We’ve all heard the story: Someone locks his car keys and remote car opener inside his vehicle, and can’t get back in. He does have a second remote car opener at home, so he calls up his home, where his wife/roommate/whatever answers. He asks the housemate to hold the second remote up to the phone […]
Designed by Hyuk Jae Chang, The PowerBridge has to be one of the most elegant and brilliant re-invention of a power strip I’ve ever seen! This is definitely one of those things that makes you slap your forehead and say “Why didn’t I think of that? [Via YankoDesign]
While many students would surely like to own a 48-inch multi-touch screen, most don’t have the cash to buy a Microsoft Surface device. But a group of engineering students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario didn’t see that as a problem: they just built their own. Their device does not strictly work on touch, […]
Despite the critical success of electronic reading devices such as Amazon’s Kindle, the gadgets may have a long way to go to reach the mass market. One research firm claims readers would have to be as cheap as $50 to really catch on, making subsidies a must. Forrester Research interviewed 4,706 people and asked a […]
What do you get when you combine science and a conventional cereal bowl? A Loopa Gyroscopic Bowl! This amazing invention will keep your young kids from spilling their cereal all over the place, no matter what they do. The bowl is dishwasher safe and is easy to pick up and handle, even for small hands. […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m not really ready to shell out a few hundred bucks to buy a universal remote that supports the PS3. Logitech’s Harmony series remotes are really nice, but if you want PS3 support, you’ll have to buy a special infrared adapter on top of the remotes to make them […]
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However cool these may look, do not try to build a hand-mountable flamethrower at home. Despite what the Black Sabbath lyrics say, you are not Iron Man. At the very least, this guy seems to know what he’s doing because he’s been working on other flamethrowing setups for a while now, including his his “Prometheus” […]
If you’re looking to rob somebody, an iPhone presumably makes a great target: a breeze to carry away relatively inconspicuously and with a pretty decent resale value for your ‘work’. Unfortunately for three alleged muggers, the device’s much desirable gadgetry has a sting in the tail. iPhone owner Can Duruk was carrying his phone this […]
Even as an adult, I still enjoy playing with puzzle games, and buckyballs are no exception to that: Named after R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. “BuckyBall” is the nickname for a Carbon 60 molecule. Each set contains 216 neodymium magnets that can be shaped, molded, torn apart and snapped together in unlimited […]