As much as I like the novelty of stun guns, you are better off with a can of pepper spray. In all seriousness, I think everyone should have a can of pepper spray in their car or purse. But if you prefer a stun gun… mine as well be a…
Another toy, and one that I would own if I lived in a snowy area. The SnowBall Blaster launches snow balls up to 80 feet using compressed energy. You can get one gun for about $60… or two for under $100. I recommend two… much more fun that way.
The geek’s at ThinkGeek are slinging more office warfare items… the latest is the Spyfire R/C blaster… think of it as a nerf gun on steroids. The gun allows you to shoot it with the trigger/handle… or remove the handle and shoot it via remote control. The SpyFire is a…
The sadistic side of me (the larger side) loves to prank friends, family, and co-workers. So, as payment for those close to me who don’t regularly read this gadget blog… they will soon be nauseous. Sonic Nausea is a small gadget that runs off of a 9-volt battery and produces…
A crafty fellow named Chris Roger’s converted an RC car into a paintball shooting assault vehicle named WROMP. His description is most likely better than mine… “this is a weaponized version of the Remotely Operated Mobile Platform. It is wirelessly controlled from a safe zone using a color wireless Audio-Visual…
How often have you read a note or report from a colleague and thought… WTF? Time to stamp it and send it back with the WTF stamp for only $6.99. Would be perfect for teachers too but we Americans are a bit too uptight for that. I would run out…
San Jose California was the home to McColo, a ISP/hosting company that apparently was a major source of the world’s spam email. The company was shut down after investigations by the Washington Post’s Security Fix Blog fingered McColo as a major spammer. The good news… spam volumes dropped immediately by…
Not to be accused of political bias after running our Barack-in-a-box review, we reluctantly present the Presidential Urinal. Clark Sorensen, a guy from San Francisco (yeah I was shocked too), a famed floral urinal designer (I bet his parents are proud), came up with this gem to immortalize the last…
The folks at Victor Pest have come up with a "better mouse trap" which uses a high voltage shock to electrocute mice/rats in about 3 seconds. The Victor Multi-Kill electronic mouse trap then moves the dead animal to a collection box, and is ready for it’s next victim. Victor claims…
The kids you used to pick on in high school are at it again… computer scientist from the University of San Diego have create software that will duplicate a key from a photo. The photo doesn’t even need to be that good. Yikes. The system, named Sneakey, uses "teleduplication–extracting a…