If there's one time when distracted driving could arguably be recommended LESS than when behind the wheel of a car, it would be when navigating an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous route on a bicycle. Luckily, Hammerhead One is your next two-wheel trek's ideal Bluetooth Low Energy-compatible co-pilot projecting ...
R2-D2 just might already be the second-greatest Deus Ex Machina in the entire STAR WARS saga. Come on. Nothing is more OP or "Because, Shut Up" than the Force itself. That fact should give you a perfect idea just how multi-talented this gifted astromech was even before being cloned four times, retrofitted with ...
Do you play Minecraft? If you do, then you have over 10 million fellow Minecraft lovers that have worlds of their own. When you’re digging down to the bedrock looking for diamonds, you need a good supply of torches to light your way. Why? Of course, to make sure no creatures spawn next to you unexpectedly. It would ...
Harnessing Aiur's potent psionic energy matrix is sometimes more trouble than it's worth. Probe. Minerals. Pylons. ... Profit. Never turn down the time-saving aid when you need one serious power source and ThinkGeek shows you a ready-to-go STARCRAFT II Protoss Pylon desktop station. Its AC adapter pumps ...
We can never hide our smirks at one clever-but-pointed Kanye West quip in "All Falls Down" about accepting expectation-versus-reality gaps: "She couldn't afford a car/so she named her daughter 'Alexis'." Leave it to Barney's - yes, as in the renowned New York luxury clothier - to celebrate even radio-controlled cars ...
There was never any doubt that someone out there could pare down the costs of custom-fit earbuds from a month-long fabrication involving an audiologist's expert consultation and a $1,000-plus expense. Revols Quick Custom-Fit Wireless Earphones promise to deliver buds molded to your ears' unique inner shapes in 60 ...
For those of us blessed with the kind of fall and winter climes that mirror the rest of the United States' springtime temps, snow is blissfully someone else's problem. Fortunately, for the rest who curse a seasonal ongoing juggling act of shucking gloves or mittens in frostbitten-digits cold just to operate any ...
EpochAir Fantasy – A portable wireless speaker ‘tube’, with a bass so strong you can feel it ‘good’; the treble and voice level sounds are recording quality clear sounding. There are many new and amazing portable wireless speakers on the market; some for just simply listening to some light sounds off the radio, then ...
Thus far, our odes to the askew retailers of Firebox have dwelled on products ranging from the cheeky-but-useful (the Stress Sausage) to creations that make us question their abject scorn for humanity (the Inner Selfie Stick , Habanero Infused Gummi Bears, and 500,000 Scoville Naga Chilli Vodka). This, though? The ...
The spreading popularity and widening variety of emoji have essentially multiplied the practical vocabulary available to the Internet at large in any given scenario. The EmojiWorks Emoji Keyboard makes the case that it's about time our devices caught the hell up to our communication habits. The Emoji Keyboard is a ...
Not going to lie, Salt Supply's proposition of a safe-yet-effective firearm developed by "rethinking what makes a gun a gun" leaves us a bit skeptical. Our own questions of effectiveness aside, however, non-lethal handgun concepts are experiencing a moment of re-examination and open-mindedness in the wake of 2015's ...
Just know this: we didn't start this wintertime war with the neighbor kids. We will make cock-sure the Snowball Blaster Pro finishes it. If Stark Industries suddenly shifted its business model toward ensuring their customers' unquestioned domination in every snowball fight from now until Judgment Day, this is what ...
Next to a ‘runway’ model ramp, ski slopes are the places to see the latest ski gear and snow goggles. Semi-frameless designs are the rage right now, and the new EXV Contact goggle is the sportiest of the bunch. With a ‘hip’ new ‘click it and rip it’ theme, skiers, snowboarders and hikers can effortlessly change their ...
The latest chapter in Daniel Craig's run as the latest set of broad shoulders to bear the legendary James Bond's legacy has hit theaters, and it's at least the most polarizing recent installment, if also an undoubtedly successful one. The critics giving it a harder time than others have complained that returning to ...
It's your boss. It's your neighbor who keeps mistaking your front yard for his St. Bernard's toilet. It's the jackass in the Hummer who cut you off slicing across three lanes of traffic or the doofus in the Prius who figures that if the speed limit is 65, driving an extra-super-safe 40 must be even better. It's ...
The next big craze is personal body cameras; the idea was born from many sources and for many needs, such as videoing the police, unexpected situations and sports events from a first person perspective as naturally as it happens. Body cams such as the Axon Body 2 are empowering everyday people with the ability to ...
