Monthly Archives: April 2007

USB Chessboard

From the Red Queen’s chessboard in Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter’s Wizard’s Chess, chess is amazingly popular for a game that takes up less space than a mahjong table. It helps to know the moves. Rather than feel like a dolt, this rollable USB Chessboard lets you practise and master the game on your [...]

Teac Filltune Bone Conducting Headphones

Audio specialist TEAC of Japan isn’t exactly walking the long and, ahem, marrow path with its bone-conducting headphones. Others have done so with similar offerings that stimulate auditory nerves instead of pumping sound into the ear canal. That said, the rather pricey HP-F100 Filltune HiFi Bone Conducting Headphones is nifty enough, offering the ability to [...]

Self-driving car

Stephen King created the ultimate scary self-driven (in more ways than one) car with the angelic name of Christine. Christine, however, was no sweetheart and pure road rage on four wheels. Now the US Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) appears to have taken a leaf right out of the horror meister’s book…. Original [...]

GP ReCyko+Batteries

GP has a battery of reasons you should consider its latest breed of power cells. Besides being, of course, rechargeable, it’s powering on with its go green objective with the more efficient GP ReCyko+. This not only tries to be like conventional alkaline batteries, since there’s no need to charge the batteries before initial use [...]

Futuristic Sexual Fetishes for Web-Savvy Weirdos

In Alt Text: Thanks to leaps in technology, new fetishes are being invented all the time. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper Foo)