Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Design
Solar Desk Lamp Perfect For Everyone Whose Desk Is Outside
11:50PM 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 »
Computers
11:00PM 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 »
Asus Eee T91 Touch Tablet Review: Keep Dreaming
11:00PM 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 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 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 »
Toys
The Lego Girl Who Melt My Heart—And Will Melt Yours
10:10PM 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 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 »
Random Stuff
Pittsburgh Skyscraper’s Morse Code Signal Spells “Pitetsbkrrh”
9:30PM 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 »
Games
Zombie Super Nintendo Runs On Mario And Yoshi’s Souls
9:10PM 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 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 »
Peripherals
