Archive for April 2014

Near Field Technology (NFC) in mobile devices is mostly used for effortless interactions with other gadgets, such as opening smart door locks, pairing with digital cameras, or issuing wireless payments. An upcoming accessory called Dimple shows us that NFC can also be used to improve a mobile device itself.

This probably started off with one guy saying to another guy, “Put it in park.” Then the other guy said, “Screw that. I’m putting it in Jurassic Park.” Or not.

Are you tired of the standard ding-dong of your doorbell? Maybe it’s time to welcome your guests to the sounds of a guitar. When people walk into you home or business, they will be greeted by the strumming of a guitar with the Guitar Doorbell (aka the “GuitDoorbell”).

The last time we saw any geeky memorabilia for one of 2013’s best worst movies, it was as terrifying as the fact that Sharknado 2 is coming. But this? I wasn’t expecting this. Funko turned Sharknado into a Skylander with this adorable vinyl figurine.

The cool thing about the Skylanders franchise is that kids can buy action figures and then take those real action figures into the digital game world to play with. The game has spawned many copycats, and proven very popular for Activision.

You enjoy playing The Legend of Zelda, right? What if you could play it in real life? Well, you can. You might even win some rupees. Redditor evildeadite sometimes puts together a treasure chest full of Hyrule treasures and stashes it somewhere for strangers to find.

Some Call of Duty players take the game way too seriously. Plus, they are crazy and stupid. One idiot player called a SWAT team on another kid that killed him while playing Call of Duty multiplayer.

This accomplishment must have cost this guy his sanity. You see those stats? Those are the stats for the first person known to have unlocked all of the 2057 achievements currently available in World of Warcraft.

The differences between my son and my daughter are amusing. When I took my son TV shopping, all he wanted was the biggest screen possible. My daughter, on the other hand was perfectly willing to get a small screen providing the TV was “such ‘dorable.” I think Sceptre’s new line of colorful TVs would be “such ‘dorable” in the eyes of most kids and a lot of adults too.

Going to the grocery store is a pain in the butt for many people. It’s hard to keep track of just what you are spending without resorting to using a calculator. If you have kids, that opens another world of issues when shopping.

If you’re scared of stinging insects, or easily creeped out, you probably will want to leave this page right now. For the rest of you, you have been warned… What you’re looking at here is an abandoned hornet’s nest which was created on top of an old wooden statue of a man.

Do your glasses slide down your nose when you get sweaty or if your face gets oily? Check out Nerdwax. It’s a beeswax-based solution that supposedly keeps your glasses on. Its efficacy will depend on how sweaty or oily you get, but inventor Don Hejny claims that he’s gone for an entire day on just one application of his product.

Ah, the Kestrel. The red shirt of spaceships. Its crew has two equally horrifying nightmares: one is a looping animation of the ship being torn apart, and the other is a cursor hovering over “Restart.” Let us remember the fallen – and make a note to level up the damned doors on the next run – with this 3D printed model of FTL: Faster Than Light‘s default cruiser.

I’m usually good about keeping my gear out of harm’s way, but in the last month, I smashed two smartphone screens. I guess it caught up with me, which is probably one of the reasons why a ruggedized tablet makes sense, if you’re always taking yours out and about.

Remember Teddy Ruxpin from back in the day? No matter how popular it was, that bear was creepy. My brother had one and it always stayed in a closet out of fear that it would wake up and start talking to us at night.

This X-Wing lamp will add just the right kind of light to your man cave or living space. It will keep your personal Rebel base safe and looking awesome.