• London’s Firefighting Robot Foursome

    London’s Firefighting Robot Foursome

    SIMPLY COOL

    While human-eating androids and attention-hungry robots make us queasy about the idea of how these future Terminators could evolve, other varieties give us plenty to look forward to. A quartet of firefighting robots from London, for instance, effectively cut down the time needed to extinguish acetylene fires by over 80%. Designed by defense tech company QinetiQ, the four robots are used exclusively in situations that involve cylinders of the industrial gas catching fire. According to the BBC, there have been [...]

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  • Disaster City: Where Emergency Responders Learn Their Trade

    Disaster City: Where Emergency Responders Learn Their Trade

    SIMPLY COOL

    Do you know where emergency responders hone their craft? After all, you can’t exactly blow up buildings and crash trains every time you need to get a new batch of trainees up to speed. Many of the the brave men and women who run rescue operations put in their practice time at Disaster City, a 52-acre school where dealing with large-scale unfortunate events is the lesson of the day – everyday. Designed to instill a full array of skills and [...]

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  • F1Showcar Motion Simulator Lets You Virtual Drive A Real Formula Car

    F1Showcar Motion Simulator Lets You Virtual Drive A Real Formula Car

    FEATURED, WHEELS

    Time to face reality – you just don’t have what it takes to ever drive an F1 car. Hell, you can’t even parallel park without a near-accident. Still, who’s to say you’ll never be that good?  With the F1Showcar Motion Simulator, you’ll get a chance to prove your mettle. Like other video game racing simulators, the F1Showcar involves a stationary car, a mechanized platform, some driving controls, software and a large display. In this case, they’re using a full-size Formula [...]

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  • Nikon Coolpix S1000pj Comes With Built-In Projector For Instant Slide-Shows

    Nikon Coolpix S1000pj Comes With Built-In Projector For Instant Slide-Shows

    GADGETS

    Micro-projectors have recently begun finding their way on cell phones. It makes a whole lot of sense, considering we’ve got phone apps for Powerpoint presentations and games, two categories that can really benefit from being set on a much-larger display. Nikon is, of course, betting that people will take to showing off their photos in much the same way and are outfitting the new Coolpix S1000pj with a built-in pico projector to test the waters. The feature solves a common [...]

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  • Duck Hunter Goes Live Action, Lets You Snipe Flying Robot Ducks For Real

    Duck Hunter Goes Live Action, Lets You Snipe Flying Robot Ducks For Real

    ENTERTAINMENT

    Video games are usually based on real world activities, not the other way around. The new Duck Hunter toy, however, takes the exact gameplay from the classic arcade shooter and brings it to life. With an infrared pistol in your hand and an ornithopter robot duck autonomously flying across the room, the new Duck Hunter lets you recreate the video game in live action.  Instead of a series of ducks flying past your visible range, the lone target takes to [...]

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  • Concrete Tumblers Keep Your Drinks From Spilling, Make For Better Bar Brawl Weapons

    Concrete Tumblers Keep Your Drinks From Spilling, Make For Better Bar Brawl Weapons

    SIMPLY COOL

    Clumsy with your drinks?  While it may be too late to improve your physical coordination (you’re an old drunk now, so it’s hopeless), it might be possible to help you in other ways.  Specifically, with concrete. We’re not advocating burying you in the construction material (not that it hasn’t crossed my  mind), so don’t run out in horror.  Instead, you might be better off using  Concrete Tumblers, erstwhile regular glasses armed with a rock-solid base. It may not look like [...]

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  • Mini Fit XL Is Laptop Cooler On Crack

    Mini Fit XL Is Laptop Cooler On Crack

    GADGETS

    It’s a hazard of even the finest performing laptops and notebooks that they overheat. It’s simply the nature of them, what with having so much performance packed into such a small space. We’ve all heard out notebooks scream at us when we’re running a graphics and CPU intensive online game, three instances of a web browser, a graphics program and watching videos at the same time. That loud almost breathing sound you hear when the built in fan is going [...]

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  • Hero Pulse Rifle Will Scare Aliens, Horrify Wallets

    Hero Pulse Rifle Will Scare Aliens, Horrify Wallets

    ENTERTAINMENT

    When you see a real alien landing in your backyard, what will be your first instinct?  Me, I’d probably pull out a gun and blast it to smithereens.  If that doesn’t work, I’d cock this thing in the extra-terrestrial’s face and hope it saw the movie.  Are you scared yet, inter-planetary visitor? The M14A Pulse Rifle was the weapon of choice for the US Colonial Marines in James Cameron’s Aliens, splattering otherworldly guts like it was nobody’s business.  Unfortunately, this [...]

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  • Wink Glasses Will Make You Blink, Even If You Don’t Want To

    Wink Glasses Will Make You Blink, Even If You Don’t Want To

    GADGETS

    Blinking sucks.  One moment you’re keeping a watchful eye for Japanese soldiers on World At War; one blink later, you’re being slaughtered like tomorrow’s sushi. Despite the disastrous downside on your game, blinking is a necessary activity.   Doing it too infrequently can dry out and fatigue the eyes, eventually leading to poor eyesight and other optical problems.  At the end of the day, that just makes you a shittier gamer. Not that it’s entirely your fault. When the eyes are [...]

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  • Cybraphon Robot Plays Music, Obsesses On Social Media

    Cybraphon Robot Plays Music, Obsesses On Social Media

    ART, GADGETS

    Building a robot band seems fun.  Making them online attention whores, however, just cranks up the entertainment value.  That’s exactly what we get with the Cybraphon, a hand-crafted musical robot that is cursed with an innate egotistical desire for being famous online. The robot comes with an emotional scale that ranges from Desolation at its lowest point to Delirium at its highest, with a number of other feelings in between.  It sits at the bottom range when no one’s paying [...]

