Carajo de boombox de los cojones, brothels! Check out those ghetto colors and speakers in that Lasonic dock-to-go for the iPod, mamasita! Or like they call it, the “high performance music system.” Arriba! The 15-pound boombox comes with all kinds of flashy lights and 2 x 15W speakers. Not amazing power, but enough pa tocar el Chacarrón! After the jump.
TG Daily found this new Slingbox on the FCC. They call it a pro, but instead of the component pass through dongle, there are built-in inputs. (But no pass through) Om Malik and Joyce Kim interviewed the Slingbox CEO and got him to cough up something about a Slingbox HD coming out January. galleryPost('whiteslingbox', 3, 'New Slingbox?'); [FCC via TG Daily & The Om and Joyce Happy Hour]
Streetlights aren’t really necessary when there’s a full moon out, what with it bouncing all that sunlight down at us and everything. But your average streetlight isn’t smart enough to know when it isn’t needed, so it sits there, dumbly shining away for no real reason. That’s not the case with the Lunar-Resonant Street Lights, conceptual LED-based lamps that dim down and turn off completely as the moon waxes. When it’s a new moon, it’ll be fully lit up, showing you your path. What results is an energy savings of 90-95%. Not a bad idea.
AU: We covered this down here in AU back in May. -SB
There are a variety of scratch removal devices for CDs and DVDs, but whoever thought of using such a readily available in prosaic device, that proof of creation itself, the everyday banana? Watch the video to see how to render your videos suddenly watchable, using banana goo and the banana’s waxy peel to miraculously fix that Netflix disc that arrived at your house looking like a skating rink. [Neatorama]
You’re probably sitting in a seat right now that’s getting unbearably hot, struggling with the hot butt phenomenon and wishing you had a Self-Cooling Seat Cushion like this one. It does its cooling passively without any power requirements like that cool-or-heat temperature controlled seat we showed you last year. Although this one sounds like some sort of fanny fatigue-relieving miracle, its makers claim its secret has a scientific basis, using unnamed natural mineral crystals inside with a melting point that “produces a slow, soothing cooling.”
newVideoPlayer("metalstorm_gawker.flv", 475, 376); We’ve seen some of these guns before, but the creatively named Metal Storm company keeps making videos about them that you won’t want to miss. The sound of that million-rounds-per minute gun firing is something you won’t soon forget. “Aaaaannnnk!” And it’s done. Let’s hope these monster weapons are only used by the good guys. [Danger Room]
Here are patents Nike filed that prove that they considering making the shoes from Back to the Future II. Michael Maloof of the McFly 2015 movement, dug them up yesterday. galleryPost('mcflypatents', 3, 'McFly 2015 Sneaker Patents'); [McFly2015, via NeatoRamaLamaDingDong]
newVideoPlayer("chinacrash2_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Boy, China hasn’t been getting the best PR lately when it comes to its exports, eh? You might recall that we showed you a Chinese sedan “earning” its 1-star crash test rating. Well, here’s another one: the Chery Amulet. Sold mostly to unsuspecting Russians for about $9,000, this thing is about as safe as a homemade submarine. I’ll stick to walking, thanks. [MobileMag]
This design concept for a juicer by Gibli Ortal is quite beautiful, but perhaps its creator didn’t realize that it might end up in a rather precarious location. It certainly seems like a great place for a juicer, hugging the countertop right there within easy reach. But, uh, it could end up being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It must have some sort of grippy backing underneath its lovely L-shaped form, holding it in place, and then when you’re done with that it takes up very little space hanging on the wall and generally looking pretty:
It may sound a little Dr. Evil, or just plain far fetched, but as of now, the Galactic Suite space hotel is a go for 2012. Barcelona-based architect Xavier Claramunt is promising a three-night stay 300 miles in orbit to anyone with 3 million euros ($4.15 million). The package includes shuttle trips to and fro, an 18-week training program on a Caribbean island. Details surrounding certain creature comforts and necessities are still being ironed out.
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