Doomsday Plane: A Floating Pentagon ‘Just in Case’
Think your ride is cool? I bet it’s no match for the National Airborne Operations Center, no matter how pimped out yours is. Known colloquially as the “Doomsday Plane,” the Boeing 747 is outfitted enough to be considered a floating Pentagon. (In the event of a devastating attack upon the United States, the Doomsday Plane…
Sony Vaio WA1 Wireless Music Streamer: Expensive for What it Does
Somehow last week we missed the Sony Vaio WA1 Wireless Digital Music Streamer. It’s a simple (and not necessarily new) concept: the device taps into your pre-existing Wi-Fi connection and streams the music that’s directed toward it. For example, you’ve got a PC loaded with music in your bedroom but you want to hear Sleater-Kinney…
Person Dies Trying to Win Nintendo Wii?
It’s the first day back from the glitz and glamor of CES and what do we have to report? Well, it looks like a woman died in a radio contest trying to win a Nintendo Wii. The contest, called “Hold you wee for a Nintendo Wii,” had contestants drink large amounts of water without being…
MoGo; Worlds Smallest Bluetooth Adapter
Newton Peripherals, makers of those sweet MoGo mice that fit inside your PC card slots, have now come out with the tiniest of tiny bluetooth adapters. The idea here is that it’s so small and smooth that you can just leave it plugged into your computer all the time. And if my three and a…
Fukuoku Massage Glove Hands-On: Good Vibrations
Marketed as the world’s first multi-speed waterproof massage glove, the Fukuoku should be used to give yourself or someone you know a nice, thorough massage. At the porn convention, however, all bets were off and the glove was used by this crazy old man to harass random passersby. We could use this after a week…
OhMiBod iPod Vibrator Hands-On
The OhMiBod iPod vibrator first made an impact last summer but we were able to get a hands-on this past week. To recap, it’s a vibrator (“marital aide”) that vibrates in sync with the music being played on an iPod. Once you ignore the fact that it’s, you know, a vibrator and actually appreciate the…