Category: Fun

Samsung NaviBot – hands on with the robotic vacuum cleaner

Samsung's fluff-collecting bot unveiled in Vienna yesterday is cute. The Navibot is an intelligent floor cleaner with visual and infra-red sensors making it the smartest thing to crawl around your floor since the stick insects died. But the stick insects were never this complex. A disc shaped object the size of a soup tureen the…

Samsung Forum 2010: a TV remote which IS ALSO A TV

This is slightly mind-blowing - the new remote control accompanying Samsung's LED9000 set will have its own LCD screen on which you can watch TV. The touchscreen on the remote can be used to simply control the large set but you can also use it as a second screen to watch another TV channel on.…

Samsung Forum 2010: the first TVs with apps

While the 3D images are the big new thing with Samsung's LED TV range - the series are all internet enabled and will feature apps - the first apps intended for televisions. Apps available include a LoveFilm one which lets users "rent" films by downloading them, a BBC iPlayer app and also access to social…

Shiny Cute Animal Video of the Week: rabbit massages other rabbit's ears

If real rabbits are cute, and toys shaped like rabbits are cute then toy rabbits massaging the ears of real rabbits in a mildly sexual but mostly cute way is the best thing ever. Okay it's a bit dull to start with but wait till the toy rabbit's upward arm motion catches the real rabbit's…

"Laconic" and other words NYT readers have to look up

Thanks to the New York Times's online dictionary we now know what words New York Times readers don't know and need to look up. It's a not particularly useful but quite interesting list. The NYT has an inbuilt dictionary which pops up a link to a definition when you click or highlight a word -…

CDs a victim of 2010 Spring Cleans

It looks like CDs and DVDs might be the victims of Spring Cleaning sessions in 2010. Apparently, spring cleans in 2010 are going deeper and further than they do in usual years according to research conducted to mark the launch of The Sims 3 Design & High-tech Stuff Pack. The urge to declutter is particularly…

MugStir from Quirky reinvents the spoon

You know they way they say "oh don't reinvent the wheel".. well the team at Quirky have obviously taken that to heart, because they have only gone and reinvented the spoon. News about the launch of the Quirky MugStir filled me with deep joy. More because rebranding the humble spoon as a MugStir was so…

The Apple Lamp – made from a recycled iMac

One for the fan-ladies and fan-gents out there: an Apple desk lamp. Not made by Apple, no, they don't do that, but this piece of desk furniture is paying homage to Apple with every gram of its sturdy frame. Incredibly made out of a recycled iMac, the iMac G4 lamp possibly references steampunk in its…

Tangerine and chrome Serie 1 TV from LG is a retro beauty

Check out this pretty retro TV from Korean company LG, usually more known for taking things forward rather than back. Love the chrome feet on this TV set, the orange casing (that shade of tangerine is pure 60s) and the perky little aerial. A classy sitting room piece if you want to make a design…