Archive for October 2010

Andrew Sneath has invented a vehicle that allows people who know nothing about diving or swimming to safely experience the joys of being underwater, albeit in a controlled environment and with a slight dent to one’s dignity. The vehicle is called the HydroBOB (BOB stands for Breathing Observation Bubble), a…

Here’s a very sensible mod that should be integrated in all remote controls. YouTube user Matt ripped the relevant guts off of an old cordless phone and placed them inside a TV remote control. By pressing a button on the assimilated phone’s cradle, the remote control will beep, making it…

If you’re an insane Nintendo fan, then you might want to head on over to Etsy, where you can currently get your hands on this awesome NES belt buckle made from solid Sterling Silver.

Crafted by artist Otterette, the Sterling NES belt buckle is made from 3 ounces of silver,…

One of the things that goes along with the geek’s morbid obsession to see new gadgets ripped apart is to know how much it costs the maker to build those gadgets. Once we know how much the things cost,we can look at how much they sell them to us for…

Remember that guy who made that duct tape AT-AT? Well, he’s just listed another Star Wars …item. This new listing is for a Millennium Falcon that’s made out of cardboard, Styrofoam, and aluminum tape. That makes it all shiny.

This new eBay listing was also made by Komanac for the

I tried for a long time to buy a Wii when they were so popular, and it took months to finally get my hands on one. After the novelty wore off, we rarely play the thing anymore. Still, there are many ardent Wii gamers out there looking for cool controllers…

Modu has unveiled the new modu T mobile phone that actually holds the current Guinness Record for being the lightest touch phone in the world. The thing is very thin and has a smallish 2.2-inch touch screen with 2GB of on-board storage. The thing that is really unique about the…

If there’s one thing that I wouldn’t want a robot to do, it’s to wash my hair before getting a haircut. But that didn’t stop Panasonic [JP] from making a hair washing robot, that hopefully won’t rip your head off.

The design is based on the robot hands that seem…

Do you find it hard to strike up a conversation? Are you totally unaware about what to do in even the simplest social situations? Are you desperate enough to rely on a gadget for step-by-step instructions for kissing? Then the Conversacube is for you.

Lauren McCarthy’s idea seems harmless enough…

A couple of students at the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany are developing the video equivalent of the Content-Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5. In other words, their software can make objects invisible, and it does this in real-time.…