Segway's Ferrari edition (that's right)

Despite a recent push by human chickens, the Segway still hasn't become the ubiquitous mode of personal transportation that some once envisioned. And somehow it seems that acquiring Ferrari's nameplate won't bring it that much closer to reality.

Yet the racing legend has done just that, which makes us wonder if there's anything it won't put its name on. But hey, more power to them if they can get people to pay US$12,000 for a "Segway PT i2 Ferrari Limited Edition", especially because there's apparently no performance advantage over the original (though it does have a leather handlebar, according to Sybarites).

We do, however, give the company some credit for endorsing at least something that's mobile--which is more than we can say for Bugatti's toaster.

Via Crave CNET

Drawn to life: The laptop tablet

Correction: The original version of this article misstated the 12WX's power requirements. The Wacom Cintiq 12WX requires an AC power source to operate.

Come December, in Asia, you'll be able to buy a new 12.1-inch tablet that displays in widescreen (16:10). It will be fanless, silent and won't burn your thighs. It doesn't come with a keyboard, but it does come with a spiffy 1,024-pressure pen. And you don't even need to spend money on future upgrading, since it doesn't need RAM or an operating system.
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Gun Barrel Camera

The next time an officer in blue pulls out his handpiece, say cheese. Because attached to the barrel of his pistol is a lipstick-sized camera that starts videotaping the moment the gun is pulled from his holster. It's all part of the US law enforcement's agenda to go high-tech in its crime-fighting, including ensuring that such gun barrel cameras will make it easier, legally, to prove who's in the right or wrong during a shootout. Does this tape in audio, too, we wonder.

Of course, there's no accounting for fudging it with tech "malfunctions". Nor would we be surprised if some of those clips mysteriously found their way onto YouTube. That aside, it's a sound enough deterrent (think before you shoot, literally and figuratively?) that sure beats the Thai's idea of shaming errant cops with Hello Kitty armbands!

Via CNN

Lamp levitates, but how?

The cool thing about this lamp is you don't have to play the slumber party classic Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board to get it to levitate. It does that on its own.

Or so promises Crealev, an Eindhoven, Netherlands-based company that specializes in levitating products. Designer Angela Jansen presented her creation during Dutch Design Week recently, and design blog MoCo Loco has posted a video of the lamp in action.

It's unclear just how the lamp, or other Createv products, such as the hovering Buddha, do what they do.

Createv will only say that its proprietary technology has something to do with diamagnetic fields and that the company has "discovered a new levitation concept which is able to produce a very high levitation height combined with a low power dissipation and excellent stability."

Translation: Boil, bubble, toil, and trouble. Now, just toss a witch's hat on the thing and you're ready for Halloween.

Via Crave CNET

In-home donut machine

In case you were wondering, there is a God.

The Dough-Nu-Matic, available via the SkyMall in-flight catalog, is a miniature version of the Krispy Kreme fryer/conveyor belt that forms and fries savory donuts.

For just US$130, you can make very small donuts at the clip of a dozen every 6 minutes. That means you can eat 120 miniature donuts every hour without leaving your home. You can make donuts in your bathroom and eat them in the shower. You can place donuts on each of your fingers, then eat them off like the magical Mr. Donut Hands. You can buy a kiddie pool, fill it with donuts, and swim in it while wearing donuts as water wings.

Dials on the side of the machine let you adjust the cooking temperature, but alas, there is no "jelly" setting. You'll need to hollow out the donuts and inject jelly into them yourself.

You'll need your own dough, and SkyMall doesn't mention whether oil is included in the package. You may need that, too, but the machine's enclosed, covered oil fryer means you won't get splattered with hot oil while you watch the donuts get ready for business....the business of shoving them into your pie-hole.

I repeat: You can now make donuts in your home and eat the living hell out of them.

Via Crave CNET (source: Geekologie)

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