Gadget Lab editor Rob Beschizza’s dreams of a penis-shaped mouse might finally have come true. Lite-On Technology’s Moldable Mouse can be squeezed into any shape, including that of a male member. It’s made of “non-toxic lightweight modelling clay, covered with…
Gadget Lab editor Rob Beschizza’s dreams of a penis-shaped mouse might finally have come true. Lite-On Technology’s Moldable Mouse can be squeezed into any shape, including that of a male member.
It’s made of “non-toxic lightweight modelling clay, covered with nylon and polyurethane blend fabric”, and can be shaped, Play-Doh style, to fit any hand. Once molded, it keeps its shape until you’re ready to play again. The Moldable Mouse is still in the concept stage, but it has already won a Red Dot design award. If it makes it to production, it’ll be good news for lefties, carpal-tunnelers and Gadget Lab editors alike.
Here’s an interesting alternative to tossing your old iPod into a recycle bin: Follow the lead of Norwegian avant garde musician Espen Sommer Eide and turn it into a kind of musique concrete instrument. Eide’s “Slattberg” combines an old iPod…
Here’s an interesting substitute to tossing your old iPod into a recycle bin: Follow the lead of Norwegian avant garde musician Espen Sommer Eide and turn it into a kind of musique concrete instrument. Eide’s “Slattberg” combines an old iPod running Linux, a couple of chunks of open-source software, an old loudspeaker and amp and a huge ol’ crank.
The result is a contraption that works sort of like a hurdy gurdy and sounds like the entire Sonic Youth catalog played in unison on a public library record player. The instrument will make its public debut later this month at a modern music festival in lovely Bergen, Norway.
Can a gadget defeat a superhero? Here’s a question our sister site io9 posed: can a lightsaber cut through Superman? We put both our nerdy gadget knowledge and our nerdy superhero knowledge to the test and came up with reasons why it could and reasons why it couldn’t.
Yes • If the lightsaber crystal was green, like green kryptonite, or if they actually used kryptonite as the crystal, then Superman would melt like a hot knife through even hotter dog droppings. • Superman’s been injured by lasers before (see most aliens he’s fought), so an extremely focused laser like a lightsaber could possibly injured him if applied directly to the skin for a long enough time. • If he were under the effects of kryptonite, when even bullets can hurt him, then a lightsaber could definitely chop off parts of his body.
No • What type of radiation does the lightsaber emit? It’s light, and Superman gets power from the sun, so the lightsaber could be a refreshing lamp. • It would just burn off his clothes, like in Superman 2, but it wouldn’t injured him. • He uses lasers (his own heat vision) to shave himself, so the best the lightsaber could do would to singe his chest hair, or give him a nice shave down there. • Jedis can’t actually cut through “everything” with the sword. Example: the massive large door in Episode I. They’d to jam in their lightsabers and “melt” a doorway inside the door. The sword was fast to go into the door because they applied all the force to the tip, but was slow cutting because the Jedis are only so strong. Picture you slicing through a watermelon. In the same principle, a lightsaber technically might be able to cut through Superman, but there’s nobody strong enough to force it through. Unless you somehow get the Hulk to use a lightsaber. But the Hulk doesn’t exist.
Verdict: Superman wins! [Thanks to Achal for his Superman knowledge.]
It seems that computer users are divided up into one of several keyboard camps. The most vocal camp is the really loud and clacky IBM Model M crew who manage to find every single post about keyboards and state “JUST GET A MODEL M OMG!!!”. Then there are the laptop style scissor-key camp who enjoy slight feedback, but not too much. Of course the ergonomic split-key camp and the Microsoft/Logitech keyboards need to be counted as well. What do you like? For the record, the Optimus is fairly soft, but with a good amount of resistance.
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Gadget Lab editor Rob Beschizza’s dreams of a penis-shaped mouse might finally have come true. Lite-On Technology’s Moldable Mouse can be squeezed into any shape, including that of a male member.
Can a gadget defeat a superhero? Here’s a question our sister site 
It seems that computer users are divided up into one of several keyboard camps. The most vocal camp is the really loud and clacky IBM Model M crew who manage to find every single post about keyboards and state “JUST GET A MODEL M OMG!!!”. Then there are the laptop style scissor-key camp who enjoy slight feedback, but not too much. Of course the ergonomic split-key camp and the Microsoft/Logitech keyboards need to be counted as well. What do you like? For the record, the Optimus is fairly soft, but with a good amount of resistance. 
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