Plenty of iOS and USB mics claim to capture rich “studio sound”. Most of them suck. Blue Microphones’ new Spark Digital is different, and you can tell just by looking at it. More »
The Smurfs made a terrible movie but did one good thing: they’re adding more colour to the world. Juzcar, a town in Southern Spain, was painted blue for the movie as a sort of publicity stunt but the residents loved it so much they want to keep their homes all blue everything. More »
newVideoPlayer("/bluelasergiz.flv", 506, 423,"");Instructables has posted a guide for how to yank the blue diode out of a dusty Xbox 360 HD-DVD player and attach it to a (fake) gun to create…. a laser gun! It’s a pretty easy little mod, if you have the equipment lying around (and a laser gun sight you don’t use), and when you’re done, you’ve got a blue laser pistol powerful enough to light a match or pop a balloon. [Instructables]
OLED screens are pretty awesome all around, but they have more than a few Achilles Heels to overcome before they’re accepted into the mainstream. That said, one of the hurdles has allegedly fallen this weekend, thanks to new research out of South Korea. According to the AP, South Korean scientists have developed an efficient “true blue” material that, while sounding like a 1991 Madonna album, is actually a pretty important step forward for OLEDs.
This design concept from Ahmet Bektes, Koray Gelmez & Eda Kose uses “Action Fresh Blue” technology—apparently used in “many new refrigerators”— to keep your fruit fresh. It seems that this tech is essentially a blue light, which shines down from the bowl’s handle, killing bacteria. Hmmm: I’m sceptical. But at least it’s rechargeable, and has a nifty blue halo all around when it’s in action so your kitchen looks all 21st Century. If it really works, it might be useful if you’re like me: buying a lot a fruit when on a health-kick, and then just leaving it in the bowl to go mouldy. [Envee Apparel via Home Tone]
Circuit City has a cobalt blue/black DS Lite for preorder on their website. Considering three minutes have passed since the last time the DS got a costume change, this makes perfect sense to us. No word on the release date, but as always, it’s US$130. Get it now to complete your collection and make Nintendo a few more dollars. [Circuit City]—Thanks, Klaus!
