Posts Tagged ‘gadgets’

Giant air cannon

Friday, March 7th, 2008

These guys claim it’s “…the world’s largest and most powerful air vortex cannon.”

12 amazing Rube Goldberg machines

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Here’s one of them, and there are 11 more at oobject.com’s best Rube Goldberg Machine videos

Autonomous Foosball Table

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

foosball

Sadly I couldn’t figure out how to post the video here, but you can find it and more info over at the Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table article at gizmodo.com and at the Autonomous Foosball Table’s project site where they even describe how they built it.

Nyko’s wireless ‘Nunchuck’ prevents deadly entanglements

Monday, December 10th, 2007

wireless nunckuck

joystiq: “The latest bullet fired from Nyko’s niche sniper rifle finally severs the terribly constrictive cable between the Wii’s remote and its nunchuk controller. IGN has the full report on the Nyko “Wireless Nunchuck,” a rather perplexing name given the addition of an extra “c” and, of course, the omission of a connecting wire. Without a wire, isn’t it just… a stick?”

thanks, Nestor!

More format war

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Next-Gen DVDs: Advantage, Sony
Sony-led backers of Blu-ray seem to have pulled ahead of rivals in the race for a single high-def DVD standard

Next-Gen DVDs: Advantage, Sony

Japanese violin-playing robot

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The lyrics are:
IM stealing your jooooobbbbssss….
Ill re-volt and kill youuuuuuu
Don’t, mess with the ROOOO booooots or we will dom-in-ate youuuu.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/06/robot

R/C Mario Kart

Friday, December 7th, 2007

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/91ab/

mariokart