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Laser beams plus funky light patterns plus party: sounds like a winning combo. It certainly looks that way for this Brando gadget: the green laser light spewing from it can be tweaked into a number of impressive patterns (diffraction grating, anyone?) And though it doesn’t look like it reacts to music, the shifting, changing light-show…
Probably designed by Reed Richards as an alternative way to get into the Negative Zone, Cinimod Studio’s Illuminating Table is designed to a) create a “virtually boundless sense of space” thanks to a three-dimensional matrix of globular lights and different glass layers; b) transport you to a new state of consciousness without the help of…
Whenever I see some high-end retailer flogging non-core business objects, I wrinkle up my nose in disgust. Chanel, of the non-Cylon No. 5, has been the most visible company to do this with its bikes, skis, and now fishing gear, and this is British gentleman’s outfitters, Dunhill’s, take on it. The AD88. Not only does…
This strange product from Greenhouse is worth talking about, if only so I could share that headline with you. In case you’re wondering, the pig is in soft silicon… to reproduce the texture of a real pig. After that news, you won’t care these weird ‘phones have a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency range, multi-sized silicon…
We’ve been talking about this cellphone for a while, but today Motorola and Kodak officially spilled the beans. As we thought, the ZN5’s a phone that’s as much camera as phone, with a 5-megapixel Kodak unit on its back. This is quick-launched by sliding the lens cover, and has a Xenon flash, auto-focus and even…
The August 20, 1967 Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA) ran a piece titled, “Hard Times Facing Joe Fan,” about the overcrowding of sports stadiums that was sure to come with exponential population growth. My favorite quote of the article comes from the only source, real estate developer Joseph Timan: “With unprecedented leisure time on their hands, millions…
For those of us who love to give our dolls more realistic props to play with, toy maker IxTEE Productions is putting out a series of 1:6 scaled guns that do everything from lighting up to shooting darts to squirting water. Prototypes of the ray, dart and squirt guns made their debut at the A…
Those of you who need Firefox 3 on the go can now get a portable USB edition of the browser from PortableApps.com. The download lets you launch Firefox from your USB and lets you bring all your extensions and bookmarks with you while making sure that the computer you’re using doesn’t end up saving your…
Pentagon gadget lab DARPA has just earmarked $6.7 million to develop “brain-wave binoculars.” Electrodes placed on the user’s scalp record electrical brain activity in an attempt to use the cranium’s unrivaled ability to spot patterns. With time, the binoculars can learn to identify objects that would normally pique the user’s interest and direct them towards…
“It’s even faster than the old iPhone G3.” Found on Time. Think you can do better? You probably can. Hit the comments and give it your best shot. [Time via BGR]
The Line is a funky furniture system that uses a single unbroken line of metal to create an entire home furniture set-including a lamp, a work table, a hanger, a bookshelf, a wine rack, a CD rack and a TV unit. Made by Aykut Erol, the system is supposed to “extend infinitely with a single…
The newest Asus Eee PC—the 10.2″ Eee 1000—was recently dissected by Tweaktown. There’s not a ton of news to come out of the autopsy, but we got this pretty picture, and it was confirmed that the Eee 1000 uses stock components just begging to be replaced, like its 2.5″ 40GB or 80GB 5400RPM hard drive.…
Glastonbury festivalgoers won’t have to worry about not having enough juice in their cellphones, thanks to U.K. mobile company Orange’s green cellphone charging stations. The freestanding tentpods draw their electricity from a wind generator and solar panels. With a peak power of 1Kw, the pod can charge up to 100 mobile phones per hour and…
A recent UK survey revealed that nearly half of IT workers have admitted to exploiting their position to snoop in confidential files at work. Put that in the global perspective, and IT departments collectively know more about the state of our affairs than any industry analyst or investment firm. But still, such is a major…
RIM is upgrading its BlackBerry Internet Service in anticipation for the next-gen of BlackBerry devices, and chief amongst the host of upgrades is the inclusion of native HTML email support – something users have been asking for since the dawn of the crackberry age. Finally, I will be able to expect the same psuedo-inspirational, gif-laden…
I have no clue how I missed this great hack from earlier in the year, but AcidMods has released a tutorial on modding an Xbox 360 controller to do all sorts of neat, cheatie stuff—like adding rapid fire to pistols in Call of Duty—through programmable macros. But since I know that you have almost no…
Up until a few years ago, any lengthy feature on Bill Gates usually elicited a fair amount of words on the Gates-Jobs rivalry. The two tech behemoths were always pitted head-to-head, with the writer pulling together some conclusion on how the soon-retiring Microsoftie was the better businessman, while iMan had a clearer vision of how…
Mmmm. The self-promotional social lies of one couple manifested in cream and sugar. The hearted ethernet cord and Starbucks cups are particularly charming touches. But it would have been best if the groom had fessed up to his second family in Guam. [MAKE]
Last Friday, we posted a public bus surveillance video that captured a barbarous attack on a man “for his iPhone.” Since then, MacBlogz has spoken with the unnamed victim. And—no huge surprise here—he felt that the robber was going more for blood than his popular Apple product. https://gizmodo.com/video-teen-brutally-beats-bus-passenger-for-iphone-5018407 The attacked lasted 2-3 minutes and they…
Forget about the Lego Airbus A380 and the Lego Death Star, because this video will show you the mother of all Lego models: the 750,000-brick Kennedy Space Center. Using 1,506 square feet, it took 2,500 hours to build. It includes a 6.13ft-tall Space Shuttle on the launch pad, the space center with a 9ft-long Saturn…
