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Let us salute creative types who are super-brazilliant at hacking MP3 players and have a bit of time on their hands, because this is what they can come up with — a super iPod that is 50 times bigger than the real thing, and that probably won’t break when you drop it. There’s a gallery…
This is Toyota’s latest toy, a 78-ton driving simulator that recreates situations too wild for real life. Consisting of a 23-foot dome perched on top of a 15-foot-high gantry, the simulator is at Toyota’s Higashifuji Technical Center in Shizuoka, and will be deployed to improve safety features on Toyota cars. The movement on the dome…
Fresh outta Korea is the Murider (Murder? Moo-rider?), an odd-shaped entertainment robot that you might like. Although not as sexy as either Sony’s Rolly or the Miuro robot speaker, the remote-controlled, light-up ‘Bot still has capabilities. As well as playing music, the Murider’s 4.3-inch LED screen lets you watch movies or DMB mobile TV, and…
Philips yesterday unveiled their 256-slice scanner that renders 3-D images of the body like never before. The $2-million Brilliance CT machine can capture the body’s skeleton, organs and blood vessels in the minutest of detail, and was unveiled yesterday in Chicago, at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting. Philips’ scanner can give a…
Huzzah for slightly weird gadgets such as this disposable microscope card that, depending on the light source, magnifies things by 500 or 1,000. So what kind of things does it suggest you blow up on the go? Well, you can check your sperm count, although don’t try this during rush hour on the subway, as…
Eizo has brought out the SX2461W-U, a 24-inch monitor aimed at the color-blind. It’s got 1920 x 1200 resolution, and a contrast ratio of 850:1 and brightness of 300 cd/m2. Rather like their previous 19-incher, the Eizo uses Color Universal Design (CUD) technology, which uses different color schemes and shapes to enable the daltonic to…
Bruce McCall’s 2001 book The Last Dream-o-Rama is a brilliant, hilarious example of postmodern paleo-futurism (an obnoxiously academic term I came up with to describe co-opting past visions of the future). With a subtitle of “The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build, 1950-1960” this book is pure parody. Although, side-by-side with the sincere concept drawings of…
We know how much you love the Will it blend? series, so here is the latest installment. This edition sees our crazy buddy get a Guitar Hero controller into the blender, but not before going completely ape shit at the device, prepping it for the proper blending treatment. Well, we know the question that is…
Click to viewSince Windows 95 dropped more than a decade ago, our desktops have evolved to no end. Having recently had a fresh Leopard install on our Macs, we thought we would take a look back, with a side-by-side comparison of Windows and Mac operating systems by visual interface alone. All the major releases are…
The CYBER Familator Lite is an Akihabara-esque gizmo that snaps onto your DS Lite and lets you play old Famicom cartridges on your DS screen (If you can hunt down an adapter, you can play NES games as well). I think we should forget the Familator Lite is bigger than the DS, and that an…
What better way to celebrate the end of the year’s biggest shopping weekend than with 10 things you mercifully did not buy? The following gadgets and gimmicks, featured in the Holiday 2007 SkyMall catalog, prove without a doubt that the human race is going straight to Hell: 10. Chilled Shot Machine – $150 When it…
ToysREvil has the scoop on a limited edition pair of Daft Punk Bearbricks, meant to coincide with the release of Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 CD. Medicom will release 3000 of these toys on December 5, package them with a copy of the CD and sell it for 5250 Yen ($48), presumably in Japan. The Bearbricks…
Who needs a Wii or Xbox 360 when you can have the “999,999,999 in 1 Super Game?” Just like today’s crop of consoles, you get two controllers packed in. Unlike today’s crop of consoles, you also get a light gun…and if the name is indicative, almost a billion games. I think this thing could really…
Asus has apparently altered the underlying Linux kernel in their new and popular eeePC. As per the Linux General Public License, they are required to provide the necessary source code for any such modifications. Guess what? They forgot to distribute the code. The controversy surrounds the asus_acpi module, which is used to manage the hardware…
The LCDetar may be the ultimate laptop mod. By sticking an aging laptop into a guitar, a pretty standard music visualization display transcends to rock god status. Now if we could only fit a laptop into our Rock Band controller…and if our Rock Band controller could only produce music without the game… [techeblog]
Windows are great, you can see things out of them, they shed light and they bring the cool breeze to you. Makoto Hirhara’s Bright Blind tries to bring some of these comforts to barren, windowless walls. The Bright Blind hangs on your wall and is constructed from electroluminescent sheets. The light dispersed gives the impression…
Even the jewelers at Tiffany’s would be impressed by the mix of precious stones and metals thrown into this PS2 controller neck pendant. The ridiculously geeky piece is constructed from 18k white gold, with 68.34ct of black diamonds lining the controller’s surface. We were not so sure you could get 68.34ct of diamonds all in…
We have had our eyes on Sarcos for quite a while, as they are the wonder kids that have been promising us super powered exoskeletons. Well, true to their word, they have just released a video of a prototype exoskeleton in action; the result is simply amazing. The device will primarily be made available for…
About the size of a hot tub, this portable nuclear reactor in development by Hyperion Power Generation could be buried in a small cement casing within the ground and provide maintenance-free power to 25,000 homes for 5-years. An internal chemical reaction produced 27 megawatts of thermal energy powering an external steam turbine to produce electricity.…
The Rocker Kart is a bicycle alternative, retailing at £149.99 ($309), the three-wheeled kart lacks any form of visible steering, but that is where the Rocker gets interesting. Apparently, by leaning left or right a patented control mechanism comes into play, altering your course to follow the direction of your weight shift. That sounds like…