Sign Language Translator
Mac Funamizu’s necklace-like Sign Language Translator is actually a tiny camera with twist-open speaker that will recognize hand gestures and speak them back in the voice of your choice.
Mac Funamizu’s necklace-like Sign Language Translator is actually a tiny camera with twist-open speaker that will recognize hand gestures and speak them back in the voice of your choice.
Fans of Space Invaders, your day has come: Rokysopp’s “Happy Up Here” music video breathes life into our favorite pixelated alien baddies, who then proceed to lay waste to a city.
Flip the bird in medieval style with these Steel Gauntlets; although they’re made with chrome-finished heavy steel, the fingers are open which you file those “knightly” TPS reports.
Oregon Trail gets a proper “trail”-er: beyond the cartoony graphics, it adds new mini-games including fishing, panning for gold and berry picking; it even makes dying from dysentery look fun.
It won’t be teeing off with humans anytime soon, but Precise Path’s RG3 is an ultra efficient robotic golf green mower; it’ll do 100% coverage in a single pass with straight lines.
Nobody does pure, unadulterated pwnage like a Sith Lord; destined to strike fear into the hearts of n00bs everywhere, this appropriately “Dark” Darth J!NX tee sports the J!NX mascot.
It looks like a wall plug, but the Linux-powered SheevaPlug is a $99 computer with a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM and 512MB of flash storage, USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet port. Thanks, Scott!
It was every 80s kid’s dream to have a home arcade; you’ll be able to do so on a small scale with the Sega Taikan Collection, which includes five mini cabinets (one is a mystery).
Dell’s Mini 10 netbook is available today; ideal for those who think 9″ is too small and 12″ too big, it comes with a 10.1″ 16:9 display, HDMI port, 1GB RAM and up to a 160GB HDD.
The original Ventura was the world’s first battery-driven electrical watch, so it’s fitting that this upsized XXL edition gets an automatic movement while keeping its iconic triangular case.
Adventures in Stormtrooping is a brilliant photo collection by Greg Easton showing stormtroopers as they go about their lives, with special appearances by Hellboy and Wall-E.
James Bond’s coveted ride drops its top with the Aston Martin DBS Volante–just keep your hairpiece on as it gets the DBS’ 6.0L V12; it’ll go 0-62 in 4.3s and tops out at 191 mph.
Make Magazine’s John Park not only talks about consumer ‘bots like the Roomba but shows us how to build our own, including a solar junkbot and a more complex beetlebot.
Available in March, TaylorMade’s new R9 drivers and fairway woods allow golfers to adjust the clubhead in one of eight positions using a wrench; only the drivers get weight ports.
Get your Snake fix on the road with Metal Gear Solid Touch, the iPhone/iPod Touch version of MGS4; coming in Spring, gameplay is a bit different but the graphics aren’t half bad.
Prada’s Novo Calfskin Boots are an interesting mix of high-end dress shoes and low-rise boots; it sports gored sides and tire tread soles, all wrapped in swank black calfskin leather.
We at first thought F*** Yeah Neil Patrick Harris might be taking the whole NPH thing a bit too far, but we’ll take the fans of NPH over the legions of LOLcats lovers any day. Thanks, Dearn!
One look at the brontosaurus packing a cannon on its back and we were hooked: Dinowaurs is a multiplayer artillery-based shooter with upgradable weapons and even dino clothing.
Short for Tetris and arm wrestling, “Tresling” slightly mans up the classic puzzler; movement is accomplished by overpowering your opponent while an extra button rotates pieces.
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