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Don’t get me wrong, I like where the designer behind this tracksuit bed concept is coming from. Having the ability to comfortably rest just about anywhere is definitely a positive feature—but the flaw here is not in the concept, it is in the execution. Powder blue tracksuits are not flattering—and stuffing them with padding does…
Remember that guy you know who really, really loves Ferraris? The guy that’s got Ferrari posters and Ferrari keychains and Ferrari dinner plates. Yeah, your ten-year-old nephew. He would LOVE this Ferrari cellphone. Not only does it look like a Ferrari when you lay it down on a table, there’s a 2.2-inch touchscreen LCD underneath.…
What you’re looking at isn’t a render or merely a concept of some fanciful building that’ll never actually become a reality. No, what you’re looking at is an actually photograph of the new Bahrain World Trade Center, a pair of pointy skyscrapers with three propellers with 95 foot diameters between them. And this week, they…
PointClickHome took a look at 15 incredible houses that defy physics, conventional design, and every zoning law imaginable. We were most fond of this upside-down house from Poland—the builder’s statement against Communism, apparently—as well as a house that turns towards the sun in winter and away during the summer and the Ukrainian “Floating Castle” that…
Here’s Batman, the Riddler and Mr. Freeze jumping around in a LEGO version of a zoetrope, a device from the Victorian-era that quickly spinned pictures to animate them. This one uses a turntable and synchronized LED flashes to produce the stroboscopic effect that creates the illusion of moving figures. The author, who is going to…
Microsoft’s Live Maps is adding Clearflow, a system in 72 cities that takes four years of real-world traffic data and uses it to interpolate what traffic is going to be like “today”. The project started with traffic algorithms from GPS units in Microsoft employees’ cars, and now has “over 125,000” miles worth of info. This…
Remember when we told you about the B-2 Stealth Bomber that crashed in Guam, turning 1.2 billion dollars of plane into a fiery wreck? Well, now we have pictures of it, and it ain’t pretty. Feast your eyes on one of the most expensive accidents ever and be thankful it wasn’t you who had to…
Your PC? It sucks, it doesn’t have enough cores. Sure, you could get a new multi-core processor like a Phenom or Core 2 Quad, adding like 2 or 3 cores to your rig. Or! You could get a new graphics card instead and get over one hundred extra cores. And more cores = more better,…
According to the bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec (.pdf), identity thieves aren’t getting nearly as rich off of your stolen or “misplaced” data as they used to. As the AP reports, the sheer glut of personal information being pilfered these days, combined with a falling U.S. dollar and fierce competition among identity hawkers,…
Twitter Fans: an iPhone client called Twinkle was just released on Installer.app. What’s the difference between Twinkle and other apps? It’s true that you can let the world know that you’re getting a haircut or some taxi zoomed past you without stopping on any client, but Twinkle lets you use the iPhone’s location feature to…
Aliph’s Jawbone is one of the least obnoxious, if a squee bulkier, Bluetooth headsets out there. Its hotter younger sister just popped up on the FCC, and looks to be under two cm wide, losing a fair bit of the original Jawbone’s girth. Even though the earclip’s not in this shot, the manual shows that…
Inspired by our own Addy’s post on a man and his “love” of robots, the guy at SlashDong decided to take a Fleshlight and make it into an input device for his computer. The whole setup costs about $100ish, and consists of a cap replacement for the Fleshlight, a control box, a rubber tube, and…
I’m not entirely sure what this thing is. Here’s what I know: it’s from Japan, it has something to do with Gundam, it’s called Haro, it’s got a split personality, and it perkily yells things at you in Japanese. Other than that, I’m at a loss. Anyone want to cue me in to just what…
Thomas Foo put on his green tights and feathered hat, grabbed a real bow, attached a Wiimote to it, and made it all work together thanks to the ingenious use of some rubber bands and a switch. He named it the Virtual Archery Bow and, not happy with the hack, he created a full game…
Are you one of the millions of Americans living without health insurance? If so, then you know how expensive hospital visits are, especially for fancy tests like MRIs. But hey, don’t worry. If you need an MRI, you can always just use this makeshift MRI that was built using a cardboard tube, coils of wire,…
An unnamed source (aren’t they all?) confirmed a rumor that had been floating before: that Yahoo, in order to escape being grabbed by Microsoft, would hurl itself at the second-ugliest suitor in the room, AOL. The new details say that Time Warner would pay some cash up front for a 20% stake in a joint…
This week at Uncrate: We prepare for summertime cookouts by picking up The Grillworks, visit the new John Varvatos Bowery, and re-create the musky allure of Juan Valdez with Thierry Mugler Angel Men Pure Coffee. We also wear our sunglasses at night with TAG Heuer Night Vision Driving Glasses, hit some dirt roads in the…
For those who are always looking for the most technologically advanced ways to make others fawn over their children, this mini projector may be just small enough to fit in a large pocket or small purse. Running on AA batteries and displaying all of your SD card-based media (unfortunately there’s no codec list), we wouldn’t…
Why fork over more money to Nintendo for a second Mario Kart Wii Wheel when you can just make one yourself? Sound difficult? It’s not, as long as you know how to tape a controller to a sauce pot lid. For some reason we didn’t spot a similar prototype among Nintendo’s 30 original designs. Which…
Today Canon has announced updates to their XL H1 1080i Pro HD camcorder, splitting the line into two offerings: the XL H1S and XL H1A, a more simplistic XL H1A will be offered at a retail price of just $5,999 this July—several thousand less that we saw the original XL H1 priced for. And the…