Monthly Archives: June 2007

Compenium

Step aside, UMPCs. The Compenion, by designer Felix Schmidberger, might just be the mother of all slim-built, sexy, portable touchscreen notebooks. It’s still a concept, but the idea of sliding OLED touchscreens that can be worked with directly in a form factor that’s wafer-thin is simply irresistible. Interesting, the keyboard is built into the screen, [...]

Carpet Alarm Clock

It’s no Aladdin’s carpet, but this beaut of an alarm clock concept by designers Sofie Colin and Gustav Lanberg effectively gets you out of bed. Designed as a carpet, the only way you’re going to turn it off is if you get off your favorite horizontal position and step on it…. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com [...]

Remote Controlled Floating Serving Tray

The ultimate geek toy, next to an actual serving maid decked in Cosplay costume, we’re sure. The laws of attraction apply either way. This one comes at the beck of a heavy-duty remote controller which will move your serving tray, within a 7m range, left, right, forward, backward and even one full circle…. Original post [...]

Narcissistic Blog Disorder and Other Conditions of Online Kookery

The AMA suggests gaming addiction should be considered as a sub-category of internet addiction. But “internet addiction” doesn’t begin to cover the realm of bizarre and pathological behaviors the internet inspires. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper Foo)

Silent keyboard

Another device from Japanese retailer Thanko which has a tendency to call a pot a pot. So right next to the USB Butt Cooler, the Silent Keyboard is definitely not open to any other interpretation. It’s silent. Period. Just to silence the critics, this USB keyboard utilizes silicone spring and an anti-resonance technology to produce [...]