Data adds weight to your hard drive

Does your Xbox or PC feel heavier? Could it be because of all the data loaded onto it? Why not, everyone has their doubts and no matter how stupid you should always get them cleared on a public forum. A hilarious response after the jump...

Death Star costume for Halloween is totally Geek

In all those silly teenage movies I’ve been watching there’s always the odd geek(s) who manages to stomp out the dominance of the cool ones with their heads, rather than their faces. So you can be one too, all you have to do is to come up with something as uncool as this Halloween costume. I’m sure that it will get you into the binge contest sooner than later. And yes, you will get the sexiest ass in the...

Now paint your graffiti with LEDs instead of paint

Here’s a cool way to shock the neighborhood. Your works with graffiti, even if they proved futile in the past, will surely leave a mark this time round. Thanks to the wonder concept of LED spray paints by French artist Aissa Logerot. Your hood will soon be the best one in the ghetto. And trust me, even if you do get caught, no one’s going to harm you, just complement you and call you over for some ‘work’....

Chinese farmer builds single-seater helicopter using basic physics

What isn’t possible by man should never be possible by chickens (save: laying eggs). That’s what I felt the first time I saw Chicken Run. The movie inspired me to take up something as a cause, building an aircraft with nothing but a few simple tricks in the bag and a little bit of theory. However, thanks to so many things that screwed my dreams up, I ended up getting tied up with them all and didn’t make my...

A holograph projector with images that you can feel

When it comes to having the good fortune of handling tangible objects that don’t really exist, one has to bear a price: his sanity. However, you don’t necessarily have to be mad to look at and feel things that don’t exist any more. Thanks to the holograph projector you can actually feel images that are projected with the help of a Holo display, a pair of Wii remotes and an “Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display”. The tactile display is responsible...

South Korean Air Force pilots to receive customized gloves

It isn’t much though about so far but we should sooner or later admit that the hands of the men who maneuver our sky machines. Luckily this has been realized by the South Korean Air Force who are ensuring that their pilots have the most comfortable experience in the air, thanks to these new custom made gloves that will be made based on each pilot’s needs and palm size. To get these perfect stats, a hand scanner will be...

RamSan-6200 holds 100 TB's and is the world's most expensive SSD system

Here’s something for the geeks to drain their bank balance. Touted to be the world's most expensive storage, the RamSan-6200 is also the fastest with highest capacity SSD system in the market. This solid state disk system renders 100 terabytes of Flash-based storage in one 40U rack configuration. It is designed to sustain five million IOPS with 60GB/sec throughput. All this for a whopping price tag of $4.4m. Texas Memory Systems has developed this hardware system for companies with...

High tech rescue vehicle to carry more patients

When disasters come whether it is natural or man-made, rescue vehicles are the ones that are used a lot. There is a lot of pressure on the rescue vehicles to carry a lot of patients in a short span of time. So to combat this problem, a hi-tech rescue vehicle has been designed that is capable of carrying up to four patients at a time. It is a new type of double-deck-four-stretcher ‘box-kit’ that can be adapted to fit...

The million-dollar speaker

Ok! Now somebody has to tell me whether the financial crisis is over or not, because if it is I need to ask a raise from my boss! I mean what is with the prices of the high-end speakers these days! The Ultimate, which is the name of the speaker, does go by its name. This speaker will cost you $ 1 million. That is not all. Let me be more specific here. The 1 million dollars is for...

Strapya offers baby versions of all movie characters

They might be the heart stopping or terrifying characters you would have seen on the silver screen, which might wake you up in the middle of the night with a horrible nightmare, but Strapya’s characters are so cute, I am still finding words better than cute to describe them. Strapya has brought baby versions of every lovable movie character and let me tell you they are adorable. Baby Robocop will stop crime with his cuteness overload and Baby Predator,...

Iowa county is the first to implement 911 Emergency text service

Imagine you are in a situation where there is no possibility of talking after dialing 911 because that could be the biggest threat to your life. Well now on you don’t have to worry about that because Iowa County has launched the Nation’s First 911 via text message. The service so far is only available to residents of Black Hawk County who subscribe to a T-Mobile service provider. Emergency text messages can be very helpful for deaf, hard-of-hearing or...

iPhone waterproof case is something you dont want

A case so you can use your iPhone in the rains or take pictures of junior frolicking in the pool. Not a bad idea, but if the phone hangs on your neck making it look more like Darth Vader's soundbox then it is definitely not worth the effort. The case is compatible with iPhone 3G / 3GS and comes with waterproof earphones. A Japan only product it sells for 3280 Yen ($ 38)....

The end of Darth Vader as we know it

It is painful to see the all mighty Darth Vader dressed in pink with Hello Kitty on it. Why, all I ask is why? Since when did the dark side become associated with cute. (Torture for Star Wars fans continues after the jump)...

Get your toilet, toaster, fridge, TV, electricity metre to tweet

Until a decade ago all people wanted to explore and conquest was the world and its geographies. Now, it is to explore and conquest the internet. Of course, this is a much much much bigger domain than the latter, but people aren’t stopping to try. These days who doesn’t tweet? Even those who really doesn’t tweet, still tweets occasionally because Twitter is the plague of the 21st century (after Facebook). Normally on a regular day you would see all...

Mathmos’ new Fireflow lava lamps with tea light candles

Remember the lava lamps that will make you gape at for hours at length seeing all the gooey bubbles go up and down mesmerizing the observer? That was invented around 45 years ago by London-based company Mathmos. Those used to be run on electricity. Now, however, they have wisened and have come up with two new ranges that will not need electricity. The new Fireflow lava lamps just use the heat of a simple tea light candle. Two versions...

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