admin | April 29, 2009
We can’t say we’ve given much thought to the state of the exercise bike design, but we’re definitely digging the Ciclotte concept that was just exhibited in Milan. Details are light, apart from a note that it’s almost entirely made of carbon fiber, but hopefully designer Luca Schieppati is working on bringing it — and [...]
admin | April 27, 2009
Of course, the Batman Tumbler we saw a year or so ago is totally bad-ass, but sometimes you need something more suitable for black tie events: cotillions, charity functions, and so forth. This Batmobile (circa Batman Forever) is hand-built by a sculptor named Bob Causey and features a retractable hard top, a high-tech interior (including [...]
admin | April 27, 2009
There are horologes, and then there’s La Machine à Ecrire le Temps, known less formally as “The Machine that Writes the Time” — which is exactly, literally what it does. This stunning masterpiece was recently unveiled at Baselworld 2009, and while only those obsessed with time will really appreciate the 1,200 components needed to [...]
admin | April 26, 2009
Thanks Best Buy, we owe you (another) one. Yet again, the big box retailer everyone loves to hate has provided the world with a glimpse of a heretofore unannounced product, and this one’s got our mouths all kinds of damp. Barely a month after Cisco picked up Pure Digital for a small fortune, the Flip [...]
admin | April 26, 2009
As a perfect complement to Shenzhen’s scattered keyboard keys we spotted the other day, tipster Riley G. spotted this charging herd of giant mice statues in Xiamen, China. Two whole tactile, usable buttons? How quaint! Another shot is after the break.
[Thanks, Riley G.]
Continue reading Herd of oversized concrete computer mice seen rushing for the shore [...]
admin | April 25, 2009
While RED has been pretty tight-lipped about its planned RED RAY product, some footage shown off at RED’s NAB party gave a sizable hint that RED RAY could be much more than meets the eye — specifically a $1,000 device that can play cinema-quality 4k video off of standard DVDs. At the party they played [...]
admin | April 24, 2009
The chances of seeing Model 2+’s release seems dimmer and dimmer, as online retailer Build Your UMPC has joined eXpansys in canceling pre-orders for the Model 2+. OQO’s senior VP Bob Rosin confirmed bad news, saying a firm shipping date was partly the reason behind the vendor’s decision. Furthermore, he said that it was “unlikely” [...]
admin | April 24, 2009
While the US Air Force is dead set on shooting down missiles with airborne lasers, it looks like their colleagues in the Army are busy cooking up a little something called the Multimode Directed Energy Armament System (see our artist’s conceptual rendering, above). According to Wired, this device uses an ultra-short pulse laser to create [...]
admin | April 22, 2009
Have you ever dreamed that you stared into the ineffable face of the abyss… and the abyss stared back? Well dream no more, friends, and witness the gallery of photos and video below of Probo, the Belgian, Bill Gates-backed, huggable, robotic Alf wannabe. We saw a bit of the little guy earlier today, but now [...]
admin | April 21, 2009
Like many things in life, the whirrs and noises of old computers that were formerly annoying now inspire a nostalgic sense of retro glee — the bleating of a fax modem, the blatting of a large-format dot-matrix printer. It’s this sort of nostalgia that inspires some users to make them sing, like a YouTuber going [...]
