PacMan Hothead Protects Hands, Breaks Ms. PacMan’s Heart

May 20, 2009

New, from everyone’s favorite friends at Fred and Friends, comes the PacMan Hothead.  This nifty little kitchen gadget is the bastard child of video game icon PacMan, and kitchen standby OvenMit.  The PacMan Hothead must have caused Ms. PacMan quite a shock.  His refusal to take her hand in marriage was always a little off-putting […]

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Wind-It Aims to Bolster Power Grid, Post-It Unavailable for Comment

May 19, 2009

Electrical transmission towers, those ugly monuments to our reliance on electricity, have been long overdue for an upgrade.  As a part of Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation Contest, designed to drum up innovative ideas to “fix our energy addiction”, a trio of French designers came up with the Wind-It.  The basic idea is to install these […]

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Curved e-Ink Watches Hit Market, Market Considering Lawsuit

May 19, 2009

I’ve written a little about e-Ink watches in the past and one of my favorite makers of these nerdtastic timepieces, Phosphor, just released a new line of watches.  Their old line, featured here, was slick but lacked the kind of polish demonstrated in their latest designs.  These will still induce the same kind of nerdgasms […]

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Motorola Nest: Filling All Your Asymmetrical Needs

May 18, 2009

 
Motorola hasn’t had a hit phone since the Razr debuted back in 1983 (or at least it feels like that long ago).  The Razr was what people wanted; it was slim, innovative, had a decent camera for the time, and sported a great display.  Rather than improving upon that concept with new phones, they kept […]

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2GB Skull Ring is Bad, Ass

October 21, 2008

Solid Alliance, a company that is well-known for USB Accessories made for the today’s goth/nerd on the go, has decided that a skull ring would be the best vehicle for their new storage solution.  No longer do goth nerds need to carry around functionless chunks of metal on their fingers in the name of being […]

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Real Thumb Drive is Creepy, Creeps Me Out

September 15, 2008

 
Have you even wanted a thumb drive that was capable of both storing your vital data, as well as scaring the ever-loving shit out of small children?  Well, if so, I have some great news!  Now available over at USB Geek is the USB Real Thumb Drive!  This literal thumb drive sports standard USB 2.0 […]

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ASUS F6 Laptops Stink (In a Good Way)

August 25, 2008

There have been some crazy laptop ideas in the past, but ASUS may have topped them all with their soon-to-be released F6 line of stinky computers.  This line of laptops feature a relatively standard set of specs: 13.3″ WXGA screen, an integrated webcam, an Intel Core2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of RAM support, and […]

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HACKED! USB Drive is Concept-y, Awesome

August 19, 2008

 
Those clever bastards over at Fred & Friends have done it again.  I’m starting to think of these guys as the Anti-Brando.  They come up with original concepts that deliver on our tech dreams (as well as nifty household gadget dreams) that we didn’t even know we had in the first place.  This time, they’ve […]

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