We usually refrain from posting inventions/gadgets unless you can make them yourself or they pose some sort of elegance (like the Party-A-Cargo for example). Well this one certainly combines brilliance and elegance together. The “Last Hope” emergency pickset is a credit card sized lock pickset that can fit in your wallet for all those times you slip up and lock yourself out of something. Each pick can be snapped off as needed and if that wasn’t already brilliant enough, the bordering frame itself breaks apart to become four separate tensioners resulting in an 11 piece lockpick set. No word on pricing or availability however it will be presented along with another double sided pickset next week at the Last Hope Conference in New York.
Ever so often comes an invention so brilliant that one just can’t help but stare in amazement while simultaneously thinking the words, “mmm beer”. The “Party a CarGo” is undoubtedly the next level in advanced tailgate partying. A classy diamond plated apparatus that easily plugs into any tow hitch receiver fully equipped with party maximization in mind, and boy does this thing have its share of features. On the alcohol side it comes with a 5-gallon cooler jockey-box set up, a Commercial regulator with gauge a 5 lb. CO2 tank, a Keg tap D-system, Faucet wrench and even a Drain tray. For entertainment purposes it has, 230 watt 6 X 9 speakers, a 10″ subwoofer, 2 or 4-channel amplifier, CD player, Satellite radio and an LCD screen with TV tuner. All with enough power supplied by its deep cycle marine battery to keep you rolling for up to 12 hours and plenty of options to keep it charged. Link to Party a CarGo….
A while back we posted an article titled “Fight Big Brother with an Invisible Mask” which involved embedding some IR LEDs into a baseball cap to conceal your face to digital and video cameras. Well here is then next step in countering big brother’s tactics. Infrared Sun Glasses. This makes use of the very same concept as the cap but instead, this time it is with a pair of sunglasses. Check out the “Lunettes anti paparazzi” how-to video on making a pair of these bad boys. Link to video…
Tired of the ol’ beer bong? Yes it has been around for many decades and definitely held its own over the years as a great party pass time, but don’t you think anymore it is a bit cliché. I do, and quite frankly I’m tired of seeing it. Well Bierstick has re-invented the wheel and combined the concept of those old water soakers into a beer thrusting apparatus. No longer will you rely on gravity to propel your beer but rather you will now inject the can of beer into your stomach via brute force at record breaking speeds. An if you don’t have any friends nearby to assist you, the wall will be your friend. Link…
[via OhGizmo]
This one will kill at your next rave party.ThinkGeek is selling an attachment for your faucet that illuminates the water via LED. And if that wasn’t already cool enough, they have a model that will change from blue to red once the water temperature rises above 89 degrees. For the price of around $20, I’d say thats a pretty fair price for some geek water. Link to product…
Ok, here is another one to go under the creepy but cool section. Digital Tatoos. This appears to be only a concept however, quite the concept it is. A bluetooth device that works much like a touch screen is implanted under ones skin powered by two tubes that are inserted into an artery and a vein. There is a coin sized fuel cell as well that delivers power to the device via the blood in the artery and vein. Seeing that it uses bluetooth, it can interface just about any device. If this were to become a reality, I imagine that temporary tattoos could be used on the surface of the skin in case you would like to reconfigure the device’s interface. This one really creeps me out, but I can’t help think of how cool it is at the same time. Link…….
[via makezine]
Just when you thought a guitar was simply just a guitar, Moog goes and creates “The Moog Guitar”. It has the ability to sustain the strings constantly while you play opening doors for the guitar that no one ever imagined possible. It can even mute the strings as well and even mute the strings not in use while sustaining the ones that are. Brilliant! Link to the Moog Guitar….
I can remember as a kid (and still sometimes as an adult) how we used to submerge ourselves in the swimming pool and take turns shouting obscenities at one another guessing if we could understand what the other said. It was back then we realized that sound really traveled quite well under water and if it were not for all the bubbles, we probably would have understood what each other were saying. Times like that made me long for some sort of speaker that would play music under the water while we swam as we probably spent more time under the water than out. Well between the RC Cooler and now the Grace Audio Weatherproof Submersible
Wireless Speaker,
all my poolside dreams have come true. This little
gadget
can be hooked into just about any audio source up to 150 feet away for up to 6 hours on a single charge and can have up to ten speakers total. All for a modest price of around $150 and $99 for each additional speaker. Link…
(via Engadget)
One must always be weary when confronted with news of such a product. I mean whats next, a food replicator like those of Star Trek. Perhaps. We are after all living in a time where technological breakthroughs are a daily occurrence and If this new product from Xziex (now in pre-launch) called the atmospheric water generator can live up to its name, It could litteraly solve all of the drinking water issues of the world. Unless that is to say that if everyone were to have one, we risk the possibility of Global Drying. Link….<
Planika Fires combines a little bit of technology along with a little pyrotechnics to bring a classy and contemporary ambiance to modern interior decorating. Planika Fires use Fanola®, based on alcohol, which puts off neither smell nor smoke making it safe for indoor use. Imagine what the ladies will think when they see your new Planika Table. Pricing is not available at the site, but I’m sure if you are living the bachelor lifestyle, these things will pay for themselves. Link….
Now this Is what I’m talking about.
Another geeky gadget for the music lover
. Never mind those annoying and nerdy looking mono bluetooth headsets. If you are gonna look geeky, make sure you do it all of the way with something like the
Motorola S9-HD Wireless Stereo headphones. With an integrated microphone, you can now have stereo quality sound in your ears while still being inseparably attached to that cellular device you love so much.
It claims to have 6 hours of music playback, 8 hours of talk time and 8 days of standby all with a modest price of $129. All of you Roger Wilco-ers out there should drool over this little baby. Link…..
Put down those milk bones you have been using to train your dog to fetch you beers from the cooler and check out this new product from Interactive toy concepts. This puppy appears to have all the fun that one would expect from an RC device while simotaniously having a bottom line purpose. Beer Convience. Which is why I would never be so bold as to consider any thing as serious as a beer fetcher a toy. It runs on 8 C batteries and claims to last up to 6 hours, which should be more than enough to get the job done. Gizmodo has a great review on this product. Link…..
I may just have to append a small prayer to the end of grace this evening in hopes that this little bad boy becomes a reality. This neat little songwriters notepad which Yamaha only references as “Key for Journey” is an ingenious modern update to those old classic toy pianos some of us had as a kid. But with what I’m certain will contain the technology of modern day and the convenience of an integrated notepad, this little gadget is a sure winner in my book. Hopefully Yamaha will have the foresight to integrate a MIDI interface into it for all us music geeks out there. Little is known of this but rest assured that we have our tracking eye on this one. Link…
A while back we posted an article titled “
