“The Hand” R/C Window Sign allows drivers to display hand gestures to other drivers signaling their thanks or anger. Using electroluminescent technology and a little bit of animation, “The Hand” basically applies to your car’s back window able to display seven different hand gestures at the press of a button. You’ve got: I love you, Hang Loose, Devil Horns, The Bird, Loser, Power, and Peace gestures available for use. So, the next time some idiot cuts you off on the freeway, just slam the gas pedal to the floor and cut the asshole right back while switching to “The Bird” gesture. Flip him off without lifting your hands off the wheel (not that I endorse road rage, though).
Only in Japan will you see street theater like this. Call them crazy, but the odd scene is actually a promotional stunt for Toyota’s latest super-compact car, the iQ. Using a building’s vertical side wall as a stage, the actors gleefully walk and dance along the side of the building (attached to a safety harness of course) with their umbrellas, all while the Toyota iQ remains parked. I don’t quite understand the advertisement, and unfortunately, the Toyota iQ can’t drive up a wall. Photo gallery of the car after the break…
Have you always wanted a pool table for your home, but can’t find any space in the house to put one in? Here’s an idea. Try putting it under the floor like this Disappearing Pool Table. The table features a side-sliding trap door with the pool table literally rising from the ground — ready to play some Eight Ball within a few seconds. Just make sure your home’s got some underground space, and of course, be sure to install the your Disappearing Pool Table from the ground floor.
From the Runaway Box comes The Great Office War, which shows what happens when your typical office goes ape Nerf. The skit pits the Sales team against the I.T. team in an all out Nerf office war.
I didn’t know a Nerf Sniper Rifle existed. I kinda want one to mod ($34.15 at Amazon). Anyways, enjoy the film.
Sticky Notes are awesome. You can write yourself notes and stick the yellow paper on anything you want: your desk, computer monitor, forehead, co-worker’s back, etc. The problem is that you run out of them. I mean, I can go through a whole pad of stickies like no one’s business. Thankfully, the E-Note concept from industrial design agency Sequoia-Studio would solve the limited quantity problem.
Apparently, every time a pilot does a ‘rough landing’ he/she is required to report the incident so an inspection can be done to fix any damages to the aircraft (example: see video above). Unfortunately, many pilots wrongly assess the roughness of their landing as 90% of the reports yield an inspection with no damage found — causing a very expensive waste of time. Boeing, the aerospace and defense company, wants to save airline companies some cash by developing a hard-landing detector (see patent) which consists of sensors that can be mounted on existing aircraft able to monitor “flight parameters such as pitch and roll rates and angles, the centre of gravity, vertical speed, vertical acceleration and airspeed of an aircraft during a landing.”
Designed by students from the HTL Saalfelden engineering school in Austria, the Hexapodmeisterschaft is a six-legged robot that has been programmed to dance. Watch the Hexapodmeisterschaft swing its metal joints to the tune of Mambo #5 by Lou Bega. I guess the students were a fan of Bega, because the decapitated head on the robot looks just like him, minus the shades of course. Proof after the jump…
If you are someone who fears getting food-borne illnesses, or if you are just a germaphobe in general, then the Germ Eliminating Knife Block is for you. Similar to what hospitals use to disinfect their life saving instruments, the Germ Eliminating Knife Block uses UV-C light to destroy 99.99% of bacteria from your kitchen knifes. Now you can chop up your chicken, stick your knife into the knife block and within seconds, you can use that same knife to chop up your salad.
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