Ruslan Kogan obviously wants you to stimulate his economic wellbeing when you get your $900 cheque from K-Rudd, seeing as how he’s just announced a 37-inch Kogan LCD cheekily named “Kevin37″. The 1366 x 768 HD screen will even come with a free promotional T-shirt in the style of the Kevin 07 campaign shirt.
Just when you were mildly impressed with the fact that the Nokia N95 ran Windows 3.1, you can now be slightly more mildly impressed that it runs Windows 98 (apparently). [DailyMobile]
Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There’s no flex: The whole “not dying” part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump.
Weight Fat—found in a Japanese crane machine—blatantly rips off Wii Fit with its green, grey and white colour scheme and similar fonts. There’s a problem with this knock-off, though: it’s not even a video game.
The creator of this solid walnut table decided to paint a wireframe of its constructional elements right on it, so it looks see-thru—at least from certain angles. Move 10 degrees, and it just looks weird:
Don’t worry, fans of both LG and plasma televisions. All those nasty rumours about the Korean company pulling out of the plasma business are untrue, according to the “position statement” (as opposed to media release) that just landed in my inbox.
newVideoPlayer("/olympus_tough_test_2.flv", 506, 305,""); Canon and Panasonic may have had the hottest new rugged cams at the camera tradeshow in Vegas, but only Olympus had the balls to brutalise their Stylus Tough 6000 for all to see.
As technology advances, I have to say I’m no longer that easily impressed. Solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube in under a minute? Meh. Solving this DIY Petaminx? Congrats—you’re probably autistic. [Make - Thanks Seung!]
The days of the shuttle must be over, but that’s not the end of reusable spaceships. Now the Europeans want to revive an old 1980s project called HOTOL. Check out the cool cutaway drawing.
Sure, a Roomba will methodically and accurately clean your floors, but wouldn’t it be more fun to let chaos reign by throwing the controls of your robotic vacuum over to a hamster?
