10 amusing techs

as promised, a worthy post is here.

today, we're living in a high-tech world. man have progressed 100 times more in the last 50 years than ever before. there's nothing i like more than technology, whether it be in medicine, helping man-kind or just developing in things that may not serve a helpful purpose other than mere entertainment or personal comfort. today, i'll share with you the latter.

here are 10 techs that i find amusing.

have a bath - anywhere!

like bathtubs? like being outside? can't really carry a bathtub with you outside? no fear! what you need is this...
just build a wood fire in the centre of the coiled tubing, fill up the sizeable polyfibre bowl and slip into the steamy warm water. its lightweight construction means you can haul it anywhere.

how big is it? 8 grown people can fit snuggly in it. cost: £3220
www.dutchtub.com

EEEEPP! is that a mouse??!

GUPI is a robotised guinea pig that looks and feels like a real one. GUPI is highly autonomous, he walks around in the house without bumping into anything or falling off a table or the stairs thanks to sensors in its eyes and legs..

GUPI is so smart he can also walk through a maze and you can be assured that he will find a way out. GUPI has a very interactive playing behaviour, if you don't play with him he becomes lonely and scared and he will go and hide in a dark place. But if you caress him he will feel loved and will be happy. GUPI can also hear you and he will react to voices and sounds, depending on his mood ..... When GUPI is happy he will actually come running at you when you call him, but when he's scared he can't stand noise and will run away from it.

When happy, GUPI will also follow a light beam so you can lead him wherever you want him to go. When GUPI gets hungry you can feed him (read : recharge his reloadable batteries) through a little carrot, and he's ready for a lot more fun together with his friends. As such GUPI creates the 'Tamagochi'® binding-effect. Gupi has unique identification codes in the chipsets, therefore, when other Gupi's are in the vicinity, they will express excited behaviour and they will learn gradually how to accept each other, how to share 'food' (battery re-loader), and how to play with each other! When one or more Gupi see one another they will sing and dance with each-other in a cute manner.

cost: £35
www.drinkstuff.com

sailing happily to anywhere

ok, this one isn't really a brilliant gadget or entertaining in any way, but the eco-friendly in me find it very cool. it's a bag made out of recycled sail! marked on it are the type of vessel it came from and even where that ship has been.

use this recycled shopping bags and reduce the usage of plastic!

on the website, they don't just sell bags. they sell a lot of other recycled and eco-friendly stuff from picture frames to bathroom stuff. so go green!

http://ecocentric.co.uk

scented candles? no thanks, i have my pen drive.

This Oil Burning Flash Drive is just plain weird.. This version comes in two distinct aromas, red rose and peppermint green. No word on the longevity of the aroma and you’ll need a steady hand for application. it goes for $US7.00

where's a pair chopsticks when you need one, eh?

what? it's still technology.. and it was amusing. i was certainly amused.. need i say more? ':)

analog watches are for sissies

if you think watches are just dull then give these babies a try. telling time isn't as easy as it used to be with the watches from Tokyo Flash. each model they design has its own different way of telling what time it is.

Oberon: it uses rings of glowing lights to represent seconds, minutes, tens of minutes and hours.

Pimp Easy: When the button is pressed for the time it will spiral all the lights on and off then show the time. Press the button again and the day and date will be displayed. Now what really makes this watch stand out, is the light up feature, the watch lights up every light in a spiral and then off in a spiral every 2 minutes from 6 PM to 1 AM.

Q version: One push of the button animates the LED's in various patterns before revealing the time, a function which can be skipped with a second press of the button. The Q version uses the established 12-5-9 method to tell the time. 12 hours, 5 groups of 10 minutes and 9 single minutes. Moving clockwise from the top of the display, the first two lines of LED's show the hours 1-12, each lit LED indicating one hour. The next line indicates minutes up to 50, each LED showing 10 minutes. The final two lines indicate single minutes 1-9, one LED for each minute.

with these, when someone asks you to look at your watch to know the time, you sit them down and explain..

www.tokyoflash.com

goodbye snooze button, i'll miss you

staying with the time-theme, if you're like me, i love hitting that snooze button a few times before properly waking up. but with this gadget, there's no such thing as snoozing!


this is the puzzle alarm clock. when it rings, the puzzle pieces explodes out and the only way to shut it up is to put the four-piece puzzle back together. it might sound like an easy task but just imagine waking up to the blare of the alarm and you have to find the pieces that could've scattered anywhere and solve put it together again.. sounds like hell to me..

cost: $USD 97.00

"flower, am i happy?"

This "Kotohana Flower" recognizes your feelings and changes its color corresponding to the feeling you have. The gadget judges your emotion through the ryhthm of your voice. A small microphone is hidden in the flowers to detect happiness (yellow), sadness (blue), excitement (red) and calmness (green).

be a pop star in the shower

there are a lot of other gadgety ways in bringing music into the bathroom (water-proof covers, etc) but i think this one is unique.


This is a great little shower radio that simply sticks to your bathroom tiles using the sucker provided. Perfect for those of you who love to sing in the shower! Operating the Shower Tap Radio couldn't be simpler than that. Turn the tap on the radio on, adjust the volume and tune into your favorite station!

a call from the future

finally, something to look forward to. i've always been a big fan of nokia and their seemingly endless innovations in the technology of communication. and by the look of it, it's not stopping any time soon. i'm so glad of that..



it's still a concept phone but hey, they're thinking about it.. if this doesn't come out.. something similarly spectacular would eventually come..

i love technology..