April 2008

Mechanical Digital Watch

  Looking for a new watch? If so I am sure this watch would fit the bill, but I am thinking that you may have to sell the yaught to pay for it. This design is completely mechanical and rotates small colored cylinders to display the digital time! Video interview of the designer. "Consisting of 651 pieces, the Di Grisogono Meccanica DG (limited to just 177-units) is the world’s first

Name the Thing Contest - 45

  Congratulations to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a new product that we just added to the store. These LED mounting adapter boards let you solder to a small circuit board instead of soldering directly to LED and resistor leads. This contest will run for one week (April 12 – April 18, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the

The Beamz Laser Music Performance System

  This Beamz Laser Music Performance System looks very interesting. I am not exactly sure how the beams are playing the notes in the video since all the beam should be able to detect is when it’s broken. It seems that more information than just a broken beam is needed could play those tunes. Based on what I see (if it is just broken beams) 6 buttons could reproduce the

Hello Kitty Power Sander

  I wonder how many of these belt sanders they have sold? I can just imagine the product development brainstorming session where a team of people came up with this idea and proceeded to design the features. However I bet if this was left unsupervised on a job site it would be there in the morning… "It is now time to to say hello to the Hello Kitty Power Sander.

Greenflight Electric Vehicle Project

This Greenflight Electric Vehicle Project takes you through the construction of a few electric vehicles that were constructed by a clever 17 year old. He is trying to put together his vehicles on a small budget which makes it interesting. One of his posts indicates that Discovery Channel was coming down to do an interview with him!