Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Sony Announces Digital TV for PSP
11:51PM Seamus Byrne | In an announcement that teases the US for our lack of our 1seg terrestrial digital broadcast, Japanese buyers of the new PSP will be able to receive DVB on their PSP. The PSP-S310 is a digital television receiver add-on for the new PSP that will run $58 and snap on the top of the unit much like their portable EyeToy. It interfaces via USB and will require a Memory Stick to function, despite a lack of DVR. Bonus pic… More »
Space Invaders Clock Made From an Old TV and Propeller Chip
11:28PM Seamus Byrne | Jason Hickman is a very clever man. Not content with modding an old Sony TV into a Space Invaders clock, he then decided that a mere digital time display was not enough. Instead, he decided to have the hours represented by the extra lives, and the minutes by the aliens. More »
Crawling Zombie Vigorously Drags His Legless Carcass Into Your Heart
11:15PM Seamus Byrne | If you’re one of the hordes of the zombie-obsessed, you’re going to love The Crawling Zombie, a legless, lifeless and red-eyed oaf that chases you across the table as he cries out such pithy sayings as “Hey, slow down, would ya? I can only crawl so fast!”, and “I can’t feel my legs,” and even more wisecracks. Jump to the next page for a video of this undulating undead ogre in action. More »New iPhone rumours
11:06PM Seamus Byrne | More Rumors: DigiTimes claims that a new iPhone is in production and will ship in September. [digitimes] More »
The Loopty-Loopy-Loopita Takes Seating One Step Further
10:35PM Seamus Byrne | There are worse places to sit than the Loopty-Loopy-Loopita. A fabulously ker-screwy concept in on-floor seating, it has been designed by a chap called Victor Aleman who probably got the idea when he dropped a large chunk of orange peel onto the floor and liked the way it fell. The best bit about this, though, is that if you fit a bunch of them together then it looks like Scalextric for the posh. Made of a single piece of red oak and covered with high-density foam it will no doubt be off-the-scale expensive – but think of the Loopty-Love you could enjoy with the chicks. More »
Semk Cupcake Speakers Are Deliciously Kitsch
10:02PM Seamus Byrne | Yum Yum Yum. Semk’s cupcake speakers are a world away from your average girly gizmo. Normally, I would run a mile from this kind of ultra frou-frou, pastel twinkiness, but these little objects are somehow different. Maybe it’s because it looks like a cake and I LOVE CAKE. Of one thing, however, I am sure. A couple of the guys at Mondo Giz would love them – basically because they look like a pneumatic pair of tits, the nipples covered by heart-shaped pasties. No prizes for guessing who I’m thinking of, eh, Jason and Jesus? Fresh out of the factory, there’s no word on price or availability yet, and the Semk site is playing silly buggers right now, but I reckon these will sell like hot cakes. Oh dear. [Technabob] More »
Tree Camera is More Sound Than Vision
9:16PM Seamus Byrne | The Tree Camera is an MP3 player that’s made out of wood and cute to boot. It has a 256MB memory, plays MP3s, WMAs and OGGs and plugs into the USB port of your PC. More »
Revolutionary Biosuit Could Be the New Face of Space Wear
8:37PM Seamus Byrne | A professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT has come up with a revolutionary new space suit that she hopes will take the place of the traditional, bulky number worn by astronauts over the past four decades. Although still only a prototype, Dava Newman’s spandex and nylon Biosuit will offer space travellers more mobility and flexibility to explore the planets. If given the nod, Professor Newman reckons the Biosuit could be ready for the first human visit to Mars,thought to be about a decade away. More »
M&M-like Headphones Invite People to Lick Your Ears
8:23PM Seamus Byrne | Elecom is releasing their chocolate candy-themed $20 in-ear earphones, following on their rosebud-shaped earphones. For some reason, I find these 20Hz~20kHz, 10mW colorful pieces quite attractive, but if you are expecting swedish goddesses to come on the street and lick your ears to see if you are really stupid enough to put M&Ms in them, well, it just won’t work. More »
