Death Star BBQ Grill

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And now ladies and gentlemen, the geekiest barbecue grill ever created- the Death Star Grill. It’s a custom created grill, sculpted out of a standard Weber charcoal grill. The Force is strong in this one. The force of coal based backyard cooking that is. Come to the dark (meat) side. You ...

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Book Review: The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

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I was given a copy of the just released book The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive to review because they thought my readers might be interested in it and darnit they were right. Here’s a three word summary review for you: “Cool Book. Buy.” First of all, ...

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Mouse with EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation) Massage

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The “Muscle Mouse” from Thanko (JP) is probably the weirdest mouse we’ve seen yet. It’s a regular USB optical mouse but halfway up the cord is a connector where you plug in a wired set of EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation) pads. You attach the pads to whatever body part is feeling sore ...

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Save the Penguins with a Penguin USB Flash Drive

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Save the penguins! It’s a WWF World Wildlife Fund Penguin USB Flash Drive. Just like the Panda Bear USB Drive, this drive is being produced in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund and 5% of the purchase price will go to the WWF and be used towards saving the penguins and ...

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An Air Conditioner Shaped Like a Tree

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Summer is here and the weather is heating up. There is no better feeling than coming in from the sweltering heat and humidity into a nice air conditioned building to dry your skin off with cool dry air. Most window air conditioners look pretty much the same, just a box. Nothing fancy. Strictly ...

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GPS Shoes to Keep Tabs on Alzheimer’s Patients

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Patients with Alzheimer’s are known to wander away from their caregivers and often can’t adequately recall or express where they should be to people that find them. Apparently the figure is that 60% of patients will wander off at some point! Rather than having to keep searching for lost Alzheimer’s patients, Aetrex Worldwide ...

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Cellphone Evolution Russian Nesting Dolls

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Cellphones are getting smaller and smaller with each new generation of phones. While we haven’t quite reached Ben Stiller in Zoolander miniature sized phones just yet, the newest mobile phones today are significantly tinier than the giant Miami Vice style phones of just a few years ago. So it’s only natural that someone ...

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Mini Oil Tankers for Supertanker Captain Training

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How cool are these little boats? No it’s not some miniature land or world of gigantic people, it’s tiny sized supertankers that are used to train captains of these boats. They realistically mimic the controls and movements of a real oil tanker and can even be disabled by remote control to test the ...

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