Breville BKT500 Makes Tea And Toast For Two

I don’t quite understand my particular fascination with toasters — I rarely eat toast — especially since I’m comfortably of the school that specialized gadgets have no place in a proper kitchen. Still I haul my Back-to-Basics toaster from under the counter from time to time, hoping the collected dust and hairballs on the unused [...]

Hello Kitty Cell Phone Car Charger

Spotted on FarEast Gizmo, a Hello Kitty car charger for cell phones.

DJ GO Portable Turntables Concept

It will be a long time before digital turntables completely overtake their analog predecessors, but you can’t argue that carrying a hard drive full of MP3s to a gig is a lot easier than hauling crates full of vinyl. And it’s that convenience aspect that the Design Continuum has taken one step further with their [...]

Microsoft COFEE Device Helps PDs Extract Data from Cyberscenes

Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad [...]

SIMable Card Unlocks Your Cell Phone

Mobile Solutions introduced a new product today called SIMable that fools your cell phone into thinking it is unlocked.
Using its SIM card add-on, you can basically unlock it and use it on other networks without actually changing the software on the phone. Sadly, it doesn’t work with the iPhone.

Super Mario Singing Star Plays That Old Familiar Tune

Nearly six-inches tall — in-scale for the tiny dwarf a real-life Mario would be before eating an HGH-infused mushroom — this “Super Mario Singing Glow Star” sold at Thinkgeek for $18 will, when pressed, play the invulnerability theme from Super Mario Bros. while glowing on and off.
Watch out co-workers! Dan from Sales is smashing ceiling [...]

Microwave Mind Melds with Toaster

We demand a lot from our kitchens these days, and appliances are starting to feel the heat (heh) and lose their cool (heh) and… um… sink. And why should we settle for boring old uni-taskers when we can buy things like this toast-o-wave?
LG’s LTM9000 (9000 being the best version of anything) pumps 900 watts into [...]

Fake AC Adapter Features Hidden Camera

The next time you break into someone’s home or office and notice an adapter plugged into the wall that’s missing a cord, you might want to think about stealing that too. Why? Well, because there’s a good chance it could be this fake AC adapter from Ajoka that’s recording your every move. Not surprisingly, the [...]

Recharge Up To 4 USB Gadgets In Your Car

How many times have you been traveling across a few states, only to find that one of your gadgets is in serious need of a charge? This has happened to me on more than one occasion, and since I don’t always bring my handy power inverter, I’m usually out of luck. However, since many of [...]

The Runt: A Tiny, Rechargeable Stun Gun

The “Runt” stun gun is just over three inches tall, but is available in versions capable of outputting up to 950,000 volts. There’s even a model with a flip-out recharging plug, making it look a little like a black Airport Express. Just don’t confuse the two when you’re plugging in your Ethernet.
Prices start at $40 [...]

Original Measuring cup, with Unusual Units of Measure

Harry White designed this measuring cup with units of measure like “tyrannosaurus rex brain,” “vol. of body cells that die on a good day,” and “enough plutonium to make a bomb.” He also has a cookbook with recipes that use these measurement units.

Restaurant Table LCD Shows Food In 3-D

Japan’s TEC has created a restaurant table with a built-in 3-D LCD screen. The table, called the Tobidasu Menu, lets you browse food choices. The piece de resistance is that you can select each item on the touch-screen table for full-size, 3-D view. The table show what your food will look like sitting in front [...]

New Camera Can See Through Clothes

British company ThruVision has developed a new camera, the T5000, that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people’s clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry. The camera uses “passive imaging technology” to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays — known as Terahertz [...]

Philips Introduces A 1200W Toaster

Are you one of those people that needs all of their appliances to be as high-tech and powerful as possible? When I first saw this 1200 watt toaster from Philips, I immediately pictured Tim Allen pushing down the lever and grunting something about more power. Seriously, I don’t think my microwave even has that much [...]

Easily Convert Your Vinyl To MP3s

Although I was born in the late 70’s during the time of vinyl, the first music format known to me was the cassette tape which later blossomed into CD’s. I never really thought that they were all that cool, aside from recording my favorite songs off the radio — which were all missing at least [...]