Archive for August 2011

I can not wait until the next Batman movie. At least we have Arkham City to tide us over until 2012, when we can finally see The Dark Knight Rises. As an added treat we also now have this custom Arkham City Xbox 360 console to drool over.

I remember well the day my first PS3 died. I was sitting in my office working and all the sudden I heard this beeping sound. Once I walked around the corner, I could see the light on the PS3 flashing behind the glass door of my entertainment system.

I have seen plenty of videos of the devastation caused by the earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami and I still can’t wrap my head around the scope of the disaster. Coupled with the devastation from the natural disaster with the radiation that leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant and the people in the region of Japan so hard hit have much to worry about.

We all know that sex sells, but who knew that it could make people cough up over $58,000 to fund the manufacture of Duet, a flash drive that doubles as a vibrator?

You know the old saying, Don’t take any wooden nickels? Well, you shouldn’t get suckered into buying a wooden iPad for $180 either.

Samsung’s latest laptop is the Samsung Series 7 Chronos. No, not Cronos the god of war, you silly geek. (Although that would be an awesome laptop) It comes in your choice of either a 15 inch HD LED display or a 15.6 inch HD LED display, but both have a resolution of 1600 x 900.

Are there spies and sleuths reading our blog? Silly question. Of course there are. They monitor everything. From a nondescript white van no doubt. Listen, you didn’t hear it from me but Brando is selling flash drives that look like a lipstick.

We have robot vacuum cleaners. Can we just pause for a second and really think about that fact? Robots equipped with lasers and complicated algorithms just to clean a room. They can even recharge themselves! As if that wasn’t enough, the latest model in LG’s Roboking line of vacuum cleaners can also serve as a security camera.

The iZON Remote Room Monitor isn’t the first way to watch what’s happening at home on your iPhone, but it does look like it’s the most user-friendly. It’s basically a simple camera that will let you see what’s happening and will even record what it sees on YouTube.

I’ve always enjoyed airships. They’ve been featured prominently in Fringe, in the other universe. It’s a shame that there aren’t more around, but that might not be for long. Hybrid Air Vehicles will be making some futuristic giant blimps to supply remote communities in the Northern parts of Canada.

What can you buy with $60,000 dollars? A whole lot, obviously. For a lot of folks, that’s a year’s worth of salary, or more. With $60,000, you can put your kids through school, pay your rent, buy a car, go on a vacation, or get a whole new wardrobe and still have some money left at the end.

We here at Technabob aren’t exactly known for our automotive reporting, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like cool cars. Now, Ford is showing off a new car that combines sporty performance with the type of geeky technology we love to write about here.

I’ve featured devices which let you digitize the images and text you write on paper before, but this new gadget from the master of drawing tablets, Wacom, decidedly improves upon the concept, capturing up to 1024 levels of pressure from drawings done on paper.

Ready yourself to save Hyrule yet again with the release of Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. But it isn’t a sword that you will be raising skyward, instead you will have a shiny new gold Wiimote.

We’ve seen many cool mods featuring both the N64 and Star Wars, but these have to be two of my favorites. These were created by Kevin from Corellian Customs. The first is Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter, with an N64 crammed inside.

If you are a professional at anything and you are one of the best, you have to buy the hardware and gear to operate at that level. Take Mitchell Feinberg for instance. Feinberg is a high-end photographer who takes shots of all sorts of luxury products like cars, watches, and other stuff that normal folk can’t afford.