When I first saw this mouse I wasn’t too impressed, compared to other gaming mice it was lacking the initial wow factor that draws you to it. The M3x offers an on the fly DPI adjustment, however you must pick between eight predetermined settings (no customizing here). The eight options are associated with a colored LED so you would have to memorize which color coincides with each resolution. The DPI selection is on a cyclic system, in other words you have to cycle all the way through to get to a lower DPI. I found this irritating, and almost counter-productive.
Oh sure, the invention of the wheel was a pretty big milestone in the history of mankind, but let’s not forget that before its creation our good old legs were more than capable of getting us around. So maybe it was designed as an homage to a simpler time before man got caught up in wheel-hysteria, but I have to say I really like this walking table from Wouter Scheublin which forgoes casters in favor of a set of legs to move it around.
A fairly simple set of wooden mechanics results in a natural walking motion of its 8 legs as you push it across the floor, but unfortunately it’s limited to motion in only one direction. Turning it or moving it lengthwise is out of the question… You win this round wheels!
The Walking Table is also exclusively available from Priveekollektie in a limited edition run of 8 walnut pieces, so if it’s not already sold out, you can safely assume it’s not going to be cheap.
There’s no question this beautiful toy car from Wouter Scheublin is not designed as a kid’s toy. Besides the fact that it’s made from stainless steel making it a deadly projectile in the wake of a temper tantrum, the gears and spring mechanism which facilitate its pull back and go functionality are all completely exposed, ready to pinch tiny fingers. But as a collectible and fun desk toy for adults, it’s pretty tempting. It even comes with a mini walnut garage for storage, and since it’s exclusively available from Priveekollektie in a limited run of just 20 pieces, you can safely assume it costs a bit more than your standard Hot Wheels car.
Looking for more resistance than your standard, dry-docked exercise bike offers? The Pool Bike from a company called Monte-Carlo is designed to be ridden in the shallow end of your pool, or in a particularly generously sized bathtub. The deeper it’s submerged the more intense your workouts will be, but a spinning wheel in the back fitted with adjustable paddles allows you to increase or decrease the resistance in as little as 2 feet of water. Made of nylon, ASB plastic and fiberglass the bike is completely waterproof, including its built-in LCD display which monitors your time, distance, speed (in knots maybe?) and calories burned. And you can pick one up from Hammacher Schlemmer for $899.95.
And do you remember The Oatmeal comic: How A Web Design Goes Straight To Hell? Well I have a feeling that’s exactly how the Monte-Carlo website came to be. (Yes, there’s music too if you wait around long enough for it to load.)
This may sound like a silly thing to have in general, but I can think of at least five or six different examples where a Porn Detection USB Stick would come in handy. The prime two examples being helping someone to quelch an addiction, and in the workplace where possession of porn is a crime. Trying to figure out what sort of weird stuff you roommate looks at so you can blackmail them is probably not the best use.
A lot of people may say that to own porn is within their rights, and while that is true, where you stash your porn can get you into trouble (like on a company laptop). This flash will look into archives, and check headers for image and video data, even in files with obscure file types. This would be very useful for a computer illiterate probation officer or even a company IT manager who needs to check some 20-30 computers. This will cost about $100, and will make sure that no one has anything they shouldn’t have.
A few years back LEGO launched their Architect Series with what is probably the most famous house ever built; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. It was an obvious choice to start with, but now as the collection has grown I’m happy to see they’ve recently added another famous landmark, and one of my personal favorites, the Farnsworth House.
Located 55 miles southwest of Chicago in Plano, Illinois, and designed and built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Chicago medical specialist Dr. Edith Farnsworth, the house has become an icon of the International Style of architecture, and can now be yours. Of course some assembly is required, 546 pieces worth to be exact, and the set even includes miniature LEGO versions of Mies’ furniture inside. $59.99 available directly from LEGO’s online store.
Listen, I don’t want my iPhone falling over when propped up as much as the next guy. But spending $169 on a “mechanical piece of art” (as it’s called) is a tough sell when a piece of paper and some Origami skills can be just as effective at holding up your phone. But who am I to tell you how to foolishly spend your money?
I won’t deny that the Rokstand looks plenty modern and high-tech, because it certainly does. It’s CNC machined from aluminum with an anodized finish and features six angles of adjustment with “precision high speed bearing and cam adjustment” to withstand the rigors of being ever so slightly adjusted every few weeks. It’s also got a set of sound enhancing speaker ports so the video or music you’re enjoying is naturally boosted, and it’s available in a small selection of unique colors from pink to chocolate brown.
According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, more specifically something referred to as Time Dilation, someone in motion will age slower relative to someone that’s not moving. So your co-worker sitting at their desk is actually aging faster than you whenever you head to the break room to get another doughnut. And now, using your iPhone’s GPS capabilities and the Lorentz Transformation, this simple Einstein’s Pedometer app can actually caculate how much time you’ve gained while walking about. Of course even if you spent your life circling the globe in a supersonic fighter jet you’d still only add mere thousands of a seconds to your life, so you better make sure to live that borrowed time to the fullest!
The more functionality you can cram into a piece of technology, the more appealing it seems to be to the masses. And if you’re still using a tower PC, or even a small barebones box, here’s a pretty easy way to squeeze some more storage into it. Japan-based Century has created this optical disc drive, presumably DVD, that sits in your standard 5.25-inch bay. But by using slimmer hardware they’re able to save enough room to accomodate a couple of 2.5 inch SATA hard drives underneath it as well. The drive looks like it also provides easy pull-out access to the hard drives for swapping them as needed, and will set you back ~$54(¥4,580) minus the cost of the HDDs.
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