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We’ve been lucky enough to live most of our lives in areas that have central heating, so we don’t quite have the experience of having an ugly radiator sitting in our rooms. For those of you who have, this harp radiator is just the thing to make your place that much more classy while at…
While sifting through the umpteenth Tech Products of 2007 lists, we stumbled upon this Yahoo! Tech list that contains most of the usual suspects, except one of the entries interested us: Voted one of the 10 worst tech products of 2007 were Pear Audio “Anjou” speaker cables, those pieces of wire that cost $7,250 and…
When you read Amazon’s Best of 2007 sales, ratings and wishlist figures straight down the line, they look pretty plain, but when you compare, say, Bestselling with Most Loved, though, you learn some funny stuff. Although Apple’s MacBook Pro notebook was the most favorably rated computer, Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet outsold it while the cute…
Out of all the Wii Gun accessories, we can safely say that this is the sharkiest. If you can’t tell how this works at a glance, you stick in your Wiimote on the top, then hook up your nunchuck via the shark’s ass. If you can deal with the fact that you’re pointing a fish…
Nothing except a 2nd-gen iPhone with GPS and 3G would make us happier than if Steve pulled out this invention at MacWorld 2008 next month. This patent, which details a cashless payment system via the iPhone, will allow people to order stuff on their phones via Wi-Fi, pay for it, and skip everyone in line…
Just when we were thinking there weren’t quite enough people who could draw faces, along comes a robot created by researcher Sylvain Calinon that can sketch a workmanlike likeness of someone within its field of vision. See the courteous contraption doing its dirtywork in a video on the next page. We wonder why the robot’s…
Unlike our previous New Year’s festivities where we huff paint until we pass out, this year’s is going to be classy. Why? Because we’re spending it with our sponsors. Thanks Adobe, Amazon Anywhere, Atari, AT&T, Audi, Bank of America, Blu-Ray Disc Association, Canon, Casio, Ford Focus, HP, IBM, Lead Tools, Mio, MS eHome, The New…
While we love touch surfaces, as people who type hundreds of thousands a word each week we know that there is a limit to them: keyboards. Like this Optimus Tactus, an extruded shape/touch surface/keyboard concept by Art.Lebedev. We really like the soon-to-be-released Optimus keyboard Art but, seriously, how often do you type on your computer?…
Click to viewWhen I learned about Costco’s money-for-gadgets recycling program, I got excited. I calculated estimates for some old gadgets lying around my apartment, and I started looking forward to the $122 bonus that would surely come my way in time for the holidays. Nearly two months later, the estimate has been revised to $50,…
Those geniuses at DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, are hard at work on a new nasal spray that could make sleep obsolete. It’s called Orexin A, and just a couple snorts of it could allow you to be awake and alert for tens and tens of hours straight with no negative side effects. Of course,…
There’s no shortage of charging stations, but this $49.95 Five Device Recharging Station that starts shipping next week looks especially orderly with its differently sized places at the ready for your various devices. There’s four AC outlets, and even two USB ports from which you can gather juice. And, it’s all shielded from electro-spikes with…
Half DJ and musician, half avant-garde artist, all geeky engineer, Andr Fernandes Avel s is the daddy of the Headphones art project. A one-night display in Stavanger, Norway this past month, the installation consisted of 500 pairs of earbuds tied together electronically and controlled by a mixer to create a controlled cacaphony of mind-altering sound.…
Remember the retired Indian Airlines engineer whose stationary airplane parked in his backyard was pulling in the punters? Well, Reuters toodled off to Delhi to clock Bahadur Chand Gupta’s Airbus 300 experience for themselves, alongside a bunch of underprivileged kids who are flying for free. Anyone who scoffs at the idea, just check out the…
In Japan, even with their 500-foot mechs and supercomputer cellphones, some people are craving Apple’s smartphone. One fanboy went so far as to transfigure his Sony Ericsson Walkman W52S slider to…is “resemble” being too generous?…an Apple iPhone. From it’s horribly scuffed face to the hammered-on metallic edging, it’s confirmed. We need to get Japan some…
We don’t normally go driving around with helium balloons in our cars, so we weren’t aware of this strange phenomenon: The dang things go the wrong way when you accelerate and turn! Besides that, we find something likable about the explainer, Robert Krampf, the friendly scientist who seems like the kind of guy from whom…
While I desperately could use a new car (OK, it’s fine and I barely drive, but my ego could certainly use it), I have a hard time buying into any technology in the auto market. Gas prices are only getting worse (as we run out of the stuff) and hybrids are a bandage where we…
MIT student Leonardo B has come up with an idea for a sink that positions itself depending on the height of the user and adjusts its temperature depending on what you are putting in it. (This is useful when you are nudging 6’0″, while your husband struggles to hit the 3’6″ mark*, even when he…
Someone blasted their Nokia E90 with a 12-bore shotgun. And then decided to put the bent and twisted piece of telephony up for sale on eBay “for parts.” Or for laughs, because then someone decided to buy the remains of the smartphone for $20.50. Apparently, he didn’t realize that not a single part of this…
Click to viewHardware hacking genius and electromagician JKK has published a video tutorial showing how to add an internal 3G HSDPA card to the Asus Eee PC, allowing you to connect at high speeds to the internet from anywhere in the world with 3G cellphone coverage. We talked with JKK, and according to him “it…
A hot little birdie just told me that T-Mobile is waiving all activation fees (usually $35) for new customers from tomorrow (12/28) until the end of the year. If you’ve been waiting for whatever reason to switch to the Tee Mobe, now’s the time (to save 35 bucks). In addition to that, the Samsung Beat…
