These Trispecs Bluetooth Sunglasses come from the improbable annals of technology research, combining as they do one part designer smoothness and two parts geektastic Bluetooth listening smarts. Pair them with your mobile phone and MP3 player and take or switch between phone calls and your groovy music, man, at the drop of a push button control. $199.99 says you’re a nerd in disguise.  Blending designer sunglasses, stereo headphones, and Bluetooth headset functionality, TriSpecs are the hottest way to connect to mobile…

This Candy Grabber thing could be just what I need to slow down my consumption of the luscious choc varieties. However I fear that based on my fairground experiences, the device will drop the confectionary within inches of the hole each time, thus guaranteeing that I kick seven bells out of the container and go back to storing consumables in the fridge. £19.99.  Once you’ve popped one of the tokens in the slot, you have just one minute and fifteen seconds (but who’s counting) to manoeuvre…

There was a time when pocket watches were things old men pulled out of waistcoat pockets before adjusting their monocle, but those days are long gone. Nowadays we get devices like the Kisai Round Trip Pocket Watch, which takes the swinging fob and wraps it into a digital kaleidoscope of colour and steel. In line with most of these new fangled devices, it’s all but impossible to tell the time unless you’ve got a degree from MIT, but hey, why…

This Stirling Engine Ferris Wheel is an exercise in folly of course. How else to explain something that sits there powering itself round and round and yet going nowhere? Nevertheless it’s probably the sort of device your grandfather would love to build to full scale. Yours for a Stirling $1000.00.  Stirling engines are powered by the expansion and compression of air. Two alcohol burners heat the chambers on the Stirling engine, causing the air inside to expand and contract and push the…

This Magno Wooden Radio proves that design can live comfortably alongside traditional materials and still look great. Sure it’s not cheap, but those knobs look so…twirlable, don’t they? $250.00.  Singgih Kartono chooses wood for his radios not just based on aesthetics but on his appreciation of wood’s simplicity and organic vitality. The Magno radio combines the most current mp3 player compatible electronics with sustainably grown woods. Tags: gadget, magno+wooden+radio