Archive for December, 2011:
By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 4:30 pm in Gadgets
It’s like a bicycle accessory for the lard asses lazy out there. If you’re too broke to buy a scooter and have to make do with a crummy bicycle, the Ridekick pretty much saves your day. It’s a mini-electric
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 4:00 pm in Geeky Toys
So yeah, you’ve got this pillow and it’s soft and comfy. But wait, that’s not all! See those hand prints? The catch is the Thermosensitive Pillow is…thermosensitive, which means your body heat ‘reflects’ on the surface. Would’ve been cooler
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 3:30 pm in Gadgets
Powered by a trio of AA batteries, the FLEXiT is the best possible solution for radical lighting next to sticking bulbs to Play-Doh. Simply put, FLEXiT is a flexible mat studded with 16 LED bulbs. The resulting illumination make
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 3:00 pm in Geeky, Humor
Nothing suggest/implies/screams ‘fake!’ better than a crummy technicolor backdrop on a nylon screen. This is barely high-tech but is awkward enough to merit some contrived measure of acclaim. If you haven’t figured out what it does, the StarScreen is
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 1:10 pm in Gadgets
Way to go, branding! Okay, enough snark for now so that the product at hand may be scrutinized properly. Seen below is the Tether in action. What it does is provide an easy grip for fragile wine glasses. Of
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 12:03 pm in Gadgets
‘Supposed’ because at this point it’s little more than a concept, though its function is pretty straightforward. It’s a tool for assessing a subject’s health, armed with the kind of software whose read out would render a trip to
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 11:58 am in Design, Gadgets
Simply put, the Pill is a speaker/dock for iPod Nano’s that is so new no specifications are currently available. Inspired by ubiquitous medical pills, the Pill has a speaker on one end and a slide-in/slide-out display to fit an
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 10:35 am in Geeky
Warning: They will blow your mind. If you think Syd Mead is the most badass concept artist to ever consult for Hollywood productions, get a load of Ridley Scott’s own contributions (plus a few others). Mr. Scott of Alien
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By Miguel Miranda on Saturday 31st December 2011 10:24 am in DIY, Gaming
Turns out there was a music festival in Japan recently and one of the participants is this dude named cTrix, who performed with his gAtari. That’s him pictured below wielding the beast. Take note of his facial expression–it’s a
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By Shane McGlaun on Friday 30th December 2011 8:07 pm in Apple News, iPad
We mentioned this week that there were two new versions of the iPad that sources were saying would launch in January. The new iPads were supposed to sport quad-core processors and retina displays. Another source today is claiming that
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By Shane McGlaun on Friday 30th December 2011 7:56 pm in Gaming
Sony and a lot of other people thought the PS Vita was going to do really well in Japan when it launched ahead of Christmas. The console sold 300,000 units the first week and then the reality of glitches
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By Miguel Miranda on Friday 30th December 2011 7:04 pm in DIY, Geeky Toys
Turns out a big fan of CERN from faraway Denmark has done the unthinkable. A short while ago during the aftermath of the latest hysteria involving the Higgs boson, science nerd Sasha Mehlhase decided to build a scale model.
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