What Were They Thinking

Urine Control Video Games

Is it me or are pee games catching on? Can’t say that I have ever played one but if I saw one I would give it a try… The top picture is of a game made by Topspeed and the lower picture and video are of the You’re In Control device. “The virtual car has four gears and each gear is controlled by a little seesaw in the urinal. The

Brain-Computer Music Interface

  It is hard to imagine what will be possible with direct mind control in the next dozen years. Will we be driving cars with no steering wheel? Read the research paper (warning it is a PDF). “Researchers at the University of Plymouth created this “Brain-Computer Music Interface”, which uses two laptops to analyze brain waves and composes music based on the results. The BCMI-Piano (Figure 1) falls into the

Indestructible Laptops?

  Laptop technology has come a long way in the past few years. Is the indestructible laptop around the corner? Probably not, but this APC model is about as close as we can come today.

Automated Toilet Sanitation

Sanitation is a good thing but I wonder how far we have to automate things. The first video shows an automatic seat cleaner that uses a complex mechanism that rotates the seat around while sanitizing it. In the second video there is a lever that slides a fresh tube of plastic over the seat.

Teddy Bear USB Flash Drive

What are these manufactures thinking? The next generation is going to grow up thinking pulling the heads off things is perfectly normal. This Teddy Bear USB drive is not the first rip off the head storage device, have a look at the Barbie USB drive. “Teddy Bear got his head stuck in the computer? No. This is a Teddy Bear USB drive and it may be the most hilarious storage

Toilet Paper iPod Holder

Well I think someone was thinking about selling a uinique product to a niche market. Someone better tell that engineer that the niche market needs to be greater than 10 people. “There isn’t much to say about Atech’s iCarta iPod dock and Bath Tissue Holder. No joke; someone actually made a speaker system for the iPod with a toilet paper holder attached. The iCarta’s sporting four speakers, a charging iPod

World's most poorly-designed mouse?

Engadget has a article about a poorly designed mouse. Well it isn’t all that bad if you don’t click that often, others would like carpal tunnel so they can take some time off. “There’s at least one manufacturer at Computex this year who’s never heard about the concept of not fixing something that ain’t broken, as evidenced by the atrociously-designed mouse you see pictured above, which actually repositions the left-