Techotic Gadgets

As gamers we’d often spend hours on end gaming as the competitions among gamers gets serious, just like any other top athlethes, we often wear our bodies down, in this case, our thumbs, making ourselve ill in the process, sore thumbs is the most common complain. Most athlethes take some sort of supplements to repair their bodies at the end of a training session. Gamers have the same need too, it’s not easy playing Guitar Heroes 10 hours straight….That is why a wacky Japanese Pharmaceutical company has produced a vitamin supplements for gamers.

I don’t know what it is with the Dutch, but they keep churning out innovative designs in recent weeks. BloomFrame designed by Hofman Dujardin Architects, Amserdam is a window frame which can be transformed into a dynamic balcony and it can be installed in new and old buildings. The BloomFrame was the winner of 2008 Red Dot Design Award, and deservedly too.

I used to have one of these football table when I was a kid, you know the wooden one with the plastic players. Well, those are tables of the the past now, take a look at “11: The beautiful game”.

So if you have the cash to burn and want to be envied by all your friends, then check out this new gold plated Macbook Air from Computer Choppers, a luxury Mac customizing services company. The latest offering from them is the World’s 1st 24kt Gold & Sapphires Macbook Air complete with bejeweled apple in colored sapphires and they also build a gold plated super drive for the luxury Mac as well.

Oh man, what are they gonna think of next? a robot life guard? the latest in line of robots is this fire prevention robot Jordan Guelde is an advanced robot designed to go in and clear large areas of foliage from around a forest fire so it can’t spread further. The thing looks like it’d kill everything in its way, never mind the wildlife in the forest, its job is to chop everything down.

Life immitate art and vice versa, but does literature inspires science? We have seen many of the things in Sci-Fi films in the past that became a reality, and with technology advances in such a strong pace now, anything could happen. Most of us have secretly wished to own the famous invisibility cloak as worn by Harry Potter, I know I did and still do. Guess what, now I can have one of my own, well, not really, but now I have a little chance of getting my fingers on one. Yeah! for real!

Dean Kamen, the entrepreneur behind Segway, has a solution for our water problems with this water purification system he has named Slingshot. Dean believes that Slingshot can turn any liquid into clean, safe and drinkable water. Any liquid would include sewage, sea water and even urine.

After an abandoned start up in 2006, Reed Hastings CEO of Netflix is ready to roll out a set-top box. As well as also announcing that Blu-ray disc, rental prices from the company will be increased shortly from the rent by mail movie house.

Take a look at the latest gas saving concept vehicle, this small and lightweight car is a new idea known as the Space-Efficient Vehicle or SEV. It was a design idea by Steven Van Der Veen and Ralph Panhuyzen. It was one of the 2008 finalists in the Michelin Design Challenge, and was displayed at the Auto Show in Detroit two months ago. The vehicle is so tiny, it is possible fit not one, but two, into just one regular parking space.

This is so cool, unfortunately I’m too lazy even to attemp it. Michael figured that the only way he could beat his son Alex,16, was to build a computer that could watch the game being played, process some information, and play the notes on the guitar.

There are not many resting chairs in big cities like London, so having a portable one is a good idea. Not sure how strong the hinges are though, but it doesn’t look sturdy enough for my liking. But this might be a good DIY idea to try out if you happen to have a briefcase lying around.

If you have owned a Nokia, chances are you’d probably have played Snake, I know I’ve spent hours playing it on the tube. This cool game is the most played mobile game of all time and below is a human recreation of the game using 1000 people without any special effects or computer graphics. It is just 1000 people moving in the street frame by frame and step by step.

Ok, girls have all the toys, that’s not really fair, is it guys?. If you want an evening of relaxation or pleasure…your pick..then why not accompany your other toy with this breast massage-massage robot designed by Wei Wang of BUBBY Robot Technologies, China. Actually it’s not available in your local Ann Summers yet, and I don’t think it will be anytime soon, take a look at the Free Paten Auction.

Alex Handy bought 7 blocks of chips for $14 at the Laney College Flea Market and when he got home, he noticed that “CPKPark Atari” and “CPKPARK 2600 Atari” were written on some of the chips. But with some detective works on the Net, he discovered he had bought an unreleased and never finished game for the Atari 2600.

This could be the ultimate in geek coupling, for your favorite nerd couple, traditional wedding bands are so completely out of touch they might as well be a Commadore64.