• Pocket Light Lets You Keep A Light Bulb In Your Pocket, Perfect For Eureka Moments

    Pocket Light Lets You Keep A Light Bulb In Your Pocket, Perfect For Eureka Moments

    GADGETS

    Why pack a flashlight in your back pocket when you can slip a light bulb into your wallet?  That’s exactly what will happen with the Pocket Light, a concept gadget that puts a working, low-powered bulb inside  a credit card-sized slab. Created by Ryan Harc, the design won a bronze medal at last year’s Koizumi Lighting Awards.  While I’m not sure how powerful of an illumination it delivers, it looks decent enough to offer some amount of brightness when you’re [...]

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  • Pocket Wall Adds Storage Units To Your Wallpaper

    Pocket Wall Adds Storage Units To Your Wallpaper

    HOME

    When I was in high school, I taped up numerous envelopes to my wall and used them to hold various documents, including term papers, college applications and such.  The Pocket Wall, a decorative wallpaper that integrates storage units, does something similar, adding plenty of holes and slots for fitting a whole bunch of your stuff in. Designed by Maja Ganszyniec, it doesn’t look half-bad as a wall wrapping.  The extra storage capabilities makes it a lot more useful than regular [...]

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  • Tattoo Socks Puts Fake Tattoos On Your Stockings, Doesn’t Look Lame At All

    Tattoo Socks Puts Fake Tattoos On Your Stockings, Doesn’t Look Lame At All

    FASHION

    I always thought tattoo sleeves were lame.  These Tattoo Socks, on the other hand, are just plain gorgeous.  For some reason, they manage to look like snazzy body decoration than lame skin art posturing.   On the right pair of legs, they’re just a hands-down knockout. Just like regular leg stockings, they’re available in thigh-high and knee-high lengths, each one toting a very cool-looking graphic right around the calves on one side.  According to designer Gabby, you can wear the tights [...]

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  • EcoBoost-Powered ’34 Ford Hot Rod Showing Off At SEMA

    EcoBoost-Powered ’34 Ford Hot Rod Showing Off At SEMA

    WHEELS

    SEMA is approaching near once again, bringing the usual lot of tuned-out cars the event is most noted for.  Ford is reportedly showing off a lot of rides during the show, one of the coolest easily being this EcoBoost-powered ’34 Ford hot rod. Even though the car itself will garner the most attention, EcoBoost appears to be the real star here.   According to the company, the technology, which they’ll be fitting into most of their upcoming cars, will prove that [...]

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  • Happy Halloween-My Zombie Pin-Up Puts Sexy Zombie Models On Your 2010 Calendar

    Happy Halloween-My Zombie Pin-Up Puts Sexy Zombie Models On Your 2010 Calendar

    ART

    What better way to start Halloween Day posts and prepare for the zombie apocalypse than learning to love the wenches among them?  It’s not like you’re going to have much of a choice when the infestation spreads, after all.  My suggestion for a first indoctrination is to trade in your wall calendar for the My Zombie Pin-Up, a 2010 calendar filled with sexy images of scantily-clad zombie models. Clad in 50s-style pin-ups in the tradition of Gil Elvgren’s photographs, the [...]

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  • Giant Mona Lisa Now On Display And You Can Step On Its Face

    Giant Mona Lisa Now On Display And You Can Step On Its Face

    ART

    That, right there, is a photo of the world’s largest reproduction of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and you can totally step on its face.  Awesome. On display at the Eagle’s Meadow shopping center in Wales, the collaborative artwork was put together by dozens of people from various community groups and the local Wrexham schools.  The project was spearheaded by artist Katy Webster, a recent fine arts graduate from the North Wales School of Art and Design at Wrexham’s Glyndwr University. [...]

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  • AIDA, A Robotic Backseat Driver That Tries To Charm You With Backlit Eyes

    AIDA, A Robotic Backseat Driver That Tries To Charm You With Backlit Eyes

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    If having your wife and your mother-in-law barking at you from the passenger seats of your car aren’t enough distractions, you might soon be able to add a robot in there too.  That’s if AIDA, short for Affective Intelligent Driving Assistant, ends up making its way to future vehicles. Created by a collaboration from the MIT SENSElab, the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group and the Volkswagen Group of America’s Electronics Research Lab, AIDA is a high-tech navigation system that [...]

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  • Air Board, A Hovercraft That’s A Little Picky About Its Surfaces

    Air Board, A Hovercraft That’s A Little Picky About Its Surfaces

    GADGETS

    In the future, we’ll all be riding hovercrafts.  In the meantime, however, you’re going to have to settle for the Air Board, a slightly-hovering mobility device that looks like an oversized lawn mower. Remember those “hovercrafts” they used at the Sydney 2000 Olympics?  This is it.  With plenty of surface restrictions and bulky as hell, it’s not exactly the most convenient ride either.  But, hey – it’s a taste of the future all the same. Looks amazing fun though. The [...]

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  • Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt Puts Six-String Sounds On Your Clothing

    Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt Puts Six-String Sounds On Your Clothing

    FASHION

    Why strap a heavy guitar around your neck when you can wear it on your shirt?  Sure, the Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt doesn’t bring along a real six-string, but you won’t know that when you hear it play. Yep, it really plays.  Strum it by waving the included magnetic pick (it comes with two, since all rock stars lose picks a lot) over the body, all while pressing down on specific areas of the fretboard.  It can only play all [...]

