Monday, September 7, 2009 - Page 2

Victrola-Inspired Aesthesis Speaker Is An Astronomical $US85,000

Aw, grandpa! Could you please take my $US85,000 speaker out of your ear? For the last time my Aesthesis speakers are not your old time hearing aid horn!


Entertainment

Google’s Executive Chef Booted From Top Chef For Being Boring

If Google really is preparing to take over the world, as critics suggest, it certainly won’t be through our kitchens.


Gadgets

Siemens DiscControl Stove Top System Is Ingeniously Childproof

Siemens discControl nob are perfect for the iPod generation in that they’re completely touch based sliders, as the product’s name suggests. But beyond that they hide a very cool, very safe little feature for households with small children.


T-Shirt Shows Exactly Who You Really Are

I know this girl who is made of sugar, spice and everything nice. But the rest of us are made out of things like oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, germanium, cobalt, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, yttrium or scandium. Not kidding.


Cars

It’s Official: Chinese Farmers Can Build Anything, Rarely Farm

What is it with everyday Chinese folks building extraordinary things? Last month farmer Wu Zhongyuan built a helicopter from wood and metal. This month Tao Xiangl is scooting around the waters near Beijing in a hand-built submarine.


Gadgets

Philips Get You Off With HF8400 Dual Sensual Massagers

Philips isn’t pussyfooting around at IFA with their HF8400 Dual “Sensual Massagers.” Nay, their booth at the show was a bed, a cute model, and the massage devices. Your imagination is now free to in fill the blanks.


Computing

Fujitsu Esprimo Mini PC Stuffs Core 2 Duo, Blu-ray Into Tiny Package

Things you could do with the Fujitsu Esprimo Mini PC if you didn’t really care all that much about the data contained inside: Play hockey, rest a cold drink on a warm day; balance a wobbly table.