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  • Splitterbot Doubles Your Audio Ports, Quadruples Your Joy

    Splitterbot Doubles Your Audio Ports, Quadruples Your Joy

    GADGETS

    Headphone splitters aren’t anything special.  Keep telling yourself that and you might be able to resist the Splitterbot, an impossibly cute accessory that lets you turn that single audio port into two. Clad as a painfully adorable robot, Splitterbot has a removable head that serves as the headphone splitter.  The bottom of the cranium sports a 3.5mm jack which plugs right into the audio port of your favorite music source.  You can then share the tunes between two headphones by [...]

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  • Blofield’s Inflatable Furniture Acts Classy, Appears To Succeed

    Blofield’s Inflatable Furniture Acts Classy, Appears To Succeed

    FURNITURE, HOME

    Inflatable furniture isn’t exactly the classiest thing around.  Dutch company Blofield, however, seems intent on changing that, with their new line of Chesterfield-style chairs and sofas that come complete with a premium price. Instead of the usual playroom and swimming pool uses, the air-pumped furnishings are meant for actual living room installation and has, in fact, earned enthusiastic praise since it debuted in design fairs last year.  According to designer Jeroen van de Kant, the unusual idea took two years [...]

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  • Embler Flying Saucer Prototype Should Attract Even More UFO Sightings

    Embler Flying Saucer Prototype Should Attract Even More UFO Sightings

    GADGETS, SIMPLY COOL

    Unmanned aerial vehicles take all sorts of shapes and forms, from nondescript bug-like robots to stealth gliders.  Ones decked out like flying saucers, though, just have that special appeal that makes everyone take notice. A new British company called Aesir recently showed off their first prototype that borrows a leaf from erstwhile alien spacecrafts.  Called the Embler, the unmanned vehicle is designed to make use of the Coanda Effect, where air speeds up as it attaches itself to a well-shaped [...]

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  • Get Naked Bikini Dissolves In Water….Score!

    Get Naked Bikini Dissolves In Water….Score!

    ENTERTAINMENT, FASHION

    Water-soluble fabric used to be such a bad idea.  Who the hell will pay good money for clothes that will dissolve when you sweat on it?  Apparently, some badly-burned boyfriends, that’s who. Shamelessly marketed as a way for guys to get back at their ex-girlfriends, Get Naked Bikini, a water-soluble set of top and bottom swimwear, is possibly the most brilliant use for the technology.  Like the description suggests, the two-piece outfit will disappear just three minutes after being submerged [...]

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  • Viliv X70: One Good Reason To Get Rid Of Your Netbook

    Viliv X70: One Good Reason To Get Rid Of Your Netbook

    GADGETS

    The Viliv X70 isn’t the most feature-filled MID to hit the market, but it’s certainly one of the most compelling.  While primarily intended for mobile internet access, it’s really a full-featured PC that brings plenty of computing capabilities to mobile users.  Yep, the UMPC is all grown up. Running Windows XP at the helm, the X70 comes with the Viliv “Cube UI,” a custom skin that offers a fast and attractive way to launch programs and applications.  Like a regular [...]

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  • Trinvo Talking Translator Lets You Speak 12 Languages Without Moving Your Lips

    Trinvo Talking Translator Lets You Speak 12 Languages Without Moving Your Lips

    GADGETS

    Visiting a foreign country, but too lazy to learn the language?  Not a problem.  The Trinvo Talking Translator can take your English thoughts and convert it into any of 12 different languages (Spanish, Russian, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Mandarin and English), allowing you to interact (somewhat) with locals and native speakers, whenever you need to. The device comes pre-loaded with voice recordings of over 2,500 words and 750 phrases in all 12 languages, allowing you to [...]

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  • Carbon Fibre Gorilla Tube iPhone 3G Case

    Carbon Fibre Gorilla Tube iPhone 3G Case

    GADGETS

    I am beginning to wonder if there is any limit whatsoever to the number of gadgets, memorabilia and accessories that will be released for the iPhone. If it isn’t flashing lights and hi tech hands free kits, it’s games or all sorts of applications from translators to driving and walking mapping and directions and pretty much anything else you can think of. Yes, it seems there’s a whole lot of love for the Apple iPhone and whole lot of money [...]

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  • ZeroEdge Aquarium Turns Your Fish Tank Into An Infinity Pool

    ZeroEdge Aquarium Turns Your Fish Tank Into An Infinity Pool

    HOME

    Infinity edge pools are quite a sight to look at.  If you love that design, it’s possible your fish might enjoy it too.  At least, that’s what the ZeroEdge Aquarium seems to be going for, incorporating the sexy edgeless aesthetic into a fully-functional fish tank. Like infinity pools, the water spills over off the edge of the glass tank, right down into enlarged gutters that recycle the water back into the aquarium.  It creates a visually-stunning effect that’s unlike any [...]

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  • Ukraine Building Gets A 100-Foot Crossword Puzzle That Solves Itself

    Ukraine Building Gets A 100-Foot Crossword Puzzle That Solves Itself

    ART

    “I live over at the giant crossword puzzle.”   I’m assuming that’s what the residents of this building in Lvov, Ukraine tell people when asked where they’re staying.  With a large crossword puzzle installed on the side of the structure, it’s one address no one’s about to get wrong. Crossword addicts will probably shiver, excited at the sight.  Unfortunately, they’ll just end up in fits, as you’ll have to scale that sheer wall if you plan on filling up those blank [...]

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