Archives for December 2007

About a month ago you may have seen the Monster Cycle which stood 15 feet tall. It was one huge bike. Now we have BIGTOE which length is 15’4″ and height is 5’7″ – 7’6″ tall (variable height). It weighs a whopping 3600 lbs and has a Jag V12 engine which produces 300HP. As can be seen, the tires are also huge Firestone’s 18.4 – 34. In total the bike is 8 times larger then your average bike and has training wheels to keep you upright. I have seen a rumour that the training wheels retract once speed is gained. Also in the bike you will find a 500W 4 way speaker sound system with CD player. With that massive 300HP V12 engine, it is still only capable of 62MPH although I bet that speed would be scary on a bike that size.

The bike was built by Tom Wilberg from Sweden and it took six years to build (and about 3000 man hours). It cost $80k.

Via: DreamGate

The portable basketball kit was designed to attach to the back of your car and allow you to play Basketball where ever you are. Details are a tad scarce though such as how high the hoop can be put before tipping your car over. Unfortunately it seems like this didn’t really take off as the product page is now dead.

Via: DailyGadgets

This watch is rather cool as it has a built in GPS tracking device. The screen is LCD and has 128 x 128 pixels which can display your location when ever needed. The GPS tracking is provided by a SiRF star III chip and the watch also has Bluetooth built in allowing you to hook it up to a PDA or laptop to add navigation in to the mix. The watch is also capable of keeping track of you and allows you to select various maps to show where you are and where you have just been.

Key Specifications/Special Features:

* Bluetooth-transmission GPS signal to any devices (PDA, smart phone and so on) for Navigation
* Equipped with GPS SiRF star III
* Separation of watchband
* Bike mounting
* Display speed/distance/ temperature
* Time correction
* Water-resistant (IPX7)
* Altitude/elevation data GPS provided altitude with vertical
* Comfortable, adjustable and flexible strap
* Smart power-saving mode
* One year warranty
* Store up to 120,000 way points
* Screen display
* LCD 128 x 128 pixels
* Position recorded: 256 sets
* Record track-logs of vehicle movement
* Display maximum speed, average speed, distance and moved time
* User can select among Google map, satellite or hybrid to show the track
* Reads NMEA data from GPS
* Replay the recorded routes, time and speed point by point
* Suitable for hiking, biking and walking

Product Page Via: TrendyGadget

These unique Lego Salt and Pepper shakers are shaped in the form of a Lego mans head. I am guessing the rougher looking guy on the right is the pepper. Available from Amazon they cost just $16.95.

Product Page

WoW (Blizzard Entertainment) have joined forces with Ed Fries (former MS game studios VP) to create 3D statues of individual characters from the popular game World of Warcraft. The service is named FigurePrints and costs around $100 to create professional looking 3D statues of your favourite character. When ordering you go through the step by step process and can choose anything from clothing to what they are standing on. Once built it will be delivered in a glass dome to where ever you wish.

The cool part of the system is that they use 3D printing to create the characters. 3D printers have been around for a few years, but still haven’t gained too much popularity due to high costs. The 3D printers can replicate any WoW model you wish and mixed with custom painting you have one seriously cool looking 3D model.

Product Page Via: SlipperyBrick

Back in the early 80’s GPS satellites were around, but they did not become open to public use till 1994. Honda created this navigation system which did not use GPS and instead, used gas gyroscopes to track where you were driving to. All you had to do was slide in a transparent map of where you were and mark on the screen where your current location is and then drive around. The gyroscopes updated your position on screen so you would “never?” get lost.

Costing a hefty $2-$3k when it was launched in 1981 it was probably out of reach for most car owners.

Via: GPSMagazine