Remote controls are usually a dime a dozen. A flat piece of plastic with assorted buttons strewn on one side is a nice generic description of most remote controls. The Light Saber Remote Control adds some flavor to the same old, same old. Design company Taito, designed the Light Saber Remote out of sheer spite for the conforming designs of remote controls, while adding a geek enhanced skin of Star Wars fanaticism. The Light Saber measures 7.87″ in length and... Continue reading

The famous bust sculpted to Beethoven’s image is now an odd clock. For the sole reason of displaying the time, sunglasses were added on to the bust. The hour shows up on the left lens and the minutes show up on the right. We would love to own something like this, but there seems to have been only 100 of these babies made. Anyone want to make a clone product? ThinkGeek maybe? Oh, well. No price information seems to be... Continue reading

Hi-Tech Wealth, a China-based company, is displaying this solar powered cellphone at CeBIT, called the Light-Energy Mobile Phone. The clamshell design offers a solar panel taking up one of the sides of the flip phone which is constantly sucking in power to be used for the phone. When the phone is on standby the charge stores itself “forever” claims the company, although keep advised that blabbermouth teenagers will have to plug it in from time to time to keep a... Continue reading

This seems as about as effective as hiding under a desk in school, but for all of you paranoid Cold War conspiracy nuts, here is a gadget that might put you at ease. The NukAlert Radiation Monitor and Alarm system monitors your surroundings 24/7. Keeping you attuned to the invisible, yet deadly radiation that could cause serious damage to your sperm or even kill you. Small enough to fit on your key chain, the NukAlert is supposedly used by federal,... Continue reading

The Grand Canyon SkyWalk has finally received its first visitors. The SkyWalk, which will open to the public on March 28th, 2007, extends 70 ft out from the canyon’s rim and can sustain winds of up to 100 mph. Viewers on the SkyWalk will get a grand scale view at a height of 4,000 feet, more than twice the height from the top of Taipei, the world’s tallest building. The SkyWalk can hold a maximum of 120 people at any... Continue reading

Elder gamer website IStillPlayGames.com has a cool gallery of photos of people standing next to their Wii Mii characters. There’s also a few children thrown in as well. Byproducts of the elder gamers, we guess. — Andrew Dobrow Link [via]

Pictured above is said to be the LG KS20 Smartphone, the follow-up to the LG made Prada phone. The Prada phone was originally designed to take on the iPhone, and besides being a designer phone, lacked the features to do so. The LG KS20, while not sporting the Prada brand name, is a sure fire clone of the Prada model, but with pumped up features. The KS20 is rumored to run off of Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro, along with steroid... Continue reading

New Line has announced it has won the feature film rights to the game Gears Of War. Although Epic Games, owners of the “Gears of War” brand, are yet to announce an official announcement of the sequel to the popular video game, we can see the release of the game and the movie happening around the same time. Epic has created an extensive backstory for the game in hopes that a movie production company would pick it up, and may... Continue reading

Being slouched in front of a computer all day causes disastrous effects on our eyes, necks, and backs, yet we hardly notice, or try to remedy it. We’ve even gone as far as lying to ourselves. “Oh, my lower back just hurts from sleeping on it wrong.” The Homi USB is placed at the top of your monitor and alerts you if you become closer then 60cm to the monitor. The ultrasonic sensors notify you of your foul by chiming,... Continue reading

Despite our love for the infectious theme of the Super Mario Bros. game, we never knew the melody had actual lyrics to go along with the tune. The song is actually called “Go Go Mario”. The video above has both the Japanese and English versions. It’s intriguing to us that we are only learning now about these lyrics. What else is Nintendo hiding from us?! It’s like discovering your favorite book is actually an adaptation from a screenplay! — Andrew... Continue reading