Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing, just can't catch a break these days. First the Treo gets generally slammed by the public for failing to be as sexy and modern as its competitors in the handheld device arena, and then he releases "the most exciting project…
Summer 2007: No Wipe Outs! They look a bit like skates on steroids, but who am I to question Olympic champs that dance on TV? LandRoller has created a new skate with Ohno's help (yep, red was his choice) and are making full use of his Dancing for the Stars win…
I did the math this morning. Assuming at the end of a good cup of coffee, when you get down to the bottom to find a sickly sweet sludge of settled remains, you toss roughly a tablespoon of wasted java down the drain, AND assuming you have a few cups during your daily…
I was over at my friend’s house the other night admiring the shelf-sized speaker system that his iPod was plugged into — mint-green with a wooden face, trapezoidal, and ever so clever in its throwback simplicity. And, as function doesn’t always follow form, it…
Every now and then when I get curious about the bizarre things people search for online, I head over to Google and check out the "hot trends." During my visit the other day, I noticed an entry called “nose bidet”… so of course I bit. After doing a bit of…
This is almost as good as the red Tasco miscroscope kit I got from "Santa" in 3rd grade. Check out the Dino-Lite USB Digital Microscope, ready to jack into your computer and coax your curiosity for a cool $200. "Yeah, but my camera has a MACRO setting, I can…
The kid in me loves this; the wine lover is worried. Both sides are delighted, though, to have found this little gem -- who doesn't love messing with friends? Don't Break the Bottle is a wooden wine puzzle bent on frustrating porch sippers and dinner guests this…
Sony’s latest Vaio offers something no other manufacture has done yet - a 2.5-inch 160GB disk and a 1.8-inch 32GB SSD together. This laptop is perfect and goes against the argument that “Flash memory isn’t enough in laptops to store out data.” The VAIO…
We have seen some innovative alarm clocks in the past that are sure to wake anyone up in the morning but, this new alarm will actually force you to get out of bed. When it is time to get up the clocky robotic alarm clock with it’s shock proof design will begin…
Are you sick and tired of how long it takes to encode video on your Mac? Elgato has come to the rescue with the new Turbo.264, a simple device which connects to your machine via USB and helps boost video encoding speed. The Turbo.264 acts like an additional…
Bad mornings are pretty formulaic: you spill coffee on your pressed shirt, the dog knocks over the kitchen trash, news reports have it that highways are gridlocked, and oh yeah, where'd you put those stupid keys again? I don't know about you, but I've probably wasted…
Illuminate your Nintendo Wii with the Wii Crystal Cooler. A special stand which not only adds a high velocity fan to the underside of your console, but also adds extra-bright blue LED illumination around the base of the system, giving it an otherworldly glow. …