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  • DeepDyve Lets You Rent Scientific Journals Online For 24 Hours

    DeepDyve Lets You Rent Scientific Journals Online For 24 Hours

    WEB

    Do you consume scientific papers the same way you voraciously take to music?  Maybe not, but many folks do require them for regular research needs.  If you’re among those folks who fork out ridiculous amounts of cash for copies of obscure research publications, then you’ll love DeepDyve, a new service that rents out scientific papers for the same 99-cent price as an iTunes download. For a long time, everyone without a student pass regularly had to pay serious cash for [...]

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  • Tokai Challenger Wins Globar Car Challenge, Leaves Competition Handily

    Tokai Challenger Wins Globar Car Challenge, Leaves Competition Handily

    WHEELS

    At this year’s Global Green Challenge, a Japanese team from Tokai University took the crown in convincing fashion.  Riding the solar-powered Tokai Challenger, the team completed the race in four days, easily clearing the victory well ahead of their nearest competitor. The Global Green Challenge is a bi-annual race that pits different “green vehicles” against each other in a race to the finish.  The last several events have been dominated by Dutch utility Nuon, who has won the competition four [...]

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  • In A World Without Trays, The Link Mug Is King

    In A World Without Trays, The Link Mug Is King

    SIMPLY COOL

    When you’re serving more than two cups of coffee, it’s obvious you need to use a tray.  If you like making things difficult, though, you can opt for these Link Mugs, a set of three coffee mugs that stick to each other so you can carry them with two hands. In a world without trays, this clever little mug will be King.  Since we have trays in this planet, though, I find it just a little bit unnecessary.  Not that [...]

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  • Helmet Mounted Radar System Will Let You Sniff Out Hiding Enemies, Uncover Stalkers

    Helmet Mounted Radar System Will Let You Sniff Out Hiding Enemies, Uncover Stalkers

    GADGETS

    Curious you’re being stalked?  A military technology currently under development should help you find out for sure.  Called the Helmet Mounted Radar System (HMRS), the device is designed to help soldiers recognize threats within their immediate vicinity. Able to detect moving targets with a full 360 degrees field of view, the radar can catch potential enemies  at distances of up to 80 feet.  Of course, the Moving Target Indicator (MTI) will turn up everything that moves, so soldiers will probably [...]

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  • Booq Viper Rush Laptop Case Turns Into A Work Desk On Your Lap

    Booq Viper Rush Laptop Case Turns Into A Work Desk On Your Lap

    FASHION, GADGETS

    Laptop cases are supposed to carry your notebook, along with fitting in a few other pieces of business crap.  Booq’s shoulder-worn laptop case, however, goes beyond that, turning itself into a veritable workspace. Literally a desk in a box, the Booq Viper Rush looks like any regular, semi-rigid notebook bag.  Open it up, though, and it reveals a well-planned interior setup that offers plenty of storage space for all your electronic and professional accessories, along with a dedicated laptop area. [...]

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  • Real3D’s Look3D: Reusable, Replaceable 3D Glasses

    Real3D’s Look3D: Reusable, Replaceable 3D Glasses

    FASHION

    Everything’s going 3D now.   And 3D glasses continue to be ugly pieces of crap.   Save yourself from the fashion disaster of cardboard blue and red specs with the new Real3D Look3D glasses, which let you put on a stylish-looking pair for once. That’s not even the best part.  The frames come with interchangeable red and blue lens, allowing you to switch them with your regular prescription ones (yep, they’ll do the normal lens, too, as part of your order) when [...]

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  • Banks iQ Dashboard Computer Provides Diagnostics And Controls, Plays Media Too

    Banks iQ Dashboard Computer Provides Diagnostics And Controls, Plays Media Too

    GADGETS, WHEELS

    Most in-dash computer systems come pre-installed on vehicles.  Even then, few of them are all that great.  The new Banks iQ dashboard computer changes all that, offering a self-contained, full-featured system you can throw into any existing car (considering Banks Power’s customer base, though, it will most likely be diesel trucks). While it naturally offers precise control for the aftermarket performance add-ons that Banks produces (e.g. tuners and exhaust brake systems), the personal vehicle interface also lets you run instant [...]

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  • Nissan’s New Mobility Prototype Puts You On Automated Stilts

    Nissan’s New Mobility Prototype Puts You On Automated Stilts

    GADGETS

    The Segway was cool, but you have to admit: it’s too big for its own good.  Nissan’s new personal mobility prototype works the same way, rolling you along on a set of wheels, together with a few nifty functions, while being considerably smaller. Created in partnership with Japan’s National Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (AIST), the  device runs much like any mobility device, getting you from place to place all on its own (it can go both forwards and [...]

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  • World’s Smallest Model Train Set Boasts A Ridiculous 1:35,200 Scale

    World’s Smallest Model Train Set Boasts A Ridiculous 1:35,200 Scale

    GADGETS

    Does the idea of watching a model train go around and around the same closed track make you want to pull your hair out?  Well, this one’s even worse, likely making you want to poke your own eyes in disgust disbelief.  We are referring, of course, to the smallest model train set in the world, which should require either 20/20 vision or a magnifying glass to thoroughly admire. How small is the thing?  The whole set, including the tracks, measures [...]

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  • AlterG M300 Treadmill Lets You Exercise Like An Astronaut In Orbit

    AlterG M300 Treadmill Lets You Exercise Like An Astronaut In Orbit

    FEATURED, GADGETS

    Why pay six figures to float in near space when you can do it everyday at home?  For only $24,500, you can take home an AlterG M300 series machine, an anti-gravity treadmill that lets you run like an unbathed astronaut.  Except you’re at home, so you can take a bath right after. The company first showed off their anti-gravity tech (the P200 series) earlier this year, but priced it at three times that of the current model.  Sure 25 grand [...]

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