The problem with most water guns is that once your tank runs dry, you’re helpless until you can make it to a faucet. No so with the Saturator AK47! It uses clips of water to ensure you’re always full. Brilliant. More »
Water – Business – Environment – Water Resources – Drinking water
This Boss DS-1 Distortion Pedal USB mouse was a limited-edition item in the UK that is, sadly, now sold out. But we can still appreciate how clever and awesome this thing is. [MusicRadar via Engadget] More »
Boss Corporation – Shopping – Business – Guitar – InputPeripheral
This is the Cellular Guard System, which is to say it’s a necklace that you hook your cellphone up to so if you drop it while stirring a big bowl of sauce, it won’t fall in. Oh…my. [Cellular Guard System] More »
United States – Business – Telecommunications – Telephones – Equipment
This Game Boy soap doesn’t actually play Tetris, but it does wash off the stink of gamersweat. So really, that’s something. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets] More »
Game Boy – Nintendo – Video Games – Games – Console Platforms
Two-way video calling is now possible on Android, and the chances are damned good that they’re coming to the iPhone next month. But really, do you care? More »
iPhone – Handhelds – Smartphones – Android – Wallpapers and Themes
It sounds like not everybody is ready to just throw Flash out the window because Steve Jobs told them to, as Time Warner and NBC have just told Apple they’re happy to stick with it for their online video players. More »
Time Warner – Flash – Steve Jobs – Apple – Multimedia
The Wii! Known for three things: being insanely popular, having almost no great third-party games and being the justification for hundreds of useless, cheap accessories. And speaking of that third thing, look at this garbage! More »
Video game – Games – Nintendo – Console Platforms – Nintendo Wii
LaCie’s new Rugged Safe HDD is for the super-paranoid: it offers 128-bit AES hardware encryption, biometric fingerprint access and a shock-proof enclosure. Your high school papers and pirated SNES ROMs will be downright untouchable. More »
LaCie – Security – Cryptography – Universal Serial Bus – Hard disk drive
Attention, toy instrument connoisseurs! Make room in your pretend studio for a new addition: the piano. Yes, Rock Band 3 is bringing the ivories to the video game world. More »
Rock Band – Music – Arts and Entertainment – Bands and Artists – Rock Band 3
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to show Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt making nice. After all, life is too short for bitter personal relationships. And you responded with some really hilarious images. More »
This is exactly the sort of thing we hoped would happen when Google announced GoogleTV: according to The Candler Blog, Boxee, beloved makers of Home Theater PC software, is working on an Android app. More »
Boxee – Google – Android – Home Theater – Handhelds
So today we saw some tests that suggest that having Flash running on your smartphone will almost definitely hurt performance. But hey, it’s up to you whether or not it’s worth it. So…is it? More »
Here’s the bottom line on the first speed tests of Android 2.2: without Flash 10.1, its browser handily beats all comers. But with Flash? It drops to the bottom of the heap. Ruh roh. More »
At first, I thought this would be a bad idea. But having watched this video, I kind of want to stick velcro all over my apartment. [DV Culture] More »
Velcro – Arts – United States – Nerf – Maker Shed
The battle between Apple and Google is heating up! It’s safe to say that the dueling CEOs of Jobs and Schmidt aren’t on the closest of terms right now. But why all the negative energy? Let’s show them making nice. More »
