You’d better hope your fingers are small if you want to play these positively minuscule table games from Japan. They’re shrunken down to palm size, letting you play hockey, Foosball or air hockey wherever you go. There are even fold-away legs to make them easier to carry around. Check out the air hockey game, where you turn on a switch and a battery-operated fan keeps that tiny puck slightly elevated over the table’s surface, just like the real thing. Each air hockey, hockey and foosball mini-table game is $12.85. [Rakuten, via Like Cool]
Though the lunchbox business is long dead, their futuristic-yet-tote-friendly look has made its way to the 4×6 photo printers. Canon’s 4.5lb. dye-sub Selphy ES2 is the latest example, with its 3″ LCD, an “Easy-Scroll” wheel, simple snap-and-print ink cartridges and built-in clipart for adding cartoon antics to your more somber shots. Now if only the $200 printer came emblazoned with Batman or, say, Josie and some of the tastier Pussycats. [Canon] More »
Here’s what happens when British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster toss a pile of trash in their living room. Somehow it stacks up so perfectly that when they shine a light through it, glorious, and sometimes even pisstastic, artwork results. Big names on the UK art scene since their highly acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2000, they’ve been coming up with these spectacular compositions ever since. [Slightly Warped]
Dlinc, the reader who sent us the pictures of the LEGO Millennium Falcon unboxing, also included a picture of his computer rig, which looks as if it belongs right in the Falcon itself. I don’t know about you but I am absolutely amazed by its space-combat-meets-CTU looks. Which got me thinking: what kind of work/play computer areas do you have? Send us your photos or post a link to pictures in the comments. We will publish them in a gallery at the end of the week. More »
HP announced its overhaul of the ENVY M:151 today with the appropriately numbered ENVY M:152. The 152 is the first Voodoo laptop to get the Intel Core 2 Duo chipset, and can even handle the Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor X7800 Extreme CPU.
The new system also comes with a 2.0MP camera in place of the 151′s 1.3MP, plus a fingerprint reader. Oddly enough, the 15.4″ screen’s resolution is down a tad: the 151 had 1680×1200, while the 152 has 1680×1050. It also weighs more: 7 lbs, instead of the 151′s 6lbs.
Naturally, the 152 supports DirectX 10 and has NVIDIA’s GeForce 8600GT 512MB graphics card. How noisy is it, you ask? Gamers, content creators and mobile enthusiasts alike will also marvel at one of the quietest Voodoo notebooks to date.
That doesn’t necessarily mean “quiet” of course. [Voodoo]
Anyway, here’s the full press release if you’re interested: More »
Furniture designer Timothy Ben’s Arrow bookshelf modules are made from MDF and come in 20 different colors, with either a lacquered or laminated finish. Although they’re probably meant to be stacked in that delightful chevron effect, I’m sure you can play a basic form of Tetris with them if you’re really bored. [Timothy Ben Furniture via MoCo Loco] More »
Given that SatNav systems are one of the hottest items to steal these days, Medion’s latest GoPal might go some way in redressing the balance. Its P4425 model boasts fingerprint recognition for extra security, meaning that not only will thieves be unable to use it, but might find it that little bit harder to find out where you live &mdash unless, of course, your car is parked in your driveway when they break into your motor and steal it. More »
The Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD700 —the younger sister of the DMX-HD1000 we tried at IFA2007 — has been announced in the US and will be available at the end of October. At 189 grams and 171 cubic centimeters, Sanyo claims it’s the smallest 720p camcorder in the world, taking AVC/H.264 video and 7.1-megapixel stills with Face Chaser technology which can track 12 faces simultaneously. Its specs are quite impressive for its $600 price tag:
When researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia needed a lab scanner, but didn’t have the cash to pay for it, they didn’t panic. Instead, Angel Maqueira and his colleagues bought a bog-standard CD player — and hacked it, saving themselves a potential $70,000 in the process. More »
Au’s Infobar 2 is hitting the streets in Japan in November. Impress describes it as “Square it was and the form like whether the candy dissolved in the mouth and had roundness of,” which makes me certain that it was designed by Yoda (another clue is that it comes in Yoda Green.) The 2.6-inch OLED screen has 240 x 400 resolution, there’s a 2-megapixel camera, mobile TV tuner, micro SD card slot, 290 minutes talk time and 350 hours’ standby. It comes in four colours for now &mdash the white and blue models in the pic will be out at a later date &mdash and I am so bored of the iPhone that I am going to make this my latest object of affection. [Impress]
