Broken gadgets suck, especially when it’s an iPod. All of a sudden you find yourself walking to the subway sans tunes. The train ride gets longer, sights become more boring and overall, the ride sucks. Luckily, there is hope. If you live in NYC, give Demetrios Leontaris a call. This sly Greek will roll over to your pad to fix ...
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Jot Dry-Erase Refrigerator Is Fun For The Kids
The days of slapping magnets all over your refrigerator are thankfully over with the Jot Dry-Erase Refrigerator.� Leave messages, reminders, chores or just doodle right in the privacy of your own kitchen. Is someone drinking from the milk carton? Tell them to “Fuck off!” with one of the many colored dry-erase markers included.� Has the cheese gone bad? Leave a ...
Read More »Spray On Condoms Won’t Melt In Your Mouth
How is a guy honestly supposed to know that what he’s got packin’ beneath his loin cloth will fit in a Trojan Magnum? There’s no size declared on the box. These companies leave you to trial-and-error until you find the perfect fit. Well that isn’t the case anymore.� Scientists from Condom Consultancy in Germany have invented a revolutionary spray on ...
Read More »Optical Tone Room Is A Trip
Japanese artist Mutoh Tsutomu has created the raver’s wet dream room. The Optical Tone installation is a combination of art, technology and science. Clad with LED light spectrums in conjunction with sensors that interact with inhabitants of the room, Tsutomu uses a special algorithm to display RGB colors. This interactively examines the problems in human perception and the recognition of ...
Read More »Delicious Toast, Soldered PCBs
If a gadget can make Totino’s Pizza Rolls and attach LEDs to a board, it’s good in my book. Such is the case with this amazing hack from Cornell students Ko Ihara and Kashif Javed. These guys turned a basic toaster oven into a soldering iron. The LED display even outputs temperature thanks to an ATmega32 microcontroller. If you want ...
Read More »Personal Drug Den: $100,000 Plastic Egg
For nearly $100,000, you’d expect one hell of a multimedia experience from a personal multimedia dome. It promises complete isolation, “brown-note bass” to induce shitting and the ability to roll around. You’ll be able to get the interior styled however you like if you’re a leather daddy and can get a video game console installed as well. With a price ...
Read More »T-Mobile Launching Dirt Cheap Home Phone Service
While VoIP might not be everyone’s cup of tea, it’s definitely going to attract the attention of those who are really trying to pinch pennies. T-Mobile today announced it’s going to blow everyone else out of the water in the market by offering $10/mo home phone service via the T-Mobile @Home service. Beginning July 2nd, T-Mobile customers will be able ...
Read More »Artificial Scenic Window Belongs in a Casino
Sky Factory’s new programmable “SkyCeilings” is just what introverts need to raise their Sims “room” stat. In an effort to make surroundings either at home or at the work place aesthetically pleasing, Sky Factory’s ceiling creates an illusion of nature by introducing changes of light and color; all in real-time as if it actually were to simulate the local rising ...
Read More »Papercraft Locksmithing 101
Looking to improve your burglary skills and you want to include your children in the process? Look no further than the Paper Locksmith Collection from Flying-Pig Paper Animation Kits. Inside the kit, you’ll find a working cylinder lock, a combination lock, a paper key, a warded lock and a 12-page instruction manual. While it might not be as tasty as ...
Read More »Xip3: Backpack, Shirt, Pillow
I don’t know about you but I’m always doing one of three things: smuggling drugs in from Canada, wearing a shirt, or sleeping. It’s a tough life, I know. Luckily, there’s the Xip3, a shirt that turns into a backpack and a pillow when you need it. Equipped with Polartec 200 lining, it’s a pretty ideal shirt for rough conditions ...
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