Remember those sci-fi shows back in the 60s and early 70s? Most control panels had switches of all manner as well as blinking LEDs that confound the average human mind. What you see on the right is called the 1000100101, and when translated to English, it means binary as evident by the numbers 0 and […]

LG has upgraded its side-by-side refrigerators line that featured the alluring TV fridge combo that let_s you hooked to your idiot-box even in the kitchen. The new LSC27990TT features a digital high-def built-in unit that includes a 15-inch HD LCD, FM radio, DVD connection on top and a 4-inch weather & info center LCD apart […]

The liquid crystal age has finally caught up with classical musicians, providing us with The Hands-Free Sheet Music Library And Page Turner. It has 128 megs of built in memory, and comes with a (presumbly expandable or replaceable) 128 meg USB module which can hold digitized or natively digital music sheets, which you can navigate […]

While this picture may look like a few items pushed together in a corner then covered in wallpaper, it’s actually a new ‘bizhub’ from Konica Minolta, combining a printer, TV, DVD player, coffee machine - and for reasons best known to themselves - a 1960s-style lamp. It’s obviously a prototype, designed to offer an alternative […]

External hard drives don’t have to be dull. Just ask LaCie, which has produced the Brick desktop hard drive, which looks not unlike those Lego building bricks you had as a child. Designed by “world famous designer” Ora-Ito, the LaCie Brick Desktop Hard Drive (as it’s officially known) hooks up to your computer via USB […]

Google has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire. The Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world. The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home (shown above) in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, […]

Funny prank for the unsuspecting guest. You record a message into the thing (up to 6sec) and it plays back when the toilet paper is unrolled. Get it here.

Who says you have to practice for years to sound like a professional musician? The world’s first self-playing violin has been tracked down! It’s called the “Virtuoso” and it works with an electromagnetic system that does the same job as fingers on the strings. A string blade vibrates powerfully between two magnets and it’s those […]

If you’ve ever needed any super sensitive documents destroyed, everything is fine and dandy if you’re two cubicles down from the office shredder, but things get a bit trickier when on the go. Japanese company Aihou has developed a not-so-complicated approach to shredding documents while out and about — by connecting 9 pairs of scissor […]

The $100 notebook is to get a pull-string external generator and will be produced by Quanta. $100 laptop had lost its hand crank which was to supply the unit with additional power when required. The laptop, looking very much like a production machine, sported USB ports, headphone and microphone jacks and a smallish keyboard. We’ve now learned […]

If you’ve just shelled out on a big-bucks HD Ready (or capable…) monster flat screen then here’s something to make you feel a tad inadequate. Mitsubishi has just unveiled the world’s largest HDTV screen at Tokyo’s Fuchu Racecourse, reports Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. The Aurora Vision screen uses LED technology and comprises 35 modules, which […]

If you’re used to Google and nothing else, you might be in for a shock. Kartoo certainly isn’t the fastest or plainest SE available, as it’s constructed using Flash and displays results graphically. I’m still working out exactly how it works, but it appears to display links between web sites and allow you to add […]

There’s nothing like sitting back and relaxing after a hard day with some of your favourite tunes. So why not do it wherever you are? You can if you pick up a Homedics MP3 cush - which massages you while you listen to your favourite tunes. It’s portable because this isn’t a massaging chair - it’s […]

The humble globe - for years the centre piece of many living rooms - and as near as many of us get to exotic locations. However, as this is 2006, a wooden globe doesn’t really cut it against the wealth of information you can pick up on the net, so how about this Smart Globe […]

The H-racer is a futuristic toy car, but using the technology that could power a full-size car in the future. It operates on 100% clean fuel produced by a miniature solar-powered hydrogen refuelling station - which converts water to hydrogen using energy captured from the sun.No combustion occurs inside the hydrogen fuel cell. The only […]