Category Archives: New Products & Gadgets

Highlighting new gadgets, tech innovation, products and services.

A new show for people that like junk and inventions

JUNKies is a new television show on the Science Channel about Jimmy’s Junk, a junkyard on Long Island that specializes in unusual salvaged parts for projects by artists and inventors. (via Laughing Squid)

Grilled cheese fried egg sandwich

Here is how to make a grilled cheese fried egg sandwich. I am going to try this on Saturday morning.
Grilled cheese fried egg sandwich
(via 9GAG)

Drumming for Jesus

The Largest DrumSET

90 Drums & 90 Cymbals…for His Glory!

The largest drum set in the world was designed and is played by a guy named Dr Mark. Here is what he says about it:

I have designed and play The Largest DrumSET in the World with an arsenal of unusual sounds to Worship God and Wage War against the enemy since 1978. God’s presence & power upon these sounds bring LIFE, healing, deliverance and miracles. We get to kick the devil out of his place of power…in our lives and in our world!

the largest drum set

The largest drum set in the world

Learn more about Dr Mark and the largest drum set in the world (including specs) here.

You have taken God rock to a whole new level Dr Mark. I’m gonna go turn my guitar amp up to eleven now.

The guys that could have bought Google

Remember Excite.com? Well in the late 1990s they had the chance to buy Google for $1 million. Excite wasn’t interested. The offer was lowered to $750,000. Excite passed. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stuck with it and their once small search engine is worth about $180 billion. Excite declared bankruptcy in 2001 and the owners now have to tell this story to their grandkids someday.

Excite
(via Minyanville)

Awesome bedroom designs

(via The META PICTURE)

Creative WIFI network names

I think I’ll change the name of mine tonight. (via Mashable)

Police Surveillance Van 2
Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wi-Fi
Use This One Mom
Abraham Linksys
Series of Tubes
404NetworkUnavailable
PlzBringVodkaToApt1310
Pretty Fly for a Wi – Fi
Bluth Model Hotel
The Banana Stand
I have Wi-Fi and You Don’t
Router? I Hardly Know Her
No Free Wi-Fi for You
Free Virus
SUPERThanksForAsking
Network Not Found
BAD ERROR 313: disconnect
SkyNet Global Defense Network
GET OFF MY LAN
AllYourBandWidthRbelongToUS
lookmanowires

Got any of your own?

If you don’t know how to change the name of your wireless network, click here.

Are you a programmer?

Are you a programmer?Via A Programmer’s Life

 

Park anywhere button

(via Bits and Pieces)

Rail Riding for the bicycle enthusiast

These modified bicycles allow the riding enthusiast a new way to satisfy their wanderlust and see parts of the world that had been otherwise inaccessible on two wheels. Check out these products and books or www.railbike.com if you are interested. (via Visual News)

Inserting ads into old TV shows

The Bad Teacher poster in the second photo (below) with Ted (Josh Radnor) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) was added to a lamp post that was already in the scene.

Why does this 2006 episode of How I Met Your Mother include an ad for the 2011 movie Bad Teacher? Because it can. Technology is advancing in the advertising world. A company called SeamBI (Seamless Brand Integration) can inject new ad units into the content of old syndicated shows. They do this by digitally altering scenes of old TV show episodes with new products and brands. If there is an appropriate space for an ad naturally in the shot (i.e. billboard or TV in the background), they use that space. If no natural space exists, then one is created. The plasma hanging in the background in this photo was digitally rendered and added  into the shot. The original airing never had a TV on the wall.

In the coffee shop scene with Marshall (Jason Segel) above, the plasma TV screen was inserted

Not sure where I stand on this. I think it would be distracting to be watching a rerun of My Name is Earl and see an iPad ad on the screen behind Crabman. Advertisers know that people are fast-forwarding through the ads though, so product placement is becoming more important. (via ADWEEK)