You haven’t heard about Google Project Wing? It’s a flying ‘drone’ delivery service that will be operational by 2017. Let that sink in for a second, drones flying high above us on a daily basis, just another lovely piece of technology that is reshaping everything we do as a civilization, like delivering stuff to your ...
Play Us A Song (ANYWHERE), You're The Piano Gloves For all the nostalgic longing after the simpler heyday of music's analog - both in production and enjoyment - there's just something about the rich creative experience that electronic instrumentation brings anywhere musicians can be inspired. Case in point? The ...
Currently Kickstarter-funded to the tune of $221k pledged by 551 backers toward its $227,812 goal with 8 days remaining as of Nov 5th, Solu is a computing concept like none other imagined before: subscription-based cloud computing that functions anywhere online or off from one powerful pocket-sized and ...
With all due respect to the Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum's impressive capacity to leverage gemoetry, trigonometry, complex math and probability theory to learn the lay of its surroundings from constant observations in all directions, we just have to be honest: screw the cleaning. We want to weaponize it to fight a ...
Smartphone cameras have advanced magnitudes in quality since the days of descent flip-phone cameras and their blurry, barely Facebook-worthy snaps. Alas, one dilemma remains: holding up and maneuvering a phone conspicuously while staring intently at the screen with all the concentration of a Jedi trying to snap ...
Sony is always up to something; the company never ceases to produce new and relevant products for the sight and sound of its customers. Because people are always on the go now-a-days, Sony created a handy, wireless speaker box you can hold in your palm. With Bluetooth control, you can listen to your favorite music for ...
Let's put aside for just a moment that Ravean Heated Tech's lightweight all-season jackets just plain look great, easily on par with anything even North Face or Eddie Bauer could offer at a fair bit greater cost. More importantly, this is superbly warm outerwear that can keep an entire body the same toasty adjustable ...
Everyone loves waffles, because they taste great with butter and syrup, and they are easy to make. There are innumerable types and kinds waffle makers on the market, and some of the best ones are themed base, such as a Star Wars waffle maker – the Death Star Waffle Maker, to be exact. Now, there are other Star Wars ...
Has R2-D2 been beeping just a tad resentfully at you every time you've hit YouTube's Replay button on the final STAR WARS - THE FORCE AWAKENS trailer? Well, given just what a fascinating little practical effect of a droid the rollin'-n'-tumblin' BB-8 looks to be, perhaps the galaxy's most famous astromech is right to ...
Hammacher Schlemmer, you do great things. Terrible things - but great things. We just aren't sure our holly-jolly world is ready for mobile mistletoe by drone. Let's just say, Unique Hunters strongly advises against handing The Mistletoe Drone over to the office Christmas party-goers who end up face-down in the egg ...
Even those belonging to the Dark Side of the force need to eat, sometime. And, what better way to honor your very own Dark Lord than by owning a Darth Vader Pancake Maker. Gone are the days of the skillet fried oblong pancakes, enter the age off the pancake wars we have. Never again will your little padawans take ...
California startup Altwork wins the prize as the design thinktank to take the persistent conundrum of lengthy mind- and butt-numbing sitting spells on the job in a boldly comfortable direction: forget standing people up on the job in the name of motivation - lay them out! Potentially hilarious as it sounds, no, ...
MIT's RF-Capture Software May Change Sexy Times Forever It can know who the person behind a wall is. It can trace a person's handwriting in air from behind a wall. It can determine how a person behind a wall is moving . When it comes to Wi-Fi networks, "I know who you are, and I know what you did" may soon ...
Well, that's that. Halloween 2015 is in the books, and do you know what's sort of awesome? Most of our friends and family this year kept their Yule log in their pants and held off the "Christmas two months early" B.S. so we could all enjoy our horror marathons, candy and Sexy Eating Disorder Joke costumes in peace. ...
There are space-saving home beer-brewing contraptions that pare the process down to a contraption the size of a 'roided-up Keurig. Then there's conceiving a full-fledged homebrew experience that GeekWire dubs a "3D printer for beer." If anybody would know what does or does not resemble a 3D printer.... Meet Pico, ...
Here's one of the realities of early artistic training: nobody first picks up a pencil as a fully-formed and schooled Leonardo Da Vinci, Chuck Jones, or Jack Kirby. Honing great artistic ability and technique takes time, and tracing makes an excellent first step toward settling in a certain muscle memory and fine ...
