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After recently reading about how devoid the paleo-future is of advertising I thought it’d be a good time to pull out a cartoon Harry Grant Dart drew for a 1909 issue of Life magazine. This image can be found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection. See also: Futuristic Air Travel (circa 1900)
Case mod may be a bit of an understatement here—this monstrosity is really a case fabrication project, done almost entirely from scratch. A huge fan of Harley Davidson motorcycles, a computer geek with a knack for shaping acrylic decided to build a 1:1 scale Harley Davidson V2 engine. A case this meticulously detailed would be…
Sony’s quiet, Oreo-shaped TP1 Vaio media center is finally for sale, still doesn’t have CableCARD. [SonyStyle]
Force Theory Productions has a concept video on their website for what they call a human piano. While not necessarily a piano, it does turn people into part of the instrument, using them as electrical conductors. By running a low voltage current through the human body into a mixer and connecting the electrical current from…
We’re not sure what’s worse; the Zune guy getting three Zune tattoos, or this painful-as-hell Microsoft blue screen of death (BSOD) tattoo up this guy’s entire right arm. We’re guessing this guy is a Windows fan, because nobody hates Windows THAT MUCH to endure hours of pain just for the constant reminder that Windows occasionally…
Pizza Hut Japan’s exclusive Double Roll pie is 646 calories per slice, with little bacon wrapped sausages littered across the crust, and mini hamburger patties on top of the mushrooms, soy beans, corn, paprika, garlic chips, green peppers, and pepperoni. As for cheese, it has mozzarella, cheddar and parmigiana. BTW, this comes with ketchup and…
If playing with Halo replica guns is quite beneath you, then check out this battle-damaged Halo 3 scarab. It measures 24 x 24 x 20 inches (large enough to put a small baby on), is covered in Covenant-purple paint, and is the biggest miniature that WizKids has ever made. In the game, it’s “highly resistant…
Anthony Voz, of London, designed this concept ashtray which would measure the ash in its base to guesstimate just how many minutes, days, weeks, and years you shave away with every puff. Could be time to pick up that $200 anti-smoking cigarette. Or lose the preachy friends. Just saying. https://gizmodo.com/200-electronic-cigarette-helps-kick-the-habit-259062 [Imovate IDG via Yanko]
Lisa brought me back one of Sega’s highly coveted robot chicks, modeled physically and behaviorally after a 1-week old chicken. The bird has a light and touch sensor, and responds to petting. When I say respond, it’s just different crying sounds, with the occasional wing flap. What’s insane is that this thing is like $40.…
Are you really, really into digital picture frames? Are you also loaded? OK, well, maybe you’re the target market for PhotoVu’s new 19-inch PC1965w digital frame. Clocking in at a whopping $1,200, it’s basically a flat-panel monitor that costs a lot more and can’t be hooked up to a computer. Gee, what a deal! To…
Who’d have thought the next-gen format spin war would be full of half truths and twisted facts? Oh, right, EVERYONE. It all started from Sony’s statement that Target stores will feature Sony’s BDP-S300 as the exclusive high-definition player, and AP’s article picking up on it saying Target was exclusively featuring Sony’s player in lieu of…
Fonejacker, or Kayvan Novak, has a new entry in his prank call series where he prank-calls a tech support line to try to figure out how to play back a video that may or may not be naughty. He uses a Mac Genius as a stand- in this time, and one of our readers tells…
Creative Display Technology Architect ‘Rock Star’ – Confidential, New York, NY Front End Developer – BrightPages, New York, NY Account Supervisor – Direct Mail – T3, Austin, TX Webmaster – The Week Magazine, New York, NY Account Manager – Cisco Commercial Accounts – SoCal – Global CTI Group, Irvine, CA (LA, OC, SD, IE) Senior…
Are you house hunting? Check out Realtor.com. It has a mobile version you can install on your Windows Mobile phone to make your search easier. [Mobile.realtor.com]
We’re not big shot drinkers here—we prefer the apple, mango, or grapetini ourselves—but this Chilled Shot Machine is just the thing to make your next small glass of booze go down smooth. The device fits a bottle up top, like a water cooler, and chills drinks all the way down to 15 degrees F. That…
Hey, look, I found the Banhammer under my bed, and it’s all dusty and unused. Today I will clean it off by making an example of one Jumpking04, who made two mistakes. His first was writing near-unreadable comments, as excerpted after the jump, and his second was linking to his MySpace page in his commenter…
Those of you with any brand loyalty to Linksys will shed a tear at Cisco’s announcement to kill off the Linksys name entirely. The only reason Cisco kept the name after they bought out the smaller company was for brand recognition in the US (Linksys was much better known among consumers). The big C has…
Sonex, purveyor of banana-yellow kit airplanes at around the $25,000 mark, has just unveiled a prototype electric motor. Company founder John Monnett showed off an electric motor powerplant, controller, battery pack and charging systems earlier this week—although he kept quiet about who had supplied the battery. Something tells me it wasn’t Sony… The researchers behind…
Oh… oh my. Japan, a country that never fails to blow my mind, has just seen the release of, according to Google’s hilariously inept machine translation, the “Hello Kitty transformation set.” It’s basically a hat, bib, collar and carrying bag to turn your cat into the saddest, most ridiculous-looking cat on the block. Below, you’ll…
Those you who didn’t get an iPhone in our Eureka contest earlier this month can head down to Point Pleasant, NJ, and try your luck there. Instead of coming up with a cool invention, all you have to do is master the forbidden art of pulling crap out of a glass box with a crane.…
