LCD Touchscreen Powered Vespa

What’s cooler than a Vespa with a Louis Vuitton seat? A Vespa with a Louis Vuitton seat and a touch screen LCD runing Windows XP of course! This red showboat of glory won the “Best Modern Vespa award” at the Amerivespa contest.

Upclose shot after the ‘leap’

Via Bornrich

2 comments February 17th, 2008

iAno: iPhone Piano Simulator

Last week I posted about the iPhone Guitar app. Today, or actually yesterday, the iAno emerged (iPhone + Piano). In order to install you’ll have to Jailbreak your iPhone, but it’ll enable a complete four octave keyboard that allows up to 5 keys to be simultaneously played. According to Technabob, it’s jam packed with real piano samples and it’s creator, Mister Aardvark, plans to add an 88-key keyboard, switch sample sets, recording and playback and more.

Available here.

4 comments February 17th, 2008

Fire Glove: Light A Cigarette With Your Finger (video)

Motivation is an odd thing. Some people don’t have it and others have too much of it. Matiah Shaman might just be the latter of the two. Course he’s also probably some sort of genius. According to Matiah he “took apart many things that you should not ever take apart (disposable cameras, lighters), and used the most dangerous parts of them in dangerous ways. Please don’t try to sue me if you build a fire glove and burn your hand or point it in your eyeball and go blind, its NOT A SAFE PROJECT.” Based on the video and his description, it looks like the index finger runs the butane. By placing his thumb and middle finger together it creates a spark lighting the gas. From there, he controls the flow of gas using his thumb. The gas tank is simply a plastic utility lighter, and the spark is created from a disassembled disposable camera.

He’s got a full explanation on his YouTube page (see the right hand column).

Via HackedGadgets

Add comment February 15th, 2008

Homemade Wii Blaster

Yesterday I wrote about the Nerf Wii Blaster. Today, Gearfuse found a Wii remote mod that repackages the controller into a custom made handheld gun. No word on if it works as an actual Wii Blaster, but the linked page has complete details on ‘how to’.

More pics after the ‘leap’

More info here.

1 comment February 15th, 2008

Hide-A-iPod Home Made Sony Walkman Case

When the iPod became the must have item, folks were getting robbed left and right for them. Well, maybe not left and right, but a few white ear bud adorning, and adoring folks were getting jumped for their 10GB MP3 players (seems so long ago, huh). If you want to deter, in fact have folks scoff in your direction, then just convert an old Sony Walkman like Flickr user Sirljohn did. An ingenious idea, but you’ve gotta switch out the headphones for the oldschool yellow sport ones. What’s next? A Zack Morris case for your iPhone?

Via Gadget Venue via DVice

Add comment February 12th, 2008

Play Guitar On Your iPhone

Playing guitar is hard enough, right? Now imagine trying to play guitar on an iPhone. Pocket Guitar, believe it or not, allows you to strum in up to three types of guitar setups: distortion, acoustic and electric bass. It looks unbelievably cool and intuitive. There are a few YouTube videos floating around. No doubt you’ll have to Jailbreak, but maybe that’ll change with the SDK kit released this month.

Via MobileMag

Video after the ‘more’

4 comments February 1st, 2008

Unity Telephone Connects Desktop and Cell Phone

The Unity Telephone is essentially a dongle that connects your desktop and cell phone via Bluetooth and cord. Get a call on your cell and it’s transferred to your desktop phone. I know what you’re thinking: how many phones does it work with? According to Redferret, it will work with up to 1,300 phones (not sure if cell and/or corded phone), but I wouldn’t expect it to work with standard home phones. In addition to receiving calls you can share contacts, read text messages and more.

Add comment January 31st, 2008

Use Nokia’s Accelerometer To Open Messages

ShakeSMS isn’t the most practical application to install on your Nokia, but it sure does pique and speak to the level of innovation we should see coming from Apple’s SDK coming in February. So how’s it work? Install the Symbian based app/addon. When you receive a ‘text’ you simply shake your phone bringing you to your newly received text message. Note, you must have a Nokia with a built-in accelerometer. Symbianfreak (via MobileMag) makes a valid point: what happens if your jogging or jostle your phone while in your pocket?

Add comment January 30th, 2008