No, you’re not in the 24th century and this isn’t a fashion statement. It’s a helmet called Hovding, and it’s got some serious potential to save some lives in coming years.This second-generation airbag helmet is for those of you bike and motorcycle enthusiasts who can’t be bothered to remember those clunky plastic ...
You may recall UV light fondly from one of those hotel exposes showing just how filthy those rooms are. No, we’re not gonna go there. You’d like that, wouldn’t you? This time we’re going straight to the kitchen. If you’re constantly killing those sponges with filthy dishes, give Sponge Bob a break. ...
Every once in a while, a new device comes along that is actually worth the hype. Whether you’re trying to trump that douchey guy at the office who always has to one-up you or you want to spice up your lackluster bonfire party, Pyle’s projecting you into the 21st century with their Mini Pocket Projector. This device ...
Feeling a little forgetful lately? Forget amnesia, you’ve got a life to live. If you’re one of the millions of smartwatch owners and have a growing list of those crazy pills to take, don’t put yourself at risk. Let technology remedy that advancing Alzheimer’s. Accutab has you distracted individuals in mind with ...
We all imagine travelling the world, so when you finally scrimp up enough money for summer traveling to the desert planet of Tatooine or somewhere within this galaxy, protecting your geeky valuables is paramount.Airports are a hotspot for theft, and the last thing you wanna do is get all Darth Vader on some common ...
Not the biggest fan of limp noodles? Girl, who you tellin’? Tired of getting in and out of the pool for the next beer? Don’t worry lazy pants; your days of tedious monotony are over. Other than helping you float in the water, those old school floatation devices don’t really serve any function now do they? WOW ...
Apple, schmapple. You’re tired of hearing the buzz about their mediocre smartwatches, which in all likelihood probably won’t live up to the hype. For those of you Apple pessimists out there, you may be relieved to hear about a recent development that may make things a little more interesting. HYT, a luxury Swiss ...
Star Wars isn’t a man’s world. Amidala was a force to be reckoned with and plenty of Jedi’s were girls too, you know. Show the opposite sex you mean business with an icon of strength and power.A Star Wars Darth Vader crossbody purse is designed to be a fashionable way to hold those valuables. Made from molded ...
Got a taste for the party scene? Fighting your 30’s with the mantra that age is just a number? Don’t get too cocky. Cops are constantly on the look out for booze hounds, and the last thing you went is to get caught under the influence with extremely expensive penalties.Vodafone Floome takes care of your worries ...
Is your dog giving you the sad puppy eyes that say ‘You never play with me?’ Don’t break his little heart; get your canine involved with some exercise and fun. iFetch Too! is an automatic ball launcher for Dogs of the larger variety. This Kickstarter prototype is the second innovation from the Hamill Family and ...
Not into the bar scene anymore? Are you more into killer house parties? Get beer o’ clock started with your own home brew. Screw the gas station, you’re an entrepreneur! Mr. Beer’s got you covered with their best-selling Gold Edition Home Brewing Kit. This kit provides enough refills to make 4 gallons of your ...
Got an eye for the melancholy? Is your doleful demeanor only countered by the state of your bathroom? Don’t cry over leaky faucets, take it on Star Wars to distract you with eerie landscapes of swamps and forests. Let’s face it, cleaning your bathroom feels more like a prison sentence than something productive ...
Have you ever tried to read Braille with your fingers? Well maybe you should start to make up for lost time, because all this time we’ve been withholding the greatest game of all from our dear friends. Yes, it’s a travesty that we haven’t invented Braille Rubik’s Cube up until now, but with some apology, ...
The rising cost of electricity make be leaving you shocked, but you don’t have to take it from the grid. Resist with science! Powerwall is a tesla home battery that provides energy storage capabilities, allowing you to protect your home from power outages automatically while giving you more independence from ...
Reliving Childhood Memories With the Next Generation Surely home life has changed since you were a kid. Your family is always absorbed in their cell phones, if not looking at lists of status updates or giving zombie glares at the TV. Cut out the monotony with some much needed time outdoors. Castakite is a safe ...
Obsessed with the idea of personal flight? Do you romanticize that scene in Flubber where the car is flying up in the clouds? Well fasten your seatbelt, because a new idea is surfacing that may leave hovercraft innovation on ground level. AeroMobil is a revolutionary prototype that is merging the convenience of ...
