Color Your Own Wallpaper

by Laurie Kay Olson

Coloring is not just a fun activity for kids. Many of those of us who grew up coloring still find it a relaxing past time that reduces stress. Coloring books for adults are getting more and more common. Now you can blend you coloring activities with one of those things your mother would never let you do -- drawing on the walls. Burgerplex offers a couple of different designs of wallpaper just for coloring.

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Camouflaged Keyboard Cover Keeps Computer Keys Clean

by Steve Levenstein

Like your keyboard clean enough to eat off? Then you'll love Type Wipe, an elegantly designed yet unobtrusive cover that blends in with your laptop and can double as a place mat in a pinch.

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This Honey Dispenser Is One Honey Of A Gadget

by Laurie Kay Olson

For years people have been thinking that there had to be a better way to have honey on the table and ready to dispense without having to hold that little plastic bear upside down forever. Norpro has come up with the perfect answer -- a honey dispenser that keeps that golden nectar at the dispensing end. Not only that, the base is designed to hold warm water to keep your honey flowing.

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Oh Splat! That's Some Wild Nail Polish

Oh Splat! White Nail Polish With Rainbow Glitter

by Laurie Kay Olson

Nail polish has come a long way from the days when you rarely got to step away from clear, reds, and pinks. Now just about anything goes. Fingernails have become tiny canvasses on which people can express themselves. With Oh Splat! on your nails every day can be a fabulous party complete with shimmering confetti.

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Robots Evolve!

by Katie Gatto

Nick Cheney, a current candidate for a PhD at Cornell University, has shown off some pretty cool research in robotics recently. He applied the idea of evolution to the bots. A single bot, which was fairly generic, was able to reproduce into several generations of more effective models. By using breeding to respond to a single selective pressure.

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How To Work On Your iPad Or Table Device From Just About Anywhere

by Bob J

If you're not already as sufficiently mobile as you would like, the Monkey Kit Tablet Tail will help to turn your mobility up a notch. With its rapacious rubber-coated limb, now you can work from your iPad or other tablet device in positions and places that up until now you've only ever dreamed of.

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Robot Octopus Swims Like Biological Counterpart

by Katie Gatto

A new octopus that is not biological swims the same way that a real one would. The bot, which was shown off at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which takes place annually in Karlsruhe, Germany showed off the robot in a tank in order to demonstrate the swimming motion.

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Can the Xbox One Stand Up to the PS4?

by Nicholas.Greene

As many of you are no doubt already aware, the Xbox One was announced today. The press event was...interesting, to say the least. Since watching it, I can't help but wonder: has Microsoft already lost the next-gen game?

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Genius In A Bottle: Amazing Wine Cork Mosaics

by Art Outside The...

Lord Byron once said, "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after". Conrad Engelhardt, a London-based artist, has certainly taken that advice to heart with his stunning wine-inspired mosaics made entirely out of corks. Wine and women indeed....

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The Caffeine Conundrum Is Addressed By Bottomless Coffee At Cups Tel Aviv

by Beth Graddon-Hodgson

Coffee makes the world go 'round, and it would be a massive understatement to say that American society can't live without their caffeine fix. But, most coffee chains do not accomodate the need for coffee drinkers to be highly caffeinated 24/7 either. While it may not yet be a thbusiness structure on this continent, Tel Aviv has introduced a coffee chain that is working hard to keep caffeine addicts fueled and ready for their next fix.

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HGST Travelstar 5K1500 Notebook Drive: 1.5TB in Slim 9.5mm Casing

by Rey M.L.

Most laptops support hard drives of only up to a 9.5 millimetre thickness, and before now the largest data capacity available within that thickness was one terabyte. For those select few who need more than that, HGST has arrived with a solution.

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Chinese Activist Artist Ai Weiwei Maps The Milk Of China's Discontent

by China.new

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei thinks there IS a point to crying over spilled milk. His latest work, titled “Baby Formula 2013”, maps out China's discontent over multiple milk powder scandals using 1,800 cans of powdered milk.

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German Industrial Robots Turned Aussie GPS Testers

by Katie Gatto

It looks like robots, that were designed to do heavy work in factories in Germany, are going to be going on a new adventure. They are going to be used to help test the relability of the GPS systems down under in the outback.The systems data will be used to refine the system and help tectonic plate research in the future.

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Xbox One Revealed

by dendory

Today Microsoft introduced the Xbox One, its next generation gaming console, and the company aims to make it an all-in-one device for the living room with online and social features for the whole family.

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The Real Story Behind the Failed Sale of the Sega Pluto

by Nicholas.Greene

Some time ago, a fellow on Destructoid who goes by the handle "kidvid666" made a very exciting revelation. Apparently, he owns one of the only two Sega Pluto units in existence. He decided to see what he could sell it for, and opted to put it up for auction. Unfortunately, things didn't exactly go as planned.

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The Boil Buoy Lets You Know When The Heat Is On

by Laurie Kay Olson

For busy people it is easy to get distracted while having something on the stove. To make sure you know when your water is boiling Quirky.com is bringing out the Boil Buoy. This dandy little gadget rings when your pot is boiling so that you won't miss your tea or burn your soup.

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Will Robots Social Network When They Eclipse Man's Intelligence? [Videos]

by Ron Callari

'Singularity' for those mere mortals who are unaware is the theoretical emergence of a super-intelligence through technological means. First proposed by mathematician John von Neumann, it is the time when "ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue."

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Going Green: Bamboo Calculator

by Laurie Kay Olson

Electronics are environmentally unfriendly. They usually are made up of non-renewable resources that will take thousands of years to degrade. There is one small way that you can take a step toward sustainability -- go bamboo. One of the latest twists is that outer components made of plastic and metal are now being crafted out of bamboo.

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“iSpoon” Ice Cream Shovel Is One Super Duper Scooper

by Steve Levenstein

The limited edition, anodized aluminum, Icemania “iSpoon” from Japan's Akao Aluminum can handle the hardest, coldest ice cream around! Priced around $25 each, the super-duper scooper includes a custom carrying pouch ideal for those late night visits to Zyggie's Ice Cream Parlor.

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Can Robots Care for Humans?

by Katie Gatto

A look at new work that is being done by workers at the Carnegie Mellon Universityin hopes of helping older people to live at home longer and better, with the help of robots. The bot currently in development, but not in production, is designed to help clean up and bring objects. It won't replace humans, but it could help add to their efforts.

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