As part of their Summer 2010 collection Converse is releasing a special Dr. Seuss inspired line of their Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers. It looks like there’s about 12 different designs in all, spanning across adult and kid sizes that feature his unmistakable characters and drawing style. These are 2 of my favorites, and the shoes range in price from about $40 to $65 and even come in a re-usable Dr. Seuss-themed drawstring bag.
First we got a glimpse of what it was like for the sound engineers to work with Darth Vader in the studio, and this time around we get to see them battling with Yoda’s unique sense of grammar while he records his lines for the Tom Tom GPS devices.
“You’re gonna kill people if you give directions like that.”
This Folding Shower, which is a concept by French company Supiot that is currently looking for a manufacturer and a distributor, is a unique design that’s supposed to allow people living in small apartments to install a shower that doesn’t take up too much of their limited space. I’m a bit confused though, as even the smallest of apartments always have at least a shower since they already have a smaller footprint than a bathtub. And if your budget is so limited that you have to rent a place that doesn’t have a shower, something tells me you’re not going to be able to afford a renovation like this.
Anyways, I think Supiot has actually missed the mark when it comes to who they’re marketing this thing at. Small apartments with limited space? Nope. Single bathroom homes with multiple teenagers? Bingo! Just install a folding shower into every bedroom in the house and the morning battles over bathroom time will be a thing of the past. Sure, there’s the issue of running the requisite plumbing and drainage to every single room, but that’s nothing a few lengths of garden hose and some extra camouflaging rugs throughout the house can’t solve.
It’s probably a little redundant if you spend the entire day in front of your computer, but this tiny light-up mailbox will let you know when you’ve got a new email or message on a variety of social services including Facebook, Twitter and online mail services like Gmail, Windows Live Mail and Yahoo. Oh, and if you’re a laptop user, it will basically waste one of your limited USB ports. Of course given the constant flood of messages and posts on those various services, the mailbox would probably never turn off for most users, but it’s also able to change colors from red to green, visually indicating the number of unread messages that might be pending. $18 from USB.Brando.com.
Apparently the American fast food giants haven’t had the best of luck in Japan, but after withdrawing from the market a while ago, Burger King is back with a new ‘upscale’ joint in Tokyo that also introduces their first ‘Musical Shower’ booth. Instead of a jukebox you’ll find an iPod/iPhone dock embedded in the wall that let’s you play your own music as loud as you want it. But what makes the system particularly neat is the use of a special speaker/reflector hanging above the table which pretty much ensures that only the people sitting in the booth can hear the music being played. Hopefully Burger King will start installing these special booths at other locations because it seems like a fantastic idea, and if it catches on maybe restaurants I’d actually be willing to eat at will install them too!
We’ve brought you products that use hydrochromatic inks before, namely umbrellas that turn color in the rain, but they just seem like a way to show off the technology instead of putting it to a good use. Not so with this Water Wars set from SUCK UK. It’s kind of like playing paintball, but with water guns instead of paintball guns so you don’t wake up the next morning covered in bruises. The Water Wars set comes with two water guns and two vests featuring a hydrochromatic target on the chest that turns red when it’s hit. Once the target turns completely red on your vest, you’ve lost. It’s still listed as coming soon from SUCK UK so there’s no pricing info just yet, but hopefully it becomes available before the Summer’s out.
Water and electricity are two things that you don’t generally want to mix. Unless your goal is to kill someone (likely yourself), that is. Of course water is a tricky thing, which seems to find its way into places you don’t really want it. If you have a place that is particularly prone to getting wet, such as a basement, you might want to consider checking out this Wet Circuit Release Waterproof Power Strip.
This strip has been specially designed to minimize the flow of electricity when it comes in contact with water. This means that not only are the devices plugged into it going to remain safe, but you’re far less likely to get shocked if you’re standing in the water with the power strip. In fact, it works so well that the strip can survive being submerged in water for up to two hours before there is a danger. For $35 you might want to consider picking one up if you have areas that could potentially encounter water.
Even though it’s incredibly dated, and I can get a more realistic racing experience on my phone, I still have a soft spot for the Daytona USA arcade machine. So it’s with great envy that I bring you this miniature version created by Retrovicio Forums member ‘pocket_lucho‘. RC car enthusiasts might notice the wheel has been taken from a pistol grip RC remote, very clever, and the working gas and brake pedals are made from gate hinges and leaf switches, DIY’ing at its finest! If you want to see it in action here’s a making of/gameplay video complete with that awful, awful Daytona USA music I can’t help but love.
The Epicurious app is pretty much a must have for iPad owners who like to cook, but just because they like to get their hands dirty in the kitchen, doesn’t mean they want their electronics to be. So instead of turning to the internet for random cooking information like measurement conversions, cooking, roasting or defrosting times and even a glossary, they can simply flip up this quick reference apron, which has useful information like that silk screened on the bottom. And if it gets dirty, you can just throw it in the wash instead of trying to convince the genius at the Apple Bar that when you removed your new iPad from the box it was covered in cake batter. Coming soon from SUCK UK.
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