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The Luminex Fiber Optic Bed Cover
Looking for ways of sprucing up your bedroom? Or maybe you want to make your bed look like it just came out of the newest science fiction movie? Either way, the Luminex Fiber Optic Bed Cover is one very unique addition to the bedroom. It doesn’t just keep you warm on those cold winter nights—it actually lights up and turns your bed into a glimmering, shimmering love nest!
But while some blankets may use glow in the dark ink or other low-tech ways of making a light show, the Luminex Fiber Optic Cover actually features fiber optics sewn right into the blanket itself. Of course, this means you’re going to have to plug the blanket in to enjoy this light show. Sadly, while the blanket looks incredibly warm, don’t expect any extra heat: the fiber optic lights look awesome, but they don’t actually produce heat. This isn’t an electric blanket.
You might [...]
Never Forget Your Toothbrush Again
How many times has this happened to you: you pack up everything you believe you need for a trip, travel, arrive at your destination, and start unpacking only to realize that you left something behind that you really need? It seems something always gets left out, be it a toothbrush or your notes on your presentation to dozens of your business colleagues. No matter what it is, there’s a new system that will make certain you never leave anything behind again: Packwhiz.
Packwhiz is a web-based trip packing list generator that makes packing for a trip a breeze. Packwhiz is one of those sites that is very easy to use and operate, which is just what the creators of the system intended. They want everyone to be able to use this site to create their packing list. Packwhiz will give you a few prompts and even has pre-made lists of basics [...]
Reuse Your Old SD and MicroSD Cards
SD cards and MicroSD cards are used for a number of things, including cameras and smart phones. However, what do you do with those cards after you’ve upgraded? We all probably have a few SD cards hanging around that we don’t use any more, but we don’t just want to throw them away. Sure, sometimes we find a friend or relative that needs one, but how likely is it that anyone wants a gig card when four or even eight gig SD or MicroSD cards are available for very little? But there is one way you can get some use out of them.
The LaCie DataShare USB Card Reader turns these old SD or MicroSD cards into a flash drive. All you do is plug in your MicroSD or SD card into the slot on the DataShare and you’ve instantly got a new USB flash drive. Even better, the DataShare device [...]
The Every Drop Counts Water Meter
In this day and age, conserving all resources has become more and more important. Conversing water, however, is something many people find hard to do. It’s just so easy to stay in the shower a few extra minutes while enjoying that nice, hot water. Most of us just don’t know how much water we’re using every year. If it just seems like a bit extra here and there, it’s no big deal. However, it adds up.
To see just how much water we use every day, the Every Drop Counts Water Meter was invented by Ulrik Svenningsen. The meter attaches to your water pipes and simply measures all of the water that you use. In addition to this, it will also measure any dripping or leaking, which can be very helpful if you suspect you have a leak but aren’t certain.
The attachment does not interfere with your water usage or water [...]
Duracell Introduces USB Charger
Duracell and their ever-present and ever-going pink bunny are back with something new. Duracell has realized that many people have devices they use in the car all the time, and so they’ve created a cool USB charger that plugs directly into a car’s cigarette lighter (now often referred to as a DC socket since few people actually use the lighter as a lighter any more). If you’re tired of your devices losing power right when you need them, this may be exactly what you need.
The Duracell USB Charger is one of the smallest USB charging devices on the market at the moment. It runs 5-volt DC power directly to any USB product you plug into it. This can include your smart phone, your iPod, your navigation device, or anything else. As long as you have the correct connector, you can charge it! You can even use the charger to charge [...]
Cool Water Powered Gadgets And Stuff
We hear a lot about solar powered gadgets and other devices, but we rarely hear about water powered devices. However, there are a number of them out there. As more and more companies move to being green, hydroelectricity is becoming more and more popular. In addition to using dams on rivers to generate power, tidal power farms have sprung up. These farms could actually become a major power source in the future. However, there are some smaller hydroelectric gadgets that we can own and use in our daily lives.
Well, OK, maybe the JetLev-Flyer isn’t something we will use every day, but it’s incredibly cool! It’s a water-powered jet pack just like we’ve seen in the movies! Built by Hermann Ramke, it can actually send someone soaring about 50 feet into the air at around 30 miles per hour, and you can travel for almost 200 miles before refueling. You can [...]
Rubik’s Cube Salt and Pepper Mills
Are you looking for something incredibly cute and different for your table? Maybe you need a fun gift for a friend or for a couple who have just purchased their new home. Either way, one of the coolest things around is this set of Rubik’s cube salt and pepper mills.
You can’t actually change either of the cubes around like a Rubik’s cube, which is somewhat disappointing. This means you and your dinner guests won’t be passing the salt around just to see who can get one side a solid color. If that were only an option, it would certainly make meals a lot more interesting! Dinner teams could compete to see which one could solve their assigned cube the fastest. Would Team Pepper get that one white square out of the orange side before Team Salt figured out how to make those three yellow squares line up right? We’ll never [...]
The Strap Wall Organizer
We all need ways of organizing closets, rooms, and other areas, but it can be hard to find places to put bookshelves and other storage items. In fact, some rooms simply have no more space for new storage units. However, one very interesting way of adding more storage space involves adding straps. The concept of the Strap takes ordinary bicycle straps and gives them a brand new use: storage.
The Strap is a great idea. Basically, all you do is pull the strap across the wall so that it’s tight. It looks like a large rubber band across your wall. You can hang straps beside each other, above and below each other, and in any other combination you can think of. Just be sure to have it stretched tight. Then you slip items in between the two pieces of the strap, and you have instant storage!
The official Strap comes in four [...]
