Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Solar Desk Lamp Perfect For Everyone Whose Desk Is Outside

11:50PM July 15, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Call me crazy, but I don’t think the creators of this Solar Desk Lamp really thought this one out fully. [GizFever] More »


Computing

Asus Eee T91 Touch Tablet Review: Keep Dreaming

11:00PM July 15, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The Asus Eee T91 is a return to netbooks gone by—a tiny 8.9-inch screen, 16GB SSD—except for one thing: It’s a touchscreen tablet. More »


Gadgets

NYC Spending $US1m To Buy New Typewriters, Ensure Grumpy Cops

10:50PM July 15, 2009 | John Herrman

NYPD officers are fed up! Their typewriters are broken down relics from a previous age, making police work more difficult, stressful and demoralising. To remedy this, the city is spending close to a million dollars. On new typewriters. More »


Software

Bill Gates: Project Natal Tech Isn’t Just For Gaming

10:30PM July 15, 2009 | John Herrman

In a recent interview with CNET, Bill Gates let spill the true scope of Microsoft’s ambitions for the technology behind the Xbox’s Project Natal. Basically, it isn’t just a gaming gimmick—they want to try it everywhere. More »


The Lego Girl Who Melt My Heart—And Will Melt Yours

10:10PM July 15, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

I was born in 1972. Yes, I’m old. But that means I lived the Golden Age of Lego in 1979, and got to play with the coolest sets in history. I wasn’t as cute as the Lego Alice-in-wonderland girl, though. More »


Gadgets

Cablox Cable Organiser For The Obsessively Neat Geek

9:50PM July 15, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

These little 4×4-inch Cablox pads are sticky on one side and loaded with tiny little nodules on the other, so you can wind your cables through and line them up just the way you like them. More »


Geek Out

Pittsburgh Skyscraper’s Morse Code Signal Spells “Pitetsbkrrh”

9:30PM July 15, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Pittsburgh, PA’s 33-story Grant Building famously spells out the name of the city in Morse Code so brightly it can be seen for over 100 miles. Except it doesn’t actually spell Pittsburgh, but “Pitetsbkrrh.” Eep. More »


Gaming

Zombie Super Nintendo Runs On Mario And Yoshi’s Souls

9:10PM July 15, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Run. Run! Run for your life, but don’t step over giant green pipe on your way out, or the zombie Super Nintendo will catch you to suck your blood and soul. The damn thing even glows in the dark: More »


Science

The Fuel Of The Future: Coal-Powered Cars

8:50PM July 15, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Back in 1979, the German Prime Minister announced that coal was the “fuel of the future,” and the energy industry was all abuzz about the possibilities, including coal-powered cars. Ha! Gasoline doesn’t look so bad now, eh? More »


Exovault Metal iPhone Case Bricks Your iPhone, In A Good Way

8:35PM July 15, 2009 | John Herrman

Machined out of aluminium, brass or titanium, Exovault cases are about as masculine as iPhone accessories get. I’m struggling with to find a catchy name for style of product, but I think I’ll settle on “postapocalyptipunk.” Or possibly “Zunepunk.” More »