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The Greenest Rocking Horse Ever
For now, just a concept, but what a great way to harness your kid’s energy while they play. Rocco the Energy Pal is an entry in the Greener Gadgets design competition. Rocco teaches children about energy generation and conservation by converting kinetic energy created through rocking into electricity. The removable handles are a flashlight or a nightlight to stay up extra late – except, with all that rocking, they won’t be able to. Rocco 2.0 should include an iPod/phone charging adaptor under the mane.
They have a lot of votes, but need more to get to the top. You can see some other cool entries and vote for Rocco here.
Very funny take on M.C. Escher's Relativity. Click on link for the full .gif animation.
"Why yes son, yes he does." And so began my son Theo and my exploration into the world of marvel comics via Panelfly comics for the iPhone. A fantastic source of new and hard to get original, early versions of classic comics. The pinching and zooming was a little awkward at first but we quickly got into Spidey's next enemy dr. octopus. The "iSlate" should make this even more enjoyable.
iPhone Photobooth Fun
One of my first memories of being photographed was when my sister and I were crammed into a booth by our dad and blinded by four bright consecutive flashes. Ten minutes later when I regained my sense of sight, I realized that we were standing outside of a strange booth with a curtain. We waited for what seemed like an hour, but was probably just ten minutes for a small and slightly damp strip of photos to be spat from the machine. I remember seeing my older sister smiling brightly above just the top of my head. Dad said I looked great. Sadly, those photobooths are thing of the past (minus the Gallery Bar on the Lower East Side and a few other hipster holdouts). Enter the “Original Mobile Photobooth iPhone App” (v 2.0). It takes four quick pictures and puts them into a classic four panel strip that is easy to share on FB/Twitter/email. You also have the option to make it b/w or color. Here’s the Mobile Photobooth Website and here’s the iTunes App Store link.
Handy hands-free iPhoning with the Gorillamobile
I like this handy iPhone grip from Joby. I have been a fan of the Gorillapod for a while. My son loved to play with mine until he broke it with brute force. This seems like a clever way to use your phone while keeping both hands free. Just don’t let anyone see that you needed the GPS to make your way home from the playground. Because that would be embarrassing. Now, how about one for the Kindle guys?
Gorillamobile for 3G/3GS – Joby.
Long And Short Plaster » Yanko Design
For booboos short and long. This is a cool concept.
Long And Short Plaster by Miyeon Kim & Hoyoung Lee » Yanko Design.
This is such a great idea. Rise and shine to the smell of a pancake and egg breakfast without any effort at all. Too bad its fake. The folks over at Prankpack.com have ideas that are simply too good for this world. We're just not ready for the Beer Beard or the BirdieBelt or Coffee Talkies. For now, these ideas are only good enough to be printed on empty boxes to fool your friends. Someday, though, I will wake up to the smell of perfectly and automatically made pancakes and eggs. If I just keep believing...
Colorforms are a classic modern toy. Plenty of shapes and colors to make just about any set of patterns/designs that you want on windows. Just don't make the same mistake I made and confuse some other sticker set with the Colorforms. Needless to say, the stickers don't peel off quite as easily. I'm still working on removing some of those stickers.
