Following up on our theme of Japanese gadgets that do pretty much nothing, we’ve got Solid Alliance’s Mr. Tengu. It’s a small brick with a face that plugs into your USB port and reacts to sounds and music around “him.” Different sounds make him make different “facial expressions,” and when he’s tired he’ll actually […]
The Wii has got to have some sort of record for the most gimmicky and superfluous accessories of any console. For every type of game, there seems to be a hunk of white plastic meant to hold the Wiimote to make it more “realistic.” Today’s entry is the Wii Airplane Controller Stand from PEGA. It […]
There are some Vista patches in unofficial form, leaked on the web, according to a few sites. CRN is calling it Vista 0.5, since a true SP is rumored to be over a year away. The update is supposed to help with driver compatibility, and increase file system performance, among other things. In my opinion, […]
In Japan, riding the train in a skirt is still an invitation to have your ass grabbed or photographed by some random perv. These days, there’s a more advanced threat: cameraphones with IR night vision can be tweaked to see through clothes. Cramer Japan made these nylon and polyurethane panties that block IR, hampering the […]