Archive for November 2010

I have talked about the cool Flash Rods flash drives before. These things are handmade and put flash storage into Hot Wheels cars, making for one really cool flash drive. Flash rods also makes larger external HDDs for the desk as well – and the latest from the company is awesome.

Are you planning on spending a couple of grand on installing home automation systems in your house? Then you should most definitely look at these cool Star Trek-themed screens and interfaces that were recently created by Pascal.

I’m all for double screens and double laptops and double tablets, but it seems that Acer kind of missed the mark with their new concept device. They call this thing the Iconia and here’s why I think it will fail.

Darkness is good for sleeping and watching movies. But you know what it’s bad for? Seeing stuff. Obviously, the fix for seeing things in the dark is light. If you want to see lots of stuff inside, you turn on the main lights in a room.

If you don’t want to go out of the way to buy a 3D TV and glasses so you can watch Comcast’s ridiculous 3D yule log channel, why not grab one of these tiny desktop fireplace simulators instead.

A while back I discovered these cool RGBy LED lamps from Japan, which could automatically detect the color on which they were placed and change to match. While they were quite cool, they were also quite expensive .

I used to really like Muppet Babies when I was a kid. Beaker and his pal always getting blown up really cracked me up. These geeky and very strange Beaker lamps remind me of that old cartoon show.

I would bet most of us at one time or another has run across that holiday season channel on TV where all you see is a crackling fireplace with holiday music playing. Yeah, it’s pretty stupid.

The Razer TRON gaming mouse is packed so full of win I might choke. I mean, I like PC gaming, I like Razer, I like TRON, it’s a trifecta of geeky nirvana for me. If you feel the same way, you will be tickled to death to hear than the mouse is now shipping after we first laid eyes on the thing back in June.

This funky ceramic speaker has got a long history, which starts off with Japanese footballer/fashion icon Nakata Hidetoshi, whose Revalue Nippon Project is basically a way to marry and revitalize traditional Japanese crafts with modern designs.

Adding a bit of Star Wars to an otherwise gear-obsessed day? Sounds perfect! This funky R2-D2 deconstruction poster was created by Kevin Tong and would look great on your wall.

When it comes to high-tech weaponry, slingshots aren’t exactly very high on the list. When it comes down to it, most slingshots are made from a frame, a couple pieces of rubber and a small bit of leather.

It seems as if the hacking possibilities for the Xbox 360 Kinect just keep expanding. Today’s hack? How about a way to map your body into a real-time 3D image, then distort it.

Budding superheroes – How many times have you had the need to scale a building, but just didn’t have the arm strength to get your grappling hook all the way to the roof? Thanks to this air-powered grappling hook, you no longer need to worry.

Next time you decide to whip out your Donkey Kong Jenga set, you might want to make sure you’re not playing against the guy with this new game-changer. It’s a special “pistol” designed to easily remove Jenga blocks.

The other day I told you guys about some funny Pac-Man cookie cutters, and noted how Blinky was nowhere to be found. I thought he had been eaten, and that’s quite possibly why he’s rising from the dead in this funny new T-shirt, called “Medium Difficulty.”