The Pad, joining the Omniyat Properties roster of other creative names such as The Square and The Binary, is a futuristic-looking structure home to 230 apartments, built at a 7° tilt and packed to the gills with high-tech furnishings. The bathrooms, for example, are equipped with monitoring tools to help you watch your weight, temperature [...]

The human brain uses a complex system of senses, thoughts, and feelings to help us survive our environment. Feelings, in particular, play a critical role in warning us that something may be wrong. The brain interprets all these signals and determines what, if any, action should be taken.
What do you think would happen if that [...]

Using rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, now you can have cordless lamp on your desk. This lamp is suitable for dining tables in commercial and domestic environments, or any other area when portable lighting is required. Each Lamp has dimming and special effect modes controlled by a single base switch and a battery charge level display. The [...]

Nigel’s Eco Store has filled up their shop with a bunch of cool looking eco friendly christmas tree decorations made of recycled CDs and circuit boards.
 

Decorate your Christmas tree with these funky and good looking hanging decorations made from recycled circuit boards and recycled CDs, that would otherwise have been thrown away. The shiny sides [...]

The idea behind it is to reinterpret the classic “chandelier” completely different. Daniel Becker, the designer, experimented with different lampshade forms which should reflect light into the room. He also created an optical unstability - the wave is thicker on one end and thinner on the other one, but you can’t see this at first. [...]

If you are having limited space in your apartment, this ladybird bath and vanity can be a great choice for your bathroom. The idea behind this design is that the living space that we can get nowadays are getting smaller, with that in mind, ladybird was born. You can have a vanity with built in [...]

USB 3.0 is on the way and it’ll be available in January 2008. And will be presenting us an amazing data transfer rate of 4.8Gbps.
The USB 3.0 will be called Super USB. Here are the specs of the USB 3.0 at a glance after the jump.
* It will be 10 times faster than the USB [...]

The story began last year with you, some Star Wars flash drives, and a universe. Now the Star Wars flash-drive saga continues with Series 2, made by mimobot. The new members of the mimobot family are Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and bounty hunter Boba Fett. The cap on both the Luke and Boba [...]

Ingenuity and out-of-the-box-thinking often lead to exceptional design execution leaving you astounded and asking for more. An apt companion for those who believe in the contemporary look, this wooden ladybird is not only a speaker that hooks onto the comp or media player but also an alarm clock. The wings flap open to reveal [...]

Okay, it’s not that hard of a quiz, but this would be one hell of a small, and likely painful, dunk tank. It’s okay, nobody ever likes the people forced to sit in the dunk tanks anyway. This is actually the Hydro Physio, which is the love child of a bath tub and a treadmill. [...]

If you’re going to be the next investigative reporter superstar, you’re going to need some kind of undercover spy device to get the job done. Enter the Wireless Spy Camera from Chinavision. It looks like a regular pen, but twist the top and the camera begins capturing video and audio as a MP4 for later [...]

Samsung’s GDDR5 memory chips whip data four times faster than GDDR3, offering 6 Gbps of bandwidth for the gaming hardware of 2009.
Each chip will contain 512Mb of memory and use 20 percent less power than the current standard.
What will it mean for you? The more things change, the more they stay the same. The [...]

We can’t help getting distracted by fond memories of Lite-Brites with a name like this, but that toy of yore really has nothing on Toshiba Tekbright’s 7-inch 720 x 480 photo frame — as long as you discount love, rainbows and happiness. The Tekbright photo frame includes 64MB of built-in storage, USB 2.0, plenty of [...]

At a cost of $79, the iPod Shuffle may not be the most economical solution for getting the hair out of your eyes but it does make you a true geek hipster.

If you have an old monitor around and you feel like spoiling kitty, you can try to transform that old monitor into his very own cat abode.
If you prefer to have someone else do the work for you, head on over here.
From the artist:

It’s been painted, and had a custom fitting pillow made [...]

A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and handheld devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple’s iPhone. Essentially, the My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near non-GPS equipped mobile phones [...]