Archive for June, 2008

Sick of that ugly plastic iPod dock messing with the feng shui of your room? No? Me either. But for those who want a real stylish home for their tunes comes the wooden iPod dock.

They’re compatible with the old school and nano versions and come in walnut or birch finishes. Ranging from $90-$100, these babies hit in Japan next month. It’ll go perfect in my log cabin next my maple grain PS3 and oaken HDTV.

Gadget Web site T3 has given us some pretty weird concept designs for next-gen toys. The 2010 Wiimote has this brainwave headset and actual remotes that look like something you’d have to carry home in a black plastic bag.

Now comes the Xbox 360/Zune/phone/toaster oven/Swiss army knife. Despite inherent coolness, this one is totally impossible, at least for the foreseeable future. At least the Wiimote craziness is somewhat believable.

Either way, these are awesome to look at and props to T3 for coming up with some pretty interesting designs.

So Ian Usher of Australia broke up with his long time wife and felt enough was enough.

As is the case with most problems, Usher went to eBay and decided to sell his life – job, friends, home – to the highest bidder.

As cool and interesting this is, it’s happened before, multiple times. But I suppose the mainstream media needs a cool feature story and Usher gets some scratch for appearances on the Today Show, so everybody wins.

Bids reached $2.2 million, but have been lowered back to $300,000 because those were most likely joke bids.

I think the guy should just deal with break-ups like everyone else – Cure records, alcohol and maybe some ice cream.

Air hockey is a game of kings - drunken, frat guy kings. And just when you thought that epic down 5-1 comeback was the crowing moment in your air hockey career, this robot comes along to crush your spirit and elicit endless “move over, I’ll beat it” responses. This motorized opponent has no remorse at all as it tears through the competition one after another.

Yeah, but can it play while holding a beer in the other hand? I didn’t think so.

If it can, then when pays the tab.

File this under “cool, but totally unnecessary.”

Portable Gaming Solutions has stuffed an Xbox 360 into a suitcase. Not only that, but the thing still works! (assuming you don’t get red ringed).

Yeah, it looks like a laptop – an ugly one at that – but if you need to get a round of CoD4 in while driving, you need to drop the $550 on this.

Enormous TV shames other, less enormous TVs

10 million pixels. 2,100 square feet. $22 million. Now that is a TV that even the most jaded, spoiled couch potato can get excited about. At the Comcast Center in Philly exists a TV so glorious that it is five times the resolution of HDTV. The thing handles 27,000 gigabytes of info and (obviously) needs its own control room. Forget about Wii Sports in a movie theatre, I want to play it on this.

Tired of checking your email on your buddy’s laptop using Internet Explorer or Safari? Well worry no more Firefox fans – PortableApps.com has got your back. With a simple 8MB download (free! But donate if you’re nice) and a USB drive users can launch and use Firefox from any computer – complete with bookmarks and extensions. And, being the kind web browser that it is, it also won’t save any of your junk on that computer you’re using. Great for those library work sessions or trips away from home. Useful defined.

Ahh Japan, home of all things crazy/weird/awesome. From the land of the rising sun come these lovely pig headphones. They are (of course) made of silicon, come with a sizable 35-inch cord and are available in pink, black and white. You can pick up these hilariously offbeat headphones for a mere $11, but that’s only in Japan. Sadly, a search for “pig headphones” on Amazon yields Howard Stern’s biography.

Bluetooth speakerphones come in all shapes and sizes, but I’ve yet to come across one that offers so much in such a little package. The BlueAnt Supertooth 3 portable speakerphone was made with the intentions of allowing cell phone users to enjoy a much more comfortable hands free calling solution, rather then break the law by holding your phone to your ear.

The BlueAnt uses text-to-speech to let you navigate through your address book in six different languages. It even reads out your caller ID verbally so you don’t have to avert your eyes from the road. Best of all, it can be paired to 8 devices at once, and will switch to the one receiving the call when needed.

If you’ve ever wanted to see your sketches or scribbles gain a new dimension, now’s your chance. For only $4, you can purchase a pair of 3D glasses made out of the finest quality paper and 50 sheets of paper. But this isn’t just any normal paper!

The background of the paper allows for black pencil markings to show up in 3D. Plus, once you run out of the paper, you’ll have some pretty cool glasses to bring with you whenever you go to Disney World. How can you beat that?

For $4 it’s definitely worth the price! You can purchase the 3D drawing pad from The Spoon Sisters.