ceramics
Hardware
Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
6:40AM Mark Wilson | Ceramic isn’t just for pottery. It’s used in military armour to stop bullets and the Space Shuttle to thwart heat. Now, Asus is reintroducing the material in its sci-fi-tastic Marine Cool motherboard.
Design
Raku Ray Guns (Sorry, They’re Just Ceramic)
2:40AM Mark Wilson | Maybe by next year we’ll be telling you about real ray pistols, but for now you’ll have to settle for these charming Raku Ray Gun sculptures. Each is completely one-of-a-kind, constructed on a pottery wheel and fired using the low-fire “raku” method. The sculpture is then placed on a 12″ by 9″ moon crater plaque for proper wall mounting, the perfect replacement for that singing bass you’ve been meaning to take down (because we all know it was never meant to be ironic). The Raku Ray Guns run US$275 a pop. [Muddy Mountain Pottery via BoingBoing] More »
Gadgets
Self-Stirring Cup of Tea Puts My Left Hand Out of a Job
6:42PM Addy Dugdale | In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I do—although the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that stirs itself. Simple in its design, all you need do for it to work is channel your inner Cognac-drinker, swilling the liquid around the cup until the sugar has dissolved. More info, including a How-To cartoon is after the jump. More »
Games
Gameboy Bricks Make Floors, Bowser Castles
12:00AM Jesus Diaz | 30,000 years from now, aliens will discover these Gameboy bricks and decide that humans’ ancestors originally had buttons and directional pads on their bellies. Which, in the case of some of the people I know, it’s true. More »
Gadgets
Talking Floor Helps Your Diet, Calls You Lazy Fatso
3:45AM Jesus Diaz | Diet Floor is a “smart” talking ceramic floor that will talk to you whenever you spend too much time on top of it at the wrong times. In other words: you go to the kitchen in between meals, stop in front of the the refrigerator to see what you can nib on and it will shout something like “Watch out for those extra pounds!” or “Beware of the cold pizza monster!” or something like that. And it gets even better when you install them in an office environment. More »
