation, elfin facial features and gregarious social behavior;” a recent study published in the journal Current Biology …theorizes that children with Williams Syndrome also have no racial bias. Maybe we should call it Legolas Syndrome.

Seriously though, it

If you’re too cheap to go out and buy an actual iPad, you might just be in luck – if you happen to live in China, that is.

This somewhat out-of-proportion iPad clone comes to us courtesy of a brand called Jumper. From the looks of things, the Jumper tablet…

Here’s what happens when you try and play the theme from SMB with a couple of spare pencils. Actually, they look more like pens to me, but what does it matter.…

The day my iPad came through the door, my kids were all over me to let them play with it. My 5-year-old daughter calls it the “big iPhone” and loves to play games on it. My son likes the thing, but he isn’t a big fan of looking down at…

Even if this robot might seem like it’s too expensive for us, those nutty Japanese apparently have money to burn on robots. At least this new robot was built for people to actually play with, not just as a demo or research ‘bot as we often see.

Isamaro is made…

I wondered how long it would take for someone to hack the Amazon Kindle in order to play games. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen, the games don’t look all that cool on that monochrome e-ink screen.

In this video, the Kindle plays Super Mario Bros …and it’s got no sound,