Friday is here, which means your workweek (or schoolweek) is coming to a close. That itself is enough cause for excitement, but I’ve got another one for you. That’s right, we’ve got a giveaway to do! This week we have a nifty Portable Laptop Stand from AViiQ. It’ll make those long business trips, or those cram sessions at the local coffee shops much more bearable.
All you need to do is drop a comment below and we’ll randomly select one of you this time next week. As with most of our contests, this one is only open to US residents.
When you live in a small place, or have to share your space with others, you generally want to do an efficient job at storing your gaming accessories. With various consoles and oversized peripherals, that’s not always the easiest thing to do. That’s why the folks at LevelUp have created the gaming towers.
The five different available Towers are designed to hold your console of choice, games, controllers and even a guitar controller. Each is colored to coordinate with the console it was designed for. For $70, one of these might make a great addition to your living room, or wherever it is you do your gaming.
Tired of only one ear being punished every morning when your alarm clock goes off? In addition to the new 3 in 1 Microdock we brought you yesterday, XtremeMac also unveiled their new Luna SST alarm clock dock on Wednesday which features a detachable speaker that can be placed on the opposite side of your bed for that full waking stereo effect. While the floating speaker isn’t wireless, it can be used as an independent alarm clock which is handy, even if it can only be set using the main unit. And like the 3 in 1 Microdock, the Luna SST can also be used with XtremeMac’s Alarm Clock app making it easier to set the alarms or choose what music you want to wake up to. The Beatles mono or The Beatles stereo… $129.99 listed as ‘coming soon’ on the XtremeMac website.
So we close out the week with a $290 discount on a Dell Latitude E5410, configured with a Core i3 350M 2.26GHz Dual-core processor, a 160GB Hard Drive, 1GB DDR3 ram, 802.11n WiFi and Intel HD graphics. On this particular configuration, this represents a respectable %36 discount. Should you decide to upgrade on the configuration a little and push it over $1,099 you can add an additional $50 coupon. As usual, check out the details at the links below.
With the exception of neon, which can really class up a joint, I’ve never really looked at light bulbs as a ‘designer’ item. And thanks to PLUMEN UK, my opinion really hasn’t changed. I mean I applaud their attempts to make the compact fluorescent bulb look cool, and from certain angles their PLUMEN 001 bulb most certainly does, but looking around my crib I can’t actually see any of the CFLs I have installed. They’re all hidden by shades or other decorative diffusers. So the best way to truly enjoy it or show it off would be to just hang it from a bare extension cord, and I’m just not trendy enough to pull that off.
The 11 watt bulb produces 680 lumens of 2700k warm-white light, but it won’t work in North American, Japan or a hefty list of other countries. But if you live in Europe you’re in luck, kind of, since they’ll set you back £20.00 or just over $30 a bulb.
Unless I’m able to send this thing back in time to take out my enemies before they’re born, I’m going to have a really difficult time in justifying the $6,000 that Sideshow Collectibles is asking for this life-size T-800 Endoskeleton. Made from high quality polystone, fiberglass, metal and other materials and standing atop a display base complete with human skulls, the T-800 is weathered to be more film accurate and includes light-up accents like a blue glowing powercell and menacing red eyes. You’ll definitely want to make up your mind before ordering one though, since at the time of purchase you’ll have to plunk down a $1,200 deposit that’s completely non-refundable.
Yesterday PENTAX announced their new Optio RS1000 14MP, 4X optical zoom P&S digital camera that also happens to have a removable transparent acrylic panel on the front allowing you to customize it with swappable skins. But even more exciting is the RS1000′s fraternal twin, the NB1000, which features a studded building-block friendly faceplate instead. Now before you get too excited, the NB1000 is only designed to be used with a Japanese building toy called Nanoblocks(hence the ‘NB’) which looks to be incompatible with LEGO given the stud sizing and spacing. But it is the first camera that can technically be customized in 3D, so there’s finally a reason to get excited over that buzzword!
Now I have no idea why anyone would want a building block lion or bicycle hanging off the front of their camera, but the Optio NB1000 will be available in Japan in the two base sets pictured above for ~$240 (¥20,000) later this year.
Well here’s a clever way to encourage people to conserve water while they’re washing their hands. As you use the Poor Little Fish Sink, designed by Yan Lu, the water in the fishbowl slowly drains away. So if you use too much the goldfish will meet an untimely demise. According to Yan the “Poor Little Fish basin offers an emotional way to persuade consumers to think about saving water, by making consumption tangible” though I’m sure there are still a lot of people who would value clean hands over the life of a small fish.
Of course thanks to some clever and hidden plumbing in the base of the sink, the water that comes out of the faucet doesn’t actually come from the fish tank, nor will it ever drain out completely. And when shut off the water in the bowl does slowly refill so the fish is never in any real danger, though I suspect it might suffer some emotional distress every time its home drains away.
At the moment there are two things that have kept me from switching to an alarm clock with a built-in iPhone dock. While I’d love to wake up to my own music in the morning, they’re usually pretty monstrous and would dominate my small bedside table, and at least once a week my current alarm clock gets knocked to the floor as a result of my half-conscious attempts to silence it. So while it doesn’t solve the issue of my iPhone taking a nasty tumble, I really like the small form-factor of XtremeMac’s new 3 in 1 Microdock. (I’m halfway there!)
At just 4.7 oz it looks to be just slightly larger than the iPhone itself, but it includes a built-in speaker with “surprisingly big sound” and of course can be used to sync or charge your phone while docked. I think it’s the ideal alternative to other alarm clock docks that seem to be gaining weight every year, it comes with a travel pouch so it was probably designed with portability in mind. And while you don’t necessarily need the 3 in 1 Microdock to use it, there’s a basic but free XtremeMac Alarm Clock app you can download if you’d like your on-screen aesthetics to match the hardware. $59.99 available now.
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