I found this one over at the superb Yanko Design blog and it caught my attention straight away. The concept is simple; a mobile phone battery with a finger sized hole in it. This allows you to spin the darn thing around and around really quickly and really easily. That’s a chance to pump some […]
Thumbthing – a handy book reading, er, thing
Has it really taken this long for someone to invent the thumbthing? Surely this is a simple invention but one that many people will be really happy to have? The thumbthing lets you hold a book open, comfortably, with just one hand. Turn it flat and you’ve a bookmark too! Simples!
AD: Latest Flip video camera ads branded Cisco
This ad interests me simply because it’s the first (that I’ve seen) Cisco branded Flip camera ad. I still want to call the devices Flip phones but Cisco’s boss is now on record to say that Cisco won’t be doing the smartphone thing. As for the ad itself – I’m not cool enough to regonise […]
$75,000 for weird, singing android heads
These three heads are an art display which you can pick up for a mere $75,000. They’re on a 15 minute loop in which they’ll sing together (in the video we hear them chanting for freedom!) or look nervously around the room.
Pay Pie! – Tech for splitting the bill
Pay Pie is my term for this wonderful device. I think it fits. Have you ever had to battle with fair and effective ways to split the bill? I have. Sometimes its easier just to pay the bill yourself than go through the drama of coping with cash, cards and IOUs! Thanks to Geeky Gadgets […]
AD: New Sun ad pokes fun at the iPhone
This is the new ad from the UK tabloid The Sun. It’s a cheeky we ad that riffs the iPhone style while poking fun at handhelds in general; no contracts, no signal worries, no small screens and photo quality photos! If the player doesn’t render in your RSS reader, sorry, you may have to clickthrough […]
DnD 4e played on Microsoft’s Surface. The future today.
Folks – this is why there is a Geek Native. This is awesome. The Surfacescapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University could become gods among geeks if they’re able to push on and complete this project. What we have here is a proof of concept; a DnD 4e game (I could […]
KLM’s Whale Plane – WB-1010
KLM Indonesia are running a competition for concept airline plans. It’s the WB-1010 that’s caught the internet’s attention. It looks something between a cross of a whale and a spaceship. A space whale? This is just a concept design. It can’t actually be built with the materials we have today. That’s okay as the focus […]
Sir James Dyson explains the air multiplier
Dyson successfully launched their new bladeless fan / air multiplier yesterday. I say “successfully” as the term air multiplier quickly became a hot trend on Google and on Twitter. The Telegraph have a video of James Dyson describing the new invention. In a nutshell the famous inventor pitches the fan as being smoother than a […]
Computational Pop-Up Book
This is a demo of what would be an extremely funky pop-up book. The usual trick is to load the pop-up book with glitter and other shiny stuff that explodes over the reader and haunts the carpet fluff for weeks to come. This computational pop-book does better than shiny – it manages to actually light […]
