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DVICE ARCHIVE FOR March 2008
We’ve heard of MotionPortrait before, that software that animates still photos, turning them into moving, smiling and talking 3D models. But we haven’t seen an example of it used like this, where a nearly lifelike model is animated in...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
The PowerCube 6000 is a standalone power generator powerful enough to offset your home's power needs with green energy. It's also portable enough to keep things running like food carts or temporary kiosks — provided you've got a forklift...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
Here's a clever idea: a plastic bottle with a special cap that holds 1.4 grams of a powder, such as powdered green tea, that's released into the water below when opened. It allows you to mix fresh powdered drinks...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
If I was a rich man, I'd hire a full time masseuse to follow me around everywhere constantly rubbing my back and shoulders so I was always relaxed. Unfortunately, I am not a rich man, so I can't afford such...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
Have a seat on the Pixel Couch, the perfect place to plant your posterior if you’re wearing a pixel tie. Decorate your walls in a pixel pattern using a few Post-it notes, get yourself a suit to match and...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
Despite being inspired by a snail, this keyboard concept, named the Caracol, would be great for amputees and just regular keyboarders alike. It looks a bit like a snail and uses a rotating keywheel. The keywheel has a 5:1...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
I'd like to be one of the first to welcome back the waterbed to the world. Akva Waterbeds' Sound bed is a waterbed with an integrated sound system. We've seen beds hooked up for sound before, but what makes...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
How fast do you need your printer to be? 30 pages a minute seems pretty reasonable to me, putting out a page every couple of seconds. But what if you're printing enough to be producing 19th-century Russian novels, and you...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
No sooner had Comcast relented on its BitTorrent spoofing scandal than we see the cable company cutting corners elsewhere, now compressing HDTV shows so much that blocky noise is plainly visible on most of its HDTV channels. Trying to...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
Pantech, maker of some pretty innovative phones, recently challenged students at a variety of universities across Korea to design a phone for 2010. Pantech asked and they received, but some of the winning designs look like phones better suited...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
Electric cars could soon be free. Well, free if you sign up for a six-year contract for batteries and charging, that is. A new company called Project Better Place aims to solve the biggest problems of electric cars —...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
This Full Moon sideboard by Sotirios Papadopoulos is beautiful. During the day it looks like a standard close-up image of the moon printed on the side, but at night it glows brilliantly, just like the real thing, acting as a...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
While DVD movies may be quickly becoming obsolete due to the emergence of Blu-ray as the winner in the high def disc format war, they're still a great way to back up data that you have sitting around on your...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
If you thought paying $99 at the local Buff 'n' Shine for a wax and detail was a bit of a rip, you've probably never come across the products from Swizöl of Switzerland. Their top of the line Divine...
POSTED Monday, March 31, 2008
I travel to Europe on a regular basis, and have noticed the way most Europeans drive modern high performance Diesels that get amazing fuel mileage. Now Mercedes has combined this technology with the hybrid approach favored in the USA,...
POSTED Sunday, March 30, 2008
I travel to Europe on a regular basis, and have noticed the way most Europeans drive modern high performance Diesels that get amazing fuel mileage. Now Mercedes has combined this technology with the hybrid approach favored in the USA,...
POSTED Sunday, March 30, 2008
This week Comcast, everyone's favorite neighborhood Internet service provider, announced that it would work with peer-to-peer download service BitTorrent to try to speed up network download speeds during peak hours. More importantly, Comcast said that it would stop slowing...
POSTED Sunday, March 30, 2008
Remember those guys in high school who wore the pocket protectors and ran all the AV gear? Well, we might have been laughing at them back then, but now they seem to be having all the fun. Here's a...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
Have you ever wondered what kind of loo Her Majesty plops her bum on when nature calls? Now that I've planted that unsettling picture in your head, here's what I would have guessed. The very retro Herbeau Creations Dagobert...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
BMW has been hard at work on a prototype of a new super-eco-friendly vehicle, the Hydrogen 7. The hydrogen powered vehicle can also run on regular gasoline at the push of a button, recognizing that hydrogen isn't that easy to...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
Look, I know that the future is coming, if it's not here already, and that's all very exciting. But come on. That doesn't mean it's time to start forcing it. Let it come naturally! Don't start designing things that look...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
I love classic cars and even own a couple of them, however, there are a few car gizmos that we tend to take for granted these days that simply weren't invented a few decades back. Becker Autoradio has been...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
As Apple continues to delay the rollout of the iPhone in Asia, the area's largest players are hard at work making sure Steve Jobs' crown jewel will never gain a firm foothold in the East. The latest candidate capable of...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
It was a busy week here at DVICE as we finished up our coverage of the New York Auto show by asking whether the show was 'green' and by sending Vanessa to check it out. But not all of...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Do you like camping but can’t stand wallowing in the dirt with all those bugs and worms? Then the Treepee is just for you. Hang it from the nearest sturdy tree, stake it down on all four corners, and...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Now cheap lensmaker Vivitar joins the likes of Canon and Sanyo in the tiny HD camcorder derby with its DVR565HD, recording 720p on a minuscule SD flash memory card. Adding to the fun is a relatively huge 3-inch viewscreen,...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Touch The Light is an interactive work of art in Osaka, Japan. At the top of the KEPCO building is a large circular lighting fixture. Stationed one kilometer away is a 1/100 scale model of the KEPCO lighting fixture....
