Author: Gabrielle Taylor
Light Display Projector for Ghosts now, Snowflakes later
"Darling," you say lazily, sipping another Solstice Punch and rolling over to apply yet another layer of coconut oil, "I do so miss the winter. Pull out the Light Display Projector and put on some snowflakes, would you?" Or…
Evesham Crusader Carbon3 PC trades horsepower for emissions
Fast, good, cheap, pick two, as the saying goes, and the Evesham Crusader Carbon3 PC goes for the latter two – if you define 'good' in terms of virtue. Running at 1.5ghz (a VIA C7-D chip, "the first ever…
Wi-Fi Walker saves you from miserable extinction
Wifi Walker is another little gizmo that lets you detect open wireless networks by pushing a small button rather than conspiciously unloading your entire gear and walking around peering into the screen with such intensity that you trip over…
Art-O-Meter rates art, gives you snotty comments
Why fool around pretending interest in Michelangelo's David or Guernica or Duchamp's Fountain when you can just glance down at your Art-O-Meter and have it tell you what you're supposed to feel? Okay, it's only a piece of art…
Net Tansor: The Voyeur Robot
We all remember those godawful X10 pop-up-over-under ads that plagued the net the way libido-booster ads plague late-night telly. Apparently tiny wireless webcams weren't enough for one planet, so Friendly Robotics have stepped up with the Net Tansor, which…
Are MMORPGs addictive? Yes, for some
I'm a 'chipper' smoker, which means I smoke about a pack a week; go through phases of more and phases of not smoking at all. So I'm better suited than most to say that addiction is a complicated phenomenon,…
SoundID Personal Sound Systems
'Just step over there if you want some privacy,' you say, fingering your SoundID in your pocket. Although this is technically a hearing aid – a powerful hearing aid at that – it seems inevitable that it'll be used…
Walking Partner Robot
Another droid from the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, er, Japan, Nomura Unison Co. Ltd has invented a robotic walker that senses stairs, crosswalks, and generally enables people who can just barely walk to get around more effectively. For those…
Ms. Dewey: Search engine with a really annoying personality
In a world where "Google" has become a verb, how can any other search engine hope to compete? For the brains behind Ms. Dewey, the answer was a flash site in the style of Subservient Chicken (which is really…
Periodic Table of Elements Shower Curtain
The shower is, undoubtedly, one of the top five places to get stuff done, and by stuff I mean deep thinking, and you bloody well knew what I meant. If that deep thinking involves the nature of the universe,…