March, 2008

Check out this amazing hand made PEZ dispensermade by Star Wars enthusiast Scott. I made this using the lost wax casting process with an organic burnout. The material is silicon bronze. The original sleeve for the Pez broke, so I cannibalize dparts from another dispenser: Simba from the Lion King. The hole in the body [...]

Check out this cool mod from moder Brian Henderson, an SNES portable. Head on over to Ben Heck’s forums for full details on how it was made. via Techeblog

Here’s a useful gadget a flexible keyboard with a built in Skype phone and a two port USB Hub. Here’s the specs. USB 2.0 compliant Foldable Light weight Support VoIP (e.g. Skype) Built-in Speaker Built-in Microphone Still able to connect with external speaker and microphone Speaker on/off switch Volume Control 2 USB Hubs LED indicators [...]

Asus has announced a launch date for the Windos XP powered Asus Eee PC. The XP version will go on sale on April the 9th for $400, the hardware is identical to the current Linux powered Eee PC. It will be interesting to see how much the new 9 inch Eee PC costs when it [...]

Check out this geeky gadget, the solar keyring torch. The best things in life are free, and sunlight is pretty well at the top of the list. The only trouble is of course, that the sun has a regular habit of shuffling off to the other side of the world leaving everything a little dark [...]

Check out these funky USB flash drives from Pantone, you can choose what colour you want from a total of 14 and even the amount of storage you want from 512MB up to 4GB. These funky flash drives start at $10.99 for the 512MB model up to $34.99 for the 4GB model and they are [...]

The latest tool from the iPhone Dev Team, the iPhone PWNED tool will take iPhone hacking to the next level. This new tool patches the iPhone bootloader and will let you load any version of the firmware you want, including custom firmware, the new tool allows custom firmware to be loaded directly from iTunes which [...]

Here’s a fun gadget to brighten up your desk, a phone in then shape of a packet of french fries.   The French Fries Phone is available to buy online for $19 from Brando.

The guys over at Hot Hardware have some photos of what is reported to be a new desktop version of the Asus Eee PC. I have to say it looks great from the photos, there are no other details available and no specs as yet, but if it turns out to be as good and [...]

With the upcoming release of the new Indiana Jones Movie, manufacturers are already getting in on the action, Mr Potato Head has had a make over in the form of ‘Taters of the Lost Ark. Complete with “bullwhip” and gold-colored idol in hand, this silly character can sport his jacket and fedora. Press and release [...]

Check out this SATA HDD Dock, with a built in USB Hub. It can take 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA hard drives and also has four USB ports built. Here’s the specs Supports both S-ATA 2.5″ HDD and 3.5″ HDD 4-port USB hub USB 2.0 Temperature and Humidity: 5 ° ~ 35 °, humidity 20 ~ [...]

Here’s something fun to brighten up your desk, correction tape in the shape of Lego bricks. They come in sets of four, yellow, green, red and blue and each brick measures 6.5 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm. These fun Lego brick are available to buy online for $7 from Brando. via Geek Alerts