Tag Archives: home entertainment

London based design firm Conran and Partners has taken an old acoustic guitar and repurposed it as a unique iPod dock / stereo combo in preparation for this week’s Deptford Design Market Challenge (London: September 15-27th). The goal is to redesign discarded thrift store objects into something new and exciting – and by the looks of things this hack manages ...

Why hoard all of your shitty music when you can torture everyone around you with it? This portable speaker system from Elecom will allow you to to just that without using any power source. All you need to do is plug one end of the included earbuds into your iPod and the other into the side of the speaker and ...

With the Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye, kids can maginify any item at 200X the regular size and view it right on their TV screen. It includes three built in LEDs to illuminate the object being examined and an observation dish to help contain any liquids, compounds, bugs, etc. Unfortunately, the urge to misuse this thing would be extremely high. My ...

Now I’m all for convergence when it comes to technology, but sometimes you just have to laugh when a product takes it to irrational levels. Take this iPod / CD / Digital Radio Playing Alarm Clock Fridge from Cooltone for example. It can cool up to twenty 400ml cans ( or six bottles of wine ), play tunes from your ...

An admittedly bored ( but highly skilled ) audiophile named Adam McCall managed to entertain himself by pulling off this beautiful 3-Way Tower Speaker project using all Hi-Vi drivers – and now you can too thanks to his detailed instructions. According to Adam the goal was to “design a loudspeaker that sounds and performs beautifully across the whole bandwidth. I ...

I am a total geek. There are many obvious reasons why one would come to that conclusion, but the fact that I took one look at this 12 sided speaker system from Elemental Designs and thought “Dungeons and Dragons” makes my inherent geekness abundantly clear. The Dodecasub features, you guessed it, a dodecagon casing (a 12-sided polygon) with 10 impressive ...

Whether you are a concerned parent keeping an eye on an infant or a jealous boyfriend spying on your slutty girlfriend, This Wireless Puppy Camera can handle the job, delivering both audio and video to a remote handset. The way I see it, cute and cuddly has a great chance of slipping under the radar. It’s the perfect spying solution ...

It came with no surprise when Sony announced the availability of the updated PSP (PSP-P2000) which shed 4mm of thickness and 91g of weight off the original model. The company also announced a DMB tuner module at the same time, and we’re dying to see how it works with the the new TV-out capability.

The Fujitsu Super Frontech Vision LD is a wall sized TV, better than any other TV you have ever seen. With a ominously massive 231-inch (!!!) screen diagonal length, and all of the inputs you’d expect from a TV of this caliber, the Fujitsu Super can most likely live up to its “super” moniker. The Frontech Vision features an array ...

A working record player made entirely out of paper. Designer Simon Elvins presents his Paper Record Player. The player is powered manually by turning the handle at a steady 33 1/3 RPM pace. Sound is produced using the paper cone’s own amplifying properties, projecting the music at an audible level. It would just be a pain in the ass constantly ...