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Shake Control: Environment-Friendly Wiimote for Your Tv
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Winner of the 2008 red dot design award, the Shake Control presents a unique and environment-friendly way of controlling television sets. It may also be frustrating enough that people won’t want to watch TV anymore. Instead of using batteries, the Shake Control is indirectly powered by the user; a magnet… |
June 24th, 2009
Mini R2-D2 Drives Around Your Desktop, Where’S C-3PO?
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Is that a lightsaber unit in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? That’s the question your friends will be asking when you whip out this tiny little motorized R2-D2 and he starts tooling around your desk between your coffee mug and your iPod dock. The miniature… |
June 18th, 2009
Giant Remote Controlled Rms Titanic: Hopefully There Are No Tiny Icebergs Around
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First we had the watch, and now we have a model. The 6-foot long remote-controlled RMS Titanic is a faithfully reproduced 1:150 scale model. It took 400 man-hours (that’s about 1600 dog-hours, or 879,592 mosquito-hours) to assemble. It has over 300 handmade parts, which include the fiberglass hull, stained white… |
June 9th, 2009
Robo-Q Optimus Prime and Bumblebee: Tiny Transformers
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Just because you’re a robot in disguise doesn’t mean you have to be huge. These tiny little versions of two popular Transformers autobots prove quite the contrary. The latest in TakaraTomy’s Robo-Q series, these palm-sized Optimus Prime and Bumblebee robots are just too cute to be capable of any real… |
May 31st, 2009
Cool.Con Reflexology Remote Control Fixes What Ails You While You Channel Surf
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Nope, this spiky orb-shaped device isn’t some sort of controller for the latest Sonic the Hedgehog… game. It’s actually just a universal remote control – in a really weird package, with a really weird secondary purpose. The cool.con remote control fits neatly into the palm of your hand, and features |
May 27th, 2009
Buglabs Open-Source Modular Gadget Factory: the Modder’S Gadget
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Bug Labs’ very geeky product is the perfect Modder’s Day gift. You see, BUG is a set of tools that lets you mix and match its components to build your own gadget, like LEGO but a hundred times geekier. Each BUGbundle includes a BUGbase, a touchscreen module, an accelerometer and… |
May 12th, 2009
Sparkfun’S Autonomous Vehicle Race: Autobots,Rollout! No, Not There! Get Back Here!
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Modder-friendly electronics company SparkFun Electronics recently held what they hope will be an annual event called the Autonomous Vehicle Competition, which is basically a race of proto-Autobots around one of SparkFun’s buildings. The contest was initially employees-only, but SparkFun realized it would be much more fun to have their customers… |
April 24th, 2009
Breakdancing R/C Car Arrives Just in Time for Nobody to Care About Breakdancing
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I’ve been waiting all my life for the day that somebody came up with a gadget that would finally combine my passions for radio-controlled race cars and breakdancing. That day has finally arrived. You can certainly drive this R/C car around the floor just like any other, but the real… |
April 14th, 2009
Q-Steer Mario Kart Remote Contol Cars Bring Video Game Races to the Real World
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Fresh off the boat from Japan, these miniature remote control cars let you tool around as the characters from Mario Kart…. These Q-Steer cars from TakaraTomy let drive around using a pocket-size infrared remote control. Each one features the likeness of one of your favorite characters, and they can |
March 19th, 2009
Giant Remote Control Laughs in the Face of Miniaturization
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Sick of losing your remote between the couch cushions? With this bigger-than-a-breadbox remote control, there’s no chance you’ll misplace this one. The Chunghop RM-A4 remote control measures in at a whopping 8.26″ wide x 11.69″ tall x 1.35″ thick. Or in other words, it’s roughly the size of a ream… |
January 29th, 2009
