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The SOCCKET Ball Generator Turns Gameplay into Power

Real World needs like just having a light at night are getting the boot with a new product from Uncharted Play. The SOCCKET ball is a game-changer giving areas of the world a smart solution to a simple need. SOCCKET is a kinetic energy harvesting and storage system wrapped up in a soccer ball form factor. It works internally by capturing the motion of a pendulum that moves as the ball kicked, rolled and bounced. The energy is stored in a rechargeable battery, and when playtime is over, the SOCCKET can produce a six-watt output; enough to power their LED lamp for up to 72 hours on a full charge. [...]

Your Coffee Table Becomes a Runway with the Carbon Butterfly

If you are looking for a stress buster, go fly a plane. The Carbon Butterfly is a ready to fly remote controlled model airplane developed by Planrite Trading Company as a, "living room flyer." The Carbon Butterfly model airplane comes in a well-padded aluminum case and is even tested at the shop before it is shipped. All you have to do is toss in four AA batteries and your coffee table becomes a runway as you take to the skies of your living room or office. The aircraft is constructed from carbon fiber and Mylar making it incredibly light weight, lighter than a single sheet of paper. The recommended room [...]

Measure Your Athletic Fitness Intensity with the Armour39

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) If you are a fitness junkie, you probably have a heart rate monitor or a way to measure the amount of calories burned, but have you ever measured your willpower? This spring, Under Armour will release the Armour39 ultimate fitness monitor system designed to push athletes to their limits. The Armour39 is actually several items that work together to bring you a complete fitness picture. The system consists of a chest strap, a monitor module and either a watch or a downloadable app. Once you put the system on, you give it a WILLpower target, [...]

Adobe Photoshop Touch Brings Image Magic to Your Phone

Adobe Photoshop is the image-editing standard for many desktop users, and today, the power of Photoshop is now mobile with Adobe Photoshop Touch. Adobe Photoshop Touch brings the power of desktop Photoshop to your Android or iDevice and contains several of its key features. Images can be edited while on the go at up to 12 megapixels, with detail up to 400% zoom and in the familiar layers that desktop users are accustomed. Users can add text, add effects and they can adjust the image with several filters and color adjustments. When making a selection on your image, Adobe created a scribble tool allowing users to make a selection and [...]

Jedi Motion Control with the MYO Armband

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) The MYO Armband from Thalmic Labs will be released later this year and you can pre-order one now for 149 bucks. So why is this product being marketed as, "unleash your inner Jedi?" Using the MYO Armband might have you believing. The MYO Armband is a gesture control device that you wear on your forearm. Unlike traditional motion control, this device does not use a camera-based feedback system to identify motion. What it reads is the electrical currents being sent to your muscles as you gesture and combines those readings with a 6-axis motion control [...]

The Oculus Rift 3D Stereoscopic Virtual Reality Gaming Headset

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Your gaming experience is about to change forever. In April of 2013, Oculus VR will begin shipping the developer kit of their Oculus Rift gaming headset to game companies for integration into their titles while Oculus VR works to get the consumer version on the market. So let's check it out! The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that is being developed specifically for gaming and with the focus of being affordable for the consumer. It will connect to your computer through a DVI connection although it will be possible to use HDMI with [...]

The Remotely Controlled WeMo Switch Connected House

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Being able to turn anything that plugs into an outlet on or off from anywhere has practical and security applications for your home. It also got me thinking of all the creative things I do with such control. Belkin's WeMo line of products gives you that control. WeMo is a system that works off your home's Wi-Fi network to control anything that plugs in. The WeMo Switch plugs directly into any outlet and then the device into the WeMo Switch. To set it up and make it work, you need an iDevice for now but [...]

The 3Doodler is a Pen Inspired 3D Printer

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) 3D printers can be a lot of fun, but unless you have a technical understanding of often-complex modeling software, you are restricted to templates you can only load and print. If only it were as easy as picking up a pen and drawing in 3D space with some kind of 3D pen printer. That's the thinking behind the 3Doodler 3D pen printer. It works like any additive printer, material is fed into the device, and it is heated to a melting point and then layered creating a 3D model. Unlike other 3D printers, this one [...]

Your Next NVIDIA GTX Titan Supercomputer Gaming Rig

Gamers like me are always looking to improve the quality of our game-play and a big factor is graphics quality. When we build our rigs, we have visions of our own supercomputer, like the Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. NVIDIA has a new offering that bears the same name, the recently released GeForce GTX Titan GPU. This thing's a beast. It goes to eleven! The PCI Express 3.0 card is based on the fast and efficient high performance computing Kepler architecture that lets you crank the settings on any game to maximum frame rates with 288 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It has all the NVIDIA technologies like FXAA for [...]