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Top 10 Weird and Bizarre Gadgets!

by max on January 14th, 2009
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Budweiser is going viral with its beer-filled Bud USB flash memory drive. Solar powered vibrator??? Oh my gawwd. Framing your HDTV might be a great way to skip getting a digital photo frame. Yes, Koreans now officially have their own games where you can even win an iPod! (Can we get that in the states pleeez?) I’ve always been fond of toilets with a good view, why not have t ...

New Sub Zero Refrigerator Filters Bacteria and more!

by max on August 8th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out the new Sub Zero refrigerator which is capable of self-filtering and self-cleaning. It features a NASA designed filtration system that replenishes the air every 20 minutes while eliminating bacteria, odors, and microscopic contaminants. That means food will stay fresher for a longer period ...

Original Google Storage Server Made with Legos!

by max on August 4th, 2008
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It’d be hard to believe but yes, Sergey Brin and Larry Page made their first 40GB Google Storage Server with lego casing. Perhaps they might have been great lego-designers if they didn’t come up with Google. The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Cl ...

Big Ass Digital Wall Clock!

by max on June 23rd, 2008
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Here’s a giant digital wall clock that will let you substitute an LCD TV. The Big Time Digital Wall Clock is probably one of the more futuristic and striking looking clocks available. Being 100 x 50cms in size you will soon notice the time and probably take a second look as this would not look out of place on the wall next to the big screen in NASA. Made from lightweight materials ...

NASA’s new Spacesuits look more like a Body-Builder!

by max on June 13th, 2008
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Check out the new spacesuits (on the right) that NASA has been working on. It definitely looks more like a body builder now when you wear one. NASA just awarded its future spacesuit contract to Oceaneering International. The US firm must now design, test, and produce two suits — the default suit (pictured after the break) worn on-board for launch and landing and a second, more v ...

Sunset on Mars!

by max on June 7th, 2008
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I live in Sunset, Sanfran and watch boring ol’ earth sunset almost daily but sunset on Mars? Beautiful… As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005. [via boingboing - laughingsquid] ...

NASA Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible!

by max on June 2nd, 2008
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Wow, this is something to watch and watch again… (Video after the jump!) Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory have figured out how to make them visible, showing them dancing in an absolutely gorgeous movie called, appropriately enough, Magnetic Movie. You don’t want to miss this one, which is the coolest ...

Mars Phoenix Landing LIVE today on NASA TV!

by max on May 25th, 2008
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Make sure to tune into NASA TV today (3PM PST) for live view of the Phoenix landing on Mars! via make ...

GooHack Searches of the Day - Goo

by max on May 12th, 2008
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Well, to promote our new hack search engine, GooHack, we will be doing “GooHack searches of the Day” daily and try to find some interesting new hacks for all you hacker readers. So to start out, I did a Goo Hack search on the term “Goo” and found some interesting stuff: How to make glow stick goo - Lol… I really need this guy next time I am at a rave. The fu ...

NASA creates flying telescope

by David Allen on December 12th, 2007
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This is an attempt to get some great images from space, but without the costs involved by maintaining the Hubble telescope in space, which is great but hugely expensive. This forms part of the NASA Origins program and by working with the DLR who are the German Aerospace Centre they have developed a flying telescope inside a Boeing 747SP. This will fly at 47,000 feet and should some real ...