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Sometimes, when you’re sharing a shower with a certain special someone, you need to grab onto something solid. And you know, you don’t want to pull the curtain rod down or the showerhead out of the wall. That’s what Shower Power is for: it’s a handle for holding onto during those times when things get…
Screw green engines and automated driving. This is what I really want: Carcade, a system that captures the window landscape in real time to create gaming stages on the fly. Created by Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk-three students at Berlin University of the Arts-Carcade opens the possibility to never-ending gaming, with…
When a video editor became depressed looking at his laptop, he did the only logical thing. He went to the garage, whipped out the welding torch and cooked himself up a portable system that could store a five-drive RAID0 array and two 22-inch monitors. Video is captured via unspecified HDMI-wielding video card and project output…
The hard-hitting investigative team at MyFox has just discovered the latest and greatest threat to national security and your children: Fisher-Price’s Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, which is sold across the country, has apparently been hijacked by Al-Qaeda to reprogram your children into followers of Allah! If you squint your ears,…
We don’t know what travesties or revelations tomorrow will bring, but it will surely include the Ovetto Recycling Egg. A simple two-sided recycling bin allowing the separation of plastic and aluminum, you may be wondering, “why should I spend $250 on a fancy trash can?” And we could only assure you that this is no…
We think the Band Saw Safe is as charming as safes come, with various arrows rotating to confound would-be thieves from opening the box. The only problem is, even after reading the description five times though, we still don’t fully understand how you actually open it. The 13 drawers of this band-saw box rotate rather…
Lego Artist Nathan Sawaya-one of the only six certified Lego professionals in the world, three in the US-will do a full-size scale Lego replica of yourself for $60,000. You just have to order it from Neiman Marcus, send some photographs, and Nathan will build your natural-size 8-bit version. Given his rates, that amount is quite…
Now that the Baltimore’s XOHM network is up and running, companies are scrambling to release WiMAX-enabled notebooks to capitalize on faster-than-EVDO internet. One of the first out the door is Acer, with two new WiMAX sporting Aspires. The Aspire 4930 comes with a 14.1-inch 1280×800 resolution CrystalBrite screen, 3GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a…
Insert your finger into the Tuttuki Bako (Tuttuki Box) and you probably won’t feel much. Unless you look at the screen, you wouldn’t know that you were clumsily stoking a tiny panda, a small, terrified man or even a woman’s understandably unhappy face with an inappropriate-looking appendage. This lovely toy will superimpose a live digital…
Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s first classic animated film to make its way to Blu-ray, and it’s loaded with legitimately compelling BD-Live extra features. Format War Central tried to check these out, but got smacked with a 57 page EULA followed by a 63 page Privacy Policy before they could view any of them. Also upsetting:…
Remember Nicholas Ciarelli, the precocious tween who started a successful Apple rumor blog only to have it shuttered by the company’s legal team? He’s now posting on the DailyBeast, and he’s got some interesting things to say about his favorite plaintiff: namely that since the negative PR resulting from Ciarelli’s case, Apple seems to have…
It isn’t the first balance board-enabled ski game for the Wii, but it sure looks like it’ll be the best. With the weird and richly varied balance board hacks cropping up all over the place, it’s good — though late — for Nintendo to finally demonstrate a game that looks worthy of the device. [Kotaku]
Considering the heaps of information available about BlackBerry’s new touchscreen phone, including our full hands-on report, there will be little surprise left for consumers when the devices actually ship. Using BlackBerry’s new Storm emulation software, released along with a suite of new development tools for the BlackBerry OS, you can take your dinner-spoiling habits one…
Sony has teamed up with the Max-Planck Institute in Germany to create a flexible, translucent display that creates 3D multi-color images from laser beams. The all-organic screen uses a chemical reaction called photoexcitation to render images, where energy moves from the lasers to the screen and “turns on” the photons to emit light. According to…
It’s probably not a surprise that RIM definitely had iPhones on the brain while creating the new (and pretty awesome) BlackBerry Storm—but who knew they’d make it this obvious. In the vodaphone technical specifications manual, the company’s Storm is sporting a very familiar OS, and it’s definitely not the regular BlackBerry’s. Hmmmm. [BlackBerry UK] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-storm-first-hands-on-5060378
Asus has updated its G-series gaming laptop line with the G71, a notebook that sports Intel’s new QX9300 quad-core processor. The computer comes with a 17-inch Crystal Shine display, an NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT GDDR3 512MB graphics card, and can be customized with up to 4GB of system memory and 1TB of hard disk space.…
Solyndra, a California-based solar start up, says it’s figured out a way to make solar panels cheaper to install and better at producing energy—rolling them up. The company’s solar panels are comprised of rows of cylindrical solar cells deposited on glass tubes, a new type of shape that purportedly lets them absorb more light during…
This Halloween, instead of candy, why not hand out a couple of these cute zombie plushies? The Dismember-Me Plus can be torn limb from limb and reassembled to your heart’s delight. It even comes with a cuddly mini-zombie brain! The adorable undead doll is now available now on Think Geek for $15. After all, being…
The very first time you touch the BlackBerry Storm—RIM’s first all-touchscreen keyboard-free smartphone, just announced for Verizon Wireless—you will be startled. No matter how many times your fingers dance on the screen like you’ve been trained on every other touchscreen, nothing will happen. At least, not until you push the screen all the way down…
Oops, someone at Best Buy leaked a presentation that’s revealed the ship dates for several upcoming handsets. For instance, the titanium version of the Verizon Blitz, now has a ship date of October 26th (it’s only marked as Coming Soon on the Best Buy site. Other cellphones dropping on the 26th include Sprint’s HTC Touch…