Uses Today’s Technology With Yesterday’s Everyone knows you’re a mad scientist, that’s a fact. Whether people see it in the stained lab coat you wear nearly every day or in your resemblance to the mad doctor from Robot Chicken, you pride yourself on having the latest gizmos and gadgets from around the world. Even ...
Mediocre iPhone cases are a diamond dozen. You avoid those little kiosks at the mall like the plague as employees chase you down begging you to buy their sub-par wares. You don’t mind the concept of an iPhone case, but what do you get in return other than just a look? You want utility, not some Hello Kitty phone case ...
Sometimes when your doing DIY you can find yourself growing envious of Dr. Octopus. Most of us just don't have enough hands and arms to deal with the wrench, pliers and screwdriver all at once and that's why they inevitably end up rolling underneath the car. Mag-Vest though solves this problem in an awesomely cool ...
Nightly sleep patterns having you exiled like a leper by your roommates? Too ashamed to admit you're still afraid of the dark? Shh, we'll never tell. Check out this motion-activated under the bed light. Do you grasp around like a blind man in the dark at night? Stop trippin'! Whenever your feeling like an ...
The Electric Gyroboard Transporter is basically a tiny, two wheeled horizontal skateboard that works in a similar manner to a Segway. In other words, you control it simply by tilting your feet just ever-so-slightly forward which will then propel you at decent speeds. Likewise, you then only need to lean back slightly ...
Is it a shoe? Maybe some weird blade? Getting warmer. It's a cake server silly. The Magisso Cake server may look like it came from another world but this Finnish designed device takes the cake while showcasing a little bling in return. Avoid getting those hands sticky as you slice and serve that cake like a modern ...
Do you remember a lackluster experience in the 1990's attempt at virtual reality gaming with the Virtual Boy? A group of engineers at Rice University is trying to make that nightmarish memory a thing of the past with a Hands Omni glove that will allow gamers to actually feel objects within a game with a force ...
Bringing Old-School Geekdom into the New Millenium Remember back when you played that foosball in your cousin's basement? Alright, now imagine that clunky old foosball table shrunken down with a shrink ray from Honey I Shrunk the Kids. https://youtu.be/MoPi0U2c248 Yep, that's right. Your iPad can ...
Having a bug in your home or outside is often bad news and sometimes you can find yourself battling with wasps for hours before you can go to bed. No fun. But on the plus side, this is about the closest you ever come to Hollywood-style-action in your kitchen. It requires quick reactions, creative thinking and ...
Solo is designed to be the drone equivalent of a smartphone. But aren't all drones smart? Exactly. That means this thing has to be really smart to be worthy of that title. https://youtu.be/SP3Dgr9S4pM In fact this device is likely smarter than some humans and has an awesome range of special features that makes ...
As technology improves so too does the arms race gather momentum and result in more and more powerful instruments of destruction. Fortunately, mosquitos are lagging behind when it comes to technological advancement which allows us to 'definitely win' the war against them. The Thermacell Repellant Camp Lantern is a ...
In case you've been living under a rock (topical!), bitcoins are a relatively new form of 'digital currency' that have massively taken off and which are making some smart people very rich sitting on piles of money. There are even pubs now where you can buy drinks with bitcoins. Unlike real money, bitcoins allow you ...
Aquaovo has an 'alter ego' bottle that, like Optimus Prime, is something of a transformer. Only it doesn't transform itself but rather the water you pour into it which it magically turns into pure and healthy water. It has been heavily tested and apparently is capable of cleaning pretty much any type of water – ...
Do you feel as though your/your girlfriends boobs aren't grabbing enough attention? Annoying right. One solution is to invest in ever-lower-cut tops. You can also try t-shirts with hand-prints on them. But nothing will quite do the trick like this light up bra which will light up your/your partner's fun cushions ...
This 'cash cannon' allows you to fire US dollars at people which is at once kind of annoying while also being something most of us would welcome… Of course this can also be useful in situations where you want to get people excited and clawing at one another (so all the time, right?). Fire a wad of cash into the air ...
You've heard of emoticons… so how about drivemoticons? If ever you've wanted to let the driver behind you know how you're feeling (and let's be honest, we all have) then you'll love being able to shoot them a grimacing face or a smile out the back window. This device uses an LED display in order to let you express ...
