Gizmodude

The dream of having a Moghul garden is only enjoyed by those owning Palatial Resorts in India or Humungous Meditation Centers in China. Vast ponds of cool water reflecting the palace lights in the warm dark nights are not everyone’s privilege. So to compensate the lack of visual luxury we have the Floating Solar Lights that change their color as they float in the night waters. The lights come enclosed in a globe and can float safely and can even be suspended from a branch or a window. I wonder how safe it is to term this one as a lantern. The lights are powered by 1 x AA NiCad battery and the lights can last for up to 100,000 hours.

Just as the flick, 40 Year Old Virgin poked your sides with its humor; we have the doll that comes as the souvenir for those who appreciated the wittiness and clever dialogs of the movie. The doll looks pretty cool with chest hair and a good real-life color tone. And yes, the shorts totally rock. The doll mutters a 11 line vocabulary from the movie wit great sincerity to its director. And to top it all, this fellow beats Steve Carell in looks. How I hope they come out with a Ron Weasley doll that casts blue spells on being touched or a Velociraptor that bites. Do check the video after the jump. Interesting Indeed!

Have your spirit lightened up with LED Illuminated Ice Bucket. It comes with all the colors of a spectrum and changes its hue according the timing preset in it or on the push of a button. You can also stabilize and keep a single selected color if the hallucination swells beyond capacity. The LEDs last for 50,000 hours (more than 5 years of continuous 24-hour use) and to keep it aglow the frosted polycarbonate bucket diffuses the light for a warm glow without glare. The ice is kept well insulated and so that it doesn’t end up needing a refill and emptying and all the other casualties that follow melting. This is maintained for a whole two hours. The bucket comes with four rechargeable AA batteries that provide six hours of use on a full charge. That means a lot of recharging needed too often but then I don’t complain. As long as I have my rum on the rocks!

Have you dreamt of experiencing all the hype that surrounds the men and women we idolize? Have you wondered why these particular men and women have a hatred for the press and cameramen who follow them so ardently to have their pictures published in just about any magazine (something you would die for)? Well, you can make your party look all that dashing this summer with the Black Bar Glasses protecting your privacy (when needed most), but hey, it’s not going to be all that fun not showing your antics to your pals. However, in mushy and cozy situations things like these come to our rescue. These glasses sure do cost money, but they do satisfy only a small section of society that terms all occurrences of weirdness and vanity as ‘cool’. At the end of the day all they see are bars. I wonder if this is among those articles that are more fun reading rather than getting into the details and actually purchasing.

You can be well aware of the streaks of lightning flashing through the stormy skies as huge masses of cotton clouds collide. Called the Strike Alert, we have these snazzy looking lightning detectors that help alert you before he thunder so tat you can plug your ears accordingly. It has an alarm that triggers when lightning strikes. There are some neatly arranged LEDs that glow according distance of occurrence ranging from 20-40 miles, 12-24 miles, 6-12 miles and within 6 miles. You can clip it to your belt and roam around a lightning prone zone at an expected time. It can operate for up to 100 hours with a single AAA battery. You can predict storms as well; if the LED cycles from green to red, the storm is approaching and if the LED cycles from red to green, the storm is departing also if the LED cycles from the center LED to the outside LEDs, the storm is stationary. Now this is a lot of sophistication in a tiny device like this.

The Sony Ericsson W200i is a phone that doesn’t really catch the millionaire’s of die hard gizmo-freak’s eyes but is made for those really need a good phone, and cheap. It rides the 900/1800/1900MHz GSM bands and comes with 27MB internal memory in addition to the 256MB memory stick. The dimensional analysis says that it measures 44x101x18 mm and provides talk time of 7hours and 300 hours of stand by. A modest 0.3 megapixel camera isn’t something to really boast about, not is the 1.8” LCD display screen that support resolutions of 128x160 pixels. Other features include USB and Infrared connectivity and POP3 email. I wonder what made them miss out on Bluetooth.
A good buy at the end of the day and ill tell you why.

Here are some real cool shorts to take along with you to the beach. They are hot! So keep them away from the reach of the sharks. With exotic cool prints the shorts make for a perfect holiday and so are christened as ‘Destination Vacation’ shorts. These also come with back pockets with Velcro closures. The nylon shorts can survive a machine wash better than hand brutalization. You can boast about the embroidered logo at hem what’s more is that the inseam is about 4 1/2" so those who require an extra bit of alteration can avail of this advantage. And it’s better if you do it since having your shorts float away in the deep waters isn’t a good idea.

