I think that humans are probably the only animals who feel a need to have rooms in their domicile. A bear can sleep in a wide-open cave, a fox can sleep in a tiny hole, and a fish, when in captivity, sleep in a bowl.
If we lived like our pet fish, then we [...]

I’m sure there are many who can’t stand taking pictures with Flash. I mean, not only do they create too much reflections, but then there is that horrid red-eye effect. The worst case scenario is taking a picture at the aquarium. I mean, you think you got a great shot of the [...]

Samsung Pixon 12 appears to be raising the standard for cellular phone cameras with an LED flash, a wide-angle 28mm lens, and a whopping 12 Megapixels. I’m sure there are cellular phones with a higher number of Megapixels, but most consumer digital cameras don’t go that high.
The Pixon 12 can also record [...]

Mosquitoes have long plagued mankind from the very beginning, and even dinosaurs were not exempt from their irritatng bites. These tiny bloodsuckers are more annoying than anything else, with their rather stinging bite (for some, anyways) leaving a rather itchy reminder afterwards. In addition, there are some deadly diseases that these insects carry including malaria [...]

Some of you might remember the 1995 techno-thriller The Net. In the opening, Sandra Bullock’s character has a fire in her fireplace that is nothing more than a screensaver on a mid-nineties monitor. I felt the director had that shot to show how the main character’s life was made recluse by technology. [...]

We’ve featured a fair few interesting, tasteless and bizarre aquariums here on Coolest Gadgets but this is probably the nerdiest yet (thanks Critiker), the R2-D2 Aquarium.
Modeled after the most well-known astromech droid in the galaxy, this R2-D2 holds a 1 3/4-gallon aquarium tank in his central compartment, ideal for a small freshwater family of goldfish, [...]

Some of you may need to pull your mind out of the gutter when you hear the word “hardcore”, but Hardcore Computer is a custom designer and manufacturer of high-performance computer systems.
Hardcore Computer’s newest product, the Reactor, is quite unique as all of the heat producing components, such as the CPU, motherboard, video [...]

We’re into coolest gadget of the week #6, some cool (and (as usual) strange) entries this week , what’s coolest, you decide (one randomly drawn voter/commenter will win a $50 Amazon voucher). Over to the entries:

USB VHS Converter
A cool gadget to resurrect your old VHS tapes, especially those old family videos that will bring back [...]