Tag: gadgets
Flying Alarm Clock wakes you in incredibly annoying way, cheap enough to destroy
To heck with broken flying clocks, the Flying Alarm Clock is the real thing. It goes off at the appointed moment, and then takes off into the air, continuing to siren, until you catch it and turn the little…
PageAddict monitors how specific your online obsessions are
As a blogger-for-hire, I can feel virtuous about the amount of time I spend trawling the internet to discover precious globs of vital information, and in this spirit I pass on the pageaddict plugin for Firefox, which monitors your…
No-Contact Jacket keeps hands off
It looks like an ordinary and somewhat ugly gray nylon anorak. But deep within the plastic recesses of the No-Contact Jacket is a 9 volt battery powering 80,000 volts of electricity that, at the flick of a switch in…
Brain-Machine Interface controls model trains
Five years from now we'll all be controlling our model train sets with our brain waves. If that sounds a little Philip K. Dick, Hitachi has spent big bucks making it so, and now has an optical topography based…
iLoupe lets you self-portrait your own cells
Designed to fit a Canon SD600 digital camera, the iLoupe is a 60x to 150x microscope module that lets you get extreme close-ups and then photograph them for future perusal. Intended for forensic use with crime scenes, detecting defects…
VR simulated limbs trick brain into fixing real phantom limb
It's not clear exactly how this works – survey says "the brain is being tricked" – but amputees who suffer phantom limb pain can find relief through virtual bodies. A woman with amputated fingers who felt them digging painfully…
Light my Swedish FireSteel
Instead of carrying around pseudo-waterproof matches, smelly butane, or a pyromania-provoking Zippo, clip some Swedish FireSteel on as a key fob and you’ll be set for 3,000 (Scout edition, £8) or 12,000 (Army model, £12, £13 with oak handle)…
Spaceframe Sculpture Kit for your kids, yeah, that's it
Declared one of the top 25 best products of the year by Fortune, the Spaceframe Sculpture Kit is so freaking cool looking that you'll be trying to figure out how to build your own fort. Made from 100% recyclable…
Csiro's "wearable instrument shirt" makes music into fashion
The Csiro wearable instrument shirt is, essentially, an air guitar built into a shirt that really, really works. Sensors in the elbow detect motions for strumming and chording, and translate them into appropriate guitar sounds. The team has already…
R100 Personal Robot is so darn cute
Okay. Usually whatever I have to say is funnier than whatever they have to say, especially if what they're saying is serious. But I can't do better than to quote directly from the Personal Robot R100 site: A prototype…