Replug
Not too long ago, I was sitting across from a friend in a coffeeshop who, upon spilling a scalding cup of coffee all over his groin region, jumped up so fast from his laptop that he forgot his headphones were…
Continue Reading →Interactive Touch Media Wall
In case you have say, $100K lying around and happen to be unhealthily obsessed with your iPhone's touchscreen, you can always step it up and go for Perceptive Pixel/Jeff Han's Interactive Touch Media Wall -- Josh raved about his play…
Continue Reading →Photonic Disruptor
Wicked Lasers has long established itself as a premier designer and manufacturer of quality laser products, targeting the mild hobbyist to the insane gadget freak, so when I was offered the opportunity to test out a laser that was developed…
Continue Reading →Availabot
Availabots are your friends. Visual interpretations of your friends, that is. To be even more technical, Availabots are "physical representations of presence in instant messenger applications" that "stand to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when…
Continue Reading →Jabra BT3010 Bluetooth Headset
Must you wear one? I'm not personally a huge fan of the bluetooth headset craze. Yeah, they're convenient, but I just can't get used to seeing people walking down the street talking to themselves, er...someone. It's weird. New York has…
Continue Reading →Mimobots go Domo-kun
OhGizmo! has leaked a rumor about our friends at Mimoco launching a series of Domo-kun related mimobots. Domo-kun inspired stuff has been almost impossible to come by in the USA, while it's reaching the masses in Japan and many parts…
Continue Reading →LaCie Golden Disk
Information is gold -- and that's what seems to have inspired the idea behind the blinged-out design of LaCie's new Golden Disk hard drive, the latest in its designer series. Packing 500g's (gigabytes, that is), the digital storage unit's wavy,…
Continue Reading →Slobot // Slobart
Mike Heisler, the artist behind the Slobot robots that we've gushed about here before, designed this Bart Qee figure for the Toy Tokyo leg of the Bart Simpson Qee show in NYC. The 10'' tall Bart comes equipped with positionable…
Continue Reading →SwiMP3 Surf
In between occasionally eating cake for dinner and cookies for lunch, I do make an effort to be healthy. I'm an avid swimmer, logging hours of laps in the city pool each week. I switch up my routine with the…
Continue Reading →Klikk
An Italian company has made it even easier for MySpacers to nab that perfect picture with a portable tripod alternative. Called Klikk, the tiny device allows users to snap away at artsy angles and in less-than-perfect settings. A better example…
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