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Here’s a robot from Ishikawa Oku’s physics lab at the University of Tokyo that plays rock, paper, scissor and always beats the human, every single time. Because the team that built it gave it a superpower.   An innocent human is invited to sit opposite the robot. Instead of going “Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!” as […]

Pillow Talk is a project aiming to connect long distance lovers. Each person has a pillow for their bed and a ring sensor which they wear to sleep at night. The sensor wirelessly communicates with the other person’s pillow; when one person goes to bed, their lover’s pillow begins to glow softly to indicate their […]

EDC stands for Every Day Carry – for desk jockeys that may mean a combination of USB drive, smartphone  and laser pointer, but even we computer-sitters sometimes need a slightly more rugged set of essentials like this little collection provides. The components are surprisingly small and simple to describe: “Tiny, multiuse tools. Comes with […]

Condoms can significantly reduce the likelihood of you catching some nasty virus except this condom is designed for the digital kind. Computer viruses are just as virulent as the biological variety, just as insidious, and just as detrimental. The Condom USB is a device that acts as a stopgap between any USB enabled device and […]

The Orca PowerStrap is a battery bracelet that provides emergency power for your gadgets. You can connect it to your iPhone or other gadgets via a USB power port and it has four LED shows how much battery capacity is left. Features Charge up all your devices with one wrist strap. Cool and chunky futuristic […]

Let Me Count Your Money, Honey! The Counting Ring is a simplified money counting machine. It packs in features like LED Display & Power Switch, Sheet-Separating Veins, Battery Slot and Infrared Ray Scanning. Wish I had a cash-stash to count it with this ring 🙂 Designers: Wei Hansen, Li Shaochen, Xu Jinrui, Qi Yibin & […]

Here’s an interesting concept by Paul Priestman. It has 3 different shades of lights: green, red and yellow. You can pretty much guess which colors mean what. Red means you need to get your tail out of the shower, yellow means you should speed things up a bit (tell this to your wife 🙂 ) […]

Japan and its alarm clocks. This so-called Twist Alarm Clock , makes you solve simple math problems. The way it works is that when the alarm starts ringing in the morning, the clock uses its two displays and two rotatable parts to create a math problem, for example 8+2=?. It won’t stop ringing until you […]

The refined Pencil Printer part II comes with detailed explanations and a better understand of saving the environment from paper trash and permanency of Ink! In here we see how the lead shavings feed the cartridge toner and prints effortlessly on paper. Mistakes are easily erased, and once the crappy memo is done with…you can […]

When you hit Clocky’s snooze button, he will roll off of the nightstand, fall to the floor, and run around the room, searching for a place to hide. When the alarm sounds again, you have to get out of bed to find it and turn it off. He finds a new spot everyday, “kind of […]