Archive for July 2007

I was wandering through the cultural wasteland known as YouTube tonight when I came across this masterpiece… Apparently, this guy was participating in a contest to win a trip in some sort of Parappa the Rapper contest to celebrate of the launch of the new game for the PSP.

Is this thing some sort of a light bulb? Not really. A digital alarm clock? Sometimes. How about an LED color-morphing lamp? Sure, when the mood is right. From the side or back, this battery-powered gadget looks just like a traditional light bulb in a socket.

Here’s a great find for the photo enthusiast in your life. These Soviet-era camera kits from LOMO let you build your own 35mm camera and other photographic gear. The Lomo Meccano Erector set is a complete kit that lets you build five different photographic devices.

This funky portable FM radio from Semk isn’t made out of the traditional hard plastics and metals you usually find in electronic gadgets. In fact, the battery-operated Radiobox is made using similar materials to those you’d find in a beanbag chair.

Sony Design, working in collaboration with Italy’s Master Craft Lombardia will be showing off a collection of breathtaking custom designs for Sony’s electronic gear. The exhibit features a number of stunning collaborations between Sony and local artisans from Italy.

Have an old Macintosh G4 Cube computer lying around? Why not transform it into an enclosure for a modern Mac Mini? Like the abandoned shell of a hermit crab, Mac enthusiast Rich Willis removed the innards of the old G4 cube and filled its guts with his Mac Mini as well as some add-ons.

Here’s the ultimate gadget for narcissists. This new webcam from Japan’s Thanko features a one-way mirror as it’s main design feature. The device has a hidden camera behind the mirror that lets you admire your own beautiful mug while you chat with your friends across the Interweb. As an added bonus, the mirror is encircled by a bright ring of LEDs which not only show off your good looks, they actually improve the quality of the images it captures.

On a day that was loaded with announcements of fun and interesting new Wii accessories like the Wii Zapper and the Wii Fit Balance Board, comes the most unusual add-on I’ve seen in a while, NYKO’s Wii Party Station. It’s hard to describe the Party Station.

A few weeks back I told you about an “air guitar” gadget that let you strum in the air holding on to what looks like just the neck of the guitar. Now, this new toy from Japan goes one better, completely eliminating the guitar and just leaving the pick. The Rock Tamashii is a rather cumbersome looking, oversize guitar pick with a built in speaker.

Nintendo today revealed Wii Fit, a new “game” for the Wii that’s all about fitness. What’s interesting about this is the new controller that ships with the game. The small, flat controller, called the “Wii Balance Board,” lays on the ground and detects your body movements as you exercise.

A while back, I showed you a 3rd-party Wii Light Gun controller add-on. Now Nintendo has revealed their own controller accessory, called the Wii Zapper. The new controller has an interesting design the provides a cradle for both the Wii-mote and the Nunchuk controller.

Here’s a really excellent retro-modern wall clock from Dutch designer Frank Clewits for design house Puhlmann. To tell time, the clock uses some unique, forward-facing Nixie vacuum tubes that poke out of the face of a brushed steel plate.

I was digging through the latest FCC approvals earlier today when I happened across this, the latest universal remote control from Philips. According to the user manual, the new remote, called the TSU9400, features a huge 640×480 full color TFT display.

A couple of years back, GoPro introduced a compact wrist-worn digital camera which let you shoot photos while you participated in sporting activities. The problem was that the original only shot really low resolution pics that didn’t look very good.

Designer Philippe Starck is a master of modern minimalism, and his latest timepiece is no exception. His Veiled Watch cleverly conceals an analog watch face behind a specially electroplated crystal that looks like a continuation of the stainless steel watch band.

There’s an image circulating around the web this morning showing what looks suspiciously like a GRAY Xbox 360 model. Notice the console on the far left is decidedly darker in appearance than the white models in the middle.