If you are car shopping with a 200 thousand dollar budget, look no further. The Armet Gurkha could be for you! “Sometimes in Iraq, or hell — sometimes in Queens — even an up-armored HumVee just won’t cut it. That’s when you need the Gurkha by the armor-freaks at Armet Armored Vehicles, Inc. out of Toronto, ON. The squat and hedgehog-lookin’ 19,000 lb beast-of-an-armored-vehicle ain’t just built to shrug off
Are you moving soon? If you are these speakers might be just right for you. 🙂 “These MUJI Cardboard speakers retail for $42 for a pair, and are easily assembled . Besides, they would be a big conversation piece when you pull them out of your purse at a party.” Via: Popgadget
Forget billboard advertising, I would wear a cool stylish jacket (or other clothes) for a cut in ad revenues. “Philips Research seems to be very keen on attracting the tech savvy attention at this year’s IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) with a world-first demonstration of the jackets and furniture that are set to change the face of global fashion. The jackets and furniture feature its innovative Lumalive technology. Lumalive textiles make it
The attention to Detail is Mind Blowing. Link on the page shows how he did it… read more | digg story
The perfect present for under the tree… These Genpets were designed to create a stir and it seems they did. Check out this site to see how they were advertised, and this site explains how they were really created and why. “This piece is a mix of design, industry, art and science. The sculpture consists of nineteen plastic packages hung from store hooks displaying streamlined, mass produced Bio-engineered life. The
Have a look at the projects over at Benthack, if you like circuit bending you will get a kick out of the projects. If you don’t know what circuit bending is you soon will. “A friend gave me an old master keyboard, the roland pc-200. i decided to transform it in a keytar, a strap-on keyboard. i’ve used two guitar/bass knobs for strap and two buttons (bending up and
This DIY orb by UK-Dave reminds me of the orb made by Ambient Devices. Dave has taken about $60.00 of electronics to create a device that can be remotely controlled from a computer. All the source code for the PIC based microcontroller is available on his site. “The Orb is my attempt at building an ambient interface. It consists of a number of high-brightness red, green and blue LEDs, a