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Now I'm not veterinarian, but I'm pretty sure there's no good reason to go out and buy a doghouse that has an oxygen pump on the side that fills the pooch abode with pure O2. It's a part of the...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Here’s another guilt-trip device to remind you of how much power you’re sucking up. This one’s called the Consumption Feedback Switch, and it scares you with a spark that corresponds to the amount of energy it’s consumed. Rarely use...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Rejoice all ye me-obsessed! Here’s a new way to celebrate the center of the universe: you. For $552, you send in a picture of yourself, and Eleven Forty Design will craft a pair of Portrait Cufflinks of your visage,...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
In a unique new feature, the upcoming crime blockbuster Grand Theft Auto 4 will team up with Amazon to bring digital music distribution into the game. Since the music and radio stations have always been a huge and important part...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
When you’re not docking your iPhone or iPod into this iTam Tam, it looks like you can just dock your butt on it. But wait just a second. While it looks a bit like a stool, it’s not for...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Self-conscious about that mini-car you’re driving? Make fun of yourself with this Windup Key, available in either a stationary or moving version as you see here. Hey, this oughta go well with that wind-up lamp, giving you the illusion...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
So you already have your $1 image stabilizer, but how about a fish eye lens on the cheap? Professional fish eye or wide-angle lenses cost more than $500, but this little hack can bring the fun of fish eye...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Daylight savings time is upon us, which means the weather is getting warmer and spring is on its way. If you have a lawn it's time to get back into that green thumb mentality that hibernates over the winter....
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Have you ever threatened to send someone to the moon, Honeymooners style? Or maybe you have a loved one who really wants to go to the moon. Now you can send a your favorite (or least favorite) deceased relations...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Every time I see one of those Mini Coopers on the road here in Texas, I'm amazed it hasn't yet been crushed under the weight of a monster pick-up, mistaking it for a speed bump. But these little matchbox-sized cars...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
This funny-looking machine is a small battery powered vehicle that motors its way around a New York art gallery. Its course is directed and steered entirely by flies. Yes, that plastic bubble is filled with large houseflies, along with...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
The PWN 2 OWN hacking contest is on right now at CanSecWest, a huge security conference in Vancouver, and yesterday afternoon Charlie Miller won $10,000 there for hacking a new Macbook Air in 2 minutes. Miller is known as...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
This Luna Watch design concept by John Pszeniczny is as luminous as it is beautiful. As the story goes, such a bauble would be somehow made of Spessartite Garnet with stainless steel and crystal in there somewhere. Embedded within...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Not to be outdone by the antics at the New York Auto Show, the Bangkok International Motor Show had a couple of surprises as well. The Toyota Hi-Ct concept car made its debut during the event with a decidedly tank-like...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
From energy-efficient to bomb-resistant, Vanessa shows us the coolest concept vehicles from the 2008 NY Auto Show.
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
One year after XM and Sirius proposed a merger, the Department of Justice has finally given its blessing. The companies are heading down the aisle. Last year, I argued that a merger was in everybody’s best interest. After reading...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Eco-friendly buildings are all the rage among high-profile architects these days. The latest example is the new Clean Technology Tower in Chicago, designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill architectural firm. What makes the Clean Technology Tower stand out is...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Notify the world of your latest wisdom or tomfoolery with T-Sketch, the T-shirt with an illuminated whiteboard on the front. What you write on it is entirely up to you, but to us, this looks like a specials menu...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Here’s a design concept that old-school artists who wear berets and paint with palettes will like. The gorgeous Palette-Digital Artist is an entry into the Microsoft NextGen PC Design Competition for 2008. It's a handheld touchscreen PC, and looky...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
The rumor mill is starting to crank at full force about Apple's next-gen iPhone, which is widely expected to feature a 3G web connection and to come to stores in late June of this year. The latest fuel to this...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Listen carefully to the oldest sound ever recorded. The year is 1860, and a woman is singing “Au Clair de la Lune” into a barrel-shaped horn, which causes etchings to be inscribed on a soot-blackened piece of paper. Called...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
One of my favorite games when I was a digital music reporter in the '90s was guessing how long a new Web music service could survive before the recording industry suits shut it down like a bad habit. For Muxtape,...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Thanko, the Japanese maker of all gadgets weird and sort-of wonderful, has just released its latest creation: the cranking MP3 player. On its surface, it's a pretty mediocre MP3 player, coming with 1GB of storage and no screen for sorting...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Solar energy has enormous appeal, but until now it’s been just too expensive. Maybe not any more. A Massachusetts startup called 1366 Technologies has created solar cells in its lab that company scientists are saying are 27% more efficient, bringing...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
The average watch wearer looks to his wrist for the current time only, but a new watch from MJM is taking time-keeping to a new, blunt and extremely accurate level. The Accurate is a watch that contains a mirrored...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Adobe announced its intention to create a free, online photo editing application in the fall of last year. Today, Photoshop Express launches for public consumption. It's not much like the computer application of the program, so if you're used...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Now why hasn’t someone thought of this 360-Degree Mirror before? In the center you have an illuminated mirror, and out its sides pop six panels. Stretch them around your head, and you can see what’s going on back there,...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
I would like to be the first to welcome the trackball, yes the trackball, back to the world. The trackball has been revived thanks to the EZ Commander, a remote control that makes excellent use of this dying peripheral....
