In this world there are two kinds of things: those that are awesome, and those that make me want to kill myself. This is an awesome one. AN AWESOMELY AWsome one. That was me yelling. I know, I’m a little hoarse (but not the kind that kids ride around at birthday parties, those ones smell and shit everywhere. Actually, maybe I am). This is a video of an RC car playing the Super Mario theme by driving by and hitting bottles with a little metal whacker. I’ve watched it ten times and it’s still cool. I can’t believe the guy can drive the car that straight. Or that they found an empty parking garage to do it in. The parking garage around here is a scary place. The last time I had to store my car there I saw no less than two vagrants peeing in corners, some raunchy couple doing it in the back of a compact car, and what may or may not have been a dead hooker stuffed under an SUV (I didn’t have the courage to poke her with my tire iron).
A big thanks to Daniel and Tombo, both of whom could write books about being cool, for the tips
This is an older video of a tether car doing 200+ MPH on a circular track. At first I thought the guy in the video was participating in a bat-spin race, but then I realized he was whipping the car around to get it started. Watch the video till the end to see the thing really get up to speed. Pretty impressive. Now I’m not suggesting someone stick their leg out in front of it to see what happens when the car or wire hits it, but for the sake of science it is necessary to know whether you can cut a person’s leg clean off with an RC car.
Wood should be the computer component material of choice. It’s lightweight, a great heat conductor, and some of the best processors and video cards are made out of the stuff. Okay, maybe none of those things. Still, wood is cool. And that’s exactly what Fujitsu hopes people will think about their new Woodshell computer concept. As you can see, it’s a wooden laptop nestled inside a hemp bag. Oh look, the keyboard is green. *sniff sniff* Is that patchouli I smell? I don’t know about you, but I’m sold.
The modern day equivalent of the baby “brag book,” the pint-sized digital photo viewers that can be worn on a keychain, have come a long way since their introduction. The new Digital Foci Pocket Album holds upto 74 digital photos, with 8 MB internal flash memory; has up to 9 hours of battery life; can run automatic slideshows or scoll photos manually, has an LCD contrast adjustable for choosing the best viewing angle; and includes sofware to convert JPG and BMG images from your computer to the Pocket Album. (That means you’ll still need to help Grandma set it up.)
Still, it is one of the easier digital photo albums I’ve tired — the software automatically resizes for optimal storage and display on the digital keychain. At $29.99, it makes a perfect Mother’s Day gift, but I’d still preload it for her with family photos; conveniently, those naked baby butt photos of you will never see the light of day.
The SWV-08AM Megasonic Cleaning Device is a poorly named kitchen appliance that’s supposed to blast your plates clean with the amazing power of sonic, that lovable blue hedgehog that can roll up in a ball and do loopty-loops and collect rings. I’m not entirely sure how it works, but the thing can allegedly “eliminate all the disgusting dirt and agrochemicals on the surface of everything from fruit to frying pans with little or no detergent.” Plus it has a “P-Sediment” filter, so you don’t have to worry about any urine stains on your dishes. No word on price, but I’m guessing expensive. And that’s not even factoring in the cost of your grandmother’s china that it breaks. You can’t just go around sonic-booming fine porcelain, that shit’s delicate.
These are massage pants from the Wenzhou Wonderful Massage Equipment Company. What do they do for you? Well I’ll tell you, by copy/pasting the product features.
Product Features: * Built-7 group of super vibration massage, a scientific and rational allocation * Ring far infrared heaters, automatic temperature control, safe and reliable *A variety of massage * Automatic mode * Automatic regularly work 20 minutes * High-performance rechargeable batteries for exclusive use, energy, security
You know, looking at them I could tell they had a scientific and rational allocation of vibration massage. And that makes me really want some. Just a heads up though, I don’t think these are technically pants. Because pants are usually longer. These look more like shorts. Shorts that are missing some fabric in the front. You know, so your balls hang out. Wow, these are even awesomer than I first thought. Unfortunately there’s a 500 pair minimum order. Anybody want to go halvsies?
The Internet lets us do all manner of things: send emails, write blogs and of course, run manufacturing businesses in conjunction with companies halfway across the world.
Wait, what was that last one again?
Wired reports that a growing number of entrepreneurs (who they cutely call “instapreneurs”) are using sites like Zazzle, which will make your design into a t-shirt for general retail, Blurb, which will knock you up a book and Ponoko, which will make up anything from a pair of earrings like the ones pictured above, to a large-scale item of furniture. And they will make as many or as few as you like.
Just upload your blueprint to the site, and Ponoko’s laser cutters will get to work making a chair, table, jigsaw, lamp, piece of jewellery or any other design to your exact specifications. Using this system, anyone willing to offset the cost of manufacturing and shipping (Ponoko is based in New Zealand) has the potential to make a mint. The potential for small businesses - who now don’t have to stump up for manufacturing and storage - is huge, although the implications for the manufacturing industry could be a little less rosy.
This keyboard almost scares me a little, I mean its certainly intimidating to look at. It has too much lighting, I mean there are all the lights and such on the bezel above the keys, and then there are 3 different colors of backlights that can be adjusted in brightness or even mixed in an color combination with the other two colors and then common gaming keys have their own special lighting as well as metal key caps.
This keyboard is plain crazy. Then there are tons of customizable keys, including the 6 tab looking things along each side. Furthermore, any key customizations you make are saved through your reboot even.
Like I said, this keyboard is crazy, and is definitely meant for hardcore gamers or hardcore lifehackers who will likely program the programmable keys to do something, I don’t know, useful. If you want one its available for pre-order on Amazon for $80 right now.
So you’re on a long road trip and have actually run out of juice for most of your gadgets. Should they actually be able to be charged from USB, thank the heavens for the 4-Port USB Car Charger. This device is pretty self-explanatory, allowing you to charge up to a quartet of devices - nifty when you’re lugging around essential items like a cell phone and a Nintendo DS Lite (yes, yes, I’m a fanboy). Features include :
* Input voltage: 12V to 24V DC
* Output voltage: 6V DC
* Over loading protection
* Short circuit protection
* High temperature protection
