Archive for ODD STUFF
Concept Watch Actually Projects the Time Onto Your Wrist…With Lasers
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Sure, some of us wear the time on our wrist, but this concept watch quite literally puts the time on your wrist. Designed by Andy Kurovets, this concept uses a laser mounted inside the wrist band and angled over the flat part of the wrist to reveal digital time. Very slick, undeniably futuristic.
AromaSteam Portable Sauna
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Check out the AromaSteam portable sauna that allows you to tote around your little piece of heaven wherever you go. It can be powered by any standard outlet and actually transported from room to room, although we’re not too sure whether you would want to share this with your mates or not. In fact, the AromaSteam portable sauna takes but 10 minutes to assemble, and uses just one quart of distilled water that is sufficient for up to 40 minutes of sauna treatment. Inside this $2,375 purchase, temperatures are able to reach 115-130 degrees F, taking around 5 to 10 minutes of warm-up time before you get to jump in.
Boo Battery Charging Boomerang
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Check out the Boo battery-charging boomerang concept that basically helps keep your rechargeable batteries juiced up while you’re having some fun with Junior or Lassie in the fields. The Boo is capable of holding up to a trio of AAA batteries, where all rotary motion is converted into energy (at least it does its best in doing so). The surface is completely covered in silicon to prevent any unwanted and adverse effects upon impact to its cargo within. Located within its center is a dynamically changing icon that will point out the current charge levels. We’re guessing this isn’t viable as you’ll need plenty of hours of charging while you’re at it to get the battery within anywhere near half full from empty.
Gargantuan NOAH ‘Arc’ Proposed To New Orleans With Straight Face
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How do you know when your building plan has gotten unnecessarily crazy and pretentious? When it’s named after a Biblical figure who was fabled to save life as we know it…that might be a clue.
New Ecko Star Wars Hoodies
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We never knew what angels wore before we first laid eyes on the original Marc Ecko’s Boba Fett hoodie. Now, the label is offering six new Star Wars branded pieces of apparel.
It’s hard to pick a favorite from the new collection, but the $150 X-Wing fighter jacket is ever so tempting, while the $98 BDSM Vader hoodie is probably a pass. I mean, it’s all a pass. I can’t actually wear this shit outside! But when I’m referring to window shopping online, I’d go for the X-Wing jacket.
Cloud-Generating 1900-Ship Armada to Sink Climate Change
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The Copenhagen Consensus Centre—a respected European think tank which used to be skeptic on climate change—is now advising that we should spend $9 billion in building 1900 cloud-generating ships like the one above. Why? To cool down Earth:
When you spray saltwater into the air, you create nuclei that cloud condenses around, creating bigger and whiter clouds, thus bouncing more sunlight back into space.
That’s what David Young, a member of the panel that created the report, says. The fully automated vessels will cross the oceans absorbing water and spraying it into the skies. They say this will help the formation of big, whiter clouds, which will make the sun light bounce, lowering temperatures.
The idea seems neat, but the concept of anyone in planet Earth claiming to understand how climate works to this extend blows my mind. We are still trying to grasp how a complex system like the weather works, but someone wants to put an idea like this in motion, without knowing about the ultimate consequences? Like we say in my home country: Do you experiments with pop soda.
Death By iPhone: Apple and China’s Cultural Time Bomb
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Last week, a 25-year-old communications worker died in an “apparent suicide” after losing track of a prototype iPhone built by Foxconn, his employer, for one of the most secretive companies in technology. It was only a matter of time.
First, a recap: Sun Danyong’s death came after a case of prototype iPhones he was charged with shipping to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino ended up short by one. Sun couldn’t produce the device and claimed not to know what had happened; security officials at Foxconn, the manufacturer of Apple’s iPhone and Sun’s employer, didn’t buy his story. At all.
In the days following the incident, Sun quite possibly went through hell. He confided in his university friends—he had just graduated—that his house had been searched repeatedly and without announcement, that he had been endlessly interrogated, that he’d been held in solitary confinement, and even that he’d been outright tortured by security guards. Soon after, he was found dead at the base of his apartment building, having fallen 14 stories. He died, one way or another, for a phone. Yeah, no, you’re right: This is fucking crazy.
Canon Unveils Augmented Reality Dinosaur Show in Japan
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Canon’s just unveiled its new augmented reality display in Chiba, Japan, and we have to say, we’re thinking about heading over there to check it out… and hopefully experience what it’s like to be eaten (virtually) by a T-Rex. Featuring 260 dinosaur specimens, the display makes us of a virtual reality viewer — one for each person roaming round the exhibit — putting the dinosaurs at a “distance” of about 5 meters. The exhibit will make use of various Canon products, including an inkjet printer, an LCD projector and several different cameras. The dinosaurs will be on display starting July 18th until August 1st, so you probably want to just go ahead and book a flight right now