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
When we hear the word "hardtack," we think of the Oregon Trail. Or 19th century sailing novels. Or maybe the Civil War. We also think, "ew." Hardtack was the food of poor, hungry travelers, long ago. It lasted forever,...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
You know what makes doctors really frustrated? When you don't take your medicine. Or when you only take it "sometimes" or forget to finish the bottle. According to one study, patients taking their medicine the wrong way cause 40%...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
The HDTV is usually the center of attention in a home theater, but a speaker set like Paul Scarfe's Aura could upstage it. Aura is cone speaker made with molded glass that produces exceptional sound. The glass is supposed...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Enough with the R2D2 salt shakers and soy sauce containers, that stuff is for lightweights. It's finally time to go really hardcore Star Wars geeky with some official Star Wars Golf Gear. The bags come in Stormtrooper white and Darth...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Your surge protector is probably tucked behind the sofa. You know, out of the way. But what if your surge protector were instead ten times larger, red, and in the center of the room? You'd never be able to...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
There's no doubt why this design concept for a garish USB hub is called “Asterisko,” is there? The asterisk-shaped peripheral keeps that spaghetti-bowl of wires separated while making itself useful, offering a male USB plug along with its four...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
I hate to toot my own horn, but remember those Clear Channel digital billboards? They were recently hacked and changed to display the graffiti logo of the hacker, you know, just like I predicted would happen with Internet-controlled digital...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The green building movement has come a long way in the last few years, with features such as solar panels, green roofs, and wind turbines being integrated into residential and commercial building designs. But Daekwon Park apparently thinks it's time...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Slide is a different kind of faucet. At first, we thought it was touch-controlled, but no, the top part of it is actually moved backward to both turn it on and regulate its temperature. It’s certainly a clean design,...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
We’re sold on cardboard. We’ve seen it used to build sturdy cribs, an iPod boombox amplifier, and someone even made cardboard blocks that look like building materials for a castle. We just never envisioned a future where we’d all...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Smartparts SP8PRT is a two-headed beast. It displays photos like any other digital picture frame and prints them up, too. Does it deliver on its bi-polar promises? We were got our hands on the $280 digital photo frame,...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Footlume is a new idea that looks to revolutionize floor fashion from a team at London's South Bank University. I didn't think floor fashion needed to be changed, but this isn't a bad idea. Footlume is electroluminescent flooring that...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Maybe Blu-ray and HD DVD wasted too much time fighting it out for the consumer high-def disc market. “I think it’s too late for Blu-ray,” says Laurie Fincham, Chief Scientist at George Lucas’s THX, the standard bearer for only the...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Korean phone purveyor Pantech (also known as Sky Premium) is teaming up with universities there to design the "Phone of 2010." We dig it, and what they came up with so far look mostly like units for the home, though...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Toshiba is working on a new universal remote that's a little different. It's a robot that'll learn how you interact with your house, rather than force you to program it. Let's say you picked up your remote to turn on...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
China's office of weather modification is gearing up to keep the sky clear during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. How will they do it? With planes, rockets and artillery. The weather will be closely monitored with aerial surveillance and...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
We decided to take an advance look at the Wii Fit a few weeks ago by getting a hold of a Japanese version, which our intrepid Vanessa Rae tried out in this video. We had tons of fun with the...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Looking to record your favorite HD shows to a digital video recorder (HD DVR)? You’re not alone. As of December, 2007, 20% of U.S. households had a DVR, up from 12% at the beginning of the year. Your choices...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
If you're going to spring for a fancy watch, you might as well really, really go all out. For those with a good amount of cash burning a hole in the pockets of their fancy pants, allow me to present...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Looking to start a dance party? Well then, my friend, all you need is this International Dance Party, a machine that has one setting: party. When inactive, it just looks like a big black box. But when its radar detects...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
If you're looking to show off your amazing brain power to anyone who comes into your apartment, you should follow the lead of designer Alexander Lervik. He went and made his brain into a lamp. Yep, the MYBrain lamp is...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Now that the Wii owns the gaming market computer users are getting used to controlling the world with the flick of a magician's wand. Thus this may be the perfect time for Tokyo Ergo Corp.'s PC Remote to debut. According...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The New York Auto Show was this weekend, and we've got cars on the brain. Good timing for Audi to let us try out the company's 2009 SUV (Audi's second), the Q7. Not that it's the first or even...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
A robot is currently being employed by Japanese retailer Aeon Co. to entertain children in the play area of its shopping malls in Fukuoka city. The Tmsuk-developed 'bot stands nearly five feet tall and can keep track of kids who...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Watchmakers Maurice Lacroix unveiled three new watches in its Starside series, and each one is almost as nice as just staring up into the stars themselves. The analog watches are all designed around a celestial motif, cleverly displaying . They...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
