A laser enthusiast has produced a watch that can fire 1,500 milliwatt beam capable of lighting matches and burning through plastic. Patrick Priebe, who has previously made a range of more traditional weapon housings with lasers, took around 40 hours to produce the watch. Pocket Lint reports that it can fire the laser for a […]
A project on crowdfunding site indiegogo aims to put a phone charger and battery in a place that’s convenient for all pants-wearers: a belt and buckle. The XOO belt is a simple idea: there’s a flexible 2,100mAh battery built into the buckle, with a charging cable that magnetically attaches to the inside of the belt when […]
Sure, I’m sure you’ve seen similar boxes on the web before, but now you can actually purchase one: Captain Jules’s Useless Box! Captain Jules’s Useless Box is a very simple device. Inside the wooden box (with real metal accents) resides a bunch of gears and the latest in electricity-powered motors. Turn the switch on, and […]
A brilliantly simple idea that’s already been funded on Kickstarter, Wrap is simply a film which you can fit to a desk or any other flat surface to turn it into a dry wipe board. It comes custom-sized to your request specification and is applied with an adhesive backing. The backing is designed to not […]
This LED lamp, designed by Japanese company Nosigner, is “a topographically-accurate LED light that was created based on data retrieved from the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya.” It’s said to be inspired by the appearance of a supermoon (the combination of a full moon and the moon being at its closest point to Earth) shortly […]
Earlier this year Tony Hawk was filmed apparently riding a hoverboard in what turned out to be a prank video. Now it appears he’s repeated the exercise with the real thing. At least that’s what the people behind a Kickstarter project, Hendo Hoverboards, claim. They’ve attracted nearly half a million dollars in funding for a […]
As I’ve previously noted, 1981 saw the British release of the ZX81 and BBC Micro, two of the first mainstream home computers and both relatively small compared to business machines of the time. But as this kids’ television show from the same year shows, the mindset of the time was very much that bigger is […]
A die-cast metal replica of the Firefly-class Serenity cargo ship that also acts as a flash drive? Now how AWESOME is that? It even features light-up engine lights (when plugged into a USB port). [Firefly Serenity Flash Drive]
What’s old is new again. A proposed new phone case would use Polaroid-like technology to allow you to print pictures immediately after taking them. Prynt appears to be very much at the ideas stage as the makers plan to demo the technology at CES in January and then launch a Kickstarter with a planned pre-order […]
Not only is the SuperNova light cube LED bluetooth speaker absolutely beautiful, it also looks like a tesseract… or a borg cube, which is totally cool. Resistance is futile. From Thinkgeek: Ok, so, first, you’ve got the amazing sound of the SuperNova. Pair it with Bluetooth (or use the auxiliary input, for non-Bluetooth music devices), […]