The Aeroshots are caffeine inhalers. They contain a quick-dissolving powder which may or may not have a taste: take a puff and you get an instant burst of caffeine. Each Aeroshot cartridge contains 100mg of caffeine, or about as much as a large-ish coffee. It can take 6 to 8 shots for the cartridge to empty.
Now we use the word cartridge very deliberately, as we know it’s only a matter of time until some drunk/stoned/confused college kid wanting to study bites on a shotgun shell… and eats a bunch of pellets or something. No really, what’s the worse that can happen if you bite a shotgun shell? Anyone?
We don’t know the price yet, but they’ll hit stores in Boston and New York in 87 days as of this writing.
On to another gravity defying article, this time with a seemingly novelty-like item. Only on closer inspection… it isn’t so banal. The “What? Gravity Mobile Phone Holder” not only has a brilliant name but is able to hold on to a seemingly endless array of objects at a completely improbable angle. Just set pretty much anything on it, and instead of seeing it slide off as you’d expect from it being on a nearly vertical surface… it just stays there. There is no glue, only a “soft touch silicone panel” that is easily cleaned with water and a cloth. It’s meant to hold cellphones, but the promotional video below shows just how much stuff can cling to its surface.
Best of all, it’s dirt cheap, starting out at £3.99($6). There’s a catch however, as this is a bulk price and there seems to be a minimum order of 100 at a slightly higher price (you need to order 5,000 to get the lowest pricepoint). This probably means though that you you’ll be seeing these in stores for not very much money soon.
Call it a purse or a European carry-all or whatever you want… the important point is that you’re looking at a fancied up winebag that looks like a purse. It’s designed by one Jakob Wagner, appears to be called Baggy Winecoat, comes in polyester or leatherette, holds 3 liters of booze and has a solid rubber bottom so your swill doesn’t spill over when you put it down. It even has a spigot.
It’s $52.82 and you can buy it from what appears to be a Scandinavian design store.
Oh and this is old news (April of this year?), as per a quick article-already-written Google search reveals. Still interesting, so there you have it anyway.
If you like your gadget main dishes served cute with a heaping side of commentary, Art Lebedev’s latest concept design will certainly whet your appetite. Called the Svintus, it’s a novel take on the boring power strip that takes its inspiration from the farm’s most delicious animal. The design seems a bit localized though. While the spiral cord that plugs into the wall certainly looks like a pig’s tail, the repeated snouts, or snoutlets, that cover its body only work as a visual gag in a country that uses that specific plug format. Here in North America, most of the novelty would be lost.
On the functional side of things the Svintus does provide a whopping seventeen outlets for charging the vast majority of your devices. And they even look like they’re adequately spaced to accommodate a good number of oversized wall warts. On a deeper level, though, I can’t help but feel the use of the pig is commentary on our ever increasing power needs… But I’m just not ready to feel guilty about it this early in the morning.
Magnets! I don’t know how they do it, but somehow they find a way to improve every aspect of our lives. From hanging crappy crayon art on a fridge, to keeping baby’s clothes on. I’m sure there are thousands of uses for them, but those are easily at the top of the list. Or were at the top of the list before researchers at London based Nails Inc.—probably jonesing for a Nobel prize—created magnetic nail polish.
Iron powder is mixed into the polish, and before it dries after being applied, you hold the bottle’s cap over your nails for about 15 seconds. An embedded magnet causes the iron bits to align, presumably along its field lines, and once the polish dries you’re left with unique stripes and banding across your nails. And a shimmering metallic effect. The polish is available in 3 different colors all named after famous landmarks in London. Silver Trafalgar Square, purple Houses of Parliament and gold Big Ben. And sell for ~$20 a bottle. (£13)
I acknowledge that this video of a couple of old 3.5-inch floppy disk drives playing the Imperial March theme from Star Wars could be completely fake. But there’s enough evidence—like how the read/write lights on each drive seem to match the notes being played—to make me optimistic that it’s authentic. If it’s not, it’s not like having to sit through John Williams’ awesome Imperial March is a bad thing.
It turns out I can scratch ‘Invent a snack that will be the end of mankind’ off my bucket list. Because a company called Rowan Lane has beaten me to it. As a product name, Cherkees doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue like, say, Ruffles or Doritos. But it makes up for that marketing shortcoming by being possibly one of the most amazing snacks man has ever created. Regular beef jerky isn’t the easiest thing to snack on outside of a survival situation. And beef jerky flavored chips never taste as authentic as the real thing. So in a move that would probably baffle even Einstein, they pushed mother nature aside, threw caution to the wind, and combined the two together.
Each bag of Cherkees contains over a quarter pound of lean beef combined with traditional potato chips. And since they’re not fried, they have about 1/3 as much fat as your typical bag of chips. With loads more protein. At the moment they come in two flavors—Cracked Pepper and Hot Pepper—with Teriyaki and Smokehouse being available sometime in the future. And even though they’re a bit more expensive than a traditional bag of chips—$4.99 for 2.8 oz. and $9.99 for 5.8 oz.— they’re still currently sold out due to the demand.
I’m not a particularly mean chap, but I have been known to get some level of enjoyment out of annoying people. And if I were to find myself in an office setting again, dealing with uneasy tensions between co-workers, I do believe I’ve found the perfect tool for the job. These Super Mario Bros. collectibles walk the line between being figures, sculptures and sound toys. They each showcase Mario in a recognizable scene from his games, animated in an endless loop complete with authentic sound effects.
The one on the left sees him continuously entering and exiting a warp pipe, while the other recreates the classic ‘green shell on stairs’ 1-UP trick. I suspect the latter one is particularly annoying if left running for hours—or probably mere minutes—so you’ll probably want to use it with caution lest it take an unplanned trip through the office shredder. Sadly both of these $10 (¥777) figures popped up on Amazon Japan, who don’t seem too keen on shipping them worldwide. But if you’re ok with dealing with the hassle of a proxy, getting your hands on them isn’t completely impossible.
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