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Underestimate the Force … of water

Duncan — Mon, 09 May 2005 08:29:00 +0000

It’s cool dads next must have accessory. The ‘Star Wars Darth Vader Sprinkler‘. They come up with the strangest promotional products over at the Star Wars shop, but this is about as tenuous as it gets.

nintendo gets fresh

Duncan — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:06:20 +0000

Freshen up your gaming room with this high quality Nintendo Air Freshener. It doesn’t plug into anything, and you can’t control anything with it either. For 4$ you can own the latest in retro madness.

rocketman rises to new heights

Duncan — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 04:35:22 +0000

A stuntman today broke the world record for the highest flight wearing a jet pack as he soared above London.

Eric Scott, 41, an exserviceman with the US Air Force, flew over The Castle, a 10-storey indoor climbing centre in Stoke Newington, using a so-called Rocketbelt. His 152ft-high flight has set the benchmark for such stunts. Other jumps using the Rocketbelt are usually around 50ft, though none has been officially recorded. Mr Scott said: “It’s amazing. I’m completely thrilled.”

Rocketbelts generate 800 horse power, more than a Ferrari F50 GT, and can go from 0-75mph in just two seconds. They were devised in 1961 by the US military, who wanted to prove that man could fly – and land on his feet. They envisaged battalions of rocketmen flying into battle.

Two rocket nozzles fire super-heated hydrogen peroxide steam to propel the user into flight. The 170lb rocket was strapped to Mr Scott using a fibreglass corset. Rocketbelts first captured the public imagination when another stuntman used one at the opening of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

Mr Scott – currently the only Rocketbelt stuntman in the world – used one when he took part in Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” tour.

jay maynard’s tron costume

Duncan — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:22:39 +0000

I read this on Slashdot. This guy was not happy with the quality of Tron costumes he had seen on the net (something that keeps me awake at night as well!). So he decided to make his own definitive Tron costume and log the process. The result is quite good but unfortunately Jay is no Jeff Bridges so the costume never looks quite right. Check out the photo and make your own decision.

Don’t you just love eccentricity. Good effort.

roku network music player

Duncan — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 07:40:45 +0000

This looks fantastic. It’s on my shopping list. The Roku SoundBridge lets you play your Mac or PC digital music files anywhere in the house. All major audio formats are supported ? MP3, WMA, AAC, AIFF, WAV, FLAC and Ogg-Vorbis ? and it’s network ready with wired Ethernet or an optional CompactFlash Wi-Fi adapter. A large, bright display and Apple RendezvousTM and native iTunes support make this player a winning part of your home entertainment system.

smart glasses mean instant refills

Duncan — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:44:23 +0000

Developed by Paul Dietz and a team at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the iGlassware system signals staff when you are ready for a refill. It uses an adaptation of the radio frequency identification (RFID) tag technology that is used to stop people stealing goods from shops.

japanese scientist invents ‘invisibility cloak’

Duncan — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:58:28 +0000

[via gizmodo] A Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears to make the wearer invisible. The illusion was part of a demonstration of optical camouflage technology at Tokyo University. It is the brainchild of Professor Susumu Tachi who is in the early stage of research he hopes will eventually make camouflaged objects virtually transparent.

imitation see-through skirts is a hoax?

Duncan — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:56:55 +0000

But what about this latest alleged Japanese fashion trend, skirts with screened-on images of panties which create the illusion of “see-through” clothing (thereby fulfilling the fantasy of all the disappointed boys who were ever duped into ordering X-Ray Specs through comic book ads)?snopes.com spy a rat

look at the size of this new dv from aiptek

Duncan — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:27:34 +0000

Measuring only 3.3″ x 2.7″ x 1.6″ the new Pocket DV 2 captures your life’s moments in the palm of your hand. Featuring a 4 in 1 design, the DV2 functions as a Digital Video Recorder, Digital Voice Recorder, a High Resolution 1.3 mega-pixel Digital Camera, or even hook it to your PC to be used as a webcam! It offers a 1.4″ Color LCD Display, and if the 16 MB built in SDRAM isn’t enough, you can add up to a 512 MB CF card. Upload images and video to your PC via the USB cable. You can even playback video on your TV or VCR.

new colour wrist camera watch

Duncan — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:24:51 +0000

Casio Introduces the new WQV10D-2 Color Wrist Camera watch with Color LCD. A 2X Digital zoom let’s you get closer to your subjects and IR transfer let’s you share your pictures with other Casio wrist cameras* and your PC. A 25,000-pixel color CMOS sensor lets you capture rich colors when needed and a text editor lets you add notes to your images so you’ll always remember the name with the face.