Park these Capsuli rechargeable LED emergency lights on their miniature solar-powered charging station, and when havoc strikes and all the lights go out, you can pass these around to all the occupants of your darkened abode. A quick twist turns on the LED inside, giving you just enough light to keep from stumbling all over yourself. When you’re not using them, they look kind of pretty in their little parking lot that might be a decorative addition to an empty windowsill. [Yanko Design]
Most Apple fans know that their refurb store can be a good way to save some cash if you can’t access a student discount and don’t bang your fists on the ground for the newest gear. The only problem was that shopping on the site felt like sifting through the bowels of Apple.com from 1996. It wasn’t pleasant. Their recent update has updated the experience. Now the eyesore has been spruced up, but more importantly, Apple has added a “latest offers” column and cleaner categorization. We’re still not sold on the meager $20 savings for a refurbished last gen Nano, but at least the site is prettier. [apple via tuaw] More »
newVideoPlayer("braviabunnyad_gawker.flv", 475, 286);Our Jesus will be a happy bunny. The new Bravia ad from Sony has one of his favourite tracks ever: The Stones’ She’s A Rainbow. I’m happy because there’s a giant rabbit made out of Play-Doh, and New Yorkers are happy because— well, it never pays to be typecast, does it? [Sony Bravia via Media Guardian] More »
Scientists in Taiwan have figured out how to make an oven out of cloth. Here you can see they’ve heated up a couple of pieces of tasty cheese toast in the thing, and the inventive tinkerers at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute say they’ve also baked a chicken in this lightweight and foldable oven that’s conveniently portable, weighing “just a few hundred grams.” There’s just one little problem with this idea: You still have to furnish some serious power to make it go, but still, it might be nice to carry an oven around in your laptop bag, whip it out in the hotel room, plug it in and bake some bread on the go. Its inventors say we’ll be seeing the oven for sale next year. [Texyt] More »
As Giz readers know, a Japanese lacquerware company currently builds $435 wooden computer keyboards, ones that Jesus compared to the unit of the mighty Gandalf himself. Demand, as you might imagine, now exceeds supply. So now manufacturer Hacoa is introducing a do-it-yourself alternative called Ki-Board DIY Kit. More »
Problem: the clothes we buy off store mannequins never properly demonstrate our in-motion sexy strut. Solution: the Moving Mannequin runs in place, simulating being late to work or really needing to use the bathroom. (Hit the jump for more along with a glorious animated gif.) More »
Although at night it looks like a new Cylon spaceship, this is the new Terminal 3 at Beijing Airport. Like the rest of spectacular buildings being built in China’s capital, it will be finished early next year, just in time for the Olympics. According to its designers, Sir Norman Foster and partners, the “world’s largest and most advanced airport building—not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability—has the shape of a dragon. I don’t know about dragons or other passenger experiences, but if I ever get close, I would expect Veritech fighters coming out of it. [Bornrich]
Just a heads-up to all of our Puritan Gizmodo readers: 58-year-old Chicago native Jeanette Strowder confessed to shooting and killing her boyfriend, Jesse Martin, after finding his stash of porn stored on CDs. We initially assumed that the CDs must have contained some really freaky content to warrant the response, or at least some juicy ex-girlfriend shots, but apparently it was a (standard?) collection of “nude photographs of women.”
On an entirely unrelated, lighter note, Gizmodo is naming today National Make Space On Your Hard Drive Day. Because one can never have too many free gigabytes on the old computer. For Word documents. And MP3 files. No siree Bob. [chicagosuntimes via dvorakuncensored] More »
Flip the lid on this pack of Marlboro Lights, press the black button and all mobile phones in a 60-foot radius will go dead. Given how hard I am finding it to give up the weed, however, I would prefer a phone that stopped me from smoking. The price of silence? $950. [Red Ferret via Advanced Intelligence] More »