There are so many places that you can't bring your own beer: stadiums, movie theaters, and public beaches, for example. What a drag! No longer. From now on you can hide your beer cans in Canouflage, re-usable can wraps...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Here's something that I never thought of but am shocked that it's taken this long to appear: a 4-port USB car charger. Since most gadgets and cell phones can be charged via USB, it only makes sense that this would...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Thanks to everyone who participated in our share your Vista horror stories contest. Congratulations to Craysh, who won himself a 2GB Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player with his story of having to install Vista on 50 computers only to have...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Apparently, by 2015 London will need to provide housing for a million more people. That's no easy task, but as we told you a few weeks ago, the UK company of Popularchitecture is proposing a completely insane 5,000-foot-high tower that'll...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Sure, we're all about the futuristic designs around these parts, but the Cup PC concept take futuristic design to a completely new level. This idea takes the average PC and tries to make it as simple as drinking a...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The pedal boat is a staple of any lake outing. Whether it be with your class or as a company picnic, the pedal boat is a great way to get out on the lake, and for cheap. Now a...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Walletex, whose already thrown its hat into the MP3-player ring is ready to tackle another item much in need of a digital upgrade — medical records. The closest the medical-record industry has gotten to technology is motorized shelving units...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Some design projects make you think, "Who would want that?" while others get you to shout "Me!" if someone would dare ask that question. The Do Swing is one of the latter. Combining a light fixture with a swing,...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Mio Moov won't blow your mind or anything. What it will do is act as your trusty guide, and for a price that'll still leave you enough for gas. Mio's redesigned its interface for the unit, and it looks...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The VereFlu is a portable flu detector that's no bigger than one of your fingernails. It's built around STMicroelectronics’ In-Check lab-on-chip platform, and with just a single sampling it can tell the difference amongst Influenza A and B viruses, such...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Sometimes when you're out getting away from it all you just need to get away, again. So bring a Paha Que Tepee and forget nature for a little while. The Tepee's designed to be set up by one person and...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This crazy looking object is a lamp that's in the process of knitting its own shade. The contraption at the top is the lamp, and when it's activated at floor level it begins slowly spinning and knitting a shade for...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
TARDIS, the savvy time machine and spacecraft from Doctor Who, is finally back, but now it no longer provides time warping, but rather, retro gaming, which is debatably as good as time travel. This is a TARDIS MAME cabinet...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Imagine a Star Trek-like Tricorder for scary looking foreign languages (like Japanese, for example) and you'll have a pretty good idea of what the Quicktionary 2 Kanji Reader brings to the table. The device allows the user to scan kanji...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
XM and Sirius, those two wacky satellite-radio companies, today got the green light to merge into one giant supercompany thanks to a thumbs-up from the Department of Justice. The pair have been talking about a merger for a while...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
If you're a big fan of the Egg McMuffin at McDonalds but are just too cheap to spend $0.99 on one every morning, say hello to your new best friend: the Egg & Muffin Toaster. This bad boy can both...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
Here’s a wall clock that gets all its power from the sun. Charge up its batteries once a year, and it’s good to go, staying accurate by syncing up with the atomic clock. Besides looking way-cool and protecting you...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
The Silbervogel Gravity Car, designed by Jakob Hirzel, is a concept racing car that would still turn a few heads even though it isn't a gas guzzling muscle car. The Silbervogel has a detachable top half that covers the driver,...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
When you're in bathrooms of dubious cleanliness, at the Port Authority say, or at a rest stop McDonald's, we bet you sometimes flush the toilet with your foot. No harm in that. But what if you never, ever want...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
This is what the future looked like in 1973. Funny thing is, this LIP Mach 2000 Dark Master watch is still eye-catching today, with its primary-colored controls and intricately detailed face. The design stays nearly true to the original,...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
What do you get when you cross a bicycle with a elliptical trainer? That would be the Randy Ross stepper, a vehicle that looks like a bike at first glance, but has some notable — and useful — differences.
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
You remember the Solio? That unfolding fan-shaped solar panel that charges up your cellphone, iPod and most other portables? Well, the gadget's getting a long-overdue upgrade: the Solio Magnesium Edition. Gotta hand it to the Solio guys — they...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
If the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle ebook readers just aren’t doing it for you, now there’s a third choice, the Ectaco jetBook that rolled out today. While this $349.95 reader’s 5-inch screen is smaller than the Sony Reader or...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
This ZPC all-in-one computer is basically a laptop without a screen. It's a keyboard with all of the guts of the computer inside of it, including a 3.4GHz Pentium 4, 2GB of RAM, a 75GB HDD and a DVD drive....
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
In the name of Fine Art, we present to you a stairway to nowhere. Start walking up this winding, twisting stainless steel staircase and you end up right back where you started. Sculptor Olafur Eliasson thought this artwork, which...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
The Transformer phone is a new concept that won a Tancher Design Award. This phone has nothing to do with Optimus Prime and his crew, but is capable of performing a whole bunch of different tasks. This phone can...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
The Cellink T is a tiny device capable of doing a lot. This may appear like an ordinary flash drive, but it includes a MicroSD card reader and charging capabilities for cellphones. In the standard mode the USB connector...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
Segways aren't the coolest or manliest way to get around. No, they're more like a giant sign on your back announcing that you're a dork. It's too bad, really, because Segways do seem to be a kind of fun...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
If you're consistently worried about getting attacked with a knife, I see a couple of options for you. One, you could change your lifestyle so you weren't constantly getting attacked with knives, which would be my choice. Two, you could...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
For all the ladies out there who think that picking up a phone that doesn't match your nails would be a major fashion faux-pas, Samsung has come to the rescue. The SGH-G600 Belle comes in a rather fetching shade...
