VW Hydrogen Powered Hovercraft Design is Future Now
VW have made some of my favourite cars over the years. I was an obsessive Beetle owner (I owned three) and always had a soft spot for the Golf. However nothing comes close to the awe and majesty that is the Aqua Concept – a car so cool that they’d turn Spy Who Loved Me era Roger Moore away at the dealership. The Aqua’s two motors are powered by a hydrogen fuel cell meaning it has zero carbon emissions and it features four fans and integrated airbags that inflate to make it hover.
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Ninja Blocks – Bridging Your Social Sites with the Real World
Really like the look of this Kickstarter project. It’s vaguely reminiscent of a couple of other systems, but I like the simple if-this-then-that programming interface. Read More
Nazis. From the Moon.
Awesome special effects and one of the whackiest plots since The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Iron Sky stars Udo Kier, Stephanie Paul, Julia Dietze, Götz Otto and Christopher Kirby. Read More
TFI Friday Time Waster – Why Are There No Baby Dinosaurs?
Informative and very amusing Ted Talk by Professor Jack Horner on the subject of dinosaur extinction, scientists obsession with naming stuff and the reason nobody ever found any baby dinosaurs. Read More
BioLite Stove – Camping Cooker Also Charges your iPhone
Love this one. The BioLite is a neat little camping stove that can run off pretty much any fuel source (including leaves or pine cones) and also generates enough power (5V) to juice up a device connected to it by USB. Genius. And only $129.
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Read MoreLaser Keyboard for Typing on any Surface
The guys over at ThinkGeek are selling this cool iPad-friendly laser keyboard. The projected QWERTY keyboard enables you to type on any surface without having to lug a full size keyboard around with you. It’s $179USD and available now. Read More
Cornerstone – Multi-Window Multi-Tasking for Android
The latest generation of Android tablets are great, but like all tablet devices the multi-tasking side of the OS leaves a lot to be desired. Cornerstone, an open source Android application, aims to remedy this issue by enabling you to have multiple applications open and on-screen at one time. You can get it here. Read More
Sublime Text 2 – Coder’s Best Friend
Sublime Text is a cross platform (Windows 32/64bit, OSX, Linux 32/64bit) text editor with a gorgeous stripped down colour coded interface, a slick smoothly scrolling minimap, multi-selection and automated snippets and macros. It has side-by-side editing, a full screen mode, smart syntax highlighting and regular expression search and replace. Version 2 is currently in beta and available for free download until the release date. New features include spell checking, bookmarks, distraction free editing, a full python API, and general UI polish. You can get it here.
Cubify – 3D Printer with Wi-Fi
We live in exciting times. Once the domain of the homebrew hacker, 3D printers are now becoming mainstream items. Cubify illustrates my point nicely – it’s a stunning 3D printer designed specifically for home use that enables you to knock up a variety of objects in sizes up to 140 x 140 x 140mm. It’s available now for $1300.
Read MoreKnock or Knock Not – There is No Bell
Groovy front doormatt especially for all you Star Wars fans featuring everyone’s diminutive green Jedi master. Available on Etsy for $50USD, you can also get customised versions with your family name on them.
Planboard Brings Web 2.0 Style to Classroom Planning
Admittedly a fairly specialist cloud based product, Planboard is still a great looking service. Designed for teachers and delivered via a browser, it enables educators to plan lessons and, if required, share the timetable publicly with students or faculty.
Microsoft’s OneNote Released for Android
OneNote is one of the few applications that this Apple-loving dork would love to see on OSX. Oh sure, you can get it on iOS, but not on a Mac. Anyway – just released on Android Market, OneNote enables you to take notes, pictures, lists, to-dos and the other assorted ephemera of life within a neat smartphone friendly interface. It’s free for up to 500 notes, then you’ll need to upgrade to the Unlimited version.
Spectacle – Hotkey Driven Window Resizer for Mac
There are loads of apps on the App Store that enable you to quickly resize windows, or maximise them (Cinch, DoublePane, Window Magnet and Breeze spring to mind) but Spectacle offers a unique blend of useful hotkeys and is also free. Using simple key combinations you can quickly make an app fill the top half of the screen, the bottom half, a quarter of the screen or send it to your other display.
Don’t Fear the Internet – Get Started with Coding
Here’s a great resource for non-coders. If you’ve never tried your hand at coding HTML and/or CSS, then the guides on Don’t Fear the Internet will help you get started. Give it a try – you might find you’ve got a knack for it.
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