Retro gaming lovers and thirty-somethings rejoice. Etsy shop owner Charles Lushear has created a 3.5 foot Nintendo NES controller coffee table that actually works.

The hand crafted table is made from premium maple, mahogany and walnut woods with all dovetail joinery and topped with protective glass top.

When it’s time to play all gamers need to do is simply remove the glass table top and extend the retractable cord from the bottom of the controller, plug it in, and enjoy.

Read More »

No, that is not a typo. The slick new E-Paper watch dubbed, Pebble, is an infinitely customizable interconnected companion for both iPhone and Andriod smartphones… and it just raised half a million dollars on Kickstarter.

The Pebble is a relatively slim and somewhat sexy watch which consists of an accelerometer, vibrating motor, ARM microprocessor, and Bluetooth 2.1+ to connect any iPhone or Andriod phone so users can run apps for things like running, biking, music, and notifications.

Read More »

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.

Read More »

You know it happens, you travel somewhere and forget to take your medication or maybe it’s been such a busy day that you simply forget. Well, scientists have now figured out a way to make sure you get the proper dosage of medication without fail — a microchip.

Roughly fifteen years ago, MIT  began developing a wirelessly controlled device that would release medication at preset times via a microchip that is implanted just under the skin’s surface. This breakthrough technology has long been sought after, and the lucky company that received the licensing for this project is microCHIPS (very creative).

Read More »

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.”

Read More »

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.

Read More »

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.

Read More »

That’s right, an 8.6 pound Scooba 390 robot can and will vacuum, scrub, and wash clean 425 square feet of hard floor surface on a single tank of cleaner, and it can clean 850 square feet per battery charge.

iRobot brings the fully automated technological innovations of the future to us in the form of a round bot just 14.8 inches in diameter. It actually looks a bit like an Olympic curling stone, though no ice is required with this bad boy.

As long as the ability to wield dangerously strong vacuum abilities or breathe fire is not possible with the relatively artificially intelligent Scooba 390, this bot appears to be useful and actually functional, using iAdapt tech to go over each section of floor three times before completing its run.

Read More »

For those times when you want to buy your friend a beer, but they are halfway around the world, there is now, an app for that — Tweet-a-Beer.

Tweet-a-Beer, created by Portland’s one tenfour and Waggener Edstrom, was introduced at the SXSW Interactive portion of the convention. It utilizes twitter’s Chirpify, twitter’s payment app, and sends payments via paypal. You can enter a personalized message to the beer-receiver of your choice, maybe describing how awesome they are and why the deserve this beer money, or you can enter in a time and place to meet to grab a few cold ones. Either way, once you hit that submit button, your friend will get a tweet telling them that they just received the $5.

Read More »

Throwing the notebook in the bay might not normally be a good idea, but Rite in the Rain provides a special paper product and pen, like no other; and these green (figuratively) outdoor writing pads survive the worst that water has to offer!

Want to go to the Amazon rain forest and sketch the myriad nuances that such a unique and beautiful environment can provide?

Bring along a book that can withstand the rain, being dropped in puddles, or taken into the pool, accidentally, for a swim.

Read More »