It might be designed for the needs of modern classrooms, but I’m pretty sure I could use one of these Steelcase Node desk chairs around my home/office. Besides better addressing the needs of today’s laptop-toting students with ample bag storage under the seat and an adjustable work desk sized for most notebooks, the Node [...]
Sometimes the most interesting gadgets can be the simple ones. Take for instance this Tapi Tap Squeeze Drink Fountain. There are no fancy electronic components or mechanical parts to be found here. Just one piece of very specifically-crafted rubber.
This simple product turns almost any household faucet into a water fountain with just a squeeze. [...]
Redrock Micro’s Nano kits turn your DSLR camera into a film-making rig, allowing you to construct your own unique filming rig by adding grips, chest braces and handles.The new Redrock kits come in three main flavors: A grip, which is a simple handle that screws into the tripod-mount, a pair of chest braces which [...]
While enroute to superstardom, a musician might find themselves performing in smaller venues for a while, like say a subway station, or a busy street corner. And while busking might provide a steady stream of audience members, the venues aren’t always ideal with lots of ambient noise and usually no place to plug in [...]
Man, this makes me wish I still wore fancy formal suits to fancy business meetings.
Saboteur, a clothing line created by Kristen Slowe (yeah, the wife of Reddit founder Christopher Slowe), is set to launch online on August 25th and will feature clothing aimed at the tech crowd of Silicon Valley.
Many Valley entrepreneurs value form [...]
Check out these people with their round wheel-shaped vehicles. It reminds me of this thing that General Grievous rode in that Star Wars Episode III movie.
This is part of something that my Source calls the Tube Concept, and it is a revolutionary system of mass transit.
It is similar to the Metropia that we reported [...]
French-born Stéphane Rousson is no stranger to weird, pedal-powered vehicles. In 2008, he tried to fly across the English Channel pedaling a blimp. Now, he’s teamed up with designer Minh-Lôc Truong to create the Scubster, a pedal sub designed for racing.
Rousson is looking to enter the craft into the International Submarine Race, where it’ll [...]
What do you do with your MacBook Air when it has stopped working? One clever modder decided to make an all in one computer, similar to the Asus Eee Keyboard PC using an Apple keyboard, a Magic Trackpad and parts from his MacBook Air.
According to the modder it is still a work in progress, [...]
We all love those silent hand/finger gestures Special Ops teams use in the movies when they’re about to attack. Now a pair of high-tech gloves gives firefighters the same kind of cool hand-speak in the service of saving lives.
Created by two Europe-based designers, the Frontline Gloves would allow firefighters to communicate wirelessly, without speaking, [...]
Remember Clocky? It was the alarm clock with a set of rubber tires that allowed it to drive off when the alarm sounded, forcing you out of bed in order to hunt it down and silence it. Well Tocky here is billed as its “tech savvy” younger brother, and instead of driving away on [...]