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
Zipping around underwater while being pulled along by a sort of personal mini sub, sounds like a great way to do your own impersonation of James Bond in Thunderball. Just make sure that your henchmen don't dive deeper than...
POSTED Sunday, March 23, 2008
We visited the New York International Auto Show this week and found ourselves wishing that more car companies would introduce real eco-friendly cars instead of concepts. We weren't alone: many critics thought that this year's show was a sort...
POSTED Sunday, March 23, 2008
With the developers in Dubai constantly looking for new ways to spend their massive piles of petro dollars, it was only a matter of time before The Donald started poking his nose in. Looking like something from a 1950s...
POSTED Saturday, March 22, 2008
Biking is a fine way to get exercise while enjoying the great outdoors, but there's nothing worse than pedaling miles from home, then realizing that you're going to have to pedal all the way back too. While it looks...
POSTED Saturday, March 22, 2008
Built mostly from recycled materials, Studio RMA's EcoHouse uses SCIPs (structural concrete insulated panels), constructed from a concrete shell wrapped around a core of foam braced with steel mesh. Because of their exceptional strength to weight ratio, the house...
POSTED Saturday, March 22, 2008
The manhunters are coming. Air Force pal and defense contractor Northrop Grumman has been tinkering with this X-47B drone since early in this century, but now things are getting serious. How serious? The sophisticated radio-controlled jet might be flying...
POSTED Saturday, March 22, 2008
More proof that Japan fully intends to eventually make every anime character come to life arrives in the form of the Black Ox Robot. The robot's characteristics are based on the anime nemesis of Tetsujin 28 (aka Gigantor), the hero...
POSTED Saturday, March 22, 2008
Like games? This week we took a look at 13 of the best incarnations of Dungeons & Dragons. If spy games are more your thing, take a look at 10 countermeasures — some amazingly simple — that'll foil your adversaries....
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
Here’s the kind of crazy kitchen range that finds itself on the Short List of the Australian International Design Awards: The Fisher & Paykel Izona CookSurface lines up three spooky-looking burners in a row, eliminating that back burner that...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
A woman found herself in a bit of a bad spot when she followed her GPS unit's directions to drive her $190,000 Mercedes SL500 into a river. Oopsies. Despite clear markings on the road warning that heavy rain had made...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
You can beat this Transcend StoreJet 25 mobile hard drive to hell and it’ll still work. The 5.3-inch-tall drive is said to be able to survive the U.S. military's notorious MIL-STD-810F Transit Drop test, which means it can be...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
Jeez, we use a lot of energy we’re not even aware of. Here’s a design concept by Shane Ellis and Terry Brown that’ll lay on the guilt, glowing red when those wall warts are sucking power. The more energy...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
It's quite the feat that we have gone this long as a civilization without a gadget like this being developed. Sure, the toilet seat hasn't been around that long, but now that it is here to stay we need...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
OK, we know you guys are psyched that the new season of Battlestar Galactica is starting up soon (April 4, in fact). So are we. In fact, today DVICE, SCIFI.COM and MAKE magazine are kicking off a big contest...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
When you drain your car battery by pulling a bonehead move like leaving your headlights on overnight, its always a huge pain to get it going again. You need to get jumper cables, find someone else willing to give you...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
This Tong City Bike design is unique in two distinct aspects: first of all, all of its components are housed in the body, keeping the gears and chain hidden away and protected, not to mention your pantlegs protected. It easily...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
Computers are getting quieter and quieter, what with silent SSD drives replacing traditional hard drives. Cooling fans, meant to keep the CPU cool, are becoming the only moving parts left in computers, and even their days are numbered. That's because...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
In my book, HotSeat's Flight Sim Chassis just might be the world’s best, if not the most expensive flight simulator made for individual use. It has a tubular steel frame with six speakers and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound,...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
We wrote about a DIY umbrella for two last year at Valentines Day, but now there are a couple of more professional umbrellas for sharing out there: shields that are somehow smaller than a golf umbrella but will still...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
The Power Cart, designed by Mouna Andraos, is an energy generator on wheels. Little more than a few boxes lashed together and strapped to a handcart, the Power Cart has a battery pack on the inside of it which is...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
Taking long, lazy showers might be a great way to relax, but it's also a huge waste of water. Getting a friendly reminder that you're being a water hog is what this conceptual Eco_Drop shower is all about. The idea...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
Got something heavy that needs moving? Don't want to break your back? Appliance Rollers may be just he thing for you. As you can see in the picture to the side, Appliance Rollers fit just right under a refrigerator to...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
The AIR, or the Area's Immediate Reading, is designed by Preemptive Media and is on display at Eyebeam's exhibition space in New York City. It's a GPS-equipped handheld device that'll let you know everything you didn't want to about where...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
The Pufferfish PufferSphere is a digital display that offers a 360° surface for anything to be projected on, and its inflatable nature makes it easy to set up anywhere at all. The PufferSphere is designed to be viewable at a...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
These awesome stairs are literally hanging from the ceiling, floating free from any walls around them and defining the room their in rather than being tucked away and just serving their utilitarian purpose. They leave plenty of open space around...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
