Gadget Thumbnails for 28-Jan-2011

iCar has discovered the secret of flight: It’s the wheels Jet-powered Water Cannon from China Over the Top is a 17 x 17 x17 Rubik’s Cube Callaway upro mx heads for the greens Genius jumps into tablet game with Kids Designer Tablet iKit rolls out AutoCharge + USB Plantronics announces Calisto 800 Series Introducing Foolish [...]

iCar has discovered the secret of flight: It’s the wheels

I always love to report on flying cars as much as I can. This one, which is called the iCar, doesn’t need any wings or magic to fly but uses specially designed wheels. Apparently round spinning surfaces can create lift, which is called the Magnus Effect. The iCar takes advantage of the Magnus Effect to [...]

Jet-powered Water Cannon from China

I don’t know if you are one of those people who are really worried about China tipping “the balance of the world”. I saw a whole episode of The Office devoted to it the other day, and it reminded me of conversations that I had with people who are worrying about the most populated country [...]

Over the Top is a 17 x 17 x17 Rubik’s Cube

For some reason, I just can’t get enough of Rubik’s Cube stuff. Remember the Rubik’s Slide Puzzle and the Gear Wheel IQ? Not to mention the Scruble Cube that combines the puzzle cube with everyone’s favorite puzzle game of Scrabble. I don’t know why I am obsessed with this thing, perhaps it is because I [...]

Chuck Norris in the House!

FACT: Chuck Norris counted to infinity…twice! While we’re all aware that it’s Chuck Norris’s world and we merely live in it, we can still invite Chuck into our world with the help of Fathead’s latest (and maybe greatest) effort. Awesome is a word created for such things as a life-size Chuck Norris wall decal. That’s [...]

Gadget Thumbnails for 31-Jan-2011

Measy – Selecting tech, made simple Check out this R5800 Solar Death Ray, built by 19-year-old Eric Jacqmain RC Tricopter shooting hydrogen-filled balloons is the coolest thing you will see all day Black Pyramids could harness solar energy in the UAE Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker Star Wars Boba Fett Headphones Pentel airpenPocket digital pen Rude [...]

Measy – Selecting tech, made simple

I guess I consider myself an avid photographer, and I have been told I take some pretty amazing shots. What I wasn’t good at was selecting my first camera. They were all so darn expensive, and while I knew what I wanted the thing to do, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out [...]

Check out this R5800 Solar Death Ray, built by 19-year-old Eric Jacqmain

What you are seeing here is a “death-ray” made by gluing 5,800 tiny mirror tiles to a fiberglass satellite dish. According to my Source, it is powerful enough to “melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant”. Believe it or not, it was built by [...]

RC Tricopter shooting hydrogen-filled balloons is the coolest thing you will see all day

What you are seeing here is an excellent justification for putting guns on the Parrot AR.Drone. These two guys put fireworks guns on this mini RC tricopter here. You absolutely have to watch the video after the jump to see what came next. The fireworks guns are roman candles that are triggered by a bit-switch. [...]

Black Pyramids could harness solar energy in the UAE

Did you ever wonder why the Egyptians built the pyramids? It wasn’t because the desert was too boring, but they were tombs for the pharaohs. In the case of this particular concept design known as Lunar Cubit, these pyramids could be built for the purposes of solar energy. Lunar Cubit is the winning entry in [...]