Archive for the 'Gadgets, Toys & Things' Category

Blackberry Bold will not be launching in US markets after all

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Sources close to RIM are saying that the Blackberry 9000 (known as the Blackberry Bold) is being held from the US market because it doesn’t quite hold up to the expectations of business professionals in product tests. While the launched of the Bold has been rather successful in other international markets, RIM is disappointed in [...]

Mona Lisa painted in 80 milliseconds with 1100 paintballs

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Mythbusters was doing a demonstration on the differences in speed between CPU and GPU processing. To show this difference, Mythbusters rigged up two different paintball guns, one with a single-barrel shooting a single paintball over a period of time to draw a happy face, and the other, a 1100-barrel paintball gun that drew an interpretation [...]

Blackberry Bold is maybe, possibly, probably arriving Sept. 12

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Rumor at the moment is that the Blackberry Bold will finally hit US markets on September 12, 2008 for AT&T. I really want to know what is taking RIM so long to release this phone in the US. Are our cellular networks not capable of handling this awesome smartphone? Or is there some sort of [...]

Cyber Clean

Friday, August 29th, 2008

I won’t lie, I really want one of these. [via]
This infomercial has got me sold.

Alfie the dome-shaped fellow

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Alfie is a stuffed toy that loves to play dress up. Sometimes Alfie is his favorite character or superhero and other times Alfie will dress up as an animal. But whatever Alfie dresses up as, you can be sure he’ll be cute in it. [via]
Robin Alfie measures 6 inches high by 5 inches wide and [...]

Supreme Master Lock

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Well, this is a first. Supreme has teamed up for an unusual collaboration with Master Lock to create combination locks for back-to-school. The three locks are said to come in a set. Seriously, who else will Supreme get together with?

LArobe laptop sleeve/case from be.ez

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, I received my laptop sleeve from Wrappers and while the product was well-made, I wasn’t quite satisfied with how it fit my laptop length-wise. There was just too much extra space at the opening to allow me to confidently carry my laptop without worrying about it dropping.

So yesterday I went [...]