Archive for May, 2013
Robots
Japanese Dentristry and Robots
I guess Japanese dentistry students don’t practice on humans but on robots! The Simroid (aka Pain Girl) reacts when the student drills too far or too deep, and hits a nerve. As one Youtube commenter pointed out “u c...
Cell Phones
iPot Emails and Texts Hot Water Usage
The iPot appears – the translated page isn’t accurate – to be hot a water/coffee maker that can email or text its usage to a preprogrammed handset. According to the garbled copy, the device is geared towards t...
Music
Absolut Unveils New Marketing Campaign: Absolut Machines
Absolut Vodka’s new marketing campaign involves two massive machines and you. That’s right, you. It’s all pretty crazy and grandiose, but essentially two MIT grads have built two huge machines, one located in ...
Travel
Personal Airplane Air Filters
Unlike “Airborne”, the manufactures of the PlaneCleanAir filters don’t make any grandiose claims that it will stop colds while traveling. What they do claim, though, is that it will filter out 99.5% of bacteri...
Travel
325-Foot Floating Island
Why bother visiting the island when you can ride it, right? Wallyisland (perhaps an ode to the Griswalls) is a behemoth of a boat measuring 325 feet and offers a customizable main deck that can be outfitted with tennis courts, ...
Cell Phones
Watch Sports Touchscreen, Phone, and More
The DigitalRist D-RiseTM m600i is quite simply out of control. Not only is it unlocked for use with any SIM card, but it rocks a touchscreen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3 player, voice recorder, Bluetooth, expandable from 60mb t...
Gaming
GTA 4 Multiplayer Screen Shots Leaked
Check it: Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer screen shots (not confirmed). I’ve pulled the ones that depict characters with screen names hovering over their head (there were others, but those looked to be single player). More...
Business
Netflix Admits Shipping Problem & Gives Back, Sort Of
I received an email from Netflix this morning saying “We’re Sorry Your DVD Was Delayed” and offered me a measly 5% credit. I suppose it’s better than nothing, but 5% of $15.99 is $0.80, not even the tax ...
Cell Phones
LG-SH240 Does Human Skin Finish
No, it doesn’t look like human skin, but it supposed to feel like human skin, the keypad that is. LG is apparently grasping at straws with the SH240 and they’ll do just about anything to garner some attention –...
Household
Transforming Mirror Sees All Angles
Obsessed with how you look from all angles? Then put away that hand held mirror (and the icy hot for your neck) and pick up this mirror. The center mirror illuminates – well, until you update your lighting system to accom...
Cell Phones
World’s Lightest Phone
Some folks are just straight up spotlight hogs. As if Modu didn’t recieve enough press about its modular phone, today the handset was announced as the “world’s lightest mobile phone” according to Guinne...
Cell Phones
Samsung Launches Haptic Touch Phone (SCH-W420 or SPH-W4200)
Samsung announced their newest phone today, the Anycall Haptic. Initially it will be available in Korea only, but hopefully it will get State side for Samsung fans. The Anycall Haptic features tactile feedback along with audi...