Gizmodo: capsule

Back Up Your Valuables in a Time Capsule Gift Box

Kat Hannaford — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:41:53 EST

No broken MacBook and pair of old routers, but you do have a Time Capsule gathering dust? Turn it into a gift box, adding hinges and a silk cushion. Just don't put an engagement ring in there, trust me. [Instructables]

Shooter Fire Extinguisher Adds a Little Nerf-iness to Battling Blazes

Kit Eaton — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:45:00 EDT

Were the humble, boring old fire extinguisher to be reworked in the style of this concept design, dubbed Shooter, they'd be grabbed from the wall and used inappropriately in offices waaaay more frequently. Because, as its name suggests, the device is meant to behave like a friendly Nerf-style grenade launcher, aiming plastic pellets of CO2 into the flames. This has the advantage of keeping you away from the fire, with a better range than throw-style pellets, and less complication than a standard sprayer version. And more fun/danger at the office Christmas party too. [Yanko Design]

First Look At New Russian-Euro Lunar Capsule

Matt Hickey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:30:00 EDT

Here it is, fellow space-geeks, the first official image of the new joint Russian-European manned spacecraft, and we'll be damned if it doesn't look like something out of the Ikea Kitchen Collection. It's made to ferry up to four people (cosmonauts or astronauts?) to the moon and back, with a two-stage orbiter-and-lander design much like the original American lunar missions. What's interesting is that the craft uses thrusters to slow its descent to the moon's surface as well as to launch itself off the surface. The Russians state that they expect a launch in 2018, though a launch could happen sooner if stock rockets currently available are modified, which sounds perfectly and totally safe to us. [BBC]

Time Capsule Gets Obligatory Strip Down

Haroon Malik — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:05:00 EST

Well, that didn't take to long; aptly named Flickr user, nakedmac has taken the plastic white goodness from off of his Time Capsule, so we can all have a look under its panties. Things we have learnt; 1). There is a fan to get Time Capsule's cool on. 2). Nakedmac was one of those kids that destroyed his toys two minutes after getting them. Nakedmac, this is exactly why you're not allowed nice things. Tsk. Checkout the gallery by hitting the link, and be sure to drop anything we have missed in the comments after the jump. [Flickr; Thanks Bobby]

Capsule Fire Extinguisher Concept Arms You With Flame-Tamping Grenades

Kit Eaton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:50:29 EST

This rugged fire-extinguisher concept contains both an oxygen supply to help you breathe and exploding powder pellets that you roll, grenade-like, into a fire to put it out at a distance. We're slightly worried at the idea of having an oxygen tank near lots of flames, but hey ho, it's great that designer Woo Seok Park is looking at improving the humble extinguisher with this Capsule concept. Our imagination now has us racing to tackle that burning building with McClane-like shouts of "Yippeekay-ay, Motherf..." Well, you know the rest. [Yanko designs]

LED Clock Time Capsule

Travis Hudson — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:40:42 EDT

SUCK UK (yes, their actual company name) has designed this very unique capsule LED clock and message display. It has a whole slew of LEDs and can be programmed to stream messages along with the time and date. The capsule design makes it perfect for that contemporary or futuristic-designed home. I can imagine it now... Ikea desks and the capsule LED clock fusing together for the ultimate contemporary, cheap living space accessory. Oh wait, that would never work because Ikea is cheap and this thing isn't. It has a £179 price tag, which equals out to $360. This programmable clock should be able to predict the future for $360. –Travis Hudson

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