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The SofaBOX is pretty much just that—a sofa that fits in a rugged metal box, appearing to pop out when the box is opened (we’re guessing a la delicate pop-up book as opposed to snake-filled can of peanuts). Swiss designer John Hofgartner hasn’t revealed much information about the piece at this time or its intended…
Click to view What can you get from a RC car with some wires attached and a lot of wine bottles? Drunk driving and the Mario theme, that’s what. We have included the complete lyrics so you can sing along after the jump. Today, full of energy, Mario is still running, running Go save Princess…
Ah, there’s nothing better than sleeping all twisted up in an airplane seat, with the gentle glow around the edges of the little plastic window shutter interrupting your snooze-time. Oh wait a minute— that’s rubbish… bed is way better. But clearly designer Charles Cha prefers the airplane effect, since that’s what his Jet-Setter Lite is…
Nokia’s new 6212 classic phone may not be much of a looker, but it’s designed to allow the simplest possible connectivity between two devices. It uses Near Field Communications technology to connect up two devices simply by holding them together, allowing easy photo or ringtone sharing with just one button push. Better yet, it also…
Designer Karim Rashid has turned out this multifunction champagne cooler just in time for the upcoming Milan Design Fair, and we have to admit it’s rather beautiful. Produced in collaboration with Veuve Clicquot, the Globalight is supposed to keep your champers chilled for two hours and also sheds a halo of pink light: sitting on…
Ok, this is just another four-way USB hub… but this time it’s a hub with added cuteness to please your kids. And yes, it’s just a mouse-shaped gizmo, rather than a pointing device. The little guy from Brando has four bendable legs containing the USB sockets, is USB2.0 compliant and comes in pink or green…
With the snow season practically over, we are starting to miss those winter days of snowboarding and hot tubbin’. This summer when the snow is long gone we might actually have an outlet for our snow-sport deprived lives. The Wii Fit. There is a whole set of mini-games that take place on the mountain. With…
I got up close and personal with the Wii Wheel at last week’s Nintendo Media Summit, where I (literally) played hours of Mario Kart Wii. I tried playing with the wheel attached and without, trying different configurations of play. And after spending a day with the peripheral, I can’t exactly call it great, but it’s…
We alerted you to NEC’s fancy media-streaming home server last year: it’s an “on demand” system that’ll send your media content to Lui devices around your home and beyond. NEC has just stumped up the release schedule and pricing in Japan, and “Life with Ubiquitous Integrated solutions” systems isn’t cheap. The pocket sized player and…
The previously announced PlayStation 3 2.30 firmware update is now live, bringing with it a new PlayStation Store and DTS-HD Master Audio Support. To see more detail on the DTS audio support, click here, or hit the jump for the release. We’re happy that Sony’s finally revamped the store—the original one really was designed with…
The Vtech IS6110 is the little cordless telephone that could. There is a lot of functionality packed into one tidy little package. It is a fully featured DECT 6.0 cordless phone that includes a full QWERTY keypad and lays claim to being the first cordless phone to deliver instant messaging capabilities. All you do is…
Monstrous is the first word that comes to mind when gazing upon the Dewitt Incognito 2008, a design that is the lovechild of a collaboration between DeWitt and French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. At first glance, the Incognito looks to be a little fat and perhaps clumsy; on closer inspection, however, you can see what a…
This month, four eagerly awaited cameras all hit the market with a big ole thud: Canon’s EOS Digital Rebel XSi, Sony’s Alpha a350, Nikon’s D60 and Olympus’ E-420. They are not all evenly matched on paper, as you will see, and they certainly vary in price. But what’s different about them, really? They are all…
If you have money to burn on a home theater projector, but you are on the fence about the virtues of buying an LCD over a DLP, the guys over at PaNLoaD have thrown in their two cents. Obviously there are advantages and disadvantages to both technologies, but in the end, the nod went to…
Blackmagic’s new USB compatible video recorder promises to simplify your video recording process by utilizing the H.264 format for playback on the iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, YouTube, IPTV, and the web. It also features analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video inputs as well as simple software that should make it easy to get your video…
If I read actual books, this Easy Grip would fit right in with my active lifestyle. Its secure one-handed grip technology keeps the book in place while simultaneously marking the open page. That means I am free to read while jogging, driving or arm wrestling. Thanks crazy Korean manufacturers! Available for 9500 Won or around…
Apple issued v2.0.2 update for Apple TV today, but nobody is quite sure what it does except add a Genre sort button to the movies sections and a Flickr update that lets you see galleries of favorite photos tagged by your friends. Jason O’Grady of The Apple Core said the download took 9 minutes over…
The UR-103 watches from Urwerk were interesting, but their new 202 Hammerhead Automatic goes a few steps further with a unique winding system regulated by compressed air. Instead of a traditional rotating vane, the 202 uses miniature twin turbines to control the rate of automatic winding. Plus, the level of air compression generated by the…
Why the hell is a dismembered pair of legs walking around willy nilly with a shopping cart? I’ll tell you why…To draw awareness to homeless people, and the cutthroat world of cart-pushing. It was designed in 1993 by a college student who thought the concept of using robots for hazardous jobs could be applied to…
Psystar, who’s just announced that they’re going to sell a $399.99 Mac clone called Open Mac, doesn’t care that Apple’s EULA prohibits using OS X on any machine not made by Apple. In fact, they say that Apple’s terms “violate U.S. monopoly laws”, posing the example of Microsoft theoretically saying you could only install Windows…
