Archive for August 2010

Priced at $59.95 (USD), this could be the most expensive lightbulb you’ll ever buy. But at least you’ll experience the thrill that Thomas Edison must have had when he creating his first working bulb.

This science kit includes everything you need to make your own source of illumination – old…

Anyone who has been to a family gathering in the last 20 years has probably had their photo taken with one of those old school Polaroid instant cameras. You know the type that spits the photo out the front and you can watch it develop. A new concept printer by…

Are you Rebel scum? Trying to fight your arch-nemesis Darth Vader? Well here’s a way to have a constant reminder of your target, thanks to the latest in venetian blind technology.

I’m really not a fan of venetian blinds, especially the cheap metallic ones. Although I have to say that…

If the vampire frenzy has just hit you, then undoubtedly, you’ll love this shower gel that looks like a blood bag. No, it doesn’t go into your vein, but into your shower stall where you’ll be able to have some strange, kinky fun.

Now, don’t go trying to recreate scenes…

I really like my iPad but I am always afraid when I am trying to use it and the gestures it supports standing up that I am going to drop it. This is really only a problem when it’s a gesture that needs two hands. A new patent app has…

Watch out Mario, you’re not the only blue-collar platformer who’s also in the saving the world business. Currently in development by the Hitbox Team, Dustforce!… stars a high-jumping, energetic sweeper. He hates dust and dirt so much that he won’t even touch gold coins until he’s cleaned the treasure chest

Grinding. It’s one of the ugliest aspects of MMORPGs, or RPGs in general. I remember reading an article about Ultima Online… many many years ago, where the situation got so bad that one of the dungeons was actually running out of monsters. There were so many players inside that as

These delicious looking Star Wars… cupcakes by lclllc turned up over on Flickr and they look awesome.

The set of cakes includes the cartoony likenesses of everyone from Yoda to Boba Fett to Princess Leia to the Death Star to an Ewok and even a Tusken Raider in yummy cupcake

Well here’s a different way to play Super Mario Bros 2…… with your eyeballs.

The guys at Waterloo Labs rigged up an eye-tracking contraption using electrodes placed around each eye, then mapped through a custom circuit and a Single-Board RIO system to convert eye movements into joystick movements on

While I always thought WipEout… was about dizzying 3D computer-generated graphics, the guys working on this project have taken a decidedly low-tech approach to the game.

Devised by Malte Jehmlich and Matthes Mikysec of sputnic.tv, RACER is an analog variant of video game racers, using an old arcade cabinet, an