Unison Idea Studio definitely seems to have taken a few design cues when it comes to Whoever is behind the Space Intruderz. These things are highly reminiscent of the invading aliens that I blasted on a monochrome screen in my youth. That being said, these are nothing if not awesome and at $48, the price is right. [Technabob via MoCo Loco]
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[ June 6th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]
Space Intruderz Lamps Look Vaguely Familiar
[ April 1st, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]
Pleasant Dreams of Invading Aliens
These Space Invaders pillows are great except for one small fact, I normally put my pillows inside a pillowcase as to not do so would be filthy. If you put your Space Invaders pillow inside a pillowcase, it will destroy all the fun of having bought the thing in the first place. Here’s hoping that Taito at least ships these with matching pillow cases.
The price of the Space Invaders Pillows is about $30 apiece. They are available for pre-order and shipping in mid-late June of 2008.
Source: Geek Alerts
[ April 30th, 2007 ] ... [ Ryan Freebern ]
Pocket-Sized Emergency Phone Charger
If you’re the proud (or, heck, ashamed) owner of a Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone, and you regularly forget to recharge your phone before heading out for the day, this Pocket-Sized Emergency Phone Charger could, potentially, save your life. Or the entire world. Sound far-fetched? Read on!
Say you’re out doing your errands for the day. You’ve just picked up your dry-cleaning from the little shop down the street when out of the corner of your eye, you see mind-sucking aliens with death-ray blasters sneaking into the offices of top-level government officials, determined to take control of the military and eventually the world. You whip out your trusty phone to call your friend, super-spy and extraterrestrial-exterminator Jack “Lightning” Bolt, only to find that your battery is dead. Oh no!
Luckily, you’ve got this tiny, handy little charger, equipped with a single AA battery. You plug it into your phone, and it provides you with a power boost–enough to make that call and save the world! Congratulations! $15, and obviously well worth it.
[ April 30th, 2007 ] ... [ Ryan Freebern ]
Book Review: Cory Doctorow’s “Overclocked”
If you’re one of the millions of people who reads the ultra-popular weblog Boing Boing on a regular basis, you’re probably familiar with Cory Doctorow, the thirtysomething author and speaker who fights for fair intellectual property laws and electronic freedom. Doctorow’s latest anthology of short stories and novellas, Overclocked, explores the things he’s passionate about in real life by placing them in plausible future settings. You won’t find much in the way of green-skinned aliens, interstellar voyages or time travel here; the stories in this collection all explore stuff that computer geeks deal with on a day-to-day basis, but extrapolate them in such a way that the issues are highlighted and exaggerated to facilitate consideration of their many hidden facets.
Doctorow’s biggest beef is with the idea that information can be “owned.” Three of the six stories in Overclocked deal directly with the potential future consequences of this sort of mindset: when we’re more concerned about protecting the ability of big corporations to earn money from the information (such as inventions and algorithms) that they’ve claimed as their own instead of working to better the lives of as many people as possible using that information, where might we end up in ten, a hundred, or a thousand years? Will we start bloody, devastating wars with countries that don’t respect our patent laws and try to enhance the lives of their citizens using those technologies, like in the heartbreaking “After the Siege”? Will our insistence on following misguided legal rules and regulations leave us in a cultural dark age while the rest of the world moves on, as in the Hugo-nominated “I, Robot”?
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[ April 26th, 2007 ] ... [ Ryan Freebern ]
Infrared Thermometer with Laser Sight
When someone’s not feeling well, it’s a good idea to take their temperature to find out if they have a fever. Unfortunately, getting close to them to take their temperature means risking exposure to whatever’s making them sick. This Infrared Thermometer with Laser Sight handily takes care of that problem. From a distance, you can fire the thermometer’s laser beam and fry the aliens instantly measure the temperature of any surface, including someone’s forehead. Then you can go play laser tag. PCHEW PCHEW! $59.