What looks like an old school Univac computer but fits in the palm of your hand like a Sony PSP? It's the coolest new UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) to hit the market called the Wibrain. Sporting a 1024 x 600 resolution...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
As a technology writer, I'm often asked what gear I've chosen to open my metaphorical wallet on. In many cases, though, my choices aren't necessarily the best in their class. For instance, I got cheap and bought a 50-inch...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
You don’t have to be a cat-stroking diabolical bad guy, hell-bent on destroying the world, to want some countermeasures to commonly-procured spy gear. Inspired by this article pointing out the “Top 10 barely-legal gadgets for the modern spy," we...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Many of the "environmentally friendly" cars at the New York International Auto Show were concepts only, scheduled to hit the market in "2011" or, you know, never. Not so Mitsubish's iMiEV, a fully electric car that the company brought...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
This X5 HairLaser contraption promises to help stimulate hair growth by blasting "15 distinct points of coherent laser light directly to your scalp at the optimum power and wavelength," in short 10-15 minute spurts three times a week. It's a...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Records have always been popular in the audiophile world, where fanatics will spend thousands of dollars on a fancy turntable, but if you're of modest means, there's a more affordable option: the Soundwagon is an oldie-but-a-goodie "record player" that...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Planning a road trip? The Microjoule can make the journey between New York and Los Angeles over three times on just one gallon of gas. Amazingly the Microjoule doesn't have any fancy tricks — it's just an aerodynamic, lightweight one-seater...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Are you absolutely hilarious? Are you, like, the funniest person you know? Well then I bet you'll just love the Stunning Camera. This brilliant mod allows you to make any standard disposable camera into a shocker by routing the...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
We wrote about this flying car last week, and some of you wanted more information. Fortunately, we were lucky enough to run into Chris Milner, the younger half of the father-son team that runs Milner Motors, yesterday at the...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
One of the biggest selling points of the iPhone is the sweet multitouch screen that lets you use your fingers to do any number of things. So it seems kind of odd to me that anyone would want a stylus...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
This Wasup concept is a combo of a washing machine and a toilet, reusing the water that cleans the clothes in the washer to flush the toilet. It's a smart idea, as no one cares what's in the water they're...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Look, I'm all for crazy conceptual products that are relatively high-minded, but I feel like designers need to make sure their products stay functional above all else. If their idea trumps the actual functionality of it, no one will want...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Guitar Hero series of games is insanely popular, and with good reason: they're super fun! They let you pretend to be a rock star, playing along with your favorite games on a simplified guitar controller. It's awesome. The only...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Nissan has unveiled its latest attempt to woo the environmentally friendly consumer with a "green" machine called the Denki Cube. The Denki Cube (in Japanese denki means "electric") sports a boxy hull (alien to the U.S. but quite common in...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
We visited the New York International Auto show today at the Javits Center in Manhattan. The show opens to the public on Friday, in the meantime we got to roam the floors ahead of the crowd, which was pretty...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Moving gigantic cargo ships across oceans is no small feat, requiring a whole lot of energy to keep those propellers turning and the ships heading on the right course. There is one form of energy that's plentiful out at sea,...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
We’re big fans of Nixie clocks, using old Nixie ("Numerical Indicator eXperimental") tubes from the pre-LED/LCD era and turning them into unique timepieces. Now we’ve found another Nixie wristwatch (here's the first one we saw), created as a gag...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
This Beautiful Times clock is unique for two reasons. First of all, it's got a pretty cool design, what with the faux-LCD numbers floating above a wooden block. It certainly stands out from other timepieces, tipping its hat to...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Designer Jean Hong has a vision for the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC), and it’s taken the form of Pix-L, a device that serves as both alarm clock and bedside browser. Notice how you can prop up the mini-screen for reclined...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
It’s awfully difficult to build a flying robot with spy gear built in, so why not just implant that paraphernalia in a living bug? Scientists are making progress on the idea of a cyborg butterfly, with a Georgia Tech...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Oh my god, it's an emergency! Somebody call the authorities, we have a horrible emergency on our hands! What is it, you ask? Why, we're out of ice cubes! Oh, why do bad things happen to good people? Oh, cruel...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Remember the Chia Pet? Jamie Wiek created the business-card equivalent. The Growing Business Card has all your usual phone/e-mail/address information, of course, with one extra feature: plant life. After dipping the card in water, some alfalfa or cress will...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
You might have heard that Microsoft rolled out the first service pack for Windows Vista yesterday, claiming to fix lots of bugs, make the operating system more secure and, well, we hoped maybe it could even cure all known diseases....
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Apparently, pure oxygen is a real pick-me-up. So if you find yourself getting really sluggish at work and don't want to rely on coffee to give you a burst of energy, this portable oxygen bar wants to be your alternative...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Bang and Olufsen make some pretty crazy remotes, but so far none of them creates the illusion of floating above the coffee table. And as far as we know, none controls the television without you having to touch it....
