Archive for February 2011
Zoybar TOR 3D Printed Guitar Looks Cool and Doesn’t Sound Half Bad Either
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If you ask me, the uses for 3D printing technology keep getting more and more impressive. Take, for example, this guitar that had its body parts manufactured using a 3D printer. If you watch and listen to the video below of Bård S D’s open-source Zoybar TOR guitar, I think… |
February 17th, 2011
Yantouch Black Diamond iPhone Dock Hypnotizes
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This dock allows you to charge and sync your iPhone ,while at the same time mesmerizing anyone who watches it for too long. The hypnotic LED light show inside the round dock can be programmed to display plasma, lightning, flames, rainbow, breath, or remix effects. It’s sort of akin to… |
February 17th, 2011
Cheap RC Car Modded With Arduino and PC for Telepresence and More
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I really like cool RC gear, but the problem for me is that most of the RC cars have a very limited range. You get the things too far from you and they just won’t respond. DIYer Pierric Gimming has taken an off the shelf RC truck for the toy… |
February 17th, 2011
Roomba Vacuum Controlled By Microsoft Kinect
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We can all agree that vacuuming sucks. It’s no fun to push that thing around the house sucking up all the debris and dirt that you and your family schleps inside. I have always thought that the inventor the Roomba should have been nominated for a Nobel Prize of some… |
February 17th, 2011
Watson Didn’t Crash During Jeopardy Taping Despite Reports
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Watson, the IBM gaming computer, has finished its stint on Jeopardy, and trounced the human contestants on the game show. The human players were the famed human champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Apparently, the PBS show Nova… did a piece on Watson and one of the producers of |
February 17th, 2011
Mazooka Fires Tasty Marshmallow Bullets
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The Mazooka is like a Nerf gun, except for the fact that its bullets are edible. The battery-powered gun can launch a single marshmallow as far as 30ft. I wouldn’t mind being hit by a Mazooka. Unfortunately, the Mazooka can only fire one fluffy bullet at a time, plus it… |
February 17th, 2011
LavNav Lights Up the Pee Path
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This gadget won’t win points for style, and I’m sure rich folks wouldn’t be caught dead with one installed in their bathrooms. But I’m sure anyone can see how useful this little gadget could be. The LavNav – short for Lavatory Navigator – is meant to be placed on the… |
February 17th, 2011
WALdok Gives Your iPod Nano a New Home
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The iPod Nano’s minimal, tiny form factor has made it the perfect centerpiece for a wristwatch, but its design is also great for other integration opportunities, like this nifty Nano-specific dock that can hang on the wall, plugged directly into an outlet. Designer Hern Kim’s WALdok is a compact speaker… |
February 16th, 2011
Pac-Man Vapor Chase: Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Cars
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What happens when you give Pac-Man a motorcycle and those pesky ghosts cars to drive in? This.… |
February 16th, 2011
Thanko PC Waterbed Cools Laptops, Let’s Hope it Doesn’t Leak
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I’ve never been one to mix water with electronics, but if your laptop is generating too much heat, then you need to do something about it, right? This portable waterbed for your laptop should get the job done. Now, why didn’t of that?… |
February 16th, 2011
