In the world of snow fun, there are sleds, there are tea-trays and there are even plastic bin bags (if you are a suicidal sledger, as I was in my teenage years). And then there is this, the Alu sled. Built from aluminum, the shock-absorbent silver slider has plastic runners, a handbrake, and packs up into a sexy little carry case when you’re done tobogganing. More »
Oh dear, poor The Al Gore. The Nobel Prize Laureate, Internet inventor and husband of Tipper has had his website hacked. His blog for An Inconvenient Truth is now selling Viagra, Valium, Zovirax and Xanax. More »
Floating keychains are common, but this is the first time we have seen something like the Waterbuoy: you chain it to whatever valuable object and, if it falls into the water, the contact will fire up a gas valve that will instantly fill a balloon capable of lifting 1kg. The water will also activate a high-intensity LED so you can see it at night. Warning note: never store a keychain in your swimming trunks’ pocket. Or else. [Besportier] More »
The winner of Electrolux’s Design Lab 2007 competition will be announced tomorrow in Paris, and these are the final eight products hoping to win their creator €5,000 ($8,450). The brief was to design something eco-friendly and sustainable for 2020, and sexiest is the Fog Shower by Joo Diego Schlmansky from Brazil, which consumes just two litres of water during a five-minute shower. It’s all to do with the mist of microscopic water droplets, rather than a traditional shower, which uses around 20 liters for the same amount of scrub-up time. More »
First they wowed us with their treadmill love, and now OK Go are looking to light up fans’ lives with the costumes for their upcoming tour. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer (standing on the right in the fifth gallery picture), who has collaborated with London-based fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, as well as architect Zaha Hadid and Philippe Starck, the suits were inspired by Las Vegas slot machines. More info below. More »
We love technological advancement, but there is something that just feels wrong about TAB Austria’s Virtual Pinball machine. Sure, the six different animated games offer more variety than your conventional machine, and the 42″ plasma display looks a damn site sexier than the usual mechanized pinball floor, but these things were never meant to be altered. No, not even the promise of online tournaments and user upgradeable games can sway us. More »
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Here’s our one and only Wilson Rothman getting all Tom-Cruise-eyed with the weekend Today Show presenter. In theory he’s showing what’s hot for purchase in the gadget world these Holidays, which looks like last year’s options. He says something about the Wii, then something about the DS, then some more about the Sling (“Sling takes your TV and slings it out into the world”??? —he’s so going to pay for that) but in reality, you can see he’s all like “Oh you Ms. Weekend Today Show Hostess, you look so makey-outy today. Rowr!” And he’s oh-so-right. [Today Show] More »
Looks like the Wibrain B1 has finally made it Stateside, just in time for the holidays. There are two models: the B1E, with 512MB of RAM and costs $US699; and the 1MB B1H, which costs $US849. The Wibrain B1, with its cute pop-up camera and mic, is available from mid-December. Full specs are below the gallery.
Just looking at Nyko’s Perfect Shot controller shell brings back childhood memories spent playing Namco Arcade Shooters. Now a bit of that nostalgia is coming to the Wii. I like Nintendo’s zapper attachment is nice, but the plain white design was a bit generic for my tastes. This, however, is a whole other story. The shape of the gun, the colours used, all have a throwback feel – and I like it. A tactile trigger controls the B button, and apass through port allows the nunchuck or other future add-on to be used. With light gun games starting to arrive on Wii, I may have to pick this up, just to relive some of my nerd glory days. The Perfect Shot should be available on December 24 for $US12.99. [Amazon] More »
We weren’t too disappointed when we heard that the Zune 80 almost matched the 80GB iPod classic in terms of battery life, but CNET’s hands-on testing has determined that the Zune’s actual battery life is quite a bit shorter than its stated battery life. More »
