Archive for June 2011
Faceless Watch Can Still Tell the Time
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I think watches are the most popular accessory there is. First of all, they’re functional. They tell you the time primarily, while some models even display the date, the temperature, what day of the week it is, and so on and so forth. Second, they’re often stylish and come in… |
June 26th, 2011
Airsoft Rifle Laser Mod: Laserhard
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Decent Airsoft guns can look quite realistic and menacing. But YouTuber styropyro figured his Airsoft gun wasn’t geeky enough, so he gutted it out and converted it to a laser rifle. So instead of a gun that shoots bullets at a hundred miles per hour, now styropyro has a gun… |
June 26th, 2011
Piezoelectric Keyboards Could Power Your Laptops by Typing
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Imagine using your laptop and powering it up by simply using the keyboard. If you think about it, it starts to make sense because if the power typing could be harnessed, it could be used to generate electricity. Researchers have started to experiment with this idea by using a piezoelectric… |
June 26th, 2011
Sanyo Mobile USB Booster Stick Makes AA Batteries a Lot More Useful
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I don’t know about you guys, but the only use I have for AA batteries right now is for my TV’s remote control; all of my gadgets have rechargeable Li-ion batteries. But if I had Sanyo’s Eneloop Mobile USB Booster I’d have bought some extra rechargeable AA batteries. As you… |
June 26th, 2011
Irrational Numbers Clock is Perfectly Rational (If You’re a Mathematician)
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The Irrational Numbers Clock is slightly more complicated that the Unit Circle Radian Wall Clock. Also, the fact that it looks like a blackboard has a certain scholarly appeal. While I am a mathematician, anyone with high-school math should be able to read this clock. That’s not because they’ll know… |
June 26th, 2011
Want Lipo and a Boob Job? There’s an App for That!
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There really is an app for everything today, including elective body modification. A plastic surgeon named Dr. Jonathan Kaplan has announced that he has launched a new app that will be offered globally called BuildMyBod. The app will run on iOS devices and allows someone thinking about plastic surgery to… |
June 26th, 2011
Game Station PS2 Knock-off Does Everything BUT Play PS2 Games
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Most of the cheap Chinese game console knockoffs do just one thing – play old 8-bit NES or Famicom games. Some of them don’t even do that. Here’s one console clone that claims to do way more than those.… |
June 25th, 2011
Android MP3 Speaker: What Looks Like a Droid and Sounds Like an Droid, But isn’t an Droid?
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Android fans, here’s something you might want to grab for your desktop. It’s a compact speaker/MP3 player in the shape of your favorite mobile operating system mascot, the Android.… |
June 25th, 2011
Skullcandy Vandal AMP Station: The Dock Goes Retro
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There’s something cool about retro-inspired electronics. The Vandal AMP dock is from Skullcandy, a company best known for their skater-chic headphones, and it works with iPhones and iPod Touches. Don’t worry, you won’t find old technology hidden underneath its hood.… |
June 25th, 2011
2,000-Pound Transformers Cake: Autocakebot
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While Transformers cakes are nothing new, there’s got to be something strange going on in the heads of people behind this humongous cake. This gigantic Transformers cake was made to celebrate Michael Bay’s upcoming Tranformers: Dark of Moon… movie, which comes out in a few days. It weighs about 2,000 |
June 25th, 2011
