Archive for February 2015

If the proliferation of drones had you crafting tinfoil hats by the dozen, you’d better set up an aluminum mine. Drone and camera maker Aeryon recently revealed the HDZoom30, a drone-ready camera that lets operators effortlessly take clear pictures of unwitting criminals (and then some) even from 1000ft.

Meatballs. They are delicious. What if we could fire them from a gun and into some bread. Hell, that would revolutionize the making of meatball sandwiches forever. Well, ask and ye shall receive.

It’s pretty rare that I eat eggs out of a cup – I usually have them scrambled, over easy or in an omelette or frittata. I just like saying fri-ta-ta. I may soon have to start going for some boiled eggs just so I can have a reason to buy these awesome ceramic egg cups. Mustard’s Eggbot and Eggsplorer transform your incredible, edible eggs into the head of a strange alien, or the roof of the UFO he landed in.

I am a Hulk fan and grew up watching Lou Ferrigno bust through walls every Friday night. I loved that show and was a bit mad when the new Hulk movies and The Avengers used a computer generated Hulk.

I didn’t play the SEGA Genesis console all that much when it first hit big. I was more of a Nintendo guy back then. I did get into some of those Genesis games a few years later though and that console had a lot of classic games.

Thingiverse member CloudJ helps make the last days of winter more fun with his DIY snowman mold. Available in two- and three-ball variants, the mold lets you make lots of tiny snowmen in minutes. As Nerd Approved pointed out, CloudJ’s snowmen look just like the ones that Bill Watterson’s Calvin loves to build (and destroy). Wake your homicidal psycho jungle cat and sled to CloudJ’s Thingiverse page to download the molds’ 3D files.

If you thought Mad Catz’ LYNX transforming gamepad was the bees knees’, check out the Grifta. It makes the LYNX look like an SNES controller. The Grifta can be used as a normal gamepad or split into two halves.

These kitchen towels that look like sushi when rolled up would be a cute addition to your decor. They are the creation of Jenny Pokryvailo, the designer who also brought us the Nessie ladle.

Jeff Bezos and Amazon want in the worst way possible to get goods into your hands faster. Let’s face it, one of the only reasons many of us don’t buy everything from Amazon already is because either we can’t wait for delivery or we just don’t like to wait.

Tesla is best known for its slick Model S electric car. Inside, the car is festooned with technology including a wireless connection that links its systems to Tesla and allows the company to upload software updates automatically.

Adam Savage is always working on some kind of cool project. The man never seems to slow down. For a recent feature on Tested, Adam designed and built an impressively accurate replica of the hedge maze from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The maze model from The Overlook Hotel is only seen briefly in the movie, but Adam still managed to use reference screenshots from the film to painstakingly recreate it.

I think most of us will agree that one of the best foods in the world is a big, hot, salty order of McDonald’s french fries. Those fries are about the only thing that McDonald’s serves that taste good.

Imagine if Tony Stark was creating his Iron Man armor in the 1800s. He would come up with something like these steampunk gauntlets for sure.

While most superheroes have more important things than to keep your drink bottles in check, these ones are at the ready to do just that. These DC Comics “Freaker” Bottle Sleeves are designed to keep your bottled beverages cool, and your palm from getting all wet with bottle sweat, plus they look cool at the same time.

Let’s say you love table tennis aka ping pong, but you live in a tiny apartment. You can’t have a full-sized table otherwise you’ll be eating dinner and working on it too. This cardboard version of table tennis is the answer.

R2-D2 is the coolest of all the astromechs. He beeps and screams and seems to have a tool that can pop out and fix whatever you need fixed or shock weird little dog creatures when needed.