coolers
Design
Bad Decisions: Jägermeister 6-Bottle Shot Cooler
12:03AM Mark Wilson | You know that friend of yours who was so excited for college until three weeks in when, suddenly, they packed their bags and moved back home? Just what did they encounter that was so shockingly depraved? This thing. More »
Design
Coleman’s Steel Belted Chest Cooler Isn’t Messing Around
8:00AM Adam Frucci | What do you get when you spend a whopping $US173 on a cooler? Stainless steel and cold beers, that’s what. More »
Peripherals
Nexus’s Velvety Laptop Cooler Has No Fans
12:30PM Andi Wang | Another gadget to keep your laptop from burning you silly, Nexus’s TDD-9000 liquid cooling pad is a soft, velvety cloth filled with a patented, gel-like substance that needs no plugs, wiring or electricity to quietly, yet actively, cool your laptop. More »
Gadgets
Bullet-Shaped Bollinger Champagne Cooler, For 007’s Giant Gun
2:10AM Kit Eaton | A giant gun that fires bullets containing chilled bottles of Bollinger…sounds like a psychedelic James Bond-theme dream. But at least the bullet bit is nearly a reality. Bollinger has come up with this 007-themed champagne bottle cooler in time for Quantum of Solace that actually is bullet-shaped, though there’s no giant Walther PPK to fire it. It’s fabulously silly, and presumably fabulously priced since it’s a strictly limited edition run of just 207. Maybe Bond should worry about it though: you know, the saying goes “somewhere out there there’s a bullet with your name on it”… [Sybarites via Luxurylaunches] More »
Peripherals
Targus’ Chill Mat For Macs Designed to Keep Your MacBook and Knees Cool
10:30PM Kit Eaton | Generally I think “laptop coolers… meh” when I come across them, but the new Chill Mat from Targus—part of the new range for Macs—is actually a fairly sweet device. Mainly because it’s just a simple mesh-top gizmo, that tilts your Mac to a more wrist-friendly position and it looks like it’d sit quite well, stylistically speaking, next to a MacBook (and yes, I’m one of those people who’d think about that.) It’s got dual USB-powered fans to keep your Mac and knees chilled, and fits all Macbooks up the 17-inch Pro. Out now for $US50. [Targus] More »
Gadgets
Photochopped R2-D2 USB Beverage Cooler Can Be Yours, Actual Product or Not
2:45AM John Mahoney | Add this one to the “ouch, ouch, ouch” Photoshop bin. Yeah, I can use the pen tool to smoothly decapitate R2 and throw a Coke can top and USB cord in too. What I can’t do, though, is build an actual USB beverage can cooler out of a shrunken R2-D2 model. Which I would want. It’s up for pre-order at Play.com for US$36–whether you get a layered .PSD or an actual cooler, though, remains to be seen. [Product Page via Nerd Approved] More »
Hardware
Thermaltake’s V1 Cooler is Half Artwork, Half Airy Lungs For Your CPU
7:22PM Kit Eaton | Current gadget design tends to favour minimalism… but that’s simply not true for this Thermaltake V1 cooler. Ohoho no. The Thermaltake designer who came up with this must’ve been an artist in a former career. Just look at it: so detailed, organically-shaped and glittery it’s an artwork. And one you’d surely have to show off if you chose to mount it to your CPU. It’s got a 12v fan, operates between 1,300 and 2,000 and is around 12.7cm tall and 10.1cm wide and will cost you around US$60. [BBG via DVice] More »
Vehicles
Cruzin’ Cooler Operator Gets Charged With DWI
9:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | We first wrote about the Cruzin Cooler, literally a motorised cooler scooter, here on Giz way back in 2006. Frankly, we’re kind of baffled today that it took more than two years for the thing to log its first DWI arrest. First of all, yes, the Cruzin Cooler counts as a vehicle, and that is why Whitehall, NY resident Leslie J. “Bomber” Marr, 57, faces felony DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle charges, for swerving and driving on the sidewalk. The cooler contained 14 beers, but Washington County DA Kevin Kortright wasn’t impressed. “They tell us he’s been riding around town on that cooler for years,” Kortright said, completely serious. “You can’t cruise around on your cooler if you’re intoxicated.” Indeed. [PostStar] More »
Robots
RC Beer Cooler Robot Now Available For Pre-Order
7:30AM Sean Fallon | It was a big hit at CES, and now you can get in on all of the drunken laziness. The device will be available from Solutions on May 23rd for US$69.95 and from Firebox on the 28th for US$78.30. [Solutions and Firebox via Toyology] More »
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