Where was this stuff when I was a kid? My first remote controlled car had a wire connecting the “remote” to the car. My second remote controlled car only had controls for forward and reverse. Ahh… the good times.

Well, the AmphibiCAR, on sale at Sharper Image, does just what the name suggests. It swims. The 27Mhz remote control has a 100ft range and the car will stay alive for 45 minutes in water and 25 minutes on land. It takes 5 hours to recharge though, so you better have something else to do.

You don’t need to do anything to switch from land to water: just toss it in.

TransportTrends (with cool video) VIA Gadget Madness.

Thanks Erick!

You know who’s really happy about all these gadgets flooding the market? Battery makers, is who. Think of it. Before the Great Gadget Age, all you ever really needed batteries for was your camera and maybe your Walkman. Now, there hardly is anything you don’t need them for. And of course, with so many of them lying around, you might have the occasional urge to know if they’re charged before you put them in your daily gadget of choice.

Well, company Trust is selling the PW-2050, a stylish and cheap battery power tester. It takes the most common sorts (NiMH, NiCd, alkaline and lithium) in the most common sizes (AA, AAA, C, D, N and 9V).

It goes for about 10$.

Via BIOS.

This is not a pretty gadget. But it doesn’t matter. It’s the gadget I’ve been waiting for all of my life. And when it finally goes on sale (because it isn’t just yet), I will be the first in line.

See, when you sleep, you go through cycles. Light sleep, then deeper and deeper, then lighter again… and so on for the entire night. So, I’m sure you’ve noticed, sometimes you wake up, and you’re full of energy. Other times, even if you’ve slept a lot, you feel half dead. Well, the only reason you do, is because you awoke at the wrong moment: in a deep phase of the sleep cycle. If you had awoken a few minuets later, or even earlier, you would have been so much better off.

Well, the SleepSmart system takes care of that. It’s

an intelligent alarm clock that monitors your sleep cycles as you sleep, waking you at the ideal moment from the optimal stage of sleep. This optimal moment might be several minutes prior to your set alarm time. However, when you wake up, you will be refreshed and ready for action — just as if you had awoken naturally.

Groovy stuff people, I’m telling you. I have sometimes slept for 5 hours, woken up right and felt way better for the rest of the day than times I’ve slept for 10 hours and woken up wrong.

Check out the website.

Via WMMNA.

Update: Okay, so I’m out of the loop. Chris Cardinal from Originalityisoverrated.com points out that Gizmodo has already done a piece on something like this. Better yet, it actually works!! It’s 150$, and apparently worth every penny. Check out his links in the comments section. Thanks Chris.

Yup. You got that. It’s the world’s hardest, most completely indestructible watch. It can only be scratched by another diamond.

It’s pretty, and it’s 5000$. Only the watch face is adamantine (Vocabularial Parenthetical: adamantine’s an adjective derived from the word diamond); the straps are, as Rado says, “caoutchouc”, otherwise known as rubber. I’m sure you’ll also be happy to know that at that price, it also comes with 2 whole years of warranty.

Still, let me tell you, that’ll be something to show off at the country club.

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You’ve been to a casino, I’m sure. If you look up, you’ll see these dark little half-spheres all over the place. No, they’re not tantalizingly out of reach mini-pinatas. They’re security cams. There’s a bunch of people watching you at all times… but of course, you knew that. Well, now, you too can feel special with this fine offering from company Ipix.

The 2 megapixel camera comes with 7X digital zoom, can pivot all of 360 degree and can be controlled over the internet. It can “view images in low light, no light, and infrared-assisted lighting. CommandView can record in light as low as 0.5 lux in color and 0.01 lux in monochrome mode. When the camera reaches 0 lux, an infrared beam activates.”

So if you think you got some real valuables in your home, maybe this is the right way to spend your day at work. You know, snooping on your own place. Getting some real work done.

Check it out.

Via Engadget.

Useful bit of software here. Especially for bloggers. See, every time I need to make a post, I have to open my FTP application and upload my files. It can get tedious. And since computers are the best shoes to have when walking the path of least resistance, the need for freeware such as this will always be there.

Just set it up once, and drag and drop your files to the icon on the desktop floating around your screen (with user selectable size, color and transparency). They’ll find their way on their own. Set up as many dropboxes as you’d like and live free from starting up that FTP client ever again. Only thing is, you need the .Net framework.

Sarcasm aside, it is pretty cool.

Via TRFJ.

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Okay. Been gone for long enough. Time to get back to work.

The first item is this TV from Plus Minus. It’s actually an 8-inch (!!) LCD television, housed in what looks like an old cathode ray tube. You can use it anywhere in your house, as it comes with some sort of transmitter that magically beams images to it. So long’s you got a power socket, it’s good to go.

Now this is the part I don’t get. It goes for 157 000 Yen. You know how much that is? It’s 1500USD$! A grand and a half for an 8-inch TV? In a fancy curvy box? Is there something I’m missing?

Via Ployer.

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