Category — Gadgets

Video maestro Freddie Wong shows us how the future of gaming could work…

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If you happen to love the design for the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, you can now get a snap case from Incase, for the iPhone 4 that resembles the same latticed design. Perhaps a bit late for the olympics, but we think it’s still nice.

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For suspect chopstick skills, there’s a practise kit full of appropriately Chinese pandas for you to practise on. The Panda Darake practise kit allows you to pick up or place mini pandas onto a tire to hone your skills before approaching the dining table.

Panda Darake Chopsticks Practice Kit

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Subway platforms in South Korea (looks like Seoul?) now have excellent built in virtual supermarket “shelves” that allow travellers to browse and shop while they wait. The shelves are actually just large poster images of the real shelves, but each item has a QR code that shoppers can snap with their smart phones to input into a virtual shopping basket, which they can then order and have the products delivered.

Created by Tesco, who’ve rebranded themselves as Homeplus in South Korea, we thought this was a great idea to pass the time but wonder how it all happens during rush hour. Find out more about the system below:

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Though we’ve seen combination chopsticks before, the Twin One Cutlery, designed by DesignWright design studio of London, combines a fork, knife and chopsticks, whilst also allowing the interconnected fork and knife to spring-load the eastern utensil. The Twin One Cutlery is made from durable nylon and over moulded rubber.

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Social and collaborative media comes back to the real world with this new instrumental toy from Takara Tomy. The video below does all the explanation you’ll need, but essentially, it looks like the gadget plays different sounds by people touching both the gadget and each other to create a circuit. Looks fun!

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So if the Kinect uses your whole body as a controller, how are ordinary folks like us gonna compete with somersaulting AZO, who does a demonstration in this video below? We can’t and probably never will have to, if the games makers want us to keep playing with our ordinary, albeit much more limited physical abilities. But enjoy the ride anyway as AZO throws in a few wushu moves with a controller….

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Check out this video demoing a radio controlled sphere in Japan. We’ve played with difficult-to-control mini helicopters before and though we can’t help but think the guy controlling this is a pro, the landings must be all the more elegant for it’s ideal rolling design. We can see this tech being used in footballs of the future..

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Now whilst this can ain’t foolin us, it’s only a matter of time before robots infiltrate our everyday lives, Transformer-style. You (may have) seen it here first…

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We’re not sure this gadget will take over the world, but it’s certainly making the world a stranger place. “Kissing” this machine (actually, twirling a straw around your mouth, but we’ll give the benefit of the research stage to the scientists here) will mimic the movements of another machine in a remote location, allowing two remote people to kind of “kiss” each other.

Apparently, a good marketing strategy is thought to be recording the kissing patterns of a celebrity which can be played back to mimic kissing them…

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