I saw this at a friends house (Ray and Viv you ought to be ashamed of yourselves) over the weekend, and I wondered why anyone would buy this product. I mean, the last thing a kid needs after eating a sugary cereal is a sugary straw (?) to drink the…
I went to college (surprise) with guys who would eat pizza crust off the floor. They either had really good immune systems or spent quite a bit of time on the toilet. I on the other hand, am a bit of a germarphobe, I don’t even like sharing drinks/straws with…
I have an addiction to solar gadgets and rechargeable batteries. So when you combine the two you have a winner in my book. This unit costs less than $24 at Amazon, and charges D (UM-1), C(UM-2), AA (UM-3), and AAA (UM-4) size batteries. The solar panel is built into the…
San Jose State University (SJSU), my alma mater, is taking a big leap forward by offering a virtual campus on the Second Life game (?). Some day, mark my words, we are all going to be socially backwards and scared to see anyone face-to-face in this world of drive through’s,…
Have a hard time remembering cryptic combination locks? Tired of carrying so many keys? Try out this gadget of a lock – the WordLock – which uses words instead of numbers or keys. Remember a simple word instead of a random set of numbers. The locks come in a standard…
Dear Sony, I used to love your products. They were cutting edge and high quality (and expensive, but typically worth it). But then you started doing really stupid things. Without going into too many details/products, let’s just point out one of your latest “stupid things”… the Sony VAIO Mouse Talk…
“Felling trees is a tedious task, hoping to make matters easier is this Plustech Oy / John Deere hexapod logging machine prototype. It has strong six-legs that does less damage to the forest and can move through more difficult terrain than wheeled or tracked logging machines. Apparently when the machine…
Looks like Dell decided to jump into the UMPC market and give the Asus Eee a run. Their isn’t much data on the unit other than some Dell press shots… what we do know is that the color is ugly, it has 3 USB ports, an ethernet port, VGA out,…
Looks like Panasonic has the Energizer Bunny dead in their sites. Panasonic has created a new “longer lasting” AA battery labeled the Evolta (combining “evolution” and “voltage”), which is supposed to last 20 percent longer than anything offered by Duracell and Energizer. Panasonic put some of these batteries in a…
I have always fancied pocket watches, even though they are a bit out of place in 2008 not to mention unpractical. It is just one more thing to lose… and a watch on your wrist tends to do the job. With all of that stacked against the pocket watch Adam…