Archive for gadgets

Oh shit, Bullwinkle! Save me!

Do you have a bird feeder? Do squirrels eat from it? Do you want them to stop? Alternatively do you want to just fuck with some squirrel’s heads?

But the Twirl-a-Squirrel. No, seriously.

See, it spins when someone of a decent weight sits on it, like a squirrel, but not when a bird sits on the bird feeder. So it’s safe for birds but when a squirrel sits there, around and around it goes.

No, honest. Here’s a video of it:


… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

OH EM GEE

And now I will give you the coolest thing in quite some time.

Are you ready? Because I hope you are ready.


Yeah, so what. Lego blocks. Sure they are in a neet case. But they are Lego blocks, and while cool, not the coolest… What’s that? Oh right.

They’re MAGNETIC Lego blocks!

The backs are magnetic. Magnetic Lego! $14.99 gets you that set of them (14 2×4 bricks in assorted colors) seen here. Go buy Magnetic Lego bricks!

Oh man, how fucking cool is that?

Magnetic! Lego!

Kid wearing a helmet

Toshiba is going to push a new thing. A helmet. It’s a helmet that will, reportedly, grant the viewer a 360-degree view on a 40 centimeter screen. Here is the helmet on a small child.


No this is not a doctored picture. Toshiba somehow thinks this is a good idea. It looks like those old cartoons where someone has a TV land on them and they spend the rest of the show walking around with a TV stuck on their head.

TMX and Vader. No relation.

First thing for the day! USB Flash Drive maker Mimoko is taking pre-orders for their Darth Vader USB Drive. Expensive bugger: 1GB for $79.95, 2GB for $119.95 or 4GB for $169.95 which is pricey but look at it:

And then the second thing. It happened. It had to happen. It did happen. Someone took two TMX Elmo’s and made a sex tape. Yeah, really.

Tickle Me Harder was directed by Joe Wilson and starred the voice of Paul Jay.

OoooOoo


Yes, Lego sells an ice cube tray that makes ice cubes that are actually lego bricks. $7.99 for a tray. Looking at them though, I don’t think they can fit together. If the bottoms of the brickcubes are the top of the tray them they are solid. And that won’t work. So… while it looks cool – what is the point? You tell me.

The Duck Side of the Force


Duck Fadar is, as you may have determined, an LED-packed rubber duck resembling everyone’s favourite Dark Lord. Simply pop him in the bath and watch in awe as he floats around and automatically phases through various mesmerising colours.

It’s a water activated, color-changing, Dark Vader masked rubber duck.

Sells for £6.95 (approx $13).

Yeah. It’s Monday.

Atomic batteries to charge

All right, this is too cool for school. I want to introduce you to the USBCELL. What is it? Well. It’s a NiMH battery that can be recharged via a USB port.

Here are some stats:

Rechargeable AA NiMH Battery 1.2v 1300mah

90%+ Charged after 5 Hours by powered USB

Also rechargeable by approved NiMH charger at 250ma for 7 Hours

How amazingly great is that?

The ones I show you in this post are, of course, AA batteries. They also come in C, D AAA and 9V and eventually cellular phone batteries. Those are all pending. The AA size are for sale in the UK (only, for right now) and dispatch in 5-12 days.

If you missed the link to their page above, here’s another one for you.

£12.99 (Free delivery, price includes VAT) for a set of two batteries. These things, if they work as advertised could change a lot of shit. I mean, what doesn’t have a USB port these days? Game consoles have them, all computers do, does anyone here have no access to a powered USB port?

Just wow. We live in teh futures.