There may be occasions where you want to see what’s going on on both sides of the iPhone 4/4S’s camera. Say you’re filming a dialogue. One way you can accomplish this is with a simple device like the one you see above. Some plywood, strategic grooves, and a mirror and suddenly you have “the world’s first handmade video mixer.” This is about as low-tech a solution as you can get, though the result is elegant if not professional looking. Sadly, the asking price is $90 for something that really looks like it could have been made in shop class. There’s some kind of attempt at justifying the it, what with it being a limited edition of 100 units and also the fact that it was “Conceived in Paris whilst recording a documentary about love and love after love.” So yeah, cute little product there. $90.
27 inches for a monitor gives you quite a bit of viewing real estate. Viewsonic’s VX2753MH is a full HD affair and it usually retails for $359, which is down today by $70 at $289. So for less than $300 you have “an LED-backlight display, speaker, adjustable display angle, 2x HDMI inputs, 1ms GTG response time, 30,000,000:1 MEGA dynamic contrast ratio, and more.” As most of these deals, shipping is included and the offer expires on February 1st.
Office warfare just got a little medieval looking with the Ballista Kit. What’s cool is that you can annoy your co-workers in style with this little contraption and not break the budget doing so. It’s $22 but you have to assemble it yourself.
There are robots to clean your floor, like the Roomba (which vacuums) or the Scooba (which scrubs). There are also robots like these to clean your windows. And now there is a robot to go around your house, purifying air. See the thing about air purifiers is that they’re static. They’ll try to cycle as much of your home’s air as they can, but there’s only so much they can do while just sitting in a corner. So the Rydis H800, from Moneual, goes around your home, filtering the air as it does. It has sensors to avoid bumping into obstacles and “you can use a multi-function remote control to turn filter settings from low to high, or to send the H800 into another room. In sleep mode, the H800 operates at a 22dB sound level, and in turbo mode it can go up to 48dB.”
There is no price or availability information at the moment.
Lexon’s MINITOTEM is meant for the office. In one efficient stack, you get a pen cup, storage for paper clips, a clock, tape dispenser (tape included), and a 4 USB plug hub. All these objects nestle into one another more efficiently than even your best game of Tetris and make for a cleaner, neater work environment.
Price unfortunately is not available, though the item appears to be in production. It looks like one of those things that should probably not cost a whole bunch, but you can contact them at contact at lexon-design dot com (trying to fool them spam scrapers) to find out, if you’re interested.
The list of textures you can get for the back of your iPhone is just as long as the one of cases you can purchase for it. In that sea of choice, every now and then we come across something that stands out, and we think this is certainly the case with these Material 6 wooden backs. These have been around for a couple of years so don’t go knocking on us for the tardiness, but we’re still certain some of you might enjoy knowing about Swirly Walnut, or Lacewood or even Figueroa back covers that this company makes. Now, they are complete back cover replacements, not stick on, which might help explain the $90 to $100 prices.
You’re going to see DIY guns with a zombie theme from time to time, but it’s not everyday that you come across a zombie rifle that actually appears to be headed to production. The DoubleStar Zombie-X AK-47 wants to keep you safe from the undead hordes by having a chainsaw attachment. However, it’s powered by a lithium-ion battery so it sadly lacks that gutsy chainsaw growl that you’d expect from such a weapon. And aside from the branding painted on the rifle, you also have a EOTech Zombie Stopper XPS2-Z Holographic Sight which replaces the standard reticule with a biohazard symbol. The sight itself is $559 so we expect the Zombie-X to be a whole lot more expensive than the company’s current $1,249 “Zombie Slayer” weapon. And no word on availability.
[ Energizer sponsored OhGizmo! to attend CES 2012. Opinions are my own. -Ed. ]
A fundamental shift in the way we recharge our mobile devices is underway and most of us aren’t really aware of it. But over the last few years, wireless charging technology has been making huge strides and it’s now reaching the point where it might become ubiquitous. Here’s what you need to know.
Much like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi are standard transmission protocols that allow connected devices from any manufacturers who use the technology to communicate with one another, there is now a new transmission protocol for wireless inductive charging called Qi (pronounced “chee”) which allows consumers to conveniently power smartphones and other devices today and in the future, regardless of manufacturer. It’s being curated by the Wireless Power Consortium, a conglomerate of more than100 companies of which Energizer was one of the early members.
Do you like swearing? A lot? Are you British or do you wish you were? Do you have £50,000 burning a large hole in your pocket? Well, then… here’s just the thing for you.
Created in association with renowned artisans at Clay design studio, this exclusive piece of world-class art is basically a fully interactive periodic table of filth. Simply press any one of its 103 brightly coloured buttons and you’ll instantly hear the mellifluous tones of a mystery man uttering profanities, insults and highly innovative cusses.
I’m not sure how the asking price was arrived at, other than it appears to be handmade and contains over 300ft of cable and 300 soldered joints. Insults are arranged in order from light to heavy based on the periodic table’s classification for chemical reactivity, the heaviest being on the far left and the quaintest on the right, where the inert gases would usually go.
And it’s, once again, £50,000 or roughly $78,000 at today’s rate.
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