Archive for September 2011

What you see in the photos here is one of those rare items that is at the same time both awesome and supremely stupid. The man you see here is from China and is named Shu Mansheng. It appears that Shu built something akin to an AR.Drone that he could…

We often lament the fact that in the US we generally only get the plain vending machines with the mechanical buttons that have been around for decades. In other countries, the vending machines are much cooler, often packing in touchscreens and serving oddities like crab or bananas. A company called…

The QR-Code Island is a collaborative project between Mat Barnes and Eddie Blake, and is actually a scale-model of an island that can be scanned by smartphones as a QR code when viewed from above. You’d imagine that something like this would pop up in Dubai, but at least for…

If you bike a lot, you know that anything that distracts you from the road ahead will potentially cause an accident. I’ve had a few, and one of them actually just involved playing with my cycling computer. I ended up in the hospital. I’m concerned that the Owl 360 camera,…

Would you look at this abomination. This is a knockoff/ripoff “Battman” console whose origins are unknown, though it’s clear from the “Made in China” sticker that it came from somewhere in that part of the world.…

Gamers and Escher go well together. The artist’s famous lithograph Relativity looked even more impossible – and way more lethal – when converted into a Portal… level. But Redditor/miner of crafts/illusion-breaker bergenco takes the same lithograph and makes it make sense. I’m not sure if he just ruined the point

We have about a month left before Battlefield 3 launches and now we are seeing reports that suggest that pre-orders have already exceeded 1.5 million copies. This makes the new Battlefield 3… game one of the biggest games of the year already. Should Activision and the others be worried?

Hard drive enclosures are a dime-a-dozen nowadays, plus there’s not exactly a lot of room for innovation in them. So if you were selling one, how would you make it stand out?  iHdd has an answer: 1. Apple logo + 2. LED + 3. ????? = lawsuit! I meant profit!…

Back in college, I had this friend who breathed, ate, and slept with nothing in mind but his video games. Counter Strike, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy -… you name it, he’s played. He also failed classes regularly, but last I heard, he’s into his final semester at school already.

There are a lot of awesome looking iPhone cases out there, but if you think about it, few make use of the Apple logo that you find at the back of the phone into the final look after you snap on the case. Part of the “few” that I’m talking…