In preparation for this year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa Huawei have created a football themed 3G mobile broadband dongle in the shape of a football.
The Huawei 3G mobile broadband dongle is compatible with Windows 7, Linux and Mac computers and includes a microSD slot and has UK 3G spectrum support within.
We have seen a few things that were powered by citrus fruit before on Geeky Gadgets, like a small clock, but we have never seen anything like this.
In the video below oranges are used along with some copper and wires to charge an iPhone, we have no idea why but it is pretty cool. Check out the video below to see how many oranges it took to charge an iPhone.
Built by Patricia Renick in 1977 this interesting sculpture combines a dinosaur triceratops with half a U.S. Army OH6A/Cayuse helicopter. It was first shown in his solo exhibition at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center in 1977. The whole sculpture is built on the frame of the Vietnam era Cayuse helicopter using fibreglass.
This LEGO Rubiks cube solver created by Robotic Solutions has got to be the most breathtaking example of LEGO construction and ingenuity I have ever seen. The CubesStormer is the Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot is capable of solving the standard Rubik’s cube in less than 12 seconds.
Check out the video after the jump to see it in action.
An Arkansas school who added WiFi to its school buses and issued its students with laptops nearly 3 years ago. Has seen mischievous behaviour and incidents on its buses decrease and their school buses turn into ‘ rolling study halls’. As students use the bus time to engage in research, assignments and even updating Facebook status on the long bus journeys to and from school.
If you’re looking for something that extra special in a tattoo. Why not consider the next gen augmented reality tattoos which allow you to have animated images appear from your limbs when viewed through a camera. This example below shows an augmented reality tattoo transforming into a flying Dragon. Check out the video after the jump.
Here is another fun geeky t-shirt that would make a great addition to any geeks wardrobe, especially if you are a Star Wars fan, the Darth Vader Paternity Test T-Shirt.
As you can see from the photos and the title, the Gun Comb is a comb, which is designed to look like a hand gun, maybe not the best idea to be honest and not something we would recommend using whilst you are out and about.
Here is another fun t-shirt that would make a great addition to your geeky wardrobe, especially if you are an AV geek, the AV T-Shirt.
If you can wait to get your hands on one of Apple’s new iPad’s, you could always build your own from Lego, like Flickr user Jmenomeno did, and he has even made it so you can swap the Lego screens on the Lego iPad.
Here is a fun design, from designer Tom Ballhatchet, that reuses all your shredded documents, and turns into into bedding for you favourite pet hamster, with the shredder built in to the top of the hamster cage.
Looking for another unique way to control the devices attached to your computer? This triple USB foot swicth allows you to control your peripherals via foot pedals.
I’m not entirely sure this method would be faster than a keyboard shortcut but if you feel this would be easier each pedal can be preprogrammed with unique keys or multiple keys with the included software. If needed you can add more pedals to meet your requirements.
