Computing

Desktop computers come stocked pretty standard. Mouse, monitor, keyboard, and speakers. Ho, hum. Boring, boring. The Zen PC uses an active and dynamic keypad which changes to suit your needs and unrestrictive-form. If you’re using a musical application, the keypad changes into a piano keyboard or a xylophone, magically shape-shifting to reform for the given use. The whole of the ...

If you’re one of those trendy little shits that camps out at Starbucks to steal their WiFi, you know that the cafes are crowded with others just like you. Notebooks in hand, ready for some free Internet access. A few pranksters from the comedy troupe Improv Everywhere set up house at a Starbucks, fully equipped with full desktop computers and ...

The Skeleton Mouse might be designed a little on the morbid side. Hell, who are we kidding, it’s a mouse made to look like a decomposed corpse. Archaeologists and grave diggers alike will have a fun time with this one. The species known as mousicus bonicus was thought to be long since extinct, but you can have a piece of ...

As an iPhone user, I can tell you that the little switch on the side of the phone which puts the Apple device in “silent mode” is very easy to switch unintentionally. Because of this, I have missed calls that could have been a matter of great importance, such as saving the world, or picking up some milk from the ...

Or so you might be led to believe if you are to take the false advertising of Thanko literally. I mean, we know that they are just trying to show arm movement, but it really looks like the model has some weird arm mutation. While I wouldn’t mind having an extra arm, I really wouldn’t mind having something like the ...

Slippers. Most commonly worn by hospital patients and sleepy-eyed senior citizens. The Joy Slippers are a substitution for a mouse and joystick, controlled via foot movements. The best thing about the slippers is that you can make them yourself with a step-by-step DIY.

Coming in great handy if you were to ever become lost at sea…with a computer. The USB Morse Code Machine, from who else but useless USB gadget masters Thanko, helps you to master the lost art of Morse Code. Teaching you to dot and dash until you can’t dot and dash no more. Soon enough you’ll be having full conversations ...

In a move from EA and Hasbro to create a shooter game peripheral, they’ve joined forces to create the Wiimote Nerf Blaster. Soon to make a launch in the UK, the Blaster can be used as a typical Nerf gun, while also offering a new peripheral to strap your Wiimote onto. In addition to looking super cool, the new peripheral ...

Back in the day when the Nintendo Wii was first released, there were a whole bunch of broken TVs thanks to Wiimotes thrown in fits of anger at the ‘cheating’ computer character in the game. Philips has a recently revealed patent that shows a gaming system which not only encourages, but demands that you toss around your peripherals.

You don’t know it, but you are fully in our mind-bending control. Oh, the power! You might not be able to manipulate minds as well as us, but you can experience molding to some degree with the Lite-On conceptual Moldable Mouse, which lets you custom mold your own ergonomics. Squeeze the Moldable Mouse into any shape you desire, or just ...