Archive for December 2010

Hong Kong Technabob reader Vivian wrote us to let us know about this fun Space Invaders cake she made for her husband’s 31st birthday.

Atop the cake is the most iconic of the Space Invaders, being blasted away from below. I always wondered why they didn’t have names like the…

Way back in 2008, I featured a coffee table that looked a heck of a lot like a giant Nintendo NES controller. The thing was used for storage and actually worked as a controller for an NES console. Well, it’s two years later, and somebody has finally bested that achievement.…

Boy, the TRON: Legacy merchandising team has kicked into full force. Whether you’re looking for some trashy high-heels, a lightcycle USB drive or some Daft Punk headphones, they’ve got something for you. Here’s another fun TRON… gizmo – it’s a little toy that lets you play with the movie’s famous

So if you’ve been paying attention at all to the news this week, Google revealed their first Chrome-based notebook computer. It’s the first mainstream PC to shy away from local application and document storage – moving as much as possible into the cloud. While many people are concerned about privacy…

I am pretty sure that Monster, known for its cabling and audio gear, coined the name to describe the price tag of its offerings. The place is far from where you shop for bargains – especially when it comes to cable prices – but they do peddle some pretty cool…

ThinkGeek has some really cool and really strange products. One of the stranger products that I have seen in the catalog of offerings is this new Electronic Butterfly in a Jar. It’s just what it sounds like. You get a faux butterfly in one of four designs that flitter around…

A while back, GM and NASA teamed up to build a cool humanoid robot to send into space to live on the ISS with the astronauts in what is the first step towards the construction of our own Cylons. The robot was dubbed Robonaut 2 – or R2 for short,…

When artists Emma and Brandon Peat found out that they were pregnant with their first child Tycho, named after Tycho Brahe, they decided to illustrate an alphabet of characters from Star Wars….

OK, so these watches don’t have a face, yet they still can tell the time. They are called the Eye of the Storm and were created by Yiran Qian, a Chinese-born and German-based product designer.…

Microsoft’s Kinect proves that some gaming peripherals aren’t just for gaming.

Since the launch of Microsoft’s Kinect, people have been hacking it to do all sorts of  interesting things. However, I have to say that attaching it to a flying robot has to be one of the coolest I’ve seen.…