Techotic Gadgets

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.

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.

The Rotator is shall we say, an interesting concept, if you rotate it to enable the giant lip to be at the top, then it is shower. This assumes that you don’t mind turning the bathroom floor into a swimming pool.

This bike runs on nothing but thin air, designed by University of Bristol aeronautics graduate Jim Stansfield, former sheepherder, turned inventor and rocket scientist. He simply used a couple of air canisters normally used by firefighters as breathing apparatus and married them onto a moped. Giving the world an air-powered moped that actually puts out cleaner air than found in many town and city center.

Playing your iPod through this vacuum-tube amplifier sounds a little unpromising, but the results are very satisfying. The tubes amps produce warm well rounded sound, which has the effect of smoothing over MP3 files tendency towards sounding harsh. The tube-based iPod dock combined with good speakers will give a quality sound.

Everybody loves Tetris. But who ever thought of mixing Tetris and arm wrestling together into a form of competitive and violent frenzy must be mad, but calling it ‘tresling’? Genius!

You use the buttons to control the rotation of the Tetris pieces and to move the Tetris block left and right is by smashing your arms against the sensors.

This is the real thing, not a concept and will set you back a hefty $82,350 USD and is available around Christmas time. Way, way overpriced, go look for state-of-the-art touring bikes instead, they’ll only set you back around $20k USD.

Since it’s nearly BBQ season, fingers crossed for some sun in London soon. If you want to impress your mates at your mom’s BBQ, then Firebox latest brilliant gadget the Condiment Gun will probably do the trick.

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