The Amazing Water Clock doesn’t want your batteries or power from an outlet — it’s asking for a glass of good ol’ aqua, or any liquid really. Once filled up, the Water Clock’s LCD display will show you the time and date, as its energy converter continues to draw power from electrons in the water [...]

Some people see watches as purely utilitarian devices, objects designed to tell us what time it is and not stand out too much while doing so. Others see watches as pieces of wearable art, important accessories in any successful wardrobe. For those people, there are watches like this BRM Manufacture Birotor BRT-3.This is one serious [...]

We knew Hitachi’s Ultra Thin HDTV family would boast ultra-wideband technology, and while little was said about this aspect during CES, we’ve now learned that Tzero will be responsible for handling the aforementioned UWB duties. As expected, the UT HDTVs will “be able to receive high-definition video wirelessly from any HDMI equipped audio / video [...]

Bet none of us have missed dropping a few coins in to these machines at pubs, restaurants or game bars to play Pac-man or Space Invaders. But now you can own one yourself and get unlimited playtime with out worrying about buying more tokens. Cosmic MultiGame Upright Arcade Machine holds about 48 games in [...]

Its about time we had a Microsoft parody video. This one must be by fridaypages is really good.

An item that is inseparable from the geek lifestyle: a MacBook. Or dreaming about a MacBook. Or if you’re like me, it’s dreaming of a baby blue (as blue is the new pink, fyi) MacBook. It would look something like this:

Forty percent of the world´s energy is used by buildings. More than fifty percent of the greenhouse gases come from buildings and the construction industry. Mexican architectural firm, ReCURSO Studios, has these eye opening environmental facts well understood when they set out to design this modern showcase of low impact, sustainable architecture. By being conscious [...]

One of the more introducing tech trends I spotted on the floor of this year’s Toy Fair, was an attempt to help make home PCs a bit more kid-friendly. Sure there have been a lot of products out there aimed at become kid-sized computers, but what happens when the kids inevitably want to get their [...]

A Virginia Tech student has won the Greener Gadget Award for a clever LED lamp that gets all of its power from gravity, which is a seriously renewable resource. Working kind of like a grandfather clock that needs to be wound in order to work, the lamp has a weight that’s raised up every day. [...]

And so it ends — not with a whimper, but a bang. Well, an official announcement, anyway. Toshiba said today it would stop developing and building HD DVD equipment, killing the format and handing victory in the HD-disc format war to Blu-ray. Of course. We pretty much saw this coming ever since Warner Bros. declared [...]

The One-Click Recorder from Sharper Image is the ideal accessory for the teacher or boss that would prefer to sleep during lectures or presentations. One-Click is a tiny and obscure microphone. It plugs into the line-in on your laptop and is capable of recording audio and visuals synced together. So you can build your own [...]

Designer: Antoine Lebrun & Volkan Akbiyik

TDK certainly hasn’t put quite the priority on USB flash drives as it has on its other media, but it looks like the company is making a decent effort with its latest drives, which manage to keep things about as small as you’re likely to want. Available in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB varieties, the drives [...]

obviously, construction technologies are advancing extremely quickly. couple that with multi-billionnaires / deep-pocketed companies trying to outdo each other in the quest for the next standout design and you have a near-future filled with mile-high skyscrapers and buildings that no longer look like buildings.

Contributed by Windell on Sunday, February 17 2008, in EMSL Projects

I took some close-up pictures of LEDs to get a look at what’s inside. These are just standard T-1 3/4 (5 mm) package superbright LEDs with clear lenses, one of the most common types, and [...]

The sensual lines of the Domina kitchen by Aster Cucine are especially designed with women in mind. A contemporary kitchen design that works to control the space that surrounds us with curved, feminine lines (rather than straight, masculine lines) the kitchen exudes fluidity. The Domina kitchen will appeal to anyone who feels confined or intimidated [...]

The only reason I am writing about the USB Traffic Light is because it is so lame. Even the features are so lame…get this, the thingie actually tells (rather indicates) whether you are Busy, Out To Lunch or Available! Damn! And I thought that if the boss had a look at my work-area he [...]

 A solar farm has opened in Spain that consists of 120,000 solar panels over 100 hectares (247 acres). It also has a peak capacity of 20 megawatts and it can power up to 20,000 homes—making it the world’s largest solar farm to date. The farm is expected to generate an estimated annual income of $28 [...]

Oh sure, it’s not like we haven’t witnessed ginormous rotating panoramic displays before, but it seems as if projectiondesign and the iCinema Research Centre of Australia’s University of New South Wales are taking their long-standing partnership even further with new applications for the AVIE 360-degree 3D multimedia display. Recently showcased at the International Sydney Festival, [...]

There’s a reason phones don’t remotely resemble PC cases, and we think this mockup does a fabulous job demonstrating why that is. Okay, look, we’re totally cool with Dell and Alienware producing an Alienware-branded handset — especially if it runs Android, a platform Dell has been rumored to be very, very interested in — [...]