Nature is a beautiful thing, so I suppose it’s understandable that some people might want to rise every morning to those sounds as opposed to the extremely loud beeping noise that you usually hear. This sphere alarm clock may look like absolutely nothing you’d find in nature, but it does actually play nature sounds. It does all of that while giving off some color changing lighting too.
Hammacher is a great site to go to in order to discover items you need that you never knew you needed. Yes, we’ve pretty much all slept on one of those obnoxious inflatable mattresses at some point in our lives. I’ve never met a single person who has anything good to say about the experience either. Every mattress promises to stay inflated for the entire night and yet without fail you’ll wake up with your tail bone bruised from it resting on the hard floor or ground. Well Hammacher has a new air up mattress for you and this one even has an incline on it.
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of video games that require some peripheral in order to make them work. Now, when you go to your local retail giant like Wal-Mart, you will see entire shelves devoted to Rockband and Guitar Hero. The most recent game that depends on an accessory is Tony Hawk: The Ride.
Then there are other games, such as Mario Cart for the Wii which have a steering wheel accessory that is nothing more than a piece of plastic. Sometimes I question how video game company decide how to package their peripherals with their games.
Especially when the new edition of Modern Warfare 2 comes with night vision goggles. I can’t help but question why. Granted, I’m not familiar with the original Modern Warfare game, but it doesn’t sound like the Night Vision goggles are required to play this game.
Some of you might be too young to remember when the Nintendo Entertainment System tried to sell the world the Power Glove. I guess they thought people would want to wear something on their arm and look like a cyborg, but it didn’t sell that well, even with the not-so-subliminal ad in the movie The Wizard.
I believe that the Power Glove was one of the first attempts at motion control for video games, but motion control has made some leaps and bounds quite recently. A company known as AthroTronix has recently made some interesting motion control advancements with the Acceleglove.
The Acceleglove isn’t designed for video game entertainment, but it is more for robotics. You can watch the YouTube video after the jump if you want to see a “hands-on” demonstration.
I would appear that we are quite far away from the holographic society that we see in Star Wars and other science fiction movies, but we are making baby steps toward it. Some of you remember when we covered CNN’s hologram of will.i.am, and the Holocube.
Another impressive step into a fully-functioning holographic society has recently occurred at the International Stationery and Office Products Fair in Tokyo, Japan. It was here that Epson presented their two-dimensional hologram.
If you’ve ever considered how to take better, more professional looking pictures, you’ve likely debated ways to rig a flash diffuser. It’s one of those easy things you can do that makes a big difference in the pictures you take. I have heard of cheap ways, like fastening a piece of paper at an angle in front of the flash. However, it’s a bit difficult to pull that trick off. In the end it’d be far easier to buy something affordable to solve the issue. Well Brando has two different types of blow up diffusers that will work no matter which type flash you’re using.
Don’t you just love technology and all the fringe benefits that come with it? The WoodStation offers something totally familiar and yet packaged in a different manner – it is an electronic device made out of wood , although there is a built-in motion sensitive LED clock/weather station, where the former actually activates whenever you wave your hand over it. This is quite some piece of carpentry as it comes with a luminous display that works well even when under direct sunlight, boasting important details such as barometric pressure, indoor relative temperature and indoor relative hygrometry data alongside weather prediction for the next 24 hours. Choose from maple or walnut finishes for £89.95 a pop.
Don’t get a migraine from thinking about the number of digital media set-top boxes and let the good people at ThinkGeek help by offering the Mvix Ultio 1080p Bit Torrent Media Player. This device basically comes with the industry’s kitchen sink, accompanied by the following features that
will definitely make you extremely tempted to part with $169.99 for this bad boy.
Just make sure you have your own 3.5″ SATA hard drive to get things going before you start since the Ultio obviously isn’t accompanied by one of these thingamajics.
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