By R.J. Huneke | May 16, 2012
This week starts the newest reoccurring section at Gadizmo, Geek Weekly, and to celebrate the triumphant start to nerdism and pure unadulterated fun, we’d like to kick off the event by taking a look at life-sized LEGO Avengers props!
A full scale Captain America shield blazoned with a blue encased white star and surrounded by the US of A’s red and white stripes can be yours! [Flickr]
Just take your time and pull out a boatload of red, white, and blue Legos like Ken Robichaud did (over at his LEGO themed Flickr account buriedbybrick), and get busy.
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By R.J. Huneke | May 9, 2012
New Balance makes strides toward becoming the kings of bare-footwear with an everyday, all around NewSky shoe made from recycled products.
And it is comfy!
The heavily touted Minimus features the same sock-like liner made to endure bare feet as the NewSky, but this lighter shoe is not a runner (unlike most of New Balance’s specialties, folks).
The NewSky shoes are specifically meant for normal everyday walking and living with barefoot goodness and it only weighs upwards of 4 ounces and change, as its crafted using 73 percent less material than the average New Balance running shoe.
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By R.J. Huneke | May 2, 2012
The “Foam Fighters” video game combines two expertly crafted and air-worthy foam airplanes with a realistic and incredibly fun WWII-like flying simulator App.
The package might say ages 9+, but my six-year-old niece craves this game, and I greatly enjoy it (being a bit older than six myself).
AppGear has been combining free Apps – that are adept at their game’s purpose, such as flying and fighting in this case – with props that function as fun add-ons that stick via a suction cup to the tablet or smart phone the players are using.
And I cannot understate this: having a WWII fighter plane on a stand that can be angled to give you a perfect view of the screen and the soaring foam fighter just beyond the game’s horizon is a great illusion that adds to the action; but what I find most intriguing is that the foam fighters actually glide, and are built extremely well to fly better than the old foam plane kits that we all bought from the ice cream man from time to time.
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By R.J. Huneke | Apr 23, 2012
Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for the iPad has made the Smart Cover obsolete.
Apple thought they had outdone themselves by building magnets into the iPad 2 and the 3rd generation iPad that could attach to a thin and flexible protective Smart Cover case with numerous screen propping abilities that sold for a cool thirty-nine bucks.
For all of the technophiles out there who have waited from the shadowed corners of their cubicles for a slim and sexy case to outduel Apple and the co-worker that had to make your iPad 2 look like a dinosaur with their 3rd gen standing up in a Smart Cover to play an episode of Mad Men on the screen, Logitech has given you the artillery to fire back!
The Ultrathin Keyboard Cover not only brings a sturdy and slim case to the iPad’s magnets, but combines another tool: making it a cover and keyboard hybrid device.
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By R.J. Huneke | Apr 18, 2012
You had better befriend that droid like Luke Skywalker, or else the Voice Activated R2-D2 Star Wars replica robot will give you an attitude instead of following your command to play tag.
At fifteen inches tall, the Voice Activated R2-D2 responds to 40 different commands!
It might cost just shy of two hundred big ones, but when your own R2-D2 gives you lip in the form of an audible swirly, and then having to say, “R2, behave yourself!” to get him to listen to you again is just priceless.
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By R.J. Huneke | Apr 15, 2012
The sounds of the 23rd Century have imparted themselves on the likes of our own contemporary doors with the Swoosh of an Enterprise door, or a Red Alert siren sounding once someone crosses the doorway of the officially licensed Star Trek Electronic Door Chime!
Picture the cubicle all but secured via your troll army except at the inevitable opening. Since you cubicle-fortress has no door, there is nothing to stand in the way of your boss simply slipping past the guard and eavesdropping on your Facebook chat. That is unless a Star Trek RED ALERT siren sounds off as soon as the pink tie crosses the cubicle gate’s threshold!
How does this science fiction become reality, you ask?
Well the communicator clone has a motion sensor that detects whenever someone walks through the doorway (genius).
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By R.J. Huneke | Apr 8, 2012
That’s right, the augmented-reality glasses are reality, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin was wearing them all around town (or at least at a San Francisco charity event).
Just imagine driving a Back to the Future-like flying hover car and having the directions of your mother-in-law’s famous ham dinner destination streamed via Google Maps directly to your glasses.
This is not Star Trek: the Next Generation; Google is really testing Project Glass all over the west coast of the US.
Rumors began to spread last December that Google was working on high-tech glasses with a wearable head-up display that could tap into cloud-based location services and detail users’ surroundings.
The details are still up for speculation, but the lightweight glasses seem to place a mini-computer onto the frame’s right side of the coolest hipster glasses imaginable.
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By R.J. Huneke | Apr 2, 2012
Well the Terrafugia Transition is not quite as slim or sexy as the flying cars in Back to the Future Part 2, but at 35 MPG on unleaded gas, we’ll take it!
The two-seater plane wraps up its wings into a seven-foot tall, seven and a half foot wide, nineteen-foot long car.
The prototype’s first flight took off in Plattsburgh in 2009 (pun intended here, folks), and since then Terrafugia has attained an exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for a “roadable aircraft.”
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By R.J. Huneke | Mar 29, 2012
Riding the wave of solid-state chips, Morphlabs had introduced the world to the first ever all solid-state drive (SSD) private cloud platform to be far faster and more reliable
In a steadily growing virtual world, the Cloud – whether it be Amazon’s or Apple’s or anyone else’s – has revolutionized the use of computer data storage.
Using an innovative new “mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU),” the company has kept its pricing in line with the cost of Amazon or Rackspace by combining compute, networking and storage tech — but with 10-times the input/output operations per second (IOPs) performance, thanks to the SSDs,” Morphlabs VP Yoram Heller told Cloudline.
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By R.J. Huneke | Mar 27, 2012
The first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by author J.K. Rowling barely made it to print in England in 1998, and yet the Harry Potter series has now sold close to 450 million books across the globe; and the eBooks are available on all eReaders today!
That number reflects the old-fashioned paper books (which are one of my personal loves, folks), because up until right now – this very morning – the eBooks had never been available.
I take books everywhere, but if I forget the paper goodness at home or in the car, and the tragic line at the bank goes on forever (or at least ten minutes) I get antsy with the desire to read. Having a portable Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince eBook on my person at all times seems like a no-brainer, especially when my train rides can kill brain cells without holding proper distractions of reading excellence.
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