Author: Gabrielle Taylor
Colour-changing LED lamp with giant remote control
It's a tad abnormal for the remote control for a gadget to be larger than the gadget itself, but it's nearly the case with the Remote Controlled Dimmable 5W High Powered 1-LED Multicolor LED Light Bulb (actually, the name…
Back Off Door Mat: Space Invaders under your feet
La Tete au Cube brings you a stylishly retro way to welcome non-aliens to your home: the Back Off Door Mat. It runs on two AA batteries and uses flat panel LEDs to animate the Space Invaders. The bad…
Picard solar bag puts a solar fist in a leather glove
The idea of putting a solar panel on a briefcase in order to power a laptop is pretty good, but it does tend to make an already clunky carryall even clunkier. The Picard Solar Bag brings some subtlety to…
SolidAlliance outdoes itself with FoodHub and FoodDish
The rice omelet mouse was the appetizer for strange peripherals, and now, SolidAlliance serves the main course. A Rice-Tomato USB Hub and some Ready Boost 1GB USB Keys: Fried Shrimp, Crab, Hamburg and Purin (flan). Each one is 100…
Wi-Fi enabled aquarium gives you a real fish screen saver
It's not surprising that we're seeing fish webcams, considering the perpetual popularity of fish screensavers, but the elaborateness of fish-computer interaction has reached impressive new heights with the Wi-Fi enabled aquarium that lets you feed your fish remotely. You…
Robot employed as sex club tout
Earlier, I was complaining about robots who just sit around and play video games. I didn't know when I was well off. Robots in Osaka, Japan are now touting sex clubs. Osaka law, banned touts from soliciting on the…
Your Studio and You: South Park does propaganda video
Imagine Seagram hiring then-unknown, pre-South Park Trey Parker and Matt Stone, to create a good old-fashioned studio propaganda movie – sort of – called Your Studio and You. Imagine they rounded up stars from James Cameron to Angela Lansbury,…
Guitar Heronoid – Android plays Guitar Hero
Okay, I thought the whole point of robots was that they were supposed to make our jobs easier, not take over our leisure time activities. But on the heels of the Wii playing robot comes an android that plays…
Google advances on e-world domination with purchase of DoubleClick
Casually dropped on a Friday afternoon is the bombshell news that Google is to acquire DoubleClick for $3bn. DoubleClick is a huge provider of online advertising, and in purchasing it, Google consolidates its grip on all electronic media, from…
Earth to Iris: Yanks put router in space
The Department of Defense's Iris project goal is to put a genuine router in genuine space by early 2009. While there are plenty of internet-boosting satellites right now, they all work through ground stations or via radio signals to…
