Archive for April, 2008

April 26

Uno electric unicycle gets spiffy new body, still terrifying

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Last we saw the Uno electric unicycle it was looking very much like the prototype it was, but as you can see above, it seems that the teenage engineers behind it have been doing anything but slacking in the ensuing months. As Motorcycle Mojo reports, the third incarnation of the vehicle recently made its debut [...]

April 26

Oregon Scientific intros weather-forecasting Meteo watch

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Oregon Scientific managed to pique our interest with its proximity-sensing Weather In Motion clock, and it now looks like it’s got the solution for anyone that wishes they could take it with ‘em wherever they go, with the company set to release its new Meteo weather forecasting watch. While the need for a proximity sensor [...]

April 26

KissMe - Bad Breath Detector

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Are you afraid of your own breath? Would you like to do some tests before going out on an important & exciting date? If so, check out the Kiss Me.

Basically this is a “Personal Breath Odor Detector” which means that it measures how bad your breath stinks. There are 5 LED lights that indicate the [...]

April 26

7-Port USB Swivel Hub

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This USB 2.0 compliant hub comes with seven ports that rotates 90 degrees.

April 26

Go Amish with the Hand-Crank USB Power Charger

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You’ve been babied by power outlets for far too long — if you want charged gadgets, then put a little elbow grease into it! The Hand-Crank USB Power Charger will work on most phones (and the rest, with adapters), cameras… anything with a USB port, really. It may just be your best friend on the [...]

April 25

Fish Tank Friday: SpeedFish

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Goldfish are damn fast. According to the internet, they top out at something like 4mph, which is kind of adorable. But in conventional tanks, you never get to see them unleash themselves thanks to a plexiglass wall that’s never far enough away. The SpeedFish racetrack provides an uninterrupted sequence of straights and curves for your [...]

April 25

Baby USB Drive

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The tiny Jt Baby is colorful USB drive available in 2GB and 4GB versions.

April 25

Linde Werdelin intros “Sea Instrument” dive computer

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Sure, there’s plenty of basic dive computers out there, but if you really want to get some attention under the sea, you may want to consider something like Linde Wrdelin’s new “Sea Instrument,” which can even be had in a special 18K yellow gold edition if you want to go all out. Whether you opt [...]

April 25

Cassette MP3 player makes the analog digital

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Does your car stereo still have a cassette deck on board? When was the last time you used it? Never? That’s what I thought. But there’s no need to let your trusty cassette deck go to waste, even in these digital times.
This Cassette MP3 player looks like a normal cassette tape, but it actually holds [...]

April 25

NoPark project turns hydrant spaces into micro parks

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The New York no-parking space in this picture has been re-purposed by artist Natalie Jeremijenko into a “NoPark,” a mini-public green space in the middle of the city. Most of the concrete in the space has been ripped up and planted with low growth mosses and grasses. According to the artist, “These micro engineered green [...]

April 25

Teuco Bathtub Sorgente - new whirlpool tub to sooth your worries away

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A bathtub to blend seamlessly into your bathroom, the sunken profile of the new Sorgente Teuco Bathtub eradicates barriers between the water and surfaces surrounding it. It becomes a part of its environment, and can be covered with the same material as the area around it. Plunging into the hot bath to sooth aches and [...]

April 25

0-60 Seconds in 60 Seconds…

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Albert Einstein once said “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Tell that to designer John Pszeniczny, he thinks time could use a turbo boost and has designed the fastest watch on Earth dubbed “F1/Carbon GMT”. Inspired by the F1 race car world and constructed of carbon fiber, Swarovski [...]

April 25

Limited edition Bronze PSP now on sale, likely to remain that way

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We’re still trying to piece together why in the world Sony would choose matte bronze as the color for its latest PSP Slim, but now that it’s out, we’re focusing our attention on just how long it takes these so-called limited edition units to actually sell out. The Value Pack it comes bundled in includes [...]

April 25

SupaSlim Bug lets you listen in from afar

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Looking to spy on your boss, kid, or ex-wife? Well, take a peeksy at the SupaSlim Bug. About the size of a credit card, you simply leave it in a place where you want to be able to hear what’s going on. Later, when you suspect juicy action to be going on, you simply call [...]

April 24

Egg-Shaped USB Photo Frame with Digital Clock

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This USB powered egg-shaped digital photo frame stores up to 100 photos and plays sideshow automatically or manually. It also features a clock.
The USB Tumbler Digital Photo Frame ($28) measures 56 x 56 x 85mm and is available in blue, green, white, red or black over at USB Brando.

April 24

Digital Cowboy’s spy pen camcorder

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See the camera? Good, neither will the person you’re spying on. That’s Digital Cowboy’s latest take on the digital spy pen. The ¥17,800 (about $175) DVR-BP features a 1-mm pinhole CMOS camera, mic, 2-hour battery, and 2GB of memory to store all your video deceit at 352 x 288 pixels and 15fps. Coming April 24th [...]

April 24

Electric Think City car sets sights on North American launch

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You totally thought that “Think” operation you heard about last summer was nothing more than yet another electric car dream that would never see reality, didn’t you? Turns out, the endeavor could be more successful than anyone originally imagined, and if all goes to plan, the Think City should hit US shores later this year. [...]

April 24

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 available for download

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Don’t act like you didn’t have April 24th circled in your day planner — heck, you probably stayed up all night hoping Hardy Heron 8.04 would be launched as the 24th dawned in Australia. Regardless of your level of fanaticism towards the OS, the latest flavor of Ubuntu is finally ready for mass consumption. You [...]

April 24

Steampunk LCD monitor

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More gadgets or computers are getting steampunk treatment. We’ve seen couple of them, we had the steampunk laptop, the steampunk PC. And now, it’s been extended to the LCD monitor, we now have the steampunk LCD monitor from the famous steampunk modder, Datamancer.

April 24

GPS Tracker Defense Jams All Tracking Devices

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If you’ve ever watched Star Wars (please tell me everyone here has) you’ll remember that the location of the rebel base was outed when Vader and Tarken decided to put a homing beacon aboard the Millennium Falcon. Well if you’re ever paranoid that someone might be tracking you in a similar fashion, you might want [...]

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