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Superheadz Digital Harinezumi retro-110 camera reaches US shores

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

superheadz digital harinezumi 1 Retro-camera addicts may have remembered mutterings of Superheadz’s Digital Harinezumi camera a few months back, the unusually-shaped Japanese shooter promising Super 8 style images and silent video. At the time, finding one outside of its native country was tougher than selling Nokia shares, but now arch-importers AudioCubes have stepped in with a $169.99 sticker price.

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Dyson Air Multiplier fan hides blades, swallows your money

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 13th 2009 No Comments

While it might resemble an automatic blood pressure monitor for those with huge arms, or a pedestal-mounted personal Stargate, you’re actually looking at James Dyson’s latest rethink to domestic appliances. The Dyson Air Multiplier is the UK engineer’s attempt to replace the humble fan, dropping the blades into the base section and re-routing the air through the ring.

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Camangi WebStation 7-inch Android tablet sows own teaser campaign [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 1 Comment

We’re not entirely sure what’s going on with Camangi’s WebStation, but it seems the manufacturers of this 7-inch Android-based touchscreen slate are hoping to drum up their own mystery campaign. That would, at least, explain the bizarre press release (which you can read after the cut); the official site appears to be down, but Google’s cache suggests the WebStation runs Android 1.5 on a Marvell 624MHz PXA303 processor, with onboard WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS.

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Video demo after the cut

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Neiman Marcus Cupcake Cars bring Burning Man mayhem to the deep-pocketed

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

Picture happiness beyond Prozac and you may end up with this, the Neiman Marcus Cupcake Car. A surprise hit at Burning Man back in 2004, the individually customized motorized cupcakes are the handiwork of Lisa Pongrace and her team and can now be yours to crash dangerously about the streets in.

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Hi Tech Comptometer: gorgeous Steampunk AV controller [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 1st 2009 No Comments

You’ve got to give Hi Tech Systems some credit for effort: to help their broadcast video controllers stand out at a recent industry expo, they put together the Comptometer, a Steampunk-styled console which, so the backstory goes, gives access to 1930s broadcast footage. The controller is full of nixie tubes, brass buttons and analog dials, and a rather loveable “test calibration” system made up of tiny clacking hammers.

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Activelink Power Loader exoskeleton with force-feedback [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 30th 2009 No Comments

Perfect for the Sigourney Weaver cosplayers among you, Activelink have unveiled their “Power Loader” exoskeleton. The Japanese Panasonic subsidiary’s “dual-arm power amplification robot” has a full 18 electromagnetic motors which will allow the user to lift 100kg (220lbs) even while wearing a shirt and tie.

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iPhone 3GS netbook transformer (yeah, we know it’s not real) [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 28th 2009 1 Comment

Now, before someone feels obligated to tell us that this isn’t real and is merely an animation, we do realise that there’s no software in the App Store that can actually transform your iPhone 3GS into a dinky netbook. Still, our love of time-consuming fan renders and Transformer-style videos leaves us honor-bound to mention Manuel Eder’s marvellous video of Apple’s smartphone doing just that.

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Robot fish reads your tweets; new mbed microcontroller [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 24th 2009 No Comments

Is there any better hack than making a robot fish read out Twitter messages? If there is, don’t tell Dan Ros about it: he’s spent his spare time hooking up a Big Mouth Billy Bass “novelty” fish to an mbed microcontroller. Initially the fish merely repeated .wav files from an SD card, but then they used the mbed’s HTTPClient library to pull in tweets instead.

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Sungale’s bizarre desk-lamp PMP hybrid gets reviewed

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 16th 2009 No Comments

If asked what’s the next big evolution in desk lamps, I can’t imagine many people would say “why, an integrated digital photo frame, of course” but that’s what Sungale have delivered. Over at Zatz Not Funny they’ve been playing around with the unusual desk accessory, and reckon that while it pretty much delivers what it promises, they can’t help but wish it promised more.

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