Archive for 'March,2010'

Magic Wheel Scooter Is Unicycle Meets Skateboard (video)

Magic Wheel Scooter Is Unicycle Meets Skateboard (video)

Talk about an accident waiting to happen?  The Magic Wheel Scooter is essentially a modified unicycle, although a smaller skateboard sized wheel on the rear seems to provide added balance.  The video depicts a teen rider [...]

Heatswell Cup Grows A Sleeve When In Contact With A Hot Beverage (video)

Heatswell Cup Grows A Sleeve When In Contact With A Hot Beverage (video)

Drink coffee or tea much from one of the many fine coffee establishments scattered throughout the world?  If so, then you know how damn annoying those heat sleeves can be when they slide off and cause [...]

Garmin Announces Forerunner 110, A Simpler Forerunner GPS Watch

Garmin Announces Forerunner 110, A Simpler Forerunner GPS Watch

Garmin kicked out a new, simpler GPS watch today called the Forerunner 110.  It does away with all the frills and features found in Garmin’s previous GPS watches and simply measures your time, distance, and speed.  [...]

Eclipse Life Touch Keyboard: Perhaps An Affordable Touchscreen Keyboard (video)

Eclipse Life Touch Keyboard: Perhaps An Affordable Touchscreen Keyboard (video)

I don’t know about you guys, but there isn’t too many times where my keyboard won’t suffice for whatever onscreen input I need to achieve.  But if you’re the type of user that watches an endless [...]

Turn Any Key Into A Mutlifunction Tool With Key Tool and Shackle Set

Turn Any Key Into A Mutlifunction Tool With Key Tool and Shackle Set

At this point we’ve seen our fair share of pocket sized multifunction keys.  The Key Tool and Shackle set takes a slightly different approach by not being a stand alone gadget, but one that compliments and [...]

The Dualbrella: Two Umbrellas In One

The Dualbrella: Two Umbrellas In One

Really?  Seriously?  But yes, I’m afraid so – someone has finally built the Dualbrella.  It spans 6 feet wide and 3 feet deep insuring that it covers you and your partner in the most inclement of [...]

Oregon Scientific Launches Helios Weather Station

Oregon Scientific Launches Helios Weather Station

New to the Oregon Scientific lines of products is the Helios Solar Weather Station.  To be entirely honest there’s nothing new going on here, but it does offer a semi-robust feature set at a reasonable price, [...]

iPads Sold Out, Next Ship Date April 12th

iPads Sold Out, Next Ship Date April 12th

Still debating about the iPad preorder purchase?  Well, it looks like they’ve sold out of the first batch of WiFi models.  That means that if you decide to pull the trigger now you won’t see yours [...]

NASA iPhone App Could Indirectly Put You On The Moon (video)

NASA iPhone App Could Indirectly Put You On The Moon (video)

Want to control the Mars Rover? There’s an app for that. At EclipseCon, 2010 the annual Eclipse open source community meeting, attendees were given the challenge of creating a robotic control system to drive a NASA [...]

Facevision FVexpress Combo Webcam

Facevision FVexpress Combo Webcam

For those who want to, err, “chat” on Chat Roulette in the highest quality possible, the FVexpress Combo from FaceVision looks like a great webcam. The 2MP, 720p webcam records at 30fps, ensuring smooth, crystal-clear video. [...]