Are you stuck in the past? Still listening to Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth on cassette and trying to beat your high score on Donkey Kong? These stylish Mario Brothers and Golden Star mice I found on GetUSB.info might get you that retro mojo you need to actually do it!

Both offer a retro 8-bit appeal and feature the original mechanical mouse ball mechanism that you probably forgot existed. Push one of these beauties across your desk and imagine that you are playing Super Mario Brothers… rather than filling out those boring TPS reports.

[Via GetUSB.info]

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Sunrise, Sunset,,, enough of that Tevia, now in Second Life you can see much more natural (and depending on how your local environment is set,, un-natural skyscapes.)

The folks at Linden Labs are using the Windlight atmospheric renderer. It takes your boring sky to monstrously gorgeous levels (take a picture why don’t you!)

Linden Labs has acquired Windward Mark (do you think that company likes sailing just a bit?) Their rendering package is now a part of everybody’s favorite other life and now, well, the future looks bright (hang on, I’m going to put a few more bad puns in here.

Don’t miss the awesome Flickr group of these new images produced with the Windlight package, they look great! Read the rest of this entry »

Here at CG, Golf gadgets are always popular. Anything that can help straighten out that hook or slice always seems to catch our eye. And as a golfer (or even baseball player, football kicker, hockey player, or soccer forward), practicing fundamentals at home is often a problematic affair. Sure there are a host of aids to help – from pitch backs to inflatable soccer goals, to even golf nets, but the hassle of setting up and storing them while not in use is often a detriment to investing in them. And leaving them out to the mercy of the elements can greatly cut short their operational life.

Well, Nick’s Net Works has a great design for a net that attaches to your garage door and can be collapsed into it while not in use.

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This is pretty cool, a wireless that doesn’t need batteries, it draws the required power from an electrical field generated by the mouse mat (connected via USB). I’ve not used a mouse mat in years and I do get the feeling that this product exists because it can rather than because it should, cool technology though.

You can get the mouse and mat from Gizoo for £12.95 (~$25).

At last no more winding, with the Citizen Alterna Eco Drive Watch, you need not worry about changing those batteries or winding it up every evening. Solar power has been a long coming to the watch market, and so because of this, the watch will go and go, no longer limited by the battery and it would appear to have some little extras added to make it a watch for life.
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To be fair to the manufacturers of the Amycoll PS3 device, the gaudy pink color which it comes in isn’t the only thing that is shocking about it – what is more jaw dropping would be the “inspiration” garnered by taking iconic devices of today as well as their naming conventions and cobbling a multi-functional device which they pass off as their own. What can you tell by the Amycoll PS3 name alone? Are you expecting next gen graphics on a portable platform? Sorry to disappoint you, but the Amycoll PS3 is primarily a cellphone that comes with a fair bit of old school gaming capability.

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Whenever you take a look at the keyboard and mouse combo, you’d probably think that these input devices have pretty much achieved the same status as that of the wheel. After all, if something isn’t broke, why fix it? The brains behind the MagicMouse device think differently though, coming in the form of a 3D ultrasonic computer mouse. This unique design is the result of an idea from five undergraduates, and has been chosen as one of the 10 inventions to be honored with the PopSci Invention Awards. What does the MagicMouse do exactly, you ask? Well, it works like a regular mouse except that you wear it on your finger instead of using your whole hand to manipulate a mouse.

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Wearing a pair of hearing aids is a surefire sign that you’ve listened to too much Walkman in your youth, and with today’s iPod generation, it makes perfect sense to see some of them sport hearing aids too as they age with time. Thankfully, folks today have a better sense of combining both form and function to come up with the Wirear, an innovative hearing aid that comes in a sleek form, providing flexibility with a vast array of colors to suit your wardrobe. The Wirear device will use energy efficient “micro fuel cells” that extends its usability, turning what seems to be a handicap into a fashion statement of sorts.

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