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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Summer Is Best Enjoyed By Swinging Into Water

By David Ponce on 05/30/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

With summer comes all kind of water activities. But you’re limited by what your environment gives you. Much as you’d like to swing from a long rope and splash into a cool body of water in a hot day, you won’t be able to if this body of water isn’t lined with a bunch of obliging trees. Unless you bring this contraption along. It’s a 13 1/2′ tall Floating Rope Swing that’s made from 28 oz. marine-grade, reinforced PVC. The large horseshoe shaped base is anchored solidly to the lake bottom via three anchor points, and should be able to support swingers up to 250lbs. Maybe even more interestingly, if you fail at life often, there’s a chance you’d have gotten hurt from a regular lakeside rope swing; hitting trees and rocks on your way down has a way of doing that. None of this with the Floating Rope Swing.

Well, one thing will be hurting: your bank account. You can buy yours at Hammacher Schlemmer for a cool $3,800.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ GearPatrol ]

Trackball PC Game Controller Combines Best Of Both Worlds

By David Ponce on 05/30/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

The battle between PC and console gamers rages on with PC gamers claiming superior computing power as well as faster and more accurate controlling devices. Console gamers on the other hand… have nothing. Can you guess which side we’re on? All (bad) joking aside, there’s the ubiquity of console gaming to contend with as well as the potentially understandable ergonomic advantage to a console controller versus a keyboard + mouse combination, both of which could give the other side something to be smug about. The above Trackball PC Game Controller is a kind of hybrid of both worlds. On the one hand it’s shaped like a console controller (a PS2 in the case of the prototype), but features a trackball that sits right under the right thumb. This gives much more precision and speed to FPS games like MW3, while allowing your hands to grip things in a way that’s become familiar to millions of gamers worldwide. Should you get tired of waiting for the next generation consoles to hit the market and want to upgrade to better graphics right now, this controller could help you along. It’ll let you keep that console feeling while not letting yourself be completely outgunned by traditional keyboard + mouse specialists.

It’s on Kickstarter right now and needs $125,000 to take off. That’s a tall order, which is sitting at $6,800 right now. The early-bird models go for $55, but there’s few left. After that there’s a batch of 500 at $77, and everything else is $88.

[ Project Page ] VIA [ Geeky Gadgets ]

Have A Monster In The Closet That Needs Feeding? There Is Salt Made From Tears Of Sorrow, Just For Him

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

We’re not quite sure what to make of the range of salts being sold by this London outfit. Called The hoxton Street Monster Supplies, they bill themselves as ” being London’s, and quite possibly the world’s, only purveyor of quality goods for monsters of every kind.” These quality goods include the aforementioned salts, which the company claim are harvested from human tears. There are Salts Made From Tears of Anger, Chopping Onions, Sneezing, Laughter, and Sorrow.

Salt Made From Tears combines centuries-old craft with the freshest human tears which are gently boiled, released into shallow crystallisation tanks, then harvested by hand and finally rinsed in brine. Experience the full range of these flavours in this exclusive collection.

Our guess is that is just sea salt that’s being cleverly marketed; they’d run into a bunch of hygiene and health regulation hurdles otherwise. But what do we know? It might be the real deal. It is £30.00, although they deliver only in the UK for now.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ BuzzFeed ]

Video: How Accelerometers Know Up From Down

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

The above video features Bill Hammack, The Engineer Guy, talking about one fascinating piece of circuitry that we’ve all pretty much started to take for granted: the accelerometer. It’s ubiquitous in our cellphones and mobile devices, and it’s what allows them to know up from down, and to detect even the most minute movement you make. But how do they work? How to they get the system to fit within a chip as big as a couple of grains of rice? Bill has the answer in the video, of course, and it makes for a fun viewing. At least for those geeks that are into understanding how everything around them works. Which we hope is most of you.