Cool Ebook Reader with Roll-Out Screen
There seem to be two major issues with any ebook reader (the Kindle, Sony’s Reader, etc.). Either the screen is really too small, or the screen is too big. If it’s too small, you squint and have to scroll constantly. If it’s too large, the entire device is bulky and hard to carry. However, Polymer Vision has created an ebook reader prototype that may be solve this issue: the Readius features a very cool roll-up display that unrolls to be larger than the actual device! However, there’s one major problem: the company is facing bankruptcy and has already missed their projected launch date for the Readius. It had an early 2009 release date, but as that date grew closer, no news about the Readius was heard.
The Readius was first announced way back in July 2008, but few people knew about it. The tiny prototype devices were small enough to fit [...]
Sony TG5V Handycam Camcorder
The latest entry into the handycam market is the TG5V introduced by Sony. Of course, you can expect high quality from Sony on the devices that they bring to the electronics market and this one is no exception.
This handycam camcorder can record up to six hours of video and can also be used for digital photography. You can capture a great amount of video right from the device and also have the ability to use a memory stick with the device adding to the amount of time that you can record.
The Sony handycam has a 2.7 LCD touch screen and the addition of a GPS antenna which make it a bit unusual on the market. This will allow you to connect the video that you shoot with locations on a map. Imagine all the ways that you can use this feature when you are traveling with your video camera. The [...]
Recycle Technology Into Art
Many people love finding unique pieces of artwork that no one has ever seen before. Sometimes this means stumbling upon an emerging artist who hasn’t become popular yet. Other times it means finding something just different enough that no one else will have seen it. That’s the case with some of this cool artwork created from recycled pieces of technology.
Jeremy Meyer is the creator of some of these cool pieces of art. He creates robots and other mechanical structures from old typewriters. He’s done everything from turning a typewriter into an angry, Frankenstein like face to making an entire person out of typewriter parts! Even more incredible is the fact that he does not glue or weld any of the pieces together but instead finds ways of making the typewriter parts naturally connect to each other.
Ann Smith, on the other hand, loves making owls, dinosaurs, and other fun creatures out [...]
How to Make a Cheap DIY Mosaic Wall
It can be hard to make a room look really unique, especially if you live in an apartment and aren’t allowed to paint or make any sort of permanent or even semi-permanent changes. Most of these apartments feature walls that are dull, plain white, and about as boring as it can get. There are, however, a few ways you can spruce up these boring walls with color that won’t cause your landlord to throw a fit.
While artwork, curtains, and other colorful items can certainly help, they aren’t going to get rid of those white walls completely. However, there is a very cheap and easy way to create a brilliant color mosaic on a wall without opening a can of paint. How? All you have to do is head down to your local department store or hobby store and look through their scrapbooking paper.
Scrapbooking paper? Yes. That’s the genius part of [...]
Cool Ice Cube Trays
Ice cubes are, quite frankly, boring. Sure, you can choose between squares and rectangles, but really, that’s about it. Until now, that is. Today, ice cube trays come in a ton of different shapes and sizes. In addition to getting slightly different shapes like hearts, stars, and moons, you can find some very unique ice cube trays if you know where to look for them.
One of the neatest trays is the titanic ice tray. Pour some water into the tray, stick it in the freezer, and in a few hours, you have four frozen ocean liners and four dangerous icebergs for your glass. These ice cubes are very popular in the “gin and titonic,” a gin and tonic that features the famous sunken ship.
Video gamers always need their caffeine, and to keep their beverages cold, there’s the ice invaders ice cube tray. This tray recreates some of the little alien [...]
Amazing Modern Furniture
Remember when furniture pretty much all looked the same? Sofas, armchairs, tables…sure, you could get different colors and some different designs, but when it came down to it, a sofa was a sofa. However, in the world of modern furniture, this is certainly not true. There are some amazingly designed pieces out there today, some of which are almost more like artwork than furniture. Of course, some of these are just as uncomfortable to sit in as those old, hardwood chairs with the perfectly straight backs. You know, the ones your grandparents always had at the dinner table.
When it comes to modern chairs, some don’t even look like they’re put together—they look like they’ve been sculpted from one piece of metal. Others look like they’ve been grown. These chairs are often made from trees like the Azelea and have been truly grown so that the branches form a back and [...]
Play Tetris with Your Furniture
Some people claim they play Tetris with their furniture all the time—they move it around, put different chairs in different places, and generally try to get as much of it to fit into a room as possible. While that kind of Tetris can be annoying, playing Tetris with the awesome Tetris furniture designed by Diego Silverio and Helder Filipoy of Brazil is much more fun. Their stacking Tetris-inspired furniture is great for any room where you need a lot of storage.
Silverio and Filipoy’s furniture takes its cues from the popular modular shelving that can be found in just about any store. However, instead of simply building boring cube and rectangular storage units, they took it a step further and built all of their items to resemble Tetris blocks. Sure, this means you have cubes with four compartments and long rectangular pieces with five cubby holes, but you also have small [...]
Does This Computer Make Me Look Fat?
The Ridgeline W200 is a wearable computer that brings the whole idea of mobile computing to a whole new level. The tiny computer can be worn on your wrist and will keep your hands free as well as saving on your battery power by detecting when the device is being held down alongside your body.
Of course, there are tiny computers all over the market that will provide you with more computing power than the Ridgeline W200, and this little machine was designed for more of an emergency use. It is geared toward users who will need computing power on the job and out in the field without having to hold on to a hand held device. The wrist design is meant to offer convenience for those who need to compute on the job.
The device has some impressive connectivity options and is made to be connected continuously regardless of where you [...]
