Archive for April 2014

I never would have thought that a Game Boy would look good as a brick, but it actually looks pretty awesome. It looks heavy, but cool. Anyway, you may not believe it, but Nintendo’s handheld gaming system recently celebrated it’s 25th birthday.

About a week ago, some leaked images that were said to be of the Samsung Galaxy K smartphone hit the web. Those images have now been proven correct with Samsung officially announcing the Galaxy K zoom.

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is a cool video game that launched for Xbox 360 and Xbox One game consoles earlier this year. This is the first game in the franchise that steps outside of the top-down tower defense gameplay and introduces third-person shooter aspects to the game.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Instapump Fury, Reebok will be releasing 27 different variants of the lace-less shoes throughout spring and summer. I don’t know why there will be 27 variants and not 20, but I do know that two of those variants are based on the Gundam series.

I’ve been on both sides of the gadget wall – those times when the people you’re with are silently staring at their mobile devices instead of talking to you or to each other. As with any other activity, it’s not that bad if it occurs only every now and then.

Now the circle is complete. A few weeks ago we told you about Rodger Cleye’s amazing X-Wing Tri-rotor. Now he is back with an Advanced X1 TIE Fighter quadcopter. Can a Death Star chase featuring these two ships be far behind?

If you’re always leaving your clothes lying around, you really need to clean up your act and start hanging them up. And what better way to hang your best duds but with these Star Wars character clothes hangers?

When I was growing up, the only putty-like plaything I had was good old Silly Putty. I always loved messing around with it until it started to turn a sort of weird grey color after picking up too many prints of the Sunday funnies with the stuff.

Han Solo, you’re coming with me. To the prom. It isn’t often that you see Boba Fett in his (er, her) natural element. Now I see why.

Wow. Everything nasty that a unicorn does, looks so pretty. We have seen sparkly rainbow unicorn poop before, but it turns out that their barf is just as festive and colorful, plus it’s edible.

Another nifty proposed LEGO set has hit the crowdsourcing Cuusoo site (soon to be called LEGO Ideas), and yet again I’m hoping this set gets produced. LEGO fan Tris Spencer came up with this set inspired by Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic JAWS.

Balloon artist John Reid built this huge balloon sculpture for this year’s Salt Lake City Comic Con. He says that it’s the largest balloon sculpture ever built by a single person. It is certainly the most vulnerable Transformer ever.

A computer keyboard allows gamers to have hundreds of commands at their fingertips, but its input is binary – you’re either pressing on a key or you’re not. Analog controls like joysticks on the other hand can only handle a few commands at a time, but they can have several degrees of the same input.

A couple of years ago we featured the Decelerator, a helmet that allowed its wearer to see in slow motion. To (erroneously) promote its fiber optic Internet service, Swedish company UmeNet used an Oculus Rift to induce lag in real life.

I do all the cooking at my house because my wife can’t cook. My son used to cry if she cooked breakfast because she once set the bacon on fire. You only get to burn bacon once in my house before you are fired.

If you or your kid is having a Star Wars-themed party, check out these cool R2-D2 cupcake wrappers and toppers. They are nicely detailed and will make any cupcake look like our favorite little droid.