June, 2008
Lego Gadgets – The Blade Runner ‘Spinner’ Flying Car
Check out this amazing official Lego model of Syd Mead’s ‘Spinner’ flying car from Bladerunner. This one of a kind Lego model was presented to Syd Mead by Lego when he attended a design summit in Billund. The guys over at Boing Boing will have a full interview on BBTV with SYD Mead up this [...]
Geeky Gadgets – The Star Wars USB Hub’s
These have to been the coolest USB Hub’s I have seen, The R2-D2 and Darth Vader USB Hubs. These cool USB hubs are officially licensed and made by Japanese manufacturer Cube Works. Both have cool features and the Darth Vader one’s eyes light up and plays Star Wars sounds. On the R2-D2 one his head [...]
Cool Gadgets – The Wooden iPod Dock
Check out this cool wooden iPod dock from Japanese company Marubeni. It comes in a choice of two finishes, American Walnut or Scandinavian Birch. The built in speakers will pump out a massive 1W, and it also has a USB connection and it will work with the iPod classic and the iPod Nano. Each of [...]
Geeky Gadgets – The Buffalo Cartoon USB Drives
Check out these funky cartoon flash drives from Buffalo. These fun flash drives are based on famous Japanese cartoon characters, ‘Ultraman’ and ‘Rei Ayanami’. Each one comes with 2GB of storage, and they are being sold as limited editions, with only 3,000 copies of each going on sale. There is no word on pricing or [...]
Fun Gadgets – The Sport in Ear MP3 Player
Check out this fun in ear MP3 player, designed to be used when your playing sport or at the gym. The sport in ear MP3 player comes with 1G of storage and will play MP3, WMA and WMV files. Here’s the specs USB 2.0 Plug and play Support MP3/WMA/WAV music file Built by durable and [...]
Gaming Mods – The Xbox 360 Lian Li Case – PC-XB01
Here’s a novel case for your Xbox 360 from the guys at Lian Li, the PC-XB01 case. The PC-XB01 case is designed to keep your Xbox 360 cool and solve overheating problems, it is also designed to keep it quite. The dual 70mm fans on the Xbox 360 are replaced with one 120mm ultra quiet [...]
Cool iPhone Apps – The iRetroPhone – Retro Dialing App
Check out this cool iPhone app, the iRetroPhone, rotary dialing app. This clever app will let you dial numbers with a rotary dial just like ann old telephone, check out this video of it in action. This cool iPhone app will soon be available to download from the App Store, and would be great to [...]
iPhone Accessories – Eton Porsche Design P9123 iPhone Dock
Here’s a funky accessory for your iPhone or iPod, the Eton Porsched Design P’9123 iPhone/iPod Dock. This funky looking iPhone dock has a host of features including a built in AM/FM/DAB radio, and a clock. Here’s the specs. High performance AM/FM/Shortwave with separate made for i-Pod dock Body extruded from high quality aluminium Double wall [...]
Fun Gadgets – The Drivemocion
You may have seen the Drivemocion before, it is a fun gadget that you put in the back of your car and it can display a smiley face to the drivers behind you. Now there is a new version out, which can display other faces as well including sad, happy, flirty, cheeky and angry. It [...]
USB Gadgets – The USB Hub with calculator
Here’s another useful gadget from the guys over at Brando, the USB hub with calculator. This three port USB 2.0 hub, also has a built in calculator and a built in thermometer, if that wasn’t enough it has a built in clock with an alarm function and also a world clock which can display the [...]
Geeky Clothing – The Atari Pong inspired Table Tennis T-shirt
If you are as old as me you can probably remember playing Pong, check out this fun Table Tennis T-shirt which was inspired by Pong. It features an animated screen on the front and the ball travels around the animated screen just like the arcade game. This fun T-shirt runs off 4 AA batteries and [...]
Totally Geeky – Grow Your Own 1up Mushroom Kit
Now your can grow your very own 1up Mushroom. The instructions are pretty simple. All you do is add potting soil to the green sewer-pipe-shaped flower pot, and push the spores deep into it. Soak the soil with water using the dropper, add a squirt of the food solution, and then it’s off to a [...]
