While this might look like an ordinary baseball hat, a closer look reveals that it has a bunch of electronics jammed into the back and a wire connecting it behind the ear of the wearer. That’s your first tip-off that this hat will do more than shield your eyes from the sun and give you hat head. It’s a hat that can actually read the EEG signals from your brain, able to tell when you’re too sleepy to drive or, with a bit more work, allow you to do things like turn the TV on and off. It’s much like other EEG readers that claim to allow you to control things with your brain, but this one is wireless and portable. [Pink Tentacle]
Some use the Force. Others just need the delete key. Still, we’re really enjoying this fontified Darth Vader—especially the subtle use of colour with his red equals sign lightsaber. To see the Death Star in fonts, hit the jump.
Over several months, one artist put roughly 40 hours of Illustrator drawing work into a piece called “Science Machine.” And over that time, he had his computer screencap the project every five seconds. The result, along with some B-roll and a soundtrack, is what you see in this video. To read the artist’s thoughts on the video and his Vista machine used to make it, hit the jump.
We got hands-on time with the HTC Diamond when it was released, but nothing beats taking photos at home under optimal lighting conditions. EPrice in Taiwan got a unit for themselves (HTC is from Taiwan) and took loads of shots, some of which illustrate why this thing is called the Diamond. Go on, check the gallery to see what we mean. [Eprice]
Fujitsu is set to launch an external graphics card solution dubbed the “AMILO GraphicBooster” sometime in the “next few weeks.” Unfortunately, this information was leaked from a presentation, so there isn’t a whole lot in the way of details—but we do know that the GraphicBooster is based on ATI XGP technology, it will allow users to connect up to three external displays to their notebook, DVI-D and HDMI connections are included, and it can reportedly deliver a 4.7X performance improvement over the graphics of a small form factor AMILO notebook.
I say “guaranteed” date disasters, but that may be a little too strong a word. After all, it is possible to find a cool chick that can handle your geeky obsessions—but the likelihood of that happening is remote at best. So, if you have a date this weekend, it is probably in your best interest to hide gadgets that could be viewed negatively by women—gadgets like those found after the break.
I’ve come to the conclusion that AT&T just loves toying with us when it comes to the iPhone. Just days after limiting buyers to a single iPhone, it’s back to the old threefer rule—apparently they found enough iPhones lying around in a closet somewhere to go back to biz as usual. [InfoWeek via Crave]
What’s even better than a Wall-E robot toy made by WowWee? A Wall-E robot toy made by the animatronic people at Disney. This Wall-E robot is supposed to roam around Disneyland/Disney World entertaining patrons, but got spotted on the streets of LA panhandling and glad-handing for cash. You know who else can say their name? Timmy from South Park. Wall-E! [Slashfilm]
Official word from Nokia is that the next (and maybe last) firmware update for the US N95 is due in just a few weeks. Exciting, because Symbian Guru speculates it’ll come with support for Flash Lite 3, Demand Paging, Web Runtime and a bunch of other tweaky goodness. What are you hoping they add (or fix) in the update? [Nokia via Symbian Guru]
If this self-declared Awesome Laptop Speaker is like most of the wares you buy at Urban Outfitters, you’re probably paying a hefty markup for poorly made crap on the basis of its pseudo-vintage aesthetics (and it matches your MBP!). But supposedly this USB speaker (which is, admittedly, attractive) will pump out The Arcade Fire with more gusto than your tinny laptop speakers will, and it’s only US$40. And hey, it’s bendy! I have the feeling the bass leaves something to be desired, though. [Urban Outfitters via Shiny Shiny]
