What better way to usher in the summer by rolling the dice with a floating lounger with a built-in iPod dock, speakers anda 3-mode massage function?
Now that it’s summer, us cold-weather-city types want to spend every possible waking moment outdoors. But that separation from technology is sometimes just too hard to bear, which is where the Powerbrella comes in. Its solar panels keep your gadgets charged and ready to go.
Your Stormtrooper getup works great for conventions with A/C, but what do you do in the dead of summer? That plastic doesn’t breathe. Luckily, Jakks Pacific is releasing a large line of Star Wars inflatables.
I think she’s going to get some sand stuck in that thing.
While I think the Surfster Double Black looks like a head-on date with a tree waiting to happen, it does have one redeeming quality. That quality being it conveniently doubles as a two-person body board.
So it’s the Friday before Christmas. Many of you will be beginning your holiday break with a quiet beer or two this afternoon. But if any of you are stuck with the task of working through the Xmas break, know that Giz AU will be right there with you, even if we do slow down a little bit between Xmas and New Years.
To kill off the last few hours of Friday afternoon, we want you to tell us exactly what gadgets you’re planning on playing with over your Christmas break. Are you planning an Xbox marathon? A session with PS Home (which should only keep you busy for about an hour, if you’re lucky)? A new phone? A new TV? Tell us what gadgets will keep you busy over the next couple of weeks.
I won’t lie to you – I’m sceptical about this as a real solution to the maddening itch of a mosquito bite. Just reading the explanation of how it works on their website sets off the fire alarm in my mind: It functions with piezoelectricity ie. the generation of electric currents by the compression or expansion of quartz and similar crystalline substances. Mosquito-Click therefore does not need a battery to function and its small and practical size makes it convenient to carry along anywhere!
However, for the sake of science, I’m prepared to guinea-pig myself to the cause of testing this out for real. I’ve requested a review unit, and when it arrives, I’ll subject myself to multiple mosquito bites at my local duck pond for the opportunity to review this $20 gadget for you, the humble Gizmodian. If it works, I’ll thoroughly recommend its purchase for the coming Summer season. If not, we’ll christen it snake oil and never speak of it again…
We’ve seen before how fun getting launched in the air over a body of water can be. Now we have another way to do it: the AirKick Human Water Catapult.
This video shows a girl getting absolutely launched into the air from an inflatable “blob” on a lake. She lies on one end, while what has got to be a much larger man jumps down onto the other. It looks like both the most fun thing ever as well as one of the most painful when she lands. Where can I get me one of these? Seriously, holy crap.
Now that we’re headed deep into the middle of summer, it’s time to bring out water balloons and figure out ingenious ways to fling them at your enemies. Here’s a great tutorial at Instructables for making a wicked water balloon catapult using surgical tubing, a rag and other random doohickies from around the house. According to the dude responsible for this weapon of watery destruction, this shooter will never explode the water balloon prematurely, unlike some of the types you get in stores. [Instructables]
