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Live your hovercraft dreams with a remote control

Live your hovercraft dreams with a remote control

When I was a kid, I thought hovercrafts were going to be the vehicle of the future. And why not?...
 
Child's rocking horse is a kinetic power generator

Child's rocking horse is a kinetic power generator

Ah, children: those lovable balls of built-up energy. If only there was a way to harness that force? That's exactly...
 
Energy-gathering soccer ball turns kicks into light

Energy-gathering soccer ball turns kicks into light

Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world partly because it requires so little: a ball and...
 
Android gets an adorable upgrade into figurines

Android gets an adorable upgrade into figurines

Artist Andrew Bell of Dyzplastic and Google have partnered up to turn Android's mascot into a goofy little vinyl figurine....
 
World's first foldable R/C cars are super-tiny

World's first foldable R/C cars are super-tiny

Finally, Mattel makes foldable R/C cars, just what we've always wanted. These Stealth Rides, barely the size of a USB...
 
Why wait for Apple? Make your own Lego iPad today

Why wait for Apple? Make your own Lego iPad today

I'm sure there are plenty of Apple fanbois who are now counting the days until they can get their hot...
 
Honey, I shrunk the FM radio

Honey, I shrunk the FM radio

It's not every day that you see a wooden FM radio scarcely bigger than a pair of dice. But here...
 
Homemade <i>Star Trek</i> phaser is powerful enough to pop balloons

Homemade Star Trek phaser is powerful enough to pop balloons

Where's my away team at? Starfleet Command has discovered a planet full of vicious balloons, and Jay "Scotty" Rob has...
 
Ultra-micro R/C helicopters are ultra-maneuverable

Ultra-micro R/C helicopters are ultra-maneuverable

Radio-controlled electronic ultra-micro helicopters have certainly come a long way. If you don't mind spending $120 on a toy, you...
 
USB Webmail Notifier makes getting email an event

USB Webmail Notifier makes getting email an event

If you're the kind of geek that likes to show off exactly how tech obsessed you are to random visitors...
 
Finally, you can control your own X-Wing

Finally, you can control your own X-Wing

Have you always dreamed of being Luke Skywalker? Would you settle for being Wedge? Well, in any case, the RCX4...
 
Quadricopter controlled by iPhone, two cameras on board

Quadricopter controlled by iPhone, two cameras on board

Look out! Here comes the Quadricopter, and it's controllable with your iPhone or iPod Touch's accelerometer. The Parrott AR.Drone has...
 
Samurai Air Sword: A harmless way to practice death blows

Samurai Air Sword: A harmless way to practice death blows

For those of us tired of breaking our iPhones while swinging the device using the lightsaber app, Happinet offers the...
 
Desktop V-Twin Engine, gone in 600 seconds

Desktop V-Twin Engine, gone in 600 seconds

Attention motorheads: take back all the socks and ties you got for Christmas and plunk your moolaa down for this...
 
Fuji Soft robot offers glimpse of next-gen commercial bots

Fuji Soft robot offers glimpse of next-gen commercial bots

To promote the All Japan Robot Tournament, Fuji Soft recently took the wraps off a new robot. The unnamed biped...
 

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