Like to go clubbing but can’t stand the drunk loser guys hitting on you? Slip on a fake engagement ring right when you need it with Ms. Taken, a genuine-looking pre-wedding piece that you can slide in and out of your fingers in a jiffy. While you can probably take just about any fake ring to disguise yourself as betrothed, they’re likely not designed specifically for that purpose. With Ms. Taken, you get a key fob that can hold the [...]
Sick of watching basketball players tell you what you should be drinking? NASA is hoping that’s the case, as they unveil their own sports drink, called The Right Stuff. It’s not a joke. The erstwhile space explorers, as it turns out, are looking to compete with Gatorade’s dominance of the hydrating drinks market, bringing to consumers a product that’s purported to perform its replenishing effects “under the most extreme conditions.” The same stuff that keeps astronauts performing at their [...]
Serving wine to discerning guests? You’re a braver person than me. Having to gauge whether a bottle’s chilled enough for consumption is as much an art as the wine-making itself. That’s why you’ll appreciate the Wine Thermometer, a bottle-hugging device that gives you an accurate reading of the wine’s current temperature. Taking the guesswork out of the process, it allows you to serve your Pinot and Shiraz knowing full well that they’re chilled just right. If some know-it-all guest happens [...]
How much would you pay to drive the world’s fastest and most expensive production car for a day? I’m not sure if your figure is anywhere near what Holders Vehicle Contracts (HVC) is asking for, but you sure as hell can compare. According to the Berkshire-based leasing company, they’ll let you get behind the wheel of a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 for an entire 24 hours at the price of £16,000 (approx. $25,500). So, did your number come anywhere near that [...]
I don’t know where you’re from, but metal detectors have never been cool around our parts. If you want scrap metal, just hit the junk yard; if you want spare chage, do some chores and you’ll be justly rewarded. I reckon there’s some charm about finding coins and other “hidden treasures”, though. Just in case there really is buried loot somewhere in them beaches, make sure you find them without looking like a dork. Ditch the large metal detector with [...]
In a perfect world, all sandwiches will be grilled without having to do any work – that’s just the way a flawless universe functions. With the new ToastIt Toaster Bags, we just might have come closer to that Utopian ideal of no-mess, delicious, hot, melting sandwiches in minutes, with little clean-up afterwards. An invention that mimics the significance of the ShamWow, no strike that, the Moon Landing, the ToastIt allows the trusty toaster to do more than perform its scorching [...]
Back when we were kids, we used to make a game of catching cockroaches with rubber guns. We’d harvest the “loot” (which consisted of, well, cockroaches) and feed them to our arowanas, in place of small fish. We were hunter-gatherers, always in search of more sustenance for our favorite Jurassic-age, carnivorous pets, with rubber guns our primary weapons of choice. The memory of those days came coming back in torrential fashion as soon as I caught sight of Andy Mangold’s [...]
A two-monitor setup not wide enough for you? Try NEC’s latest desktop display, a curved 43-inch ultra-widescreen monitor called the CRV43, which lets you take up all that visual range so that you see nothing but a computer screen all day. Encompassing the entire range of your periphery, it kicks even three-monitor displays squarely in the ass, showing ultra-wide portraits without any bezel to break your line of sight. NEC is purporting it will be perfect for numerous applications requiring [...]
Designed by heavy duty thinkers that have – for years – labored over the idea that Ice Cubes didn’t have to spill all over the floor and melt whenever you dumped them out of the tray, comes the Ice Orb Icemaker. This state-of-the-art ice tray allows you to fill the oval shaped panels with water, freeze in your standard freezer, and remove the finished product without spilling any. In fact, when you remove the ice from their little oval molds [...]
Atari Keychains…well for some of us this would be ’nuff said, we would already be ordering. But, not all of us can recall the Atari systems so some need a bit more explaining to understand. Atari is da Bomb, that’s all I can really say. There is no reason to love the horrible graphics and poorly designed games that fit in bulky game consoles with like…2 foot controller cords…but we love Atari anyway..kind of like the first girl we ever…well [...]
Need a fashionable way to carry your load of gadgets for daily use? Try the latest evolution of the Man Purse – e-Volve’s Gadget Holster 2.0, a shoulder-strapping contraption that lets you load up on handhelds and accessories so well that it will make you forget how unmanly it makes you look (note: check out the guy above, whose ambivalence makes me both laugh and cry). Designed particularly for the iPhone, e-Volve claims the Gadget Holster 2.0 should be able [...]
Foams and composites have long been the materials of choice for building boards that survive the rough waves. However, modern methods used to build them don’t lend themselves well to those on tighter-than-usual budgets. That’s why when SoCal surfer Mike Sheldrake, who was forced to retire his 13-year old board due to damage, went on to build himself a new one, he set out to look for a cheaper alternative. The result are surfboards that employ a structural approach [...]
Want a smaller PSP? Sony just launched a more compact version of its vaunted gaming handheld in the PSP Go, which sports the exact same guts as the larger PSP-3000, all while fitting nicely in your pocket. Officially unveiled at E3 2009, Go ditches the UMD drive to facilitate the decrease in size, while offering all the same niceties as the PSP’s previous incarnations. Instead of the old single panel form factor, it also sports slide-down controls to keep the [...]
An update in the gadget world typically points to something smaller. Not so for Amazon’s highly-touted ebook reader, whose latest incarnation is a large format device called the Kindle DX. While the smaller Kindle and Kindle 2 would be the perfect electronic reader for those who enjoy books, they are hardly the most ideal for another subset of consumers. After all, there are more reading materials out there than pocket-sized volumes, many of which would never port well to such [...]
Always wanted your own Casper but too afraid to get one? Here’s your chance. Some company with a morbid sense of humor is claiming to sell ghoulish, scary ghosts trapped inside a bottle for a mere $20. Yes, that and your soul for eternity! Each Ghost in a Bottle supposedly comes with one ghost that’s been captured from a haunted establishment and trapped inside a container for mass consumption, courtesy of the company’s trained ghost hunters. There’s no word on [...]
Sports car on the outside, jet fighter plane on the inside. That’s exactly what the US Air Force has done with two new exhibition supercars, namely the X-1 (a modified Ford Mustang) and the Vapor Challenger (a modified Dodge Challenger). As part of the military arm’s latest Project: Supercar campaign, they commissioned Galpin Auto Sports to turn out the souped-up rides, which they expect to help draw crowds to the USAF’s recruitment events. On the exterior, the cars look much [...]
Don’t you think the unfortunate lackey that ends up getting coffee for your entire department of office miscreants every morning deserve a little break? After all, carrying all half-a-dozen cups of hot drinks every single day is a tough chore – one that frequently paves the way for stained shirts and second degree burns. Not to mention, of course, that being an office errand boy doesn’t offer you much in the way of respect. Spare them the hassle of dirty [...]
Want the power savings of a manual treadmill but want to see displays of how much energy you’re using up? Run a mile in the Woodway EcoMill, an unplugged treadmill with a bevy of digital displays on the panel and an electronically-controlled elevation system. Designed with a kinetic generator built into its frame, running and walking on the EcoMill should generate just enough energy to light up the basic display, as well as allow a nifty one-touch control of the [...]
The last time I saw Mad Max was over a decade ago, so forgive my fuzzy recollection, but I’m pretty sure something like the Mow-Aerator made a cameo there somewhere. Instead of an apocalypse-era tank customization, however, it’s a set of brackets and spikes designed to fit into lawnmower tires, so you can ride wet, uneven ground without slipping, as well aerate your lawn. Regardless of your feelings about spike aeration (like it, hate it or don’t know what it’s [...]
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