Dashcam is a small and relatively affordable camera that attaches to the windshield in your car and then films everything you see as you go. The camera is 1080p, so you get good HD quality and which can record up to 64GB of footage with the right SD card. It also features an anti-shake feature, a G-sensor and a small ...
The Han (Guitar) Solo Don't you just love it when someone goes to the effort to create a product almost entirely based on the opportunity for a pun? Such is the case with this guitar known as the 'Han Solo'. It's basically a six string guitar that is shaped like the Millennium Falcon – a spaceship surprisingly ...
Adding neon to your car makes it look way more awesome and like something out of a computer game. So how about doing the same to your feet? Yep, it's awesome too. These LED sneakers feature an LED that wraps around the bottom and which can glow one of seven colors. This means that you can match any outfit, ...
Let's be honest, the vast number of things that you charge these days use USB. While you might have an annoying proprietary charger on your laptop or phone, for the majority of devices it's USB these days. Thus we live in a time when we're constantly searching for USB chargers and constantly fighting over them. ...
The Neo Smartpen N2 is a genius device that allows any hand written text or hand drawn image to be saved as text or PDF. This is the world's leading 'smartpen' (bet you didn't even know that was a thing) and basically means that you can take down notes in a lecture by hand and then open them up on your computer when ...
Sheds are cool and all because they give you somewhere to store your garden tools and to sit outside while reading a book. They let you feel as though you're being outdoors without actually having to be outdoors which is handy seeing as being outside is often annoying (think bees and sunburn). The Garden Igloo is ...
In the Jetsons-future, everyone will sit around and press buttons in order to everything from the most mundane to the most involved task. These days we're getting closer and closer to that reality as demonstrated by this remote controlled boat that allows you to fish without even going outside (assuming you're ...
Fitness trackers and health watches are all the rage at the moment but unfortunately are much of a muchness. Your average fitness tracker does little more than count steps. Emvio on the other hand (there's a pun there) focusses more on stress, which is a ubiquitous health problem that many of us struggle with. It ...
If you like your regular order of coffee just the way you like it, then the thought of drinking a filter coffee out of a flask might make you cringe. Until now that will have meant that leaving the house was out of the question – which is why it's worth celebrating the release of the Cafflano Klassic. This is a travel ...
Now You Can Have Your Own Pet K-9 If you could have any of the cool gadgets and gizmos in Doctor Who, what would you choose? Obvious the Tardis. Okay, what if you could have any other of the cool gadgets? Probably the Sonic Screwdriver… Sure, but then it would be K9. And now you can have your own K9… ...
The idea of an electric skateboard is cool in theory but we've yet to really see one that capitalizes on the potential properly. Well, that's exactly what the GT Powerboard appears to do thanks to its 25 inch aluminum deck, its pneumatic tires and its 22 mile range. More to the point though, it's also just pretty ...
Eating pizza is excellent, that is not in any doubt. What is less excellent though is cutting pizza. Cutting pizza not only takes a lot more elbow grease than you would probably like it to but it's also surprisingly difficult to do accurately. Especially if you have an odd number of people there. It's enough to ...
Wearable tech from companies like Apple and Samsung looks cool and all but can it do this? These Cigarette Lighter Watches might not be all that good for health tracking (in fact they're kind of the antithesis of health tracking) but they definitely give you a very cool and James Bond way to light someone's ...
Philips' line of Hue bulbs are devices that can be controlled by smartphones in order to easily alter and program your lighting without getting up. They've been a pretty big hit but the latest brings an entirely new feature to the table. Or floor. Or bookshelf. The device is called the 'Hue Go' and this one can be ...
Using foam to put out fires is so yesterday. Undergraduates at George Mason University have demonstrated that it's possible with a portable device that uses soundwaves instead. The device is unimaginatively named the 'Sound-Blasting Fire Extinguisher' and weighs around 20 pounds. Currently it can only put out small ...
Dr. Evil wanted sharks with lasers strapped to their heads for one very simple reason: everything is better with lasers attached. That's clearly the opinion of LaserGadgets too who have recently demoed their first 'laser drone' in this cool video. Basically it's a drone that can fly around and shoot lasers. Which ...
Electric skates are one of those awesome ideas that everyone has at some point but which no-one has really managed to make work. In theory you could just stand in these shoes and jet around the street and these particular skates promise to take you up to speeds of 12mph. They're also very different from the ideas that ...
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