Posts Written by Paul Strauss

Park Sangyong’s concept camera works in an unusual way to be sure. Throw the Camerang into the air and as it spins, its automatically adjusting lens captures aerial self-portraits.

Since it’s so infrequent, let’s appreciate Tim Thomas playing the body instead of the puck to pound on Henrik Sedin here in Game 3 of the Bruins/Canucks Stanley Cup finals. (Thanks Bill!)

Here’s 51 secs. of unadulterated visual stimulation, simply described as follows: sexy girl in black with a samurai sword slices an orange in slow-motion. We want to see the rest of the fruit basket!

The Sanction is a compact weatherproof rucksack that’s built to last with military style construction, urethane coated zippers and internal frame sheet; large zipper pocket fits up to 15″ laptops.

(NSFW: Language) A group of Scotsmen crash-land their hot air balloon in China, maintaining the most upbeat attitude you’ve ever heard from guys who could have just as easily plunged to their deaths.

UK online food delivery group Just Eat has designed the Eatensil, a Swiss army knife of cutlery of sorts; it has a pizza cutter, chip fork, chopsticks, bottle opener and fork, knife and spoon.

While this cinematic trailer doesn’t give us much idea of the gameplay for Ubisoft’s Wii U action shooter, our best guess is that it’s what happens if you feed Raving Rabbids after midnight.

The guys from D4D head to Intelligentsia Coffee in Venice, California to be schooled in the art of the cappuccino by an expert barista, capturing gorgeous video on the way. Now fix an espresso.

The warped mind of DingDangler Disneyfies the climactic and violent “I drink your milkshake” scene from Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, and re-titles it Donald Goes Bowling.

The latest incarnation of Replay’s tiny, durable XD action camcorder shoots 1080p full HD footage at 30fps, wind-resistant audio and offers a ton of mounting options. Video demo footage here.

So many great game trailers out for E3; here the latest for Prey 2, which shows us a glimpse of the future after the terror in the sky we witnessed in the previous teaser. (Thanks Mr Mojo!)

Casey Neistat recently got a $50 ticket for riding outside of the bike lane in NYC, then proceeds to show us exactly what would have happened had he actually stayed in the bike lane all the time.

Big Dipper Wax Works, in collaboration with the Seattle-based design firm urbancase, has created some fun, lovingly rendered beeswax candles, based on adored but outdated technology.

Designed for playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, it offers a full-color LCD multitouch trackpad and 10 programmable LCD keys above it. A glowing LED border also offers color control. Video here.

Looking for something online? Google, Bing and Yahoo! too complicated for you? E-Z-Fynd offers a fast, easy, secure way to search the whole of the Internet faster than you can say “HotBot.”

In the next Bioshock, we leave the cozy confines of Rapture, and head skyward to the mysterious floating city of Columbia, as you grapple your way around town with your trusty Sky-Hook.

By combining six slightly shifted 50 megapixel images, Hasselblad’s pro-grade digital camera can capture images at an astounding 200 megapixels. Demo an example multi-shot image here.

Oh, come on people. Planking is so yesterday. Everyone who’s anyone knows that cone-ing is the next big internet craze, brought to us compliments of Alki “The Clown Prince” Stevens.

Fusion is the new version of the practical and designy YikeBike electric folding bike; it’s made of alloy and strengthened polymer composite, which makes it more affordable. (Thanks Adrian!)

The next-gen Wii hits sometime in 2012, and it’ll play with a wireless motion controller with 6.2″ touchscreen, offer 1080p HD graphics. Plus, it’s backwards compatible with the original Wii.

So, we’re scratching our heads over here at TA while being entertained, wondering how Wax Audio’s Lady Gaga-Judas Priest mashup works. No, really, it’s all wrong. So why does this work?

(NSFW) John Michael McDonagh’s comedic tale of two cops – an unorthodox Irish policeman and a straitlaced FBI agent – who must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.

Inspired by the Korean diver Meoguri and his single oxygen tank string, AbelPartners Design Studio’s fun silicone tea diver holds a belly full of loose tea while floating in your cup, infusing your beverage.