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iModela USB 3D Printer is More of a Miniature Lumber Mill, Still Awesome
Tuesday 11th October, 2011
An awesome step forward for digital art, Japanese company Roland DG has brought what may be the first of a line of affordable "3D printers". Unfortunately, 3D printer needs to stay in quotation marks because it is more of a Mini Dremel Studio than a resin-jet 3D object building ...QUMA, Making 3D Animation More Affordable One Action Figure at a Time
Sunday 24th July, 2011
As any professional 3D modeler can tell you, getting your animation to act and move (or even just stand) like a real human being is A) time consuming B) tedious and C) boring as all get out. Usually, this is why the large companies hire actors to act out scenes in specialized studios and ...Collector USB Flash Drive, for the DIY Gadget Lover in All of Us
Thursday 14th April, 2011
If you are like most "techies", you probably have a couple - at the very least - smaller capacity microSD cards laying around which you simply "out grew" and replaced with bigger ones. Well, what if you could reuse three of them and make combine them into one big(er) f...Double USB Port Concept. As Easy as It Gets
Wednesday 26th January, 2011
In what is sure to resonate with both novice and veterans alike comes a new product so simple and yet so innovative as to be a sure fire hit: Double USB plug. The Double USB plug basically is a USB port that can be plugged in either orientation. With this cable, you no longer need to see...Designer Combines AA Battery and USB Flash Drive in One
Monday 17th January, 2011
While the idea of combing a USB charger and a standard AA battery is not exactly new (still remember Moxia USBCell), but the idea of making a rechargeable battery that recharges via USB that is also a flash drive is new and very cool! Imagine for a second you have a device that can't char...J5Create's USB 3.0 KVM Doubles as 4.8Gbps Direct Connect Network
Monday 10th January, 2011
The all new J5Create Wormhole Station certainly is an interesting product, as it combines most of the functionality of a KVM switch with the power and flexibility only a USB 3.0 hub can provide. Heck, it even adds a 3-port card reader (SD/MMC, mini SD and Memory stick cards) in for icing!...LaCie Float, a USB 3.0 SSD Weirdly Doubles as Multi-touch Trackpad
Thursday 16th December, 2010
LaCie is certainly no stranger to thinking outside the box and coming up with some pretty nifty inventions. This is why we were not all that surprised when they did it again by combing two product niches that honestly we never thought would be mentioned in the same sentence! The all new ...Swarovski Competition Generates Beautiful e-ink Accoutrement
Sunday 7th November, 2010
While one must almost certainly admit, one of the most primary functions of new technology is to show it off to your friends and coworkers, there's usually an actual function behind its one-ups-manship. Swarovski's annual design competition has elicited another wonderful adaptation of tec...Yanko Concrete Flash Drive Concept Brings New Meaning to Mass Storage
Thursday 27th May, 2010
Warning heavy use of puns ahead, heavy. Another unusual flash drive design from the stylish dreamers at Yanko. Today, they beat down our doors with a flash drive that could be a very nice doorstop. Fashioned out of everyday concrete, the drive's weight in grams matches its capacity in g...Concept USB Watch that Takes Too Much Time & Effort to Tell Time
Thursday 25th March, 2010
By the time you figure out what time this watch says, it will be that time tomorrow. Tokyoflash, who makes some very hip trendy watches, has a new e-Paper watch that they are getting a bit crazy with. The sleek concept watch incorporates a slick eInk face that wraps around half of the ba...A USB Microwave Oven... Is This for Real?
Thursday 11th June, 2009
The lines between household appliances and offbeat gadgetry seem to be getting slowly blurred with inventions such as USB fridge, massager and humidifier. But have we gone too far with USB gadgets? This USB microwave oven co-developed by Heinz and GAMMA is actually a working prototype th...USB: Helping to Solve the World's Fertility Problems
Thursday 5th June, 2008
Having a baby is probably not the first thing you'd think of when it comes to USB technology, but it turns out our favorite electronics standard will help you in the fertility department, too. Get your mind out of the gutter: the DuoFertility is a heat-sensing skin patch that records temp...USB Digital Pot: A Green Thumb Made Easy
Thursday 5th June, 2008
We're not sure if this idea exists anywhere but in the mind of designer Junyi Heo, but it seems like another interesting adaptation of the USB power standard, following the footsteps of all of those body part warmers from a few years ago: it's called the Digital Pot, and it uses a cup with...USB Home Pregnancy Test Kit
Tuesday 1st April, 2008
If low-tech home pregnancy test stick isn't enough, ThinkGeek now resells a USB version of the kit, dubbed PTeq, for just $17.99. You basically follow the same procedures as you would with a standard kit except the stick goes into a USB port after it becomes contact with your urine. The ...14 news items!
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