To measure is to know, said Lord Kelvin. But as marketing departments get more and more creative with their published specifications, what we're left measuring—and by extension, knowing—about our gear is increasingly worthless.
It's not enough that Peter Jackson's The Hobbit will be filmed in 3-D — now your favorite science fiction books will have 3-D covers too. Are you excited yet? Vintage Classics is reissuing five books with 3-D covers: Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Centre…
Europe! You're so quirky. Specifically one Crowne Plaza Hotel in Denmark, which rewards guests who pedal on electricity-generating exercise bikes for 15 minutes with food. How long would I have to ride for a minibar pass?
Advertisers promise "moving" 3D cameras will keep our eyes from jumping out of our skulls and running away in pain during the Big Game. Let's hope so, as there are two such ads planned tonight.
As far as we can tell, this watch doesn't actually stab your wrist at all, which is a shame, because anything that advertises itself as an acupuncture bracelet had better be breaking some skin. Which it doesn't, but there's a healthy amount of BS being tossed your way should you put it on and try to use it to get…
The Dad's Cab Meter is a fake taxi fare counter for parental chauffeurs, made so they can guilt/embarrass their ingrate children into doing chores for them. The meter incrementally increases the pretend fare and comes with a stack of fare receipts that have chores the kids can do as payment (har har har). It's kinda…
Asimo, Honda's consistently-unimpressive robot that they awkwardly walk out for press conferences to prove to everyone that they're working on vague, future-related projects, is at it again! This time, he's been spotted "conducting" Yo-Yo Ma and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, caught here on NBC's Today Show. It's all…
If you liked the burger phone from Juno but don't want to be seen as the type of person who just buys something because it was featured in a trendy movie, despite clearly being that type of person, don't sweat it. Here's a sandwich phone. It's equally stupid/ironic, but it'll make you look at least a little bit like a…
This fan uses LEDs to display the temperature on its whirring blades. That way you can look over at it and realize just how hot it is and that you should have bought air conditioning instead of a gimmicky fan. Nice work, idiot.
Mitsubishi, in a desperate move to differentiate its LCDs from all the others, released a line of swiveling LCD TVs that use a small servo to rotate the set toward you when you push a button on its remote control.
It's no Black Card, but it's still something you can whip it out to impress passersby. The American Express Butterfly Card is a standard credit card that's available to members of AMEX's Gold Card members. What makes it so special, what makes our hearts sing, is that it folds in half, letting you store it inside of a…
