Circuit Bent Furby by Ormin Factory is a curious beast indeed, half toy, half sound generation unit.
Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
The Casio Databank watch is so deliciously space-age (circa 1975) that it stinks of Buck Rogers’ perineum.
We entered a raffle at a charity event last September, and, joy of joys, we’ve finally received our prize, a Philips HR1366 hand blender. Could anything be more exciting? Despite not being a Catholic, or even slightly religious, I felt compelled to telephone Pope Ratzinger immediately to tell him the exciting news.
Sony’s iconic console celebrates a landmark anniversary.
Mr Jones sells some splendid watches. The Cyclops is the ideal timepiece for the gentleman for whom punctuality is a strange and sinister bedfellow.
Flash juggernaut Alisdair Mills, the world’s leading authority on unfinished iPhone games, is working on a cricket simulator. Judging by the video it looks like it’ll be tastier than a king-size Toblerone, but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for it to show up in the App Store…
Old things. They’re like new things, only better.
Impress your friends with a fully operational, brick-like mobile phone from RetroBrick.com. Their value may well have depreciated a little over the years (from $3,955 in 1983 to just £59 today), and they’re far from pocket-sized, but hey, they’re cooler than an albino in a snow storm.
Well, if they’re good enough for my cousin...
Ah, the Rubik’s Cube – possibly the most frustrating puzzle/toy/gadet/thing ever invented. Few people are blessed with the patience to complete one, discounting those, like myself, that opt for the “peel the stickers off and rearrange them” method.
Ad agency DDB New Zealand cleverly plays on the themes of time and patience in Rubik’s new campaign.
Meat is a versatile and tasty friend, but who’d have guessed that it would someday be used to make dolls? Outstanding meaty artistry!
Swiss pilot and all-round hero Yves Rossy has finally unleashed his jet-propelled wings upon us mere mortals.
He’s such a top bloke and manly man, in spite of his feminine moniker – a modern-day Condorman.
One wonders how long it’ll be before we see this sort of technology deployed by the US military (particularly in their relentless pursuit of the A-Team). Colonel Decker – are you watching?
