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Katamari Wedding Cake: With This Ring I Thee Roll
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Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? Will you roll a Katamari down the street with her and roll up the universe into a giant ball? While I like to think this Katamari wedding cake is filled with tiny buildings, cruise ships, cows and wildly gesticulating… |
September 26th, 2008
Tiny Dvr Camera is a Ball
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Within this tiny little black orb lives a tiny little digital video camera. What makes the Camball unique is its totally self-contained digital video recorder. All of the requisite electronics are crammed into a sphere that’s just a hair smaller than a ping pong ball. The Camball can record 320×240… |
August 1st, 2008
These Speakers Give Your iPod Balls
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This odd little speaker for your portable media player distinguishes itself by its spherical shape. ZumReed’s Sound Ball speaker hangs on your key chain or a book bag, and plugs into the audio jack on your iPod or other media player when your ready to play your tunes. The little… |
July 16th, 2008
Bowling for Gnomes
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While this doesn’t really qualify as a techie gadget or a video game, I came across this quirky game and thought it was just too good to pass up. Instead of knocking over some ordinary pins with this bowling game, you knock over a bunch of little plastic lawn gnomes.… |
June 11th, 2008
Throw Your Monitor at Game Opponents
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Ever had such a bad game that you wanted to throw your controller at your TV screen? How about a gaming system where chucking your display itself is an integral part of the action? Philips recently filed a patent application for a video game system which uses a monitor that… |
February 12th, 2008
Ping Pong Printer Produces Perfect Projectiles
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Why print on boring old paper, when you can get your message across on some nice bouncy ping pong balls? The appropriately named PingPongPrinter can print dot-matrix messages directly onto the spherical surface of ping pong balls. Builders Vern Graner and Rick Abbott of The Robot Group used a Parallax… |
February 8th, 2008
Bubblegum Sequencer Chews Through Tunes
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This music sequencer takes the same basic interface concept as the ball bearing sequencer I recently showed you, and makes it deliciously chewable. Instead of shiny metal spheres, this sequencer uses a bunch of colorful candy-coated gumballs to make a beat you can dance to. |
January 17th, 2008
USB Basketball Game: Hoop Dreams in Your Cubicle
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Now that you’ve got one of those USB Whac-a-Mole games and a Mini Claw Machine in your office, why not round out your collection of mini carny games with this basketball dunking game? The desktop game is a pint-sized replica of those B-Ball dunking games you might find at Chuck … |
November 19th, 2007
Boing Balls Change Color When You Squeeze Them
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Boy, does that sound painful, or what? Actually, it’s fun. These colorful rubber BOING Balls (not to be confused with the classic Amiga orb of the same name) have a set of tri-colored LEDs inside of them, and change hues when you apply pressure to them. The rubber balls can… |
October 6th, 2007
Shiro Mp3 Player Inspired by Soccer Ball
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Here’s an MP3 player that doesn’t look like any other I’ve seen. Designed originally for the World Cup tournament, the Shiro AS MP3 Player looks a whole lot like a miniature soccer ball. Sure, the Shiro won’t win any prizes for storage capacity, maxing out at 1GB of memory, but… |
May 13th, 2007
