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This Camera Is So Tiny You Could Eat It

Nikon updated its Coolpix compact camera range today, and amidst the new professional compact and the groovy, Android-powered S800c hides the Coolpix s01 — the cutest little camera you ever did see.


Miniature Cities Rise From The Ashes Of Busted Technology

Broken motherboards, transistors and other baubles are given new life by artist Franco Recchia. City life, specifically, as he is an artist who works at the miniature level to recreate Manhattan skylines using nothing but computer junk made useful again.


Twitter Co-Founder Begins Trial On SquareUp iPhone Credit Card Payment Service

Basic details about Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s plans for an iPhone credit card payment service have been floating around for some time, but it appears that his SquareUp startup has finally gone live for trial users—and it looks promising.


Extremely Confident Man Builds Extremely Tiny Car

Possibly the smallest street-legal car in the world, the 39-inch high, 26-inch wide, cheekily-painted project was made by a British man out of one of those coin-operated children’s rides.


Munchkin-Chic Lingo Wireless Mouse Might Be the World’s Smallest

Nobody asked for it, but here it is: the ‘world’s smallest‘ wireless mouse! This thumb-sized min-strosity will run for 15 hours on one charge, assuming you can go that long without losing it.


10 of the World’s Smallest Gadgets

The diminishing size of gadgetry is about as certain as Moore’s law, and is generally good for us. But for some, size is an obsession, and smaller is always better. This is what they’ve wrought:


Thecus N0204 miniNAS Makes the Unfortunate Claim of ‘World’s Smallest NAS’

I can’t think of another product category less served by the ol’ “world’s smallest” tag that gadget-makers continuously foam over than network storage drives. But, of course, here we have the “world’s smallest” NAS.


The Case For Small TVs

Common thought is to get a big TV. Hell, I want two. But instead, I put a 23-inch set in my livingroom for two months to see what it would be like.


Tiny, Adorable Walkman Phone Is Hard To Use Unless You’re Also Tiny and Adorable

By the numbers, the KDDI Walkman Xmini phone is nothing special. Well, except for a few of the numbers: at 44mm wide and 18mm thick, the 1.8in screen phone is absolutely minuscule.


Landport Cubes Squeeze Powered Speakers In Just 2.5cm

Portable speakers for MP3 players are two a penny, but not many are not far off a penny in size: Landport’s Cubes are though. They’re just an inch cube, but fit in stereo speakers, 3.5-mm jack plug, rechargeable batteries and a mini-USB port. They’ll run for 4-5 hours on a charge, too. Just don’t go expecting bone-rattling volume as they pump out a similarly tiny 0.8-watts. Out soon in Japan for $US25. [Slashgear]


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