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If you have child slaves, and they give you a hard time when you tell them to vacuum or get beaten, your ears might perk over this design concept. The Rideable Vacuum Cleaner design by Kristina Andersson makes cleaning somewhat interesting again. It’s kind of like buying your kid a toy vacuum that actually cleans. The child can sit in ...

Alienware and Lucasfilm have revealed the Aurora: Star Wars Edition PC. Packed with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processor, along with a slew of special Star Wars stuff such as soundtracks, wallpaper, and desktop themes. The Aurora comes in your choice of the Dark Side or the Light Side (the Rebels), each themed accordingly with images of characters from the ...

As if taking 2 SIM cards on a phone is not enough, you can now shove 3 SIM cards into one single phone, the Huatian K998. Sadly, you’ll not be able to receive calls from more than one line at a time, like the Doubao 728. Nonetheless, this is cool for people traveling between dualband countries all the time (think ...

Compenion concept design by Felix Schmidberger is a portable PC which has a pair of sliding OLED touch screens which can be worked on directly. The slide design was influenced by UMPC and PDA designs, yet stands alone as a complete mobile PC. When the top screen slides up, an OLED keyboard is illuminated underneath, displaying a very sleek and ...

Here’s yet another accessory to go along with your Cigarette cellphone. The Cigarette Cigarette Lighter is exactly what its title might suggest. It’s a lighter that looks like a cigarette, made to light cigarettes. The lighter seems to look pretty realistic. Just watch out that you don’t try doing this with a real cigarette. That would be especially bad if ...

Robots just keep getting more and more intelligent. Rogun is a bot that can become familiarized with faces, while acting as a babysitter / security guard of your home. Rogun will wonder around your house, and play with your kids while broadcasting video to keep an eye on them. Rogun also acts as a home security system. If someone comes ...

All of those suitcases on wheels use to really irritate us. Now we see that a useful, and less annoying implementation can be worked into the framing of your typical case on wheels. Laptops today are called notebooks because they typically aren’t on your lap as much as they used to be. The Mobile Luggage Desk brings a desk with ...

PillCam ESO 2 is a newly FDA approved endoscope in capsule form. Patients lay on their backs and swallow the rather large capsule cam. As the pill travels through the patients body, it takes shots of areas in the esophagus that might be suspected as being in need of medical treatment. PillCam is about the same size as your normal ...

Brazilian bossanova musician Jo�o Gilberto is one smart cookie. If these M System Wood Cylindrical speakers are good enough for him, they’re good enough for us. The MS0801 and MS1001 speakers are not only great to look at, but are also rumored to have changed Gilberto’s mind about what gear he was going to use for a CD release of ...

Will the real William Shatner please stand up? This Star Trek-themed home theater looks like it’s straight out of the Enterprise. Not only does it look like the real thing, but a few of the props ARE the real thing. Including two original consoles, backlit graphic panels from Star Trek, a computer display panel from the Operation Center from �Star ...