Nintendo Wii Looks Better in Black and With a Triforce
If you can get your hands on it, the Nintendo Wii is pretty great (except for that whole broken strap thing). It could use some color, though. Enter Deadly Computers’ Steve, who painted his Wii black and then stenciled the Triforce onto it. Basically, it looks pretty banging. A few more pictures are on the…
MIT Researchers Create Landmine-Detection Device
Unfortunately, the most common form of land mine detection is unintentional. It involves a poor civilian stepping on one and losing life or limb, and it’s a pretty awful situation in many third-world countries. With 60 to 70 million land mines laying undetected in 70 countries, the mine situation is an epidemic. But how to…
Desktop AC Keeps Your Immediate Surroundings Cool
Since you never leave your desk anyways, there’s no real point in air conditioning your entire house. I mean, why waste money on keeping all those rooms cool when you just need to keep your palmsweat from making you miss a frag in Counter-Strike? Well, this Desktop Air Conditioner looks to be a solution, if…
Robots Entitled to the Same Rights as Humans in the Future?
The wheels are in motion to give robots the same rights that people currently enjoy. Huh? A recent inquiry by the British government suggests that within the next 20 to 50 years robots will be intelligent enough to warrant many of the same rights and benefits that us mere mortals now have. Robots would be…
Vertu Cobra $310,000 Cellphone: Features Justify The Price?
Work at Goldman Sachs and/or Morgan Stanley and have a couple extra hundred thousand/million dollars to spend? Then feast your eyes on the Vertu Signature Cobra. For a cool $310,000 you can purchase… a cellphone? Sure, the phone is decked out with precious gemstones (one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond two emerald eyes and…