Pencil Archive

  • Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

    Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    OLEDs, which are said to lead the next wave of innovation in the TV space (after back-lit LCDs and 3D displays), come with plenty of advantages: they produce gorgeous images, they are self-luminous, light, and they're flexible - very flexible. Case in point: a super-thin, Sony-made 4.1-inch OLED that actually wraps around a pencil, shown today in Japan.

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  • Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show is GO!

    Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show is GO!

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    This young lady is eight years old and produces something she calls Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show. Today she made a Drawdio, a pencil that plays music when you draw things. Mark at BoingBoing found her at Maker Faire and she seems to really enjoy what she’s doing and she has great production values, which is [...]

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  • Gluvi, the remote control condom

    Gluvi, the remote control condom

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you disgusted by humanity? Do you find human contact repulsive? Are other people, in a very Sartrean sense, hell? Then you need the Gluvi.

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  • Review: Withings WiFi Scale

    Review: Withings WiFi Scale

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: Yes, this is that scale that Tweets your weight. And yes, it’s actually pretty cool. Features Built-in Wi-Fi Backlit screen Battery powered Body mass sensor $159 MSRP Pros Multiple users with automatic user detection based on weight Slim design Quick readings Lots of reporting options Cons Potentially fragile Seemingly low battery life Who wants to Tweet their weight? Review So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. [...]

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  • Boogie Board writing tablet costs $30, features ‘no power LCD technology’

    Boogie Board writing tablet costs $30, features ‘no power LCD technology’

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Going completely paperless just got a bit easier with an LCD tablet that – wait for it – actually seems to be an affordable and useful way to replace paper pads. The Boogie Board from Improv Electronics features  technology from Ohio’s Kent Displays called “Reflex LCD,” a pressure-sensitive, flexible plastic that requires zero power to retain what’s written on it and only a small watch battery to erase the screen.

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  • Review: Shutter Buddy

    Review: Shutter Buddy

    Posted on December 11, 2009 | No Comments
    So we got a Shutter Buddy a few days ago and we gave it a try. What’s a Shutter Buddy, you ask? Well, it’s kind of a satellite dish looking thing that you attach to a point and shoot. It fits over a DSLR, but not quite as well as you’d expect. You waggle the camera [...]

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  • Make your own Ball and Cage

    Make your own Ball and Cage

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Welcome to CrunchGear’s old-timey corner of fun. First, read this for a bit of charming reminiscence: When I was a kid growing up on a farm, most boys carried a knife to school and usually sharpened their own pencils. Getting a nice smooth point on a pencil was a matter of pride for most of us. [...]

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  • USB hub looks like an old cassette tape

    USB hub looks like an old cassette tape

    Posted on August 8, 2009 | No Comments
    tapeIf you feel like you've been dragged kicking and screaming into the wonderful world of technology, now's the time to show everyone that you still haven't forgotten your old school analog roots -- sort of. This is a four-port USB hub that looks like a cassette tape.

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  • Impossible-To-Describe Clock Spins and Points

    Impossible-To-Describe Clock Spins and Points

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    There is more than one way to skin a clock: Our own soft-haired and sensitive Daniel Dumas prefers the indecipherable blipping LEDs of Tokyo Flash watches, I rock an old school Casio calculator watch, and Wired.com editor Dylan Tweney actually measures the hour using the shadows cast by the handsome crags on his perfect face [...]

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  • iPod Touch 3G case? Nah

    iPod Touch 3G case? Nah

    Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Reader “Jenny” sent us a link to a silicone case from Asiajunk manufacturer UXSight. It purports to show an iPod Touch 3G - third generation, not third generation wireless - with two holes -one for a camera and one for the antenna. Or maybe the little one is for a little pencil that comes out [...]

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