Archive for April, 2007
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The bum pincher
If you ever see a gaggle of women wearing L-plates staggering around town carrying these things I’d advice running.
Hen Night Bum Pincher
You have spotted a nice looking guy, but he is just out of reach and its too crowded and noisy to call him over so what do you do? You pull out the Bum Pincher of course! For that extended reach and the desired effect of the ‘pinchees’ attention, who wouldn’t want this handy gadget!
Available to buy (honest) for £2.99 (~$6) each.
Cool ball bearing sculpture
Last months motorized marble racer was pretty cool but it’s nothing in comparison to this beast, the “California Dreamin” Kinetic Art Motorized Ball Machine Sculpture.
The sculpture consists of 3 different tracks which a ball bearing follows, the route of the ball is changed automagically thanks to “gravity operated, magnetically optimized, switching units” (metal lever things). If you’re into this sort of art you can get a piece commissioned for about $15,000, ouch.
More info and a video of it in operation over at the artist, Bruce Gray site (or the £15 make your own plastic marble racer over here).
Remote Control Light
I saw this little gadget spammed posted about in our forums, the Buddy Lite, a lite for your remote control.
The concept is pretty simple, the base attaches to the bottom of your remote using Velcro and the light can then be positioned via a bendable spring like arm. So the next time you’re watching a slushy movie in the dark and need a beer top up (and you don’t own a beer launching fridge) you can pause the movie without having to blind your partner.
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When to call a mouse a mouse
The mouse is taken for granted a bit these days, with versions that can stretch the imagination back and from the twilight zone, however there is such a thing as taking something just that little bit beyond the boundaries of what we call normal, and this mouse found on instructables is to say the very least gone beyond and kept going. For those of a nervous disposition don’t look now!
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The Rain Safe umbrella wrapper
Those little sleeves you put on your umbrella are a great invention, but (here it comes!) they could use a little improvement. The main problem is that when you try to put these things on, you end up soaking yourself in the process. Clearly there’s a market for a good looking, basic device that lets you slip your umbrella easily into a sleeve and be done with it. I actually came across the gadget that does just that in a office building in the middle of Washington, DC. Oh, it’s called the Rain Safe.
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Cheating Differently – Schools start banning iPods on test day
You can kinda understand banning cellphones during tests because of the ability to pass notes via text message with answers. But iPods? With little statistics to go on, principals from all over the country are telling their students to leave their digital media players home on test day.
It seems that these latest high tech cheating devices for high schools students are capable of being hidden, and can contain gigabytes of test information that student can merely click, play, and write the answer to.
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USB Chess Set for budding Kasparovs
Ahh, chess. What a cerebral game. I never quite caught the chess bug though, being beaten quite soundly in most of the games as I never really mastered any of the moves other than the old standby, castling. Even opponents who are many years my junior managed to read my mind as if they were the children of Jean Grey themselves, causing my king to call it quits in under 5 minutes. Mind you, we weren’t even playing speed chess so you can imagine just how I sucked. Perhaps I could have played much better in my youth had I had the advantage of training with the USB Chess Set from Brando. This USB Chess Set throws in a modern tech slant to an ancient game, featuring a roll up mat that makes it extremely portable.
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Slouchpod brings connectivity to gaming chair
How many gamers do you know who actually have some pretty good posture? As an ex-gamer myself (I still game occasionally on my DS, but long gone are the days of pulling all nighters to complete Diablo II when it was first released or fragging into the wee hours of the morning in the Dark Zone), I’m still trying to fix my poor posture. Are games to blame for this? Not really, but most gamers don’t really care about how they sit when being immersed in a world of make believe. After all, nobody else is watching, so they could be playing with their mouths open for all they care. The Slouchpod doesn’t do anything for your posture, but instead bends itself to accommodate the highly evolved state of a gamer.
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