October, 2008

The coolest concepts are always the simplest ones, and the USB Floppy Drive from designer Thomas O’Connor is no different. Shaped like an old school floppy drive, this USB drive can store a lot more data than your old floppies.

Here’s something fun for  all the Star Wars fans out there, the Darth Vader Stein Mug. This fun mug has a flip top flip, flip Darth Vader’s head open and fill the mug with your favourite drink.

Here’s a cool USB drive to go with your Mahjong USB Flash drive, the Super Talent Terracotta Warrior USB Drive. This cool USB drive is based on the Terracotta Army that was discovered in China in 1974 in Xi’an, by farmers, the farmers discovered an underground cavern that contained thousands of life sized Terracotta Warriors.

No it’s not an iPhone, it’s home phone shaped like an apple. This fun apple phone measures 85 x 85 x 85 mm, and is shaped like an apple, flip the apple open to reveal the dialing buttons.

Its the end of another week here at geeky gadgets, so here is a roundup of the most popular posts this week.

If you fancy adding a bit of retro action to your PC  or Mac gaming, then check out the USB Retro Arcade Controller .

The guys over at MacRumors have uncovered some hidden features in the new Beta iPhone 2.2 Firmware, which has been seeded to developers. The Features include, support for Google Street View for the Google Maps App, and also support for Japanese Emoji icons.

As usual there have been lots of cool and interesting gadgets featured on geeky gadgets over the past week. Unfortunately I havent been able to feature them all, so here is a roundup of some of the coolest gadgets and some other cool stuff that we missed this week.

Here’s a cool geek toy for all the Star Wars fans out there, the Handmade Custom Lightsaber.

If you have around $12,000 lying around and need some protection for one of your latest spy missions when your using your Fake Spy Button Camera, then check out the Caballero Bullet Proof Polo Shirt. This high protection polo shirt can protect your from a 9mm pistol, it is from Caballero’s high end Black Label [...]

Check out this cool concept from designers Sungwoo Park and Sunhee Kim, the Energy Seed. The Energy Seed is a bin for batteries, with a light on the top, the idea is that people put their old batteries into the Energy Seed and it then uses the left over power in them to power the [...]

Here’s another portable power solution for your 2G or 3G iPhone, theiPhone 2G/3G Power Station with built in solarpanel. This emergency backup battery for your iPhone cane be charged via USB or by solar power.