March 31, 2009 – A couple months ago, a company asked if I was interested in reviewing their razor/personal massager combo. I said sure, never expecting them to send one all the way over to China. More »

March 31, 2009 – The GoPro Hero Sports Camera seriously is cool, and watching Brian toppling over himself on a snowboard made me want to search for even more GoPro videos. More »

March 31, 2009 – You know what I think the worst thing about having a robot army is? You have to press buttons. It's much more satisfying to get every automaton to do your bidding by just thinking it. Apparently, the people at Japan's Honda Research Institute had the same idea, because they've now partnered with... More »

March 27, 2009 – Bandai first brought the pleasure of regular bubble wrap to your keychain with its Mugen Pop Pop Toy. And now, in case you don't bring your keys everywhere, they've put it on the iPhone too! The iPhone app, which is free, gives you three different Mugen Pop Pop play modes: More »

March 27, 2009 – Once, while walking down the street, a man suddenly approached me screaming "QUICK! We need someone to DJ!" If only I had had this portable cross fader—who knows how differently my life would've turned out. The Urban DJ portable cross fader has been ultimate retro hipster designed into a... More »

March 27, 2009 – Oobject's list of flying helmets proves that pilots never need to look far for absolutely terrifying Halloween costumes. Like that f-35 joint strike fighter helmet - those terrible green eyes will haunt me forever.

March 26, 2009 – The Japanese government is planning to put robots to practical use in Japanese households in as soon as five years, and has already begun formulating the political agencies needed to oversee robot safety standards. According to a government panel on Wednesday, the robots are needed to provide... More »

March 25, 2009 – Swiss watchmaker Borgeaud has teamed up with Indian fortune tellers to create a watch that allegedly predicts the future. When things are about to go sour, a bedpan-shaped section on the watch will turn brown. According to the Borgeaud site, the watch automatically displays a daily 90-minute... More »

March 25, 2009 – A carpenter in a Chinese village, perhaps unwilling to spend what would amount to a month's pay on a bicycle, has created a 100% wooden one to ride around town instead. 55-year-old Peijia Wu, from Shandong province, allegedly took three months to build his DIY wooden bike. More »

March 25, 2009 – Have the urge to really ruin the resale value of a diamond? Here's one way—permanently embed a hi-res grayscale photograph of yourself in it. A company called DiamondPure takes any photograph you want and then, using a "revolutionary" nano-photograph process, etches the visage into any size... More »

March 25, 2009 – This couture collection, designed by Jiang Zhou of the Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology, was featured at China's recent fashion week and looks to have been inspired by the country's recent brush with extraterrestrial lifeforms. Jiang insists that the elaborate white designs were inspired... More »

March 24, 2009 – Industrial designer Zhdanova Irina's self sufficient mobile kitchen concept, EGGo, looks like it could win an award for the most stylish way ever to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The kitchen, shaped like an egg, has enough space for a water reservation tank, a gas chamber (for storing... More »

March 24, 2009 – Chinese bloggers have posted photos that are rumored to depict what the Lenovo oPhone's operating system looks like. Apparently, much like their moniker, the oPhone OS also has that slight Apple-y touch. Rounded square icons against a black background? More »

March 20, 2009 – Those crazy looking robotic carp now have a job-a whole school of them are going to be released into the sea off northern Spain to help detect hazardous pollutants in the water. Created by engineers at the University of Essex, they measure about 8 feet long, can swim at roughly 2.24mph and feature... More »

March 20, 2009 – Nintendo might be planning on taking on the iPhone and iPod Touch with an app download service of its own, and has been encouraging developers to come up with app-like content for the DSi. The Dsi—at least the Japanese version—currently connects to the DS Shop and DSi Ware, Nintendo's... More »

March 20, 2009 – Showing a dedication to lightning reviews we could never hope to emulate, this Japanese stun gun company's president tested out his products on himself. More »

March 19, 2009 – Sure, you could always wait for Apple to release its first netbook (if they actually do). But over here in China, when we want something bad enough, we go and make it ourselves. That's right, manufacturers in Shenzhen have gone and created their own netbook. More »

March 19, 2009 – Brazilian artist Paulo Nenflidio, who's currently showing off his work in Arizona, creates weird noise-producing sculptures like this robot drill spider, which ends up sounding as frightening as it looks. Each of the six hammer drills is linked keys on the main body's keyboard. More »

March 18, 2009 – Chinese officials have reported a UFO sighting while they were on an airplane and, in case anyone thought it was just a case of baijiu-induced hallucinations, they snapped pictures of it too. In a report from Xinhua, the government-sponsored news agency, a group of journalists and officials were... More »

March 18, 2009 – Remember the FLEPia – Fujitsu's eBook reader that would trounce all other readers by displaying color? After years of waiting, it's now out and available in Japan! The FLEPia promises an 8-inch 1024x768 XGA touchscreen that can display 260K colors, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, an SD card... More »