This nifty Levitron gadget from ThinkGeek is “a magnetic anti-gravity top that is just as fun to setup as it is to watch in motion.” Video demonstration after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. Basically, you just use the included top weights to adjust to the perfect weight (which varies from location to [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
Honda has just unveiled its transforming Rose Parade float, which aspires to be half truck, half futuristic flying aircraft. Short “making of” video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. Here’s how it works: …generators will cause “the hood of the truck to fold forward to become an aircraft cockpit, the doors and [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
A Japanese inventor has created a machine that can supposedly age wine instantly, using electrolysis. Put simply, a large electrolysis chamber/container, filled with wine, gets shocked with electricity, thus allowing water molecules to fuse with the alcohol in seconds. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. Popularity: 2% [?]
Monday, December 31, 2007
Mario has changed a lot over the years and so have the power-ups. This interesting image — sent in by reader Jake — shows everything from the mushroom to the rare 3-up moon found in Super Mario World. Bonus video showing the evolution of Mario after the break. Click here for full picture. Popularity: 2% [?]
Monday, December 31, 2007
At 2425-pounds, the Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT comes equipped with a 6L V12 engine that produces 590hp and 712Nm of torque. Videos after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. For those with sharp ears and an absolutely disproportionate lust for aural automobilia, the sound of the decelerating R-GT as it breathes on let-off is [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
Though Apple hasn’t officially released the iPhone 1.13 firmware, Nate Tru of GearLive managed to get an early preview copy. Video preview after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. Quite a few people think the images in our iPhone 1.1.3 image gallery were fake, so we figured, why not put up a [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
That’s right, the Gen-X Dual Station works with both SEGA Genesis and NES games, sporting two dedicated cartridge slots. Best of all, it’s priced at just $44.99 on eBay. Click here for first picture in gallery. Auction page. Word on the street is that it’s compatible with pretty much any Genesis or NES game you can [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2007
[Note: Lord knows John Whiteside is busy enough. He writes for the chron.Commons in Blue Bayou, as well as writing two other blogs — By the Bayou and The Opinionated Marketers. But when I became intrigued by a gift he gave his parents and I asked him to guest-blog about it here, he graciously agreed. [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2007
• How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time — If your employer doesn’t like your online life, you may be fired. • Google is God — Jeff Jarvis offers some stats. • Updates from Your Gmail Contacts — Your Gmail contact list is about to become a lot more interesting . . . or irritating. • [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2007
If you’re a musician on-the-go, then check out PCRocks. This portable computer lets you record/produce music and features an “integrated webcam that can be used to do live jamming with band mates elsewhere over the internet.” Click here for first picture in gallery. Graphic table that helps make most music related operations such as selection of [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
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