When motorcyclists have an accident they roll a dice, with escaping unscathed on one side and very severe consequences on the other. And for those unlucky enough to sustain severe and permanent injuries like paraplegia, there’s often one huge regret - that they may never ride again on a real bike. A chance encounter with […]
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Dreamfit: The Motorcycle For Paraplegics
LeapFrog Tag Reading System
Enhanced Reading Experience
Designed to enhance the learning to read experience LeapFrog’s next generation Tag Reading System uses special dot-printed books and a stylus fitted with an Infrared camera and speaker to allow children to hear the words of the story and read along.
The portable gadget is small enough for little hands and able to be […]
Puzzle Alarm Clock Has Shape Keyed Snooze
Steady There Skipper
Puzzle alarm clock: the simple, profoundly irritating idea at its heart is easy enough to guess, but why, then, is the puzzle itself so simple? It’s a toddler’s learning toy, a matter of bashing three shapes into the corresponding holes. Perhaps the idea is to force you to retrieve them from the other […]
Tokyoflash Oberon SS Led Watch Gets The Blues
The New Cool Way To Tell Time…If You Can
The latest funky electronic timepiece to surface from watch importer TokyoFlash - the Oberon SS is a real stunner. Not only does the watch feature a new way to tell time, it looks damn good doing it.
Introducing the Spyderco Byrdwrench
MacGyver wishes he had one of these
As multitools go the Spyderco Byrdwrench doesn’t resemble any other pocket tool on the market. Unlike standard multitool fare it has a full-sized knife blade that opens/closes one handed and locks open like a real pocketknife.
Free Spirit: The World’s Lightest Wheelchair
Drawing on a background that ranges from experience as an aerospace technician to a stint in research and development on the Williams F1 team, Marcus Cunnington has designed and built the 6.3kg (around 13.9 pounds) Free Spirit - a carbon fiber composite design that claims the mantle of the world’s lightest manual rigid wheelchair.
Tote Your Tot in Style
With summer upon us, families are traveling all over. Make the journey a bit easier with a TOTEaTOT!
Navigating a small child through airports and train stations is rarely an enjoyable experience. Especially when little ones grow tired, the crankiness can really wear on a mom trying to get the family to its destination in a timely […]
Mouse Chooses to be Different
The flick above must have already given you an idea as to what this mouse is all about but it not only chooses to be different in the way it looks, it even personifies divergence in terms of its utility.
Car Visor Plays DVDs, Video Games, MP3s, MP4s
The Amazing Multi-Use Visor
Do we really need any more distractions we need while we drive down the road? This over-the-top replacement sun visor for your vehicle manages to cram in just about everything but the kitchen sink.
Qubies: A Quick And Easy Way To Freeze Baby Food
Qubies
There are so many amazing milestones that occur during baby’s first year, one of which is their graduation to eating solid food. However, fascination soon turns to contempt when you spend hours cooking and pureeing wonderful but weird-colored meals and you can’t manage to pour them into the individual sections of the ice-cube tray! Or […]
LED Lightbulbs Coming in 2-3 Years
Are LED Lights The Wave Of The Future?
Faiz Rahman, a nanoelectronics researcher at the University of Glasgow, predicts that LED light bulbs for the home will start appearing on store shelves in the next 2-3 years to compete with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
If so, the LED bulbs would provide a much greater efficiency (up to […]
Octocube Will Keep Visitors To Your Home Guessing
Look! It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s…It’s…What Is It Again?
We like devices where it’s hard to figure out what they actually do, and the Octocube from French designer Vivien Muller is a fine example. Built entirely from 90 degree copper tubing elbows, the Octocube is actually a radiator for a hot water heating system.
Revisiting The Universal Remote
But Can It Do The Dishes?
What if you could control everything in your home with a little handheld gadget? That’s what this universal remote by David Chacon got us thinking about, with its roomy screen - a nerve center right in your pocket.
Volkswagen’s New 200MPG Car Slated for 2010
No arguing about who gets to sit in the front seat on this car
Volkswagen has plans to produce a 1-liter car by 2010 that’ll get an amazing 200 miles per gallon, making it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the road. It’s not going to come without its drawbacks, however, as reaching a figure […]
Europe Honors Its Best: European Inventor of the Year Awards For 2008
The 2008 European Inventors of the Year were awarded recently in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Even if you don’t recognize the names of the inventors, you will certainly know their inventions and the contributions those inventions have made to the world during the last 10 to 15 years.
LED Hula Hoop Mania
Alien Communication Device or LED Hula Hoop (or Both)?
Here’s something that’s sure to draw crowds the next time you feel the need to draw attention to yourself. This dizzying show of colored light is produced by a rapidly spinning Hula Hoop, packed with LED lighting.
Finally, Spherical Shaped Ice Cubes
Ice balls at your party will define a whole new kind of cool
Taisin has introduced a mold that seamlessly creates a perfect sphere, no chipping and shaving required. Simple place a chunk of ice into the metal press and, as it melts, the device will close around the ice forming a ball, which is then […]
Phone Charger Incorporates Automatic Data Back-Up
Data-backup mobile phone charger
Losing or having you mobile phone stolen without having the contacts and other important information it contains securely backed-up is a sure-fire way to give yourself one very big headache. Given the fact that some of us are a little lazy when it comes to this task, but all of us have […]
New Wristwatch Style GPS Route Indicator
The driver winds the knobs to move the map on as their car travels further
They are notorious for guiding exasperated motorists down footpaths, into ponds or to the wrong city entirely.
But the modern-day sat-nav is likely to pose far fewer problems for lost drivers than its 1927 forerunner.
The Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, which has […]
Hand Painted Keyboards
If you’re like most people, your computer keyboard is probably either black, white or some shade in between. If you happen to have an older PC or Mac, maybe it’s a cigarette smoke-tinged beige. These handpainted USB keyboards couldn’t bend the rules more.
Available in several precisely detailed patterns ranging from flowers to swirlies, these dramatic […]
Bizarre Breast Puddings From Japan
Happy Breast Food (With Dramatic Packaging)
If you’ve ever seen the movie “Airplane”, you might recall a scene in which the jet is being shaken up by turbulence. The camera zooms in on two mounds of Jello jiggling like crazy, then pans up to a well-endowed lady’s, erm, endowments jiggling similarly. It was a funny gag, […]
Musical Fruit That Really Toots
Fruity Dreams!
Getting plenty of fruit each day is an important part of a well-balanced diet. So why shouldn’t your iPod take part in the same healthy lifestyle as you? Thanks to these fruit speakers, your media player can at least look like it’s eating well.
Super Expensive “Smart Shoes”
What is it worth to you to have shoes that anticipate your pressure points?
While some people think its crazy to spend more than about $35 on a pair of shoes, I’ve come to think of may feet as the ultimate interface with the world. So, if you are into cutting edge sneakers and the whole […]
A Revolution in Lithium-ion Battery Technology
A123’s battery is made from nanoparticles of lithium iron phosphate modified with trace metals
A123’s batteries will make lithium-ion technology practical for the auto industry. Instead of cobalt oxide, they use an electrode material made from nanoparticles of lithium iron phosphate modified with trace metals. The resulting batteries are unlikely to catch fire, even if […]
Great Mothers Day Invention - Automatic Baby Bottom Cleaner
Automatic Baby Bottom Cleaner
Have you ever seen a kid so dirty you wish you could just tie him up to a tree and spray him down? Or a diaper so messy you just want to grab the kid and repeatedly dipping him into a warm tub filled with soapy water? Unfortunately, the modern tub is […]