Must. Resist. Millennium Falcon. And STAR TREK. Jokes...LOW...HANGING...FRUIT... Look, considering that a Public University of Navarre research team in Spain have successfully implemented ultrasonic acoustic holograms in a working tractor beam to levitate small particles, you'll pardon us if it's all we can do not ...
Google Glass was never entirely without its merits. Though it faced an almost instant backlash from cynics who marveled at the lengths Glass-uers (almost instantly and cleverly dubbed "Glass-holes") seemed ready to go to in order to let their devices segregate them from the world around them, the innovators of HUDWAY ...
Anymore, if you're a musician whose standard kit doesn't include a precise digital tuner/metronome like the Snark SN-5, you may be a bit hard to take seriously. Given the Snark SN-1's incredible price point and rave reviews, it's hard not to just stick with this all-around ideal companion for guitarists, bassists and ...
For decades now, the synthesizer (and, to a less-widespread-but-more-awesome extent, the keytar) has been that standard-bearer in versatile electronic multi-instrumentation. Well, if anything was going to step up to challenge that, it might as well be the timeless acoustic guitar with a hand from the ACPAD Electronic ...
Screw maturity and practicality. We don't need a reason. We want a BRNLY SlingPop because a combination bottle-opener/slingshot is a thing we want to have. A product of respected knifemaker Burnley Design's collaboration with Scout Leather Co. and Prometheus Lights, the SlingPop is fashioned from feather-light and ...
With versatile and powerful mobile computing now being essentially a must-have instead of a luxury, desktop PC sales are plummeting with the weight of being now almost awkwardly impractical for much more than intensive gaming. Even Windows 10 has somewhat disappointed users, fans and pundits alike who envisioned a ...
The "slap it to snap it" mechanism that fed a generation's infatuation with slap bracelets, one of the rare fashion accessories arguably more amusing just to put on than to wear, has finally found a safety-minded use. The SlapLit LED Slap Wrap adds a single element that will have you all flipping tables and fingers ...
As higher-end priced DLSR cameras with non-interchangeable lenses go, Sony's RX10 II is a lot like Vincent Vega's top-shelf choice of heroin in PULP FICTION: one shot, and you will know where that extra money went. Oh, yes. One tour of duty with this fascinatingly versatile consumer-tailored beauty capturing ...
BeONhome LED lights are unique and useful for many things, such as by using LED lights just a few hours a day, instead of your regular lights, you can save money. These lights are 75% more efficient than non-LED lighting. And, they have on-board memory, which learns your lighting schedules and then operates to save ...
Dear Good People of Firebox, WHAT IN THE SWEET VALLEY HIGH HELL DID YOUR MOTHERS DO TO YOU? Love, The Human Race We have just reached either peak selfie or the hopeless abyss human attention whoring. Ladies and Gentlemen, much like what should be your resigned action if ever caught in the act of using the ...
Knock, knock, whose there? You don’t know if you don’t have the August Doorbell Cam. Unlike security cameras of yesteryear that needed physical wiring connected to a security monitor to see who was at your front door or gate, now you know just looking at your smartphone. Knock, knock, whose there? Wait a sec, get ...
If You Have A Phone And An eora 3D Scanner, You Have A Virtual Model Studio Once upon a time, the minds behind eora 3D wanted just one thing in all the world: an affordable, impressively accurate 3D scanner. Well, if nobody makes just what you want or need, just go build it yourself. When eora 3D set their minds ...
MiniBrew condenses all the artful precision and meticulous chemistry that culminates in a perfectly homebrewed beer into about the time it takes to watch DANCES WITH WOLVES. How does this level of convenience reached through ingenuity not merit a unanimous Nobel Prize selection? This is "micro-brew" redefined: fine ...
Photography has changed the world in many, many ways – it has changed history, it has recorded history, and it is constantly making history each day photographers are out and about taking pictures of our world. However, you don’t have to spend huge amounts of money to take high-quality pictures with bulky ...
Ain't no party like a STAR WARS party, 'cause if you don't like something that happened at the party without your say-so, you can always put somebody else in charge of the party who can proclaim that it never happened and throw a much better party at your house the next week. The Force is mysterious. So are canon ...
Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2, and Magic Trackpad 2 Apple is now one of the top companies in the world, for good reasons, they know how to please their customers by delivering the best computer accessories that technology offers. And, since nearly all the people on the planet use computers, Apple Computers wants to ...
Golfers are a dedicated bunch of sportsmen and women, when it comes to motivation to train, few athletes have such resolve. Golfers will do ‘anything’ to improve their ‘swing’, such as taking college courses in lawn care, private lessons from ancient living golf legends, and have acquired libraries of novels and ...
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