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A Livejournal user with the lovely moniker “vomitsaw” has crafted some equally lovely skull bracelets from copper printed circuit boards, which are etched by hand and sport AV plug fasteners. Apparently there’s been enough interest in these very ’80s ornaments to lure the goth/geek (geek/goth?) craftsman into the possibilities of entrepreneurship, so look for them…
According to the latest 1UP Yours podcast, the Dual Shock 3 is “confirmed” to make its debut later this week at Tokyo Game Show. We hope so; we miss the rumbles. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/dual-shock-3-confirmed-for-tgs-300393.php
If I were a pretty boy and owned a blow-dryer, I’d probably pick up this one, since it looks like a revolver. A froo-froo revolver with a baby blue (or pink) handle and flowery etchings, but hey, a gun’s a gun. Except you know, when it’s a blow-dryer. This rugged, questionably manly grooming accessory goes…
This image appears in the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century. The magic of laser-holography, a new technique which creates 3-D pictures apparently out of thin air, could result in business conferences like the one shown above. On the left the heads of a branch office have just come in…
If you want to know what the next big move in navigation will look like, it’s the Dash Express, shown here for the first time in its final design. The wireless net-connected GPS is just about through with its successful national road beta test (which many of you have participated in) and it’s on track…
So these are some Halloween costumes from Japan that have front-mounted, alternative-universe, male packages in the form of a banana, worm, bouquet of flowers or matchstick. What makes this funny is that I’m pretty sure Japan doesn’t even celebrate Halloween. I wonder if they can custom-make these things. I can think of about a dozen…
The last time we saw anyone used a handkerchief was our dad when we were six, but this NosePouch seems to be as good an incentive as any to bring back the old pocket cloth. Instead of being made of one piece of flat material, the NosePouch has a little fold—or pouch—in the middle to…
Dear Hackers: Here’s a personal challenge from me, Jason Chen. Make the iPhone work with the Nike+ Sport Kit. The current status now, when you plug the adapter into the iPhone, is a message that reads, sadly “This accessory is not supported by iPhone.” I can understand why Apple made the decision to make the…
It’s no series of short films starring Clive Owen directed by film auteurs (minus Guy Ritchie), but BMW’s Virtual M3 Challenge is the latest way the car maker’s showing off how great their Bimmers are. The M3 Coupe game lets you pick cockpit, bonnet, bumper and chase-cam views, as well as configuring your car by…
Remember the complaint about PSP load times being somewhere between atrocious and genocidal? It looks like Sony wasn’t kidding when they said they improved load times in the new version, as seen in this video of Final Fantasy Crisis Core. The one on the right is the PSP Slim, the one on the left is…
Way less insane than the Robotic Piggy Bank we showed you before, this Bankabank piggy bank is made out of soft PVC and holds your coins in a nice, round, eye-pleasing container. No longer do you have to fill up sandwich bags, socks, and duct-taped bra halves in order to make the trek down to…
Think Garageband for otakus. This Japanese software suite lets you plug in lyrics and melody and generates an “authentic-sounding” song via its music and vocal synthesizers. As you can see above, the software features a 16-year- old “Virtual Singer,” which croons out whatever disgustingly sweet (or just disgusting) lyrics you enter in (Japanese only, we’re…
Click to viewAlthough using iBrickr or iFuntastic to get files and applications on and off your iPhone is fine, it’s sort of a pain to have to dock it every single time you’ve got a new NES ROM you want to play. There’s an easier way thanks to SSH, the remote command line tool that…
The Halo 3 special edition Xbox 360 ships today. Pick it up to show all your frat brothers how really, really into Halo you are. [Amazon via i4u]
Bandai Namco isn’t content on making weapon-based fighters for your game console, so they’ve delved into the sushi chef training business as well. this automatic sushi roller is the perfect toy for kids who are training to become a world renowned sushi shelf, as it rolls them up neatly and conveniently. It’s also a good…
Although Comcast advertises an unlimited cable-internet use policy, many heavy downloaders have run into an invisible cap, which triggers a call from Comcast’s Security Department that flags their account for excessive use. The second time this happens, you’re booted altogether—under the reason of hampering connection quality for your neighbors. The number 300GB has been tossed…
This “lounger” composed of aluminum and fiberglass is to set go for between $1.6 million and $2.4 million at auction next month at Christie’s in London. While The Sun’s headline proclaims the chair to be a “million pounds of comfort,” the key word in the “fluid aluminum form” envisioned by its designer, Marc Newson, is…
As if the stills weren’t creepy enough, Zeno the Robot Boy is even more uncanny in motion. And that voice! My vote: Destroy it, destroy it now, before it kills us all. [via The Raw Feed]
Ed Begley, owner of the most evil propulsion system ever conceived, has put his stamp of approval on GreenSwitch, a wireless energy control system that turns off all electronics in standby mode in your home. It was originally designed for hotels, but can save “25 to 45% in energy costs” depending on how much standby…
Talking to San Jose Mercury News’ Dean Takahashi, Reggie Fils-Aime threw a bone to soon-to-be holiday shoppers by vouching for the influx of “substantially more [Wiis] than the launch, substantially more than has been seen to date.” He even uses the word “unprecedented” to describe the supply of Wiis that will gracefully float down from…
