I’m sure that plenty of you were at one time a college kid, or were broke and trying to make it on your own at 18. Eating pizza 5 nights a week was considered normal ordeal, which meant that you had a lot of empty boxes and old paper plates lying around. Sometimes I used to tear up the pizza box lid and use it for paper plates. It was a nice way to use less plates, and the boxes took up less room on top of the fridge when they were in pieces. Unfortunately if there were any leftover slices, we had no boxes to keep them in. Sure, we’d use ziplock bags, if anyone ever remembered to buy them.
Now enter the GreenBox. It’s a regular-looking pizza box that has some cool hidden features. The top breaks down into four small plates, while the bottom becomes a small storage box. All it takes is a few quick tears and you’re done. I know that I’d love it if my pizza started coming in one of these boxes. It’s green, I’m using less paper and plastic, not to mention the fact that the boxes are taking up less room in my kitchen.
Skateboarding has never been my thing. I remember buying one when I was a kid and spending a couple of weeks trying to ride it. Then I realized that I could go faster with less effort on my bike and promptly forgot about it. The next time I buy anything that remotely resembles a skateboard is either when someone actually makes a hoverbaord a la Back to the Future or when this Scarpar Powerboard comes out.
This awesome motorized skateboard can do everything its non-motorized counterpart can’t. In addition to scooting along by itself on the pavement, it’ll go off-road on dirt, grass, sand and even snow. Take that, crappy skateboard. Sure, it doesn’t look like it has a great turn radius, or that it goes very fast, oh and you can’t do tricks either. Still, if this thing weren’t still in development, I’d buy one.
It’s hard to imagine anyone who didn’t enjoy Wall-E when they went to see it in theaters last year. After it came out there were lots of different homemade Wall-E’s floating around the internet. However, this Wall-E case mod definitely takes the cake.
Apparently some Russian guy went and saw the movie, and decided that he absolutely had to have a Wall-E computer. He’s a pretty cool little robot, so I can understand putting in a little effort and making something decent looking. However, this guy went the whole nine yards. He flawlessly fashioned the entire thing from sheet metal. The pictures here hardly do it justice, so I recommend checking out the full step-by-step process on the original site. My only suggestion for the next person that tries this is to put a Mac in there. Everyone knows Wall-E was a Mac.
Do you love beer? I mean do you REALLY love it? If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, then you might want to consider switching your soaps. No, I haven’t dug up any study that shows the negative effects of booze on your epidermis. What I have found is soap that’s made from beer.
Sure, some of you out there might be saying “but soap isn’t a gadget, why are you telling me about this?” The simple truth is that according to a recent survey of visitors* more than half of you are liquored-up while reading the site, so I found this to be very appropriate. Each bar of soap is made with one of many different beers including Sam Adams, Foster’s and Guinness. Don’t worry, it’s got lots of other ingredients to make sure you’re left clean, and not just smelling like beer. At a price of $20 for 5 bars, it’s a perfect stocking stuffer for the kids, or for your Uncle Larry that just celebrated 20 years of sobriety.
My shower is one of those places in my house that I don’t generally care to upgrade or make look any nicer than it already is. It’s one of those tub/shower plastic insert things that you tend to see a lot of these days. I keep it clean and it looks decent, so why would I bother to spend a lot of money on someplace that I only see for about 15 minutes a day? I’ve honestly not seen anything to change my opinion of the matter, that is until I came across these Temperature-Sensitive Glass Tiles.
These awesome glass tiles will change color depending on their current temperature. You just tell the manufacturer what base temperature you want, and every 6-10 degree increment from there activates a different color phase. There are three phases in all, and once you’ve passed the third, it will return to the original color. I wouldn’t recommend installing these in a house with more than one or two people in it. You can bet that the first person in the shower is going to use up all the hot water just messing with the colors on the tiles. Of course you’ll need to rob a bank first, since a single 4” x 4” tile will run you $33, or around $300 per square foot.
I’ve been out paintballing a few times, and it’s actually a lot of fun. The trick is to get hit as little as possible. While I enjoyed running around with a few friends on two different teams, I always thought it would be cool to have a set of turrets to defend each other’s bases. Of course building a paintball turret isn’t exactly an easy task, but if you do a good job at it, you’ll have a menacing contraption like the picture above.
Words cannot even describe the level of awesomeness reached by this DIY project. Imagine having a paintball turret that can fire up to 34 balls per second and can be controlled up to half a mile away with a HUD. If you’ve got between $500-$1100 lying around and about 30 hours of free time, you too can build your own menacing turret. I bet for a few extra bucks you could make it talk like the turrets in Portal.
I’ve always been fascinated by swords, and have thought that it would be cool to be able to walk around with a katana strapped to my back. Of course that’s not something that one can really do, seeing how it’s illegal around these parts. So the next best thing one can do is to carry around something that merely looks like such an armament.
Behold! The Samurai Sword Handle Umbrella! With this awesome tool, you can not only get the look of a samurai sword, but you also have the power to repel water. Sure, you’ll still look funny with it on those sunny days, but the evil ninja rain clouds could be hiding anywhere, just waiting for an opportunity to strike out. Pick one up and defend yourself for just $30
Mousetraps are usually pretty basic gadgets. You generally either find the old wooden ones with a spring-loaded bar, or some plastic one that keeps them alive. Either way, you stick them somewhere out of the way and check on them every now and then to see if you’ve caught one. Well here’s a mousetrap that goes against all conventional thinking.
First, this trap is actually a table. So you’re going to encourage the rodents to climb on your furniture. Well once the little critter finds its way into the tube, it will trip a motion sensor that seals the door. So now you’re going to have a mouse in a tube under your table, great. Now what? Now you wait for the mouse to fall into the microbial fuel cell at the bottom of the tube. There it will find a new definition of pain and suffering as it is slowly digested over a thousand years be turned into fuel which is used to trap the next victim. This mousetrap is too cool to be real, and for now remains only a concept design.
Mickey Mouse is one of those icons that will probably never die. You can stick those black ears on just about anything and people will recognize them. Even on a Transformer. It seems that someone over at Disney thought it would be great to cash in on the renewed interest in the Transformers by turning their most beloved character into a robot in disguise.
I’m not sure whether or not Hasbro (or Takara) is in on this, as I don’t see any official Tranformers markings on this toy. Either way, Mikey turns into a red semi that bears a striking resemblance to Optimus Prime. I can’t recall the last time that I owned something with Mikey Mouse on it, but for $40, I might just have to pick one of these up.
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