Archive for July 2010

These new noise-canceling headphones from Sensgard don’t need any power to operate, which is amazing, since most noise-canceling headphones and earphones do need some kind of electricity to make their filters work.

The Sensgard ZEM headphones come with a simple amplifier. The noise-canceling technology comes courtesy of Dr. Josef Zwislocki…

If you like toys that can put an eye out and singe the butt hairs of the neighbor’s dog as it tries to drop a load in your yard, you probably remember that Wicked Lasers Spyder III laser I talked about a few weeks ago. The thing reminded me and…

I guess the guys in China felt they had to try and keep up with Japan and their gigantic robot creations, and built themselves an enormous Optimus Prime of their own.

Standing 32-feet tall, and residing just North of the Bird’s Nest at Beijing’s Olympic Park, the giant Transformer might…

eBay seller/Halo fan/Brute arms manufacturer smick6 is selling this nicely done replica of a Spike Grenade. It’s spiky.

smick6 used PVC, smooth-on urethane, aluminum and faux leather to make the prop. It’s 38″ long, the longest blades are 19″ end to end, and the whole thing measures 4.5 lbs. It…

When Haiti was struck by an earthquake last January, the country’s mobile phone network was out for two days, and did not resume normal operations until after a week, which made the situation ever more tragic, because it’s during disasters like that when communication devices are needed the most. Fortunately,…

Let’s be honest amongst friends, we all end up flipping our USB devices back and forth in a vain effort to get the damn things to plug in at some point. You try to push your flash drive into the port, it resists, you flip it over and still not…

I recently had the chance to get my hands on Samsung’s new Android smartphone, the Galaxy S. To be specific, I tested the GT-I9000 – which appears to be the reference model for the series – and put it through its paces. The model I tested came with an AT&T…

While I don’t drink enough to need an actual t-shirt that has an integrated beer opener, I guess that for some people, this might be very handy indeed, especially during Spring Break.

The flexible-armed robot on the BeerBot T-shirt actually makes me think of Bender from Futurama…, which just

Imagine this scenario: you’re quietly riding the subway to work, probably sipping on some hot coffee to get you fully awakened, when all of a sudden, in walks Darth Vader and some stormtroopers!…

The Revolving Internet rotates the page at a constant rate. It starts out at Google, so if you want to know what another website looks like if its revolving, just look it up and click on its link. In my experience though, not only was it dizzying, it made pages…