Racing Grandads complete with oxygen tanks

If you need something to kill time while you’re supposed to be working, now you can have an afternoon laugh with this pair. Just set them up and let them race after each other. Now all arguments can be settled with these guys. All you have to do is say whose ever Grandad wins, wins the dispute as well. To make them go, just pull back and off they go, oxygen tanks hoisted to the back and everything. To pick up a set it will cost you $12.

iPhone Walking Robot

Sometime when you are doing your business in the toilet, you missed out a lot of important calls. Kazu Terasaki has found a solution for that by making a walking iPhone. At first, he uses the Roomba cleaning robot to get it moving unfortunately it doesn’t work. Finally, he developed a set of autonomous robot legs attaching to the device and yes the iPhone walk to him.




[via Gizmodo]

Multi-Computer F1 Racing Screensaver

Intel Brazil has come out with the best office screensaver ever seen in office. The computers in the office will form into one Formula 1 racing course screensaver. Once the screensaver is loaded up, the Formula one car will go from one computer to another. Check it out after the break.

Yeah it’s available for download for Mac or PC.

[via Gizmodo]

First China Solar-powered Car

China’s Zhejiang 001 Group has come up with the solar-powered car, the car was shown at the car exhibition in Hangzhou. The group has produced over 10 units of them and each will be sold at 38,000 yuan (US$5,560). The car is capable of absorbing 95 percent of the solar energy it takes in but can only transform 14% to 17% of that into electricity, quite similar to others solar car. The car can travel 150km after 30 hours of solar charging, yeah an hour of charge will get you 5km. No words if the car will be shipped outta China.

[via Engadget]

Welcome to the New Age of the PSP2

Here is a new concept for the Playstation Portable I hope to see in the near future. This PSP2 design concept by Tai Chiem probably won’t be made anytime soon, but it really should.

I mean, just look at the scrolling OLED screen! I think we are close to perfecting that technology, but not that close. Still, it would be nifty to have a screen that can roll up into the PSP itself. No more tiny screen, but it needs some sort of electrical charge to hold it up. I guess it uses the same “memory cloth” technology as shown in Batman Begins.

Not only does it have the rolling and scrolling action going on, but the side speakers fold inwards, presumably to hold the screen into place when it is rolled up. Rumor has it the speakers are the controls for the device. This appears to the only method of control, as I don’t see a controller or buttons.

This technology is too good to use on just portable video game consoles. I think that every cellular phone needs to be this wand-shaped thing that you can use to take and receive calls, and then roll it out to watch videos or whatever applications you care to run.

Well, as I said before, the PSP2 probably won’t be available any time soon, so if you want a new style of PSP, you’ll have to get the PSP-3000.

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Medieval Wagon-wheeled Hummer

A Hummer H3 was donated to a British artist named Matthew Harrison, creating it into a medieval wagon-wheeled vehicle. The car was currently being shown at the London’s ZOO Art Fair. A Tata Nano with those wheels will look even better.

[via mischief]

Nanokia by Mac Funamizu

So they said, if Nokia Aeon and the Apple iPod Nano 4G had sex, and the baby shall look something like this. It is a concept by designer Mac Funamizu. This Nanokia phone is using a nondescript tactile feedback technology making its surface adapts to different purposes, while the e-ink screen envelops the phone in graphics and information. I was thinking what if the Google phone G1 had sex with iPhone, will it be something like on right side


Giving it a name Giphone :D

[via Yanko Design]

LG unveils the LG-SU100 in Korea

LG has unveiled its 3-inch full touchscreen phone full touchscreen phone ‘LG-SU100′ during the KES 2008 in Korea.

LG-SU100 is equipped with the Franklin planner, a time management system which consists of a ring binder holding specially designed loose leaf pages. Divided by monthly tabs between the pages and accepting a wide variety of specialized accessories and inserts, the core idea is to consolidate tasks and appointments along with personal records in one place, methodically eliminating floating pieces of paper.

The phone boasts an OLED display, a 3.0-megapixel camera, electronic dictionary, S-DMB, global roaming, Bluetooth and web viewer.

[via Aving]

World’s Biggest Cake weighing 4340kg

This giant cake weighs 4,340-kilogram (9,568-pound), officials from Seoul city government and Shinsung College, this rice cake is showcased during the Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 at the Jamsil Main Stadium in Korea and they said they will register it in the Guinness Book of Records, as the world’s biggest rice cake.

[via Joongangdaily]

LG Intros Second-Gen Prada Phone

Hey, technorati fashionistas, good news: the LG Prada phone is back with a vengeance, of sorts. The good/bad news here is that LG hasn't really changed anything about the handset, save for one major feature--the addition of a keyboard.

The messaging keyboard slides out from underneath the phone's large touchscreen. Adds LG, in a weirdly sensual description, "As serenely as it appears it slides invisibly, effortlessly away - a modern icon of mobile style and design with an extra competitive edge."

The LG Prada also features a handful of other improvements, including 3G compatibility for video messaging, a full HTML browser, a 5-megapixel camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, Wi-Fi accessibility, and 7.2-Mbps HSDPA.

It will be available in Europe by the end of the year for 600 Euros ($814.74).