Archive for April 2011

I am not a huge fan of Bluetooth headsets because I think wearing them outside of a car when you must have both hands free makes you look like a massive douche. If you are just walking in the mall wearing one, talking into thin-air, I think you deserve a…

It’s common today for ultraportable notebooks and netbooks to come without an optical drive of any kind. The notebooks and desktops that do come with optical drives often lack the latest features like support for 3D Blu-ray. If you need an external optical drive to add to your rig that…

The Magic Bar might sound like a place where illusionists can gather and drink up whilst trying to pick up each other’s beautiful assistants, but it’s not. The Magic Bar is an accessory from a company called Mobee that is made to add inductive charging to your cool aluminum Apple…

I’m sure most of you have seen Johnny Chung Lee’s Wii head tracking demo. But while Lee had to use a Wiimote and IR diodes (and a PC) for his hack, Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory were able to pull off the same trick on the…

We’ve just started to see some powered exoskeletons, and they are still pretty clunky affairs. So how can we even think about starting to build a real AT-AT? That doesn’t seem to faze the Mike Koehler, the man behind AT-AT for America – a campaign to build a fully-functional full-size…

If you frequently use CF or CFast cards or have a bunch of them lying around unused, you should check out these CF & CFast drives from Addonics. Using these drives you can access up to 6 cards simultaneously, either as individual disks, as a single boot drive or a…

Dominika Turek decided that this Easter, it would be an Angry Easter thanks to some custom DIY-made Angry Birds… Easter eggs! Easter is usually a time for faith and chocolate, but these guys make you want to get those piggies good. Dominika smartly also made some pigs to go with

If you’re looking to fill out your dollhouse with geeky accoutrements, you might want to grab some of these Japanese toys, which are basically really tiny versions of the original Sony PlayStation line.…

I’ve heard plenty of versions of the Super Mario Bros.… theme song over the years, but I can honestly say this is the first time I’ve heard a version of the tune played Arkansas bluegrass style.

Korg synthesizers were a mainstay for 80′s pop bands and are still widely used for all sorts of musical needs. Korg isn’t just about keyboard synthesizers though, it has a bunch of other gear too. One of the latest products to come from Korg this cool new Wavedrum Mini portable…