Ever dreamed of being able to wash your hands with a laser beam instead of water? Yeah, me too. You can get pretty close with this LED facet gadget. It screws onto the end of your facet and passes the stream of water through a light chamber contain LEDs. It will even turn the color red when water hits 89 degrees. Best part is it runs on batteries, which is a hell of a lot safer than the one I made that plugged into the wall. ThinkGeek.com – $12.99
This giant inflatable cloud is supposed to be a portable meeting room. It’s about 7′x15′x13′ when inflated. It looks cool as hell, but I’m not sure what kind of business meeting would be appropriate to conduct in it. Somehow I don’t see Donald Trump saying, “let’s walk into my giant cloud room while I fire your ass”. I think it’d be fine for counting the stack of quarters I netted from my lemonade stand though.
The Ale car has three wheels, runs on fuel vapors and gets 92 mpg. It has an almost impossible compression ratio of 20:1 running a custom fuel vapor system. With 0-60 times of 5 seconds and a 1.7 g rating in the corners this isn’t your typical slug of a hybrid.While the Ale looks cool as hell from the outside it’s a bit of a frankenstein under the hood. It’s got a Honda engine with a CRX front suspension and rack and pinion streering from a Porche 911. The dashboard looks like something the Russians developed in the 1960′s and the front (and only seat) looks like it was salvage from a 15 year-old Prelude.The Ale runs on regular gasoline and meets all emission standards. Five more pictures of the Ale after the jump. Continue Reading
This LED clock displays the time in Powers of Two binary code. This thing looks more like a control panel out of Chernobyl than a clock. But the good news is that if someone can sell this thing as a clock there’s hope for my plans to sell bags of broken glass as ‘diamond rings’.
ThinkGeek – $19.99
Here’s an example of one of the coolest things ever. A giant ass flat screen tv that automatically slides out from under your bed. Its level of awesome is surpassed on by the level of suck that is the room in this video. So unworthy.
If you’re tired of being blinded in the middle of the night when nature calls then what you need is a lighted throne. The Johnny Light is a night light for your toilet. I sounds ridiculous, but it’s probably pretty useful. It’s battery powered so there’s no annoying risk of electrocution for guys with aiming issues. Plus it’s guaranteed to be the talk of any party, especially when you tell people it’s not only a nightlight but a video camera.
LEDs are appearing everywhere, from Flash lights, tail lights to solar garden lights. Here’s one more. Faux candles. The coolest thing is that you can’t really tell their LED powered, they flicker just like real candles and you can even blow them on or off just like a real candle.