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Magnets Might Chase Those Blues Away
Posted by Seamus Byrne at 11:56 PM on May 23, 2007
We've been hearing wild stories recently about researchers using magnetic stimulation of the brain to make a sleep-on-demand machine, and now here's a magnetic brain stimulator that psychiatrists might use to treat clinical depression. It's supposed to send an electromagnetic pulse 3cm into your brain, and somehow stimulate the prefrontal cortex, that part of the brain responsible for making you a civilized human being.
At the same time, it gets that blood flowing more freely, making you feel oh-so-good. Hey, who wouldn't want a magnetic strap-on to chase the blues away? The FDA is testing this thingamajig, and if all goes well we could be catching a buzz from this magnetic toaster by the end of next year. Hang on, you depressed souls, help is on the way.
We're still puzzled as to what kind of spaz lets go of their 
As if most movies weren't bad enough in two dimensions, now studios and top directors believe that the future of movies will be 3D projections. According to the New York Times, people like Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Jeffrey Katzenberg are preparing films in this format, both for the creative possibilities (or so they say) and to stop piracy. More details after the jump.
Remember those sliding picture puzzles that terrorised you as a kid? Now that idea has been taken to a new level with this concept design of a sliding puzzle desk by Hsien Chang. The panels on top of the desk slide around to unveil different storage areas where a variety of your goods can be kept and organized. This desk only has a total of four tiles covering five different compartments, so it is a fairly easy puzzle to navigate through. 
It's ball day over at Brando, which is why they've just released a USB Ball Hub and a USB Ball Card Reader.
Are you often masturbating with the worry that someone's staring at you through your iSight? Fear not, the iPatch is here to save your dignity. Just place the plastic iPatch — which is available in four different colors and two different shapes — over your iSight and you can be sure that nobody is looking at you.
For those of you that are even thinking about buying this, you should be aware that there's a green light next to the iSight that comes on whenever the camera's active. Available for iMacs now and MacBooks and MacBook Pros later. 
Sick of the other billionaires at the Yacht Club snickering at your silly plastic mouse? Yeah, me too. Earth-Treck has answered our needs and created a mouse wrapped in the luxurious brown or black leather. If you still haven't impressed your peers, this mouse comes with a matching USB hub. That should woo over the billionaires in no time. I think the Akihabara News translators said it best: "How sweet is that ?" No word on pricing or availability. 
Screwdrivers with multiple changeable heads are nothing new, but this Multi Screwdriver tops all those by expanding out like an octopus. This makes it both easy to see which tip you want and easy to poke your eye out eight different ways. 
Like 
For those of you who have been trying to keep their computers Microsoft-free by using OpenOffice, be weary of a new macro worm. Upon activation it will automatically start 
This lamp may be a little deceiving for those avid beer drinkers like myself, but it could still be a nice addition to any classy living room. The only downside is that whoever poured this $US45 beer mug lamp did a horrible job. Look at all of that head! My beer lighting needs are already satisfied with the 
Apparently the entire country of Japan is just like your mother: constantly worried about you getting too close to the screen. That's why Thanko's invented the Visomate, which attaches to the top of your monitor and detects whether your puss is too close to the screen.
It's a good thing Dell's new XPS 720 H2C has some serious cooling going on 'cause otherwise this thing would explode. Not only does it come with an overclocked CPU (up to a 3.73GHz QX6800), but it also has overclocked memory modules and a dual 8800 GTX setup. It's essentially a big brother to the 
The last remaining complaint about wireless mice is finally be addressed. With this Battery Free Wireless Mouse, no longer will the batteries die off in the middle of an intense fragging or TPS-reporting session. It is powered by the mouse pad, which emits juice from an electronic field generator. Seriously, having your hand in a electronic field for hours upon hours of the day can't be good for your health. Pre-orders are now being accepted for this $US25 mouse. 
Last Friday we mentioned the 
F1 racers are lucky sons o' guns. They make more than baseball players, get first pick of the hottest Euro models, drive really really fast without fear of highway patrol , and get cool special edition crap. Seiko just unveiled this year's Honda special edition Sportura Ultimate Kinetic Chrono, and announced that in addition to the drivers and crew, you can get your hands on one if you've got $US5,700 and, presumably, some good Seiko connections. Only 750 will be made, and every one will ship in the packaging you can see in the gallery, complete with an actual gear from a Honda F1 car. Hopefully, it's not a part that one of the drivers will need. 
If pointing the Wiimote at your screen like you were giving a presentation on the quarterly fiscal reports when you're playing Duck Hunt isn't quite realistic enough, then check out this Wii Light Gun attachment. It's a gun that you slip your Wiimote into, giving you the benefit of a gun grip and triggers while still making the Nunchuk port available for attachments.
Pioneer's Elite AV receivers weren't looking so fresh, after 
Future Sonic joins Ultimate Ears and Shure in its claim that rock stars use their fancy-schmancy earphones as monitors on stage. Now the company's offering the "TrueTimbre" tech used in its custom-fit pro line of Ear Monitors in its Atrio Series, universal-fit earphones for regular human beings like you and me. What's so great about them?
Just in time for the season finale, Apple has posted today a Lost game for iPod in the iTunes Music Store. The game reminds me a bit of the old Monkey Island graphic adventures, although I doubt it will have the wacky and wonderful dialogs that Guybrush Threepwood and company had. However, $A7.49 will buy you some Jack roleplaying as you try to help the others in the island and escape from the Others. 
There's no shortage of Bluetooth keyboards for mobile devices, but this $US100 Palm Bluetooth Keyboard looks like it's big enough for typing while it's still small enough to fold up and pack tightly into your briefcase. It sure as hell looks more usable than that 
That service pack we're all waiting for, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), might soon be shipping. Or not. In January, Microsoft said the update, code-named 
The folks at Apple Insider are reporting that Apple will soon ditch its baby iMac (17-inch model) to make room for new 20- and 24-inch systems. Like the 
Here's the Sanyo Xacti E1, the world's first waterproof camcorder. You're not going to be taking this $US500 camcorder scuba diving, because it can only be taken down to a depth of about 1.5m for an hour at a time, but still, you're not going to need a bulky underwater housing to take this 11cm-tall, 235-gram package in the pool. 
