Some clever chappie (professor Silver) has designed a lens for your glasses that you can change the strength of the focal distance yourself – ie. no more optician!
He does this by filling a membrane with water. Using in syringe with a dial you can put in more or take out some fluid, customising it to your own strength.

Yes, they’re ugly, but they’re working on that. They want to sell these things in developing nations for as close to $1,- as they can possibly get.

This is a good guide how to do it easily and reap the benifits of proper colour. All you need is a THX certified DVD and a pair of $4,- goofy glasses.

It’s an easy system: you plug one end into your PC and you plug the other end (which can be bought seperately) into your USB thing, making it a wireless device. Prices seem reasonable.

With 200x magninfication and 1600 x 1200 resolution this is quite something for only GBP 50

BSODomizer is a small, battery-powered, mischievous electronic gadget that interfaces between a laptop or desktop and VGA monitor and flashes images onto the monitor at random time intervals or when triggered by an infrared remote control

Childish and random? Hell yeah! Cool as fuck and I want one!

This is a paper thin LCD screen that can be coated on cell phones and change colour at the touch of a finger. YOU get to decide what you’re cell phone looks like!

These teddybears look amazing

These external speakers will only run at 100 – 500 pieces and will be on sale from November.

mir:ror is a system that reads RFID labels and then performs actions on your PC depending on the type of tag: eg, show your umbrella and it will give you a weather report.

Only $69,99

This HP USB key doubles as a floppy disk emulator, meaning you can easily boot up from it on all kinds of PCs.

The lenses on these glasses are cut so that the view to the sides of the wearers head is sent to your peripheral vision, where you’re not so good at looking at detail, but good at detecting movement. This should improve safetly substantially whilst doing just about anything!

Danny Kuo’s design for a bookcase that turns into a staircase so you can reach the top shelves easily is stunningly simple and brilliant.

After having ripped off a poor English inventor to create the ipod, now they’ve ripped off Cupertino who designed the next generation of ipods a year ago!

Keepin’ it real fake, CXL: Cottage MP3 player apes iPod nano 4G a year in advance – Engadget

These lenses boost focal length, which means that the huge lenses you need to follow something from far away on a camera can be made a whole lot smaller.

Using ultrasound, the University of Tokyo has found a way to exert highly localised pressure in a single direction, allowing you to feel invisible objects in the air.

This tree is unfortunately a design concept, but I want it: charge your gadgets with solar power…

This thing flies your camera wherever you want it – fast!
Very cool videos

Yes! This one hangs on the wall AND supports SD cards.

Are you the type of gamer who needs to get every latest input device and display for your killer rig? If gaming peripherals are just piling up on the floor of your bachelor pad, perhaps this gaming table from Digital Edge can get things under control. I just wouldn’t put it anywhere a potential girlfriend might happen to see it.

Designed specifically with CH Products controllers in mind, you get three levels of shelves for all your stuff, including enough room for three monitors. All that’s missing is a chair, but I suppose you could use one of these.

The Gaming Table is available now for $379.

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There’s plenty on 3D printing in this blog, but these guys (Shapeways) are interesting in that they’re offering to 3D print cheaply: around $50 – $150 and in 10 days time!

This is a coating you put on your gadget for around $50 – $75 which then waterproofs it and dustproofs it. There’s video of people working cellphones underwater in the link.

OK, so you want to personalise a bit of metal, glass, wood, whatever by laser cutting it? Here you go! Windows sees it as a printer and lets you personalise to your hearts’ content.

Not cheap though: around $8000,-

It’s a mouse. Which is wireless. For on your finger.