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Swedish design firm Offecct offers up their bottomless coffee table for your consideration. Using two-way”spy glass” as well as an additional pane of mirrored glass on a lower shelf, the table offers an illusion of bottomless depth. Aptly labeled “Vertigo”, it’s just the piece you need to complete your disorienting furniture collection. Product Page [Offecct…
Providing a means for you to “spot-check” your blind date at a moment’s notice is top priority for a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, who have developed a system to analyze oral samples for everything from alcohol, drugs, bacteria, viruses, hormones, antiobodies and more. Means for testing some of these…
I’m about to hop a jet for Hanover, so in the meantime our new Associate Editor Chris Lamb will be taking the helm, with a little help from Chris ‘cc:intern’ Cardinal. If he bones something, his email is [email protected]. Feel free to make him hate you all as much as I do. Siemens offered to…
It’s a rare yet beautiful occurrence to watch a future Darwin Award be born, and today that pleasure is yours. The Powerboard 2 is a remote controlled skateboard capable of speeds up to 15 mph. In an attempt to tune down the ridiculous factor, the makers have included an “integrated breaking system” so riders can…
The ShuffleStation from PodGear has nothing to do white people dancing or skeevy swinger’s clubs, and the relief is a little overwhelming. Instead it’s the first speaker system designed especially for the iPod Shuffle. The small system folds flat for transport and runs on four AAA batteries when away from a power outlet, allowing you…
Look upon the eighty-two inch TFT-LCD, ye mighty, and despair. Samsung rolled up on CeBIT with their bid Biggest Pretty Thing You Can’t Have, only to be shot down by thier own 102-inch plasma screen shown at CES. We salute their effort regardless. There’s a host of features along for the ride, including full HDTV…
Laptop Mag has a new poll up asking, “If you found out tomorrow that cell phone radiation caused cancer, what would you do?” It’s the sidebar to my latest column for them, talking about the potential dangers of brain cancer via cellphone. It’s a light-hearted romp for the whole pock-covered tribe, and it’s probably my…
Images and the sketchiest of details concerning Pantech’s new handsets have been leaked. The ST3, the one that looks like Johnny-5, is the company’s first DMB-embedded phone, while the PN-7000 next to it claims twin cameras. Pantech to Announce Four New Handsets at CeBIT 2005 [PhoneMag]
Israeli company MIRS Communication is now offering certified kosher phones, approved by rabbinical authorities to be used by those in Orthodox Jewish communities. The phones are Motorola handsets that have had all but the most basic services trimmed away, tossing out internet access, SMS, and any sort of extra applications, to help minimize the potential…
Faceless, camera-eyed, paraplegic mannequins are coming soon to Japanese department stores, as Flower Robotics shows off its prototype models that not only turn to pose for individual shoppers, but take pictures of shoppers and forward the images to store security. Code-named ‘Palette,’ the new mannequins “pose for the nearest person by sensing his or her…
CNET reviews the Powerhouse Technologies Migo USB 2.0 Flash drive and says it comes up very lacking, with a decent set of desktop-syncing software from Migo (the same syncing software that they make for iPods and watches), but with abysimal write and delete speeds. For the premium price (over $200) you should expect a lot…
Isn’t confluence great? Early this morning rumors start spreading about two new MMS viruses, and at 9 a.m. Simworks, a company specializing in anti-virus software for Symbian-enabled phones, sent out a press release about their flagship program getting updated to handle the new trouble makers. Not that we would ever suggest any fear-mongering on the…
Since the iPod shuffle has made it okay to offer screenless MP3 players again, it’s reasonable to expect a flood of cheap flash memory-based units out of China. The iMP-2003 for I-Money Tech is a good example, and even goes the shuffle one better to offer a built-in SD Card slot. Maybe this trend to…
The new Puma Beisser (or ‘Bites’) has rubberized fangs on the soles, designed not to improve traction, but instead to look wicked. They are very limited edition, however, with just 500 pairs being released to retailers. Fortunately, the feeding habits of the Beisser will create additional dark footwear of the night, unless you ring their…
The Spheros R 37 Masterpiece TV from Loewe makes me all weak in the knees. With a 160 GB hard drive built in and its own TiVo-esque options for recording and playing back shows, the Masterpiece is impressive enough from a technical standpoint. But if that’s not enough for you, note that the black front…
The Inquirer is reporting that many customers are having problems using Apple’s new Mac mini with CRT monitors, an error that is tentatively being blamed on a shoddy DVI-to-VGA convertor. If you’re using a Mac mini on a CRT and it seems too dark or doesn’t show up at all, be sure to make some…
Boy, did we let you guys down. There’s been news and pictures of this bipedal walking dinosaur robot out in Internet for at least three days. Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology intends to show off these two bots (there’s also a Parasaurolophus) throughout the entirety of the 2005 World Exposition in…
Further fulfilling our desire to use animals to help us generate music at our whim is the Din Datin Dudero—a worm-driven synthesizer. The worms writh and squirm, bumping into contact pins that modify the synth’s circuits and thus the sounds produced. Creator Peter Blasser explains: The worms seem to like being electrically stimulated… With the…
The Talk-to-Me Treatball is a clever reiteration of the classic pup toy. The Treatball allows you, the often-absent owner, to record a message that will play for your dog whenever he bats at the ball. An internal spiral insures that some work and much nudging must be done to produce any reward, but he’ll be…
For our readers of farming stock, “Life just got easier,” thanks to Bright Coop’s new E-Z Catch Chicken Harvester. Essentially a vacuum for chickens, this device sucks the wayward birds into its clutches to be quickly filed away into their open coop. The Harvester features adjustable rotating drums, allowing compensation for chickens of all sizes.…