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
When you think of a nice resort to run off to, it probably isn't the shape of a dome and surrounded by miles and miles of snow and ice. You may reconsider after checking out Hotel Kakslauttanen in Saariselkä, Finland....
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The US Army has a vision: combat bats. So it's commissioned several American universities to work on inventing one. The University of Michigan received $10 million from the Army to establish The Center for Objective Microelectronics and Biomimetic Advanced...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
If you were looking for a guilt-free alternative to plugging your gadgetry into a wall outlet to charge, then look no further — at least, provided you have some patience. The eMotion Solar PMP is a media player that'll...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Nutri-Weigh & Go Dietary Computer Scale has a database of 1400 foods that it knows, keeps a weekly record of what you eat and it's small enough that you can take it anywhere and always know exactly what you're...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Jupiter Mouse, created by the mad scientists at Daru Mouse Japan, looks like the computer interface Grizzly Adams might use if he were immortal and living in the 22nd century. By simply moving the warm wooden sphere around in...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Are you one of the lucky 6.7 million Americans who got a GPS personal navigation device at the end of last year? A whopping 47% of those units were made by Garmin, the U.S. market leader (TomTom is in...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Every week Josh Gates' braves the world of the unknown on SCI FI's Destination Truth (disclosure: SCI FI owns DVICE). As anyone who's seen The X-Files knows, investigating weird phenomena in the field requires quick thinking, unrelenting guile, and...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The awesomely-named NET-2000 Shooting Net Rod looks like a flashlight of some sort, but when you hit a button on it it'll launch a 52-square-foot net up to 49 feet, capturing any bad guys or animals in its path. It's...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
After reviewing several dozen iPod speaker systems over the last two years, I’ve discovered that, despite the incredible variety available, very few of them are worth your hard-earned cheese. Once in a long while, though, I hear a system...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Suzuki S-Ride features the kind of seating arrangement you'd see in a fighter jet: one person up front, one person in back. Who knows if this concept will ever be a reality, but the S-Ride is aimed at...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
While the University of Florida tries to figure out how to harness energy from the Gulf Stream without killing any manatees, a British company plans to drop 300 60-foot tall underwater energy-harvesting turbines into the deep waters off of...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I'm no expert on cameras, but I do know one thing is true: if one thing is good, three things is clearly much better. That must be the reasoning behind the 3D World 120 Tr-Lens Stereoscopic camera, a three-lensed beast...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Macbook Air, with its optional SSD drive, has brought flash hard drives into the mainstream, with the energy-efficient and fast HDD replacements looking more and more attractive as prices come down. That's not to say they're down all that...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
While most of Detroit’s electric cars still spin on giant lazy susans at car shows as concepts, California’s Tesla Motors cranked up its assembly line yesterday for the company's ultra-sexy sports car in the U.K. Production should ramp up...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I'm pretty sure there's nothing romantic about shoving a USB flash drive into a Swarovski engagement ring. First of all, if you're buying a Swarovski engagement ring rather than a diamond one you're probably already in trouble. But adding in...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The world of Dungeons & Dragons needs no introduction. Recently, however, the D&D community suffered the loss of one close and dear as the game's co-founder Gary Gygax passed away after battling for some years with heart ailments. But...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Is this robot pretending to be a child? Or is it an important exercise in balance? Either way we're impressed with how fluidly this 'bot keeps itself in motion by moving its whole body. It'd be interesting to know...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Aside from trying furiously to copy the Apple iPod and now iPod Touch design before the device officially makes its local debut, the other Asian gadget trend focuses on releasing devices that look like tasty candy bars. The latest in...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Ever get that feeling when you read that you're missing something? Meet the the Dixau from Korean company Unichal: this text-scanning gadget agrees with you 100%. That's why it'll read along, scanning words with a camera and displaying them back...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
While some lights are designed to help you read a book, this Butterfly Lamp by Japanese design studio Vinta takes a page from a book's shape instead. It easily allows you to adjust how much light is in an area...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
A new alarm system uses scent instead of sound to wake people in the event of a fire. Packed with spray cans full of wasabi "perfume" (perfect for ladies surrounded by men who can't take a hint), the irritation...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
Imagine looking at an entire wall built of these LED Glass Bricks, with the square shapes of LED light stretching into infinity and colors changing in countless computerized configurations and patterns. The possibilities are mind-boggling. The Red Dot Design...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
The United States Naval Research Laboratory and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are fixing to put a telescope on the Moon, placed there by robotic rovers. Called the Dark Ages Lunar Interferometer, the DALI mission is still in its conceptual stages,...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
There goes one more reason why dogs need masters. This tennis ball launcher will keep that mutt entertained for hours, with no effort required from you. Jerry the dachshund appears to be well-trained, not only to place the ball...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
There’s something powerfully appealing about a wall-mounted fireplace, and this one has a subtlety we haven’t seen before. The Safretti Gaya fireplace places a billowing torch-like flame on your wall, adding a dramatic decorative flourish to your pad while...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
The BT2 monitor is a device worn on the wrist by individuals that keeps tabs on all kinds of internal vital functions at any given time. It is made by Exmocare and the intended purpose is to give employers...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
This mini stun gun, called The Runt, is about the size of an iPod nano, but can smack you down with so much voltage you’ll think you got hit by a truck. The 950,000-volt version ($69.95, pictured above right)...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
Tokyo Flash, the company who has never made it easy to tell the time, is now selling Citizen Independent watches on their website, which hopefully means the company is slowly inching towards watch designs that can be read without...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
The latest idea to come from the big-brains at MIT is Siftables, a modular interactive computing system. Each Siftable is a 20MHz computer that includes a full-color OLED screen, infrared, 3-axis accelerometer, Bluetooth, flash memory, rechargeable battery and more....
