Archive for April 2011
Conspin Smart Qwerty Universal Remote: Fun in Front, Business in Back
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Looking for a nifty remote for your home theater? This remote from Korean tech firm Conspin just might fill the bill. The Smart Qwerty CRU 200TQ has a rather silly name, but the remote itself looks like a really nice bit of industrial design.… |
April 13th, 2011
1950s Roswell UFO Crash Memo Hits FBI Vault
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If you are a UFO or conspiracy nut, prepared to get tweaked. The FBI tosses documents up on its FBI Vault website all the time. One of the latest documents to hit that Vault site is circa 1950 and has to do with the infamous Roswell crash that many allege… |
April 13th, 2011
WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery Makes Beer for You (at a Price)
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When it comes to drinking beer, there is always a price to pay – be it the cost of buying that beer or the price of a hangover the next day if you drink too much. There are a lot of home beer-making kits out there that let the beer… |
April 13th, 2011
Gagarin Tourbillon Watch Celebrates Historic First Space Flight
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This week was the 50th anniversary of Russian Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man to ever enter space and orbit the earth. To commemorate the event watch designer Bernhard Lederer has created a limited edition run of 50 platinum cased watches that have design elements that celebrate the first space… |
April 13th, 2011
Tetris Played With Rubik’s Cubes: Fun to Watch But Not to Play
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The thing about stop-motion videos is that they constantly remind us how time-consuming they must have been to make. Take this video by YouTube user BananaNeil for example, where he plays a game of Tetris… using the tiles of Rubik’s Cubes as pixels. |
April 13th, 2011
Garmin Forerunner 610: The Touchscreen GPS Watch is a Go!
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Garmin just revealed a new GPS watch, the Forerunner 610. Unlike the previous model, it has touchscreen technology, and is a bit more svelte, so it can serve as your everyday watch if you don’t mind charging it every night.… |
April 13th, 2011
LockIfNotHot Locks PC If Temperature Drops, Not If User is Ugly
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We’ve featured a Bluetooth-based program that automatically locks Windows PCs when the user walks away. Here’s another approach to automatically locking a computer. While the Bluetooth-based program relied on proximity, Didier Stevens’ program LockIfNotHot works in conjunction with an IR thermometer to detect changes in the surrounding temperature.… |
April 13th, 2011
Collector Concept Turns Unused MicroSD into USB Flash Drive Like Teeny Tiny RAID
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This concept design isn’t that far off. Almost everyone has some spare memory cards that need to be used in some form or fashion. There’s not much you can do with one once you get a newer, bigger one, so this concept that collects these microSD cards and turns the… |
April 13th, 2011
Articulated Arm Tablet Holder: If iPad and Luxo, Jr. Had a Baby
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You know, the funny thing about this image is that Steve Jobs really was the father of both of these items – there’s Luxo, Jr., the little articulating Anglepoise lamp from Pixar’s breakthrough short film, and an iPad, from, well, you know where. Ok, Jobs didn’t found Pixar, but all… |
April 12th, 2011
Chocolate Dual-Shock Controller Comes with Grand Theft Chocolate Game Disc
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I love when an item I discover combines two of my favorite things, and this PS2/PS3 controller made out of chocolate satisfies those requirements perfectly. Michelle’s This and That is making these chocolate bars in the shape of a Dual-Shock controller, in either milk or dark chocolate.… |
April 12th, 2011