VIA [ GeeksAreSexy ]

The Bobber Keeps Your GoPro Floatin’

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Whenever a GoPro camera is involved you’ll see dudes flinging themselves down slopes on wheeled contraptions, face-first, for everyone’s recording enjoyment. Or underwater, scuba-free, wrestling a manatee. Fun as these are to watch, it’s possible that something happens to the protagonist. Or perhaps even more dramatically, to the GoPro. Should you for instance accidentally let go of it underwater, the little camera will plunge to some irretrievable depth, and you’ll likely cry. But if you’ve equipped it with the Bobber beforehand, it’ll just float back up to the surface where you can easily spot it and fetch it. It’s a buoyant handle that not only gives you a grip with which to hold the camera, but has enough floating power to take care of the weight of GoPro’s 3D system, or of cameras using the optional LCD or Battery BacPacs.

It’s $29.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Gizmag ]

Deal Of The Day: $519 Off On Lenovo IdeaCentre A720

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

We’re back with the all-in-ones, and this one’s a doozy. It’s the Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 and it features Intel’s next-generation “Ivy Bridge” processor. It won three awards at this year’s CES, and quite frankly, looks pretty darn good.

The biggest attraction is its 95-degree adjustable hinge that rotates the screen a normal viewing position down to entirely flat. The super-thin 27″ 1080p display supports 10-finger multi-touch, for using every digit at once in a game or app.

Despite being super-slim, the A720 comes loaded with the new Intel Ivy Bridge quad-core Core i7 processors, NVIDIA graphics, and loads of other features. You can even hook a game console or other device up to the A720 and use it as an HDTV.

The model on special today comes with a Core i7 quad processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 2GB NVIDIA GT630, Blu-ray. Normally it goes for $1,999, but after rebate it’s $1,479.

[ $519 Off On Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 ] VIA [ LogicBuy ]

Panasonic Releases Remote Shutter Application For LUMIX DMC-FX90

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

The DMC-FX90 is a decent point-and-shoot camera from Panasonic that happens to have WiFi functionality. This has allowed the company to release an application that lets you control the camera remotely. So not only can you trigger it through the application, you can also see a live view of what the camera is seeing as well as checking the zoom levels and setting up a self-portrait. It seems like you’ll have to do a firmware update on the camera to get things to work properly, but the application is available both in the app store and the Android Market, now called Google Play. And although it’s only available on the FX90 right now, we wouldn’t be surprised to see this being rolled out to other cameras in the near future.

OF course, it’s free.

[ App Store Link ] AND [ Google Play Page ] VIA [ CultOfAndroid ]

GoGirl Female Urination Device Improves On An Old Concept

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

The deal was that women would get multiple orgasms, and we’d get to pee standing up. Seemed fair, no? So we’re a little unhappy at the treachery that is a female urination device. They’ve been around for years in all kinds of shapes, and in case you’ve never seen one, they are pretty much what you think they are: a funnel for a female’s, uh, crotch, so that she may pee standing up. The GoGirl pictured above improves on that older design in a few ways. Being made from flexible medical-grade silicone, it’s easy to store once you’ve used it: just fold it or roll it up. Of course you’re expected to wash it before storing it and if that grosses you out, you can just toss it. The uniquely shaped tip makes it easier to aim while the flexibility of the material aids in keeping a tight seal; both of these reduce the chance of spillage. At $13 a pop, they’re cheap enough that even if you throw out every single one, you won’t get bankrupted by the occasional use.

[ Product Page ]

Gemballa Releases Car Paint Made With Diamond Dust

By David Ponce on 05/28/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

There are many ways to enhance the finish of a paint, from including metal flakes for that metallic look, to pearl powder for the pearly look, natch. But it’s not everyday that you hear about diamonds being included into the mix. Gemballa, a German aftermarket Porsche tuner has recently announced that they’ve done just that. They ground up diamonds to the right size so that the resulting mixture could still be applied like regular paint. The result looks a lot like glitter paint, to be honest, although that glitter is now diamonds.

There’s of course no mention of price, although we expect rappers worldwide to start lining up at the company’s headquarters anytime now.

[ Company Website (With no mention of the paint) ] VIA [ BornRich ]

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