"An iPhone app currently in development called Mini Connected will let drivers receive Facebook updates and tweets. These posts will appear on the car’s LCD or be read out loud if the car has an optional voice command system. We suspect showing the posts on an LCD won’t survive into…
Got some old computers laying around? Build yourself a cutting laser from spare PC parts, and a few extras. The main components are a DVD writer (16X or faster), a PC power supply, a heatsink (from your CPU), and a few extra cheap parts and you are in business. Video…
Who doesn't love ice cream? (you farting Ed Zecha lactose intolerant types don't count) If you don't always want to run to the grocery store and buy overpriced, weird ingredient laden, ice cream every time you have a fix make your own. And yes, you can make ice cream at…
"Previously available only to professional athletes, the new Gatorade G Series Pro ($8-$50) take the venerable sports drink beyond the simple drink and into the realm of full-on athletic nutrition. The new line-up includes pre-game carb-loaded energy drinks and nutrition shakes and bars, mid-performance endurance sticks, drinks, electrolyte-loaded powder, and…
Power Gig, Rise of the SixString is like Rock Band, but uses real guitars. Instead of the cheap plastic guitar that is used in Rock Band you will be using a fully functioning six-string guitar to control the game. "As one might imagine, the game is being developed by a…
Gene and Steve's favorite item, the Apple iPad will start taking pre-orders on March 12 and will start shipping on April 3. I wonder if people will line up for this like Steve hopes, or if it will be just ho-hum. “Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US…
From afar, chances are you will be fooled into thinking that this thermos is actually a real Canon 70-200mm L-series lens, where the Japanese company was giving it out for free at the Olympic Press Center. None of them are on eBay at point of publishing, although we’re not too…
"The result of a mad scientist’s experiment involving a 911, a Prius, and the front end of a Ferrari F430, the Porsche 918 Spyder ($TBA) is a new plug-in hybrid concept borrowing bits of all three. A 500hp V8 mid-mounted motor is paired with two electric motors "” one for…
In a world where scientific discovery and exploration is slowly but surely unravelling the myriad mysteries of the universe, it’s gratifying to know that some idiot can still find time to come up with such a ludicrous invention as Glow In The Dark Toilet Paper. It may not be a…
"Because of their compact size and light-weight designs, video-capable smartphones and pocket-friendly camcorders can be rather difficult to keep steady when filming. But that won't be an issue any longer since Steadicam-Tiffen, the company that pretty much wrote the book on camera stabilization, has revealed their new Smoothee stabilizing device…