Back in April we brought you a review of the CoolIT ECO Advanced Liquid Cooling system. It’s a great solution for those wanting to dive into liquid cooling for the first time. It cools your CPU, keeps your system quiet, and doesn’t break the bank. However, this week it’s going to get even cheaper for one of our lucky readers. How cheap you ask? Free.
That’s right, it’s time for another one of our giveaways! Just pop a comment below and I’ll choose one at random next Friday. As with most of our contests, this one is only open to those in the US. Good luck!
Earlier this week we received in the Dual SFX Frag Pro from Splitfish. This time instead of having two separate “chucks” (like the Evolution) we have a left hand “chuck” and a mouse. Honestly you cant get me to play a FPS game on the console or on the PC. I always got frustrated having to use the keyboard for moving around while enjoying the mouse for its precision and control, and the other way around for the console.
Last year we told you about OnLive, a service that was supposed to let you stream video games to a far less powerful machine. I’ve been keeping a skeptical eye on this, waiting for it to vanish, much like the Phantom console (which was a similar product from a different company) before it. However, this one just doesn’t seem to be going away. In fact, the video above seems to show off just how viable this service appears to be.
Being able to run games like Borderlands on the iPad is unrealistic under normal circumstances. However, with their streaming platform, they can fire it up and run it, and it’s playable (though the controls would need some work). While they haven’t actually confirmed whether or not they will release the service for the iPad, it does show that virtually any machine will be able to run the games offered. Right now you can sign up for their Founding Members Program, which gets you a year of the service for free. Definitely looks like something worth signing up for.
Here’s a handy tip! Can’t afford to buy, or having trouble finding a classic piece of iconic furniture? Why not build it out of LEGO instead? That wasn’t the intentions of Kuniko Maeda and Mario Minale from Dutch-based design shop MINALE MAEDA when they built this full-scale replica of Gerrit Rietveld’s ‘Buffet’ table, but a good idea is a good idea. Instead, 5 of the tables were commissioned by droog for the Design Miami/Basel 2010 show that runs from June 15-19.
If I didn’t know better (and when it comes to furniture I don’t) it almost looks like the original Buffet table was made out of LEGOs or some manner of building block toy. And if LEGO ever creates a building block with a wood grain texture, this would almost be a perfect reproduction.
There’s not a lot of info about them, and their website defines the term sketchy, but apparently Japanese manufacturer Rayqual has recently announced a set of adapters that will let you use Nikon, Canon FD, Pentax and Leica lenses on the Sony NEX-5 and NEX-3 cameras. The adapters will be available next month ranging from ~$220 to ~$277(¥19,950 to ¥25,200) and I’m going to assume if you don’t live in Japan, or have connections there, you probably won’t be getting your hands on them anytime soon.
At CES we brought you news of Tiffen’s Smoothee which is a smaller version of their industry-standard Steadicam, specifically designed for compact video cameras like the Flip and even the Droid and iPhone. But if you’re looking for a cheaper, completely unstabilized option that makes you look like an amateur inventor or a 12-year-old at a science fair, then please consider the Hatcam HC10 instead. I won’t argue that it looks easy to use, as long as you’ve memorized where the record button is on your camcorder, and for just $29.99 you can save yourself the 15 minutes of research and development at Home Depot that probably went into its creation.
I’m all about going the extra mile to ensure kids are safe and sound, but I also believe the occasional scraped knee builds character. So I’m a little dismayed to see Italtrike’s take on the classic tricycle, which is an important staple in a little kid’s dangerous stunt repertoire. It’s got a padded seat featuring a 3-point safety harness while the front wheel can’t turn sharper than 45 degrees to reduce the chance of kids having fun the tricycle jack-knifing and toppling over.
Instead of pedals on the front wheel the oko Plus features a completely enclosed chain-drive too, and on top of it all there’s even a handbrake! I guess the days of kids controlling their speed down a steep hill with just the soles of their shoes are long gone. On the plus side the seat and handlebars are adjustable to nine different positions allowing the tricycle to grow with your child from 2 to 5 years of age, which is good since you’ll want to get as much use out of it as possible because it runs ~$146.
While I’m still a bit worried about Nintendo’s E3 announcement that Eurocom would be remaking GoldenEye 007, what I still consider to be the greatest game of all time, I’ve decided to remain cautiously optimistic about it. And while I think it was serendipitous that accessory maker dreamGEAR just happened to already have this golden gun accessory available for the Wiimote, it now seems like the perfect accessory for the upcoming remake. Of course the plastic shell with a faux chrome finish tinted yellow doesn’t guarantee the same ‘one shot, one kill’ benefits of the golden gun in the original GoldenEye game, but for just $24.99 it will let everyone playing feel just like Scaramanga.
While running in the water provides a grueling workout wherever you are, it’s particularly difficult in a swimming pool, but not in a good way, given the minimal traction between your feet and the pool’s smooth bottom. So in order to allow people to run in their pools until there heart’s content, Finnish designer Pyry Tamminen came up with the Pool Sprint which is essentially a combination of a submersible running track and a pair of specially-gripped underwater shoes. The video I’ve included below pretty much explains and demonstrates the whole concept, and the ridged grip used on the track and the bottom of the shoe is probably a bit more effective than my own design (patent rejected) which consisted of laying down a long row of rubber bathmats.
While functional test models have been built, the Pool Sprint is not yet ready to go into production as Pyry Tamminen is still looking for investors and/or partners so he can design a real prototype. So if you’re interested, you can probably contact him here.
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