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
"Could I have some artwork with that cappuccino?" Not exactly something you hear at Starbucks a lot, but if this coffee-printer technology goes mainstream, who knows? Wait, a coffee printer? Yep, Oleskiy Pikalo woke up one day with a...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
It’s really easy to hook up with members of the opposite sex on the highway, isn’t it? Just use the handy suction cups to stick your CallMe Prism-I to the inside of your car window, displaying your phone number...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
Maybe it's a guy thing, but I can't really figure out why some people think that slapping a bunch of Swarovski crystals on an object somehow makes it more glamorous. The latest victim is this optical travel mouse, which...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
Artistic beauty and toilets don't normally go hand in hand, but why not? We've seen all kinds of artistic add ons for your tech devices, so why not one for this somewhat older tech device that we each use...
POSTED Sunday, March 16, 2008
hulu, the NBC Universal and FOX-owned website that offers ad-supported movies and network TV shows, launched to the public this week. We should first note that NBC Universal also owns DVICE: in December we even gave out logins for...
POSTED Sunday, March 16, 2008
Combining the delicate beauty of a Japanese bonsai tree, with the practicality of a battery powered mantle clock, the Bonsai Gear Clock is perfect for someone like me who can't even keep a cactus alive for long. Despite their...
POSTED Saturday, March 15, 2008
Nobody plans to get lost in the wilderness, but if you're ever going someplace where help is far away, it pays to follow the Boy Scout motto 'Be Prepared'. Having a little kit of essentials can mean the difference...
POSTED Saturday, March 15, 2008
R2D2 may be about as cute and cuddly as droids get, so I have no problem when kids choose to relate to his human qualities. However, when fully grown adults like Artoo to the point where they are willing...
POSTED Saturday, March 15, 2008
Sony's decision to roll out the decidedly retro PS-LX300USB USB Stereo Turntable (available for 28,350 yen, or $286) might baffle some western consumers, but this move makes complete sense in Japan. While iPod Djs rule New York's hipster club scene...
POSTED Saturday, March 15, 2008
Friday's finally here, so kick back and treat your eyes to some fantastic galleries. Speaking of pretty pictures, wish your digital frame did a little more? Well we've got 10 ways to make it better. Also, tune in to DVICE...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
If you're under 25 you might find this tough to accept, but back in the '70s and '80s people used to actually pay good money to go sit in a tent, and watch a laser light show that was...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
All right folks, we've got this pretty simple frame here: it draws power from your PC to light your photo, and it has a 4-port USB hub on the back of it. That's it. Time to get those thinking caps...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
The Maplemap is a particularly snazzy lamp that was created by Frederic Guibrunet. Guibrunet doesn't sound like a Canadian name, but there is a good chance he is from the northern tundra as his lamp is constructed of maple...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Style and USB flash drive are words you rarely see used in the same sentence, but Poland's Zana Design thinks they can work together. While anyone can slap a few gems on a tech device to make it expensive,...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Okay, gentlemen, this USB flash data storage device designed by Joel Escalona is for your desktop, not your suitcase. Our Transportation Safety Administration officers won’t think this iconic trinket is very funny, no matter how many “all your base”...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
This Motorola cellphone concept is the work of Lysandre Follet, a designer from Paris. At first look the cellphone is pretty standard and it includes a multimedia player, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc., but after further investigation it's revealed that the...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Faster, more maneuverable and — let's face it — downright cooler than any skateboard, the RipStik can take your extreme tendencies indoors.
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
What will San Francisco be like 100 years from now? The History Channel sponsored a City of the Future contest for architects to show us their vision of Utopian metropolises from 2108, and the winner for the San Francisco...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Keep this Thomson Symbio phone next to your bed, and it’ll play you music and wake you up in addition to making Internet phone calls. The VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone wirelessly connects to a service such as...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
Do you sit at a computer in your cubicle all day, ears perked up listening for oncoming unexpected visitors? Even if you're one of the many office workers who wastes company time poking around on Ebay, YouTube or Dvice.com,...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
You know that feeling when you misplace something, but in your mind you can picture the item sitting on a shelf, counter or somewhere else? Personally, it's one hell of an annoyance, but now a new device from Japanese...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
While we're usually the first to point out how dorky it is the wear clothes that light up, this LED jacket, designed by Leah Buechley, qualifies as the exception. The lights on the back of it are arranged in...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
The best-selling disc players aren’t high-def models like Blu-ray machines — they're upconverting DVD players. Those are regular DVD players that sport an HDMI output for easy connection to an HDTV (HDMI carries both audio and video). Oppo has...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
With a look that screams "electric shaver" and a name better suited to a new