Once upon a time, there were volumes of bound pages which were called books. People use to read these “books” to gain the knowledge of the world, or even just as a quite night in bed. Ever since the dawning of the Internet age, book reading has taken a sudden nose dive, thanks to the instant gratification of RSS and Wikipedia. Designer Kyle Bean put together a fabrication of what he likes to call “The Future Of Books”, featuring a... Continue reading

There are plenty of robots that are a hell of a lot more useful then Swashbot. Hell, there are a lot of robots that are even cuter then this mini-insectoid, yet there is something alluring about the DIY SwashBot. A certain charm, if you will. Constructed using spare R/C helicopter bits, including four servos, a receiver, a battery pack, LEDs, and a little exoskeleton, the SwashBot strolls around like it owns the joint. Even if it doesn’t have the agilty... Continue reading

  Seemingly verified through insider information, sources have confirmed that these screenshots have been leaked from the alpha testing phase of the World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. The new expansion will add a new class, the first hero class, the Death Knight, to the WoW world, as well as a new profession called Inscription, new PvP options, plus the new continent of Northrend. The following screenshots are leaked images from the recently commenced alpha testing,... Continue reading

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one entertaining man. Both brutally unique and charismatic, something which he has recently shown is a certain level of humility. Ballmer has even gone as far as admitting that Vista is an “incomplete product”, while speaking at Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals event in Seattle yesterday. Ballmer claims that the Vista OS is still a “work in progress”, even though this has been a product that Microsoft has been pushing for more than a year now.... Continue reading

You might have your car’s interior and sound system down as far as geeky prowess goes, but what lurks under the hood? A standard engine just won’t do for my fellow car modding comrades, oh no! We need more! Better! Geekier! The owner of this car is such a huge fan of the NES console, that he modded a NES controller design right into the very innards of his VVT-i 16 Valve engine. Blasting away at all cylinders, this modded... Continue reading

If you play video games long enough, you have a highly increased chance to have a seizure. Researchers from the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre in Belgium have developed a new “portable electroencephalogram”, pretty much short for self-powered Brainwave Headphones, which can monitor brainwaves, providing an early monitor system for epilepsy, and possibly be used for gaming purposes in the future. The headphones are powered by using “thermoelectric materials which turn heat gradients into electrical energy, using the difference between a warm... Continue reading

Those of you who run Linux might still experience falling asleep at the monitor with your command terminal running. The steady blinking of the cursor can be hypnotic, but sleeping at the desk is about as ergonomic as sleeping on a pile of stones. Art Lebedev Studio has whipped up an ode to the days of DOS commands with the DOS pillow. Relive the days where you would wake up to the DOS screen, still giving you command syntax errors,... Continue reading

Good day, Mr. Phelps. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to read this article with a close eye, because one day, you could be dealing with self-destructive DVDs. A German company has designed a new type of DVD, called an Einmal (German for “once”.) These new DVD’s can only be watched for 48 hours, before a special chemical coating on the discs makes viewing impossible. There doesn’t seem to be a DRM method on these discs, so... Continue reading

There are some gadget concepts that make me want to jump up and lobby to the world about them. This High Tech Scroll concept is a gorgeous idea, there just isn’t the technology available yet to create it. Featuring a 10 MP camera, camcorder, touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth support, and a PC running a full version of XP or Vista (come on, give us some OS X goodness!), the High Tech Scroll is too good to be true, and it isn’t.... Continue reading

When the volume of a gas decreases at a maintained pressure, the temperature of the remaining gas falls. Such is the law the defines the concept behind the Jet Engine-powered Beer Cooler. Using a LPG cylinder and a jet engine to cool his favorite brew, the designer of the beer cooler is never without an icy cold one. If you can get your hands on the beer pouring robot, you have the makings of a BBQ of epic proportions, and... Continue reading