Sunday, February 24, 2013 - 5:30pm
Turns out that all it takes is a little electricity to keep a soap bubble around for a few hours.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 6:15am
With clever designs like this one, the personal coffee-cup insulator could be poised to become the next big gift item. Conceived by a teacher in Ottawa, Ontario, the "Caffeinating" coffee cosy is perfect for hard-core tech and coffee geeks alike.
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 1:29pm
What elements made The Empire Strikes Back a classic? After 30 years (30 years exactly, because Star Wars: Episode V opened May 21, 1980), we finally know — thanks to The Periodic Table of The Empire Strikes Back! Check out...
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 4:15pm
It's been a big week for the gadget world. But it's been an even bigger one for the gadget-parody world. The iPad has inspired unprecedented ridicule worldwide, even for an Apple product. This level of derision is usually reserved for...
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 11:24am
We hope y'all enjoyed our live tweets covering the Apple iPad event on Wednesday. As promised, we're giving away an 4GB iPod Shuffle to one of our faithful followers — none other than Regina Wysocki (@regwysocki)! Congratulations to Regina; we're...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 1:40pm
Want to be an astronaut? Good news! Apparently all it takes to get the best conditioning possible is being able to bounce around on a trampoline and get beaned by the occasional ball. That's because Spaceball is — according to...
Friday, June 12, 2009 - 2:01am
Those of us desk jockeys with large desks and nothing to put on it might like this little gewgaw from Fascinations. The Levitron Revolution is an anti-gravity display thingumibob that uses Maglev — that's magnetic levitation — technology to display...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 3:17pm
If you've thought about it, seen it or own it, someone else has gone and stuck a USB cord to it. You can pretty much get anything in the world as a USB gadget, from fun office games to foot...
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 2:59am
If you're reading this site you're probably more likely than most to have a real security camera trained on your tech lair. But even the most authentic geeks sometimes fall upon financial hard times, in which case devices like the...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 2:22pm
Want a different way to take a shot? Try the Alcohol Shot Gun — "pour in an ounce of your favorite drink into the cartridge, cock the trigger, point and shoot." Just look how much fun the guy in the...
