The BlackBerry Pearl sure was pretty, wasn’t it? Now the newly revealed BlackBerry 8800 from RIM takes that special design centerpiece (the scrolling ball) and puts it into a full size BlackBerry. The 8800 has a full keyboard with one button per letter, which is the way it should be. Sorry, no camera. RIM is probably sick of the random ...
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MOTORIZR Z8’s new “kick-slider” does not kick your face
Motorola has released the MOTORIZR Z8, and it looks as if this new phone really has some improvements (unlike some other MOTO updates). The MOTORIZR Z8 is one of the first phones to feature what is being called the “kick-slider”. This kick-slider has the phone, when open, curve to fit to the contours of your face. No longer is it ...
Read More »Superman Returns Alienware Notebook: Just don’t put it near Kryptonite
Alienware might be expensive, but they have some seriously kickass systems. The hardware they shove into their Area-51 laptops makes our computers cower in shame. And now this. A notebook faster then a speeding bullet. It’s a bird. No, a plane. It’s the Alienware Superman Returns Notebook. Talking about things that are super. The hardware specs on this thing, like ...
Read More »The Neonode 2 is born
Swedish company Neonode has started this online market campaign for their highly anticipated tiny smartphone a while ago, and just a few hours before 3GSM opens, they finally showed us a real picture. All we know from the official details is that the Neonode2 is 70g and 77mm tall; but rumors are floating around that the device will be ...
Read More »Save up for a gadget and then drop the bomb
Designer Art Lebedev is offering a nifty little gadget for saving up money for just about anything. For our purposes, lets say it’s an iPhone. Hey, it’s just a hunch. The Superbitus Money Box is a bomb shaped money saving device. A cool gadget to remind you of your ultimate saving goals. Our favorite thing about the Superbitus is that ...
Read More »Your CD just cut through wood! New CD player concept design
While this CD player won’t chop your hand off, it sure looks like it could. This concept for a CD player features the actual spinning CD as a design feature. By having the CD partially exposed, you can really see how quickly they get spinning. Back to the saw idea, it looks as if it has cut through the piece ...
Read More »D-Wade Sidekick 3 release announcement
T-Mobile has posted some previously unknown information about its D-Wade Sidekick release announcement, confirmed to be coming within the next few hours. If you don’t already know, heres some background information on the D-Wade. It’s designed 2006 NBA Finals MVP, Dwayne Wade, as a special edition and new model of the Sidekick line of phones. Wade happens to be avid ...
Read More »Childish apartment complex inspires youth in the elderly…whether they like it or not
Architects Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, both rather avant-garde artists in their own right, have designed these “reversible destiny” lofts. Simply said, they are frankly one of the weirdest concepts we have ever seen. The houses are specifically built to be uncomfortable. The problem with the elderly these days, other then their horrible stench and their slow driving, is that ...
Read More »Air Genie: The flying, reflecting orb
Today must be the day of oddities. The Air Genie is a flying orb shaped screen which has video cameras built in to reflect it’s surroundings. We think that its some sort of ploy for advertising, kind of like the Goodyear Blimp, but extremely high tech. The diameter of the sphere is 115 feet with a massive volume of 792,764 ...
Read More »Pop-up Analog Joystick for cellphones
The reason a lot of us have never really got into the whole “cellphone gaming” thing is because of the lack of a decent navigation control option. How can you truly control a game with one hand and no mouse. Which is why this concept of a Pop-Up Joystick is such an interesting idea. Some people might think it’s just ...
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