As the tires burn on scorched tarmac, a bunch of wild dragsters zip through the evenly paved path. And we aren’t talking about a highly dramatic racing simulation here. The object in question is actually a pretty cool alarm clock with brilliant drag racing indicator lights. The lights illuminate as the alarm sounds and its wake up time. The volume of the sounding special racing effect sounds increases and reaches unbearable decibels and wakes you up no matter what. The time is displayed in a manner of a tachometer or some of those weird metric devices that dragsters use. Probably sometime soon you’ll hit at least four perfect shifts. Hey! Mind the trailer in your path.

When it comes to finding new places or retracing routes that you had once trod, the Shinco GPS 350 system makes for a good choice with 65,000 points of interest. The 3.5" LCD color touch screen (with day/night mode) makes viewing absolutely clear and visible. With 2-D and 4-D imaging you can have your path traced out pretty well and enjoy the excellent voice guidance provided by the system. The gizmo also offers suction mount, USB support, a stylus, cigarette lighter adaptor, touch-screen stylus, an inbuilt MP3 player and headset support. So at the end of the day this baby takes you places without asking and irritating passers-by. In addition to there soon shall be made available soon.

Gone are the days when we used to relentlessly jab at the buttons on our game controllers to make sure Super Marion face no harm. This is 2007, and we are getting more realistic and building up whacked up simulations. So, to keep up with the times we have a Remote Controlled Mario Motor Kart Racer. Interesting indeed, isn’t it? The entire Kart is a good 12” of fun and the Mario doll looks pretty cool as well. One 9V Battery and 8 AA Batteries can this machine moving and have a blast as your mind is driven in nostalgia to the days when the Nintendo ruled. You can also cherish the Digitized Sounds from the game itself. With Right, Left, Forward, Reverse and Turbo controls you can enjoy your toy zipping across your alley or an art gallery when the art makes no sense to you. (Check the video after the jump).

The kinds of means that people have adopted to draw their vices from have often been subject to malice, disgust, beauty and wonder. From LED illuminated bottles to mermaids oozing out vodka from – (rather unsaid). Something similar makes up this cigarette providing machine called the Smoking Elephant Cigarette Dispenser. The cigarettes are pretty well received from the hind side of the elephant (may sound unhygienic, but the excreta is missing in this case so it’s pretty safe). One has to simply pull down the trunk of the elephant and you receive a new cigarette. Take it as a reward. The back of the elephant mounts an ashtray.

There’s depressing news to those who have disposed off their LPs bearing classics like Hey Jude and In The Ghetto. What we have here is a brilliant invention that was coming from sometime. The LP-to-CD Recorder can transfer data from your fragile old LP to any digital audio CD-R or CD-RW rather conveniently. The system accommodates 33s, 45s, and 78s and has a built-in AM/FM stereo with analog tuner and single CD playback tray. Other features include automatic/manual track increment control, record level indicator, record level control, backlit LCD screen, a remote control and plug-in to AC. The remote runs on twin AA batteries. The entire system has dimension of 9" H x 19" W x 15" D and weighs 23 lbs.

Have a home party and are totally clueless as to how to create an ambience to match the occasion? Want to surprise your boss with a surprise birthday bash on occasion of his birthday? Well, you do not need to order some pretty expensive lighting equipment. Nor do you need to bore holes into your walls to suspend the afforded lighting equipment. The Pocket Laser Show is tiny and compact and has rather large laser shows to boast about. The lasers can change your cubicle or your living room into a happening discothèque in a matter of seconds. You can be innovative and create your very own spinning shapes using the interactive buttons available on the device. The Auto button helps emit spinning shapes while the Manual button lets you use the four directional and speed controls to make your own light show. This one promises not to disappoint.

The Flying Alarm Clock wakes you up in a playful yet annoyingly noisy manner. It is called so, thanks to the attached rotor that takes flight the moment your alarm is triggered. The unit sends the rotor flying up to 9' in the air, and will not cease ringing until the rotor is returned to the alarm clock base the dome shaped base comes with dimensions of 3 3/4" H x 5 1/2" Diam. and weighs 7 oz. The alarm clock has a continuous snooze function that rings every seven minutes for an entire hour. There also is an LCD to aid to reading it in the dark. In addition to this we also have a six-button control panel for ease of programming.

Has mum been cribbing over your clumsiness at the table? Here’s your revenge. It is normal and at times fun when the table is sparkling after a recent wiping. With the Clumsy Coaster you can well enjoy a good laugh after someone picks on you for poor table manners. The coaster depicts a spillage of a nasty kind with transparent fluid texture. It pretty much impersonates a brilliant table disaster. One thing we are sure about is that this isn’t going to be a best seller among the clean-bobs by far. Here’s to a little bit of too much fun. Cheers!