ybaranovsky

Tesla Electric Sports Car Wins INDEX Award To Confirm Sexiness

It’s a good day for people who love things that go really, really fast. Our favorite super electric car — the Tesla Roadster — has won an INDEX prize for being so damn cool. The INDEX prizes are the world’s most lucrative design awards, given every two years for five categories — body, home, work,…

Cowon’s online tech support is claiming that the Cowon Q5 PMP is coming out sometime in October. Is it finally coming to the US? We’ll believe it when we see it. [Thanks, TJ] https://gizmodo.com/cowon-q5-pmp-with-hsdpa-and-gps-announced-again-250553

Panasonic’s Pixi Phone Dock Automatically Sends Your Pictures to Mixi

When we’re sending naked pictures of ourselves to people we’ve never met, we want the process to go as quick as possible. Industrial Facility and luckybite — two UK Design firms — know that, and have teamed up with Madori Kuroda, Panasonic Japan’s Chief mobile device designer, to create a prototype phone dock called the…

Mitsubishi Blu-ray Player to Broadcast 2D Movies in 3D

We’ve all watched Fight Club and wished that Brad Pitt’s rippling biceps would be a bit more, well, 3D….right? Either way, Mitsubishi is releasing 3D Blu-ray players that will be able to make any 2D movie 3-dimensional. Before you get too excited, just know that you’ll still have to be wearing 3D glasses (hip-looking, 80’s-styled…

Interactive Graffiti Billboard Lets You Be Simultaneously Tough and Geeky

Finally, graffiti and technology have joined to create something beautiful. Mark Ecko is designing digital citylights that will consist of a giant LCD screen and a Bluetooth interface that will allow passerby’s to “spray graffiti” by accessing the screen via Bluetooth. They will then be able to use their cell phone cursor to spray any…

Talking Photo Ball Reminds How Family Has Wronged You

Brookstone’s Talking Photo Ball is the perfect gadget for those of us who’ve always dreamt of putting our family and friends into a ball and recording personal voice memos about them. The gadget is simple to use; place 4 pictures in the various slots around the ball, record any message you’d like — as long…

Nooka Rubber Watch Tells Time in Dots

Nothing screams “cool” like the Nooka rubber and plastic Zub-20 Zot watches. Coming in six different colors (because who doesn’t want an orange rubber watch?) the Nooka watches display hours as a progression of 12 dots while the minutes flow along the horizontal line below. The date and seconds — because the company ran out…

Grow Plants with the USB-Powered Mini-Greenhouse

We’ve all dreamed of having a mini-greenhouse that we could plug into our computer, but until today it was just that — dreams. But dream no longer. Geeks.com is selling a USB-powered Mini Greenhouse that includes a computer interface which helps you monitor growth rate and that includes a calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings to…

Suissa Computers Introduces Wooden External HD

Who needs new and slick when you can have old and wooden? The Shadow hard drive from Suissa is a beautifully-made wooden 750GB external hard drive that faintly resembles something your grandmother would store jewelery in. Compatible with any computer, the inappropriately-named Shadow has four USB 2.0 ports that are prominently visible on the front…

Topway’s PMP Thinner Than Thin Itself

The TOM-019 from Hong Kong’s Topway is so thin it can practically double as a shiv. At 6mm (or 0.24 inches) and weighing a mere 26g, the gadget offers support for MP3, WAV and WMA audio files—it also plays MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG2.5 and MPEG4 videos on its 1.8-inch TFT display. The media player also allows…