Gadgets

I would have died for a pair of these back in the days when friends and I would get together every weekend for a day long game of Capture The Flag or Manhunt. Nothing was more important than communication, and this was before the days of cellphones. The Walkie Talkie Watches would have been an awesome way to sync our ...

We’ve seen an assortment of uses for RFID technology, the majority of it being used for credit card and financial transactions. The Consorzio del Prosciutto di San Daniele, a group of Italian ham producers, has started using RFID in an unorthodox way.

In a move from EA and Hasbro to create a shooter game peripheral, they’ve joined forces to create the Wiimote Nerf Blaster. Soon to make a launch in the UK, the Blaster can be used as a typical Nerf gun, while also offering a new peripheral to strap your Wiimote onto. In addition to looking super cool, the new peripheral ...

� Indian handset manufacturer Spice recently revealed at the Mobile World Conference, their new mobile phone which features a built-in optical disc drive. Each optical disc can hold up to two-and-a-half hours of video, or enough to rewatch half of The Return Of The King. So far only 40 titles are available, most being Bollywood films, but who knows whether ...

Muscle cars might need fuel-injection worthy of a diesel truck, but there are ways to get your motor running other than midgets shoveling coal into a chute gas combustion. The Stirling engines, made by the mob-esque designer named Jos the Finch (he’s a cock-a-roach), runs off of the heat power from squat tea candles. Several of his designs can run ...

Resembling a hazmat mask made of bubble wrap, the Sippy Mask looks about as comfortable as a deep prostate exam and has a usage which is equally vague and nonexistent. But how can you go wrong with a face covering straw? The Sippy Mask is also said to glow under a black light, which makes midnight sipping a glow-in-the-slightly-dark experience. ...

A recent project from the students over at London’s Royal College Of Art caught our eye with its unique look and obvious sensory deprivation. Called “Animal Sense Devices”, the pieces are a set of experimental sense amplifiers which give humans animalistic senses.

Some people are superstitious to the point of delusion. Such as, last time I saw a black cat walk my path, I had some fried cat kabobs for dinner. It was simply the only way. The Lucky Ruler goes to the extreme of ignoring the existence of the unlucky number 13.

Joggers and marathon runners rejoice! The Vie is a GPS enabled glove which helps you track your morning jog before you start on the first sprint.

Drying clothes in a green way can be very time consuming. Usually hanging clothes on a outdoor clothesline is the most efficient way to do so, but it takes forever. Dyson has a new concept called Air-Line which users wind power as well as solar heat to dry clothes without the need of an electrical dryer. So you get a ...