Archive for November 2010

My daughter had this fetish for slap bracelets for a while. You could be just walking down the hall and she would run up and slap a bracelet around your wrist hard enough to leave a red welt. Those slap bracelets disappeared mysteriously later. Griffin has unveiled a new watchband…

I like to play Rock Band…, but I hate having to schlep all the stuff from the various closets and cubbies where I hide the it around the house. The drum kit is upstairs, the sticks are in the junk drawer, and one guitar is under the bed with

All I know of Tokyo is what I learned from that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer had the three Japanese businessmen sleeping in his dresser. I know space is at a premium in the city and Tokyo is just about the opposite of Texas where we tend to have lots…

On occasion, I see a product and I just stand back and say “WTF?!?!”… This is one of those moments. A very weird case for the iPhone has surfaced from Kalomix called the iBlackBoard. The case slides on your iPhone like any other case you might use. The outside if

I don’t know why, but this scary robot isn’t from Japan, no siree, it’s from Spain. It’s safe to say that if these humanoid robots with faces like these take over the world, we’ll all be in trouble. Or at least psychologically scarred.

This ghost-faced killer (ok, we don’t know…

The Force is really strong over at ThinkGeek. The company seemingly has an endless supply of awesome Star Wars gear that geeks can lust after. You might recognize these Lego Minifig Alarm Clocks that we talked about back in September. We didn’t know where you could get the things at…

I’ve always had a weakness for superhero movies. It’s probably because I used to collect comic books when I was younger. I still read some from time to time, but I was really glad to see that Christopher Nolan was able to reboot the Batman …series properly. Will the same

A long time ago, when OLPC started to talk up its small XO notebook specifically designed for kids in developing countries, a bunch of computers aimed directly at kids started to surface. Usually, these kid-oriented machines have software that is aimed at education and keeping kids safe online.…

Don’t you hate those times when you’re having a pleasant conversation with someone, only to have it interrupted by their phone?

There’s a good chance that the other person would be just as annoyed if it were your phone going off. Naturally, if you find the other person’s company important…

Minneapolis artist Charlie Bucket (not the kid from Willy Wonka…) knit himself a dress. But this thing isn’t just any old garment. The dress is made from 600 feet of knitted plastic tubing, filled with luminescent fluid.

The whole dress is then connected to a pumping backpack which precisely