Who hasn’t had the dream where they are walking around naked in a daze and no one seems to notice, only to realize that you are in outer space building a space station. Anyone? Anyone at all? Ok, well, maybe that’s just us. The point is that this dream doesn’t have to be a dream for long, or at least ...
Read More »Smokey Amp doesn’t give you cancer, but might lead to hearing loss
Musicians are a different breed from the rest of us. They drink, they drug, and almost all of them seem to smoke. Which makes this Smokey Amp so fitting for the traveling musician. Shaped conveniently like a pack of cigarettes, so you’ll never lose your “cool” factor, the Smokey Amp is a high performing amp (for its size), packed into ...
Read More »BenQ Mobile assets on eBay!
German bankruptcy administrators issued a statement today saying that they have given up finding buyers for the failed BenQ Mobile company in Germany, so what’s going to happen is that the company furnitures, pot plants and computers will go on eBay. Yes you heard that right, it’s eBay literally. Some of the assets will also be sold on the Insolvency’s ...
Read More »Beer launching fridge
[ev type=”youtube” data=”iqAzMSM-7o4″][/ev] We have seen fridges that can defrost chicken and grow strawberries, but we have never encountered the one John Cornwell built, a fridge that can launch beers. Have you ever gotten up off the couch to get a beer for the umpteenth time and thought, “What if instead of ME going to get the BEER, the ...
Read More »The it’s-gonna-fall it’s-gonna-fall light bulb
Heck, how does that work? No photoshop, no fancy tricks; works on any of your lights at home, too. We have the answer after the jump.
Read More »TV screen for those who want to crash their cars
This is perhaps one of the most dangerous designs we have seen for a while: TV screens on the sun visor at the driver’s seat. It is only meant to be used when you are not driving, or it’s for the person sitting next to the driver. Depending on what’s playing there, it can be very tempting to glance at ...
Read More »Sharp to sell the world’s first touch-pad remote
Sharp updated their line of AQUOS-TV-plus-desktop-PC series, but we are not interested in that. What really caught our attention was the remote the came with it, because it is the world’s first remote controller with a touch pad. Now you can have a real TV-internet experience, just forget about your keyboard and mouse, you can type with the alphanumeric keys ...
Read More »Pioneer connects audio system and motion-sensing speakers over power line
Audio system manufacturers have been brainstorming for so long the best way to connect speakers with the audio system. The traditional way is the copper wire, now we can do it over WiFi and Bluetooth. The problem with these wireless technologies is that they have limited coverage and they are subject to interference, there are also people concerned with the ...
Read More »Mouse with a physical horizontal scroll button
Most computer mouses mice only have 2-3 buttons and a vertical scroll wheel in the middle; some of the more advanced ones will have extra buttons, and buttons for you to hold and drag in order to scroll horizontally. We hardly ever see webpages that are designed to scroll sideways, so why do we need that? It might be a ...
Read More »External cellphone antenna for crappy indoor coverage
One of the reasons of choosing a cellphone operator over another would be coverage, but no matter how good the network is there are always blind spots, this is especially true when you are 3G users (higher frequency lower diffraction), out of the city center, or even in your own room sometimes. NTT DoCoMo has got it figured out and ...
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