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The Defender Theft-Resistant Bike Light

The Defender Theft-Resistant Bike Light

Defender Theft-Resistant Bike

F Off My Bike Light

When you need to speed through the streets of Gotham to get your poker game on time, sometimes it’s actually faster to leave the Maybach Laundalet, Jaguar C-X75 or Ferrari 340 Comeptizione at home, and opt instead for your BMW M Bicycle. But you will NOT have your bike light stolen as you clean up at Texas Hold ‘Em, dagnammit! Get your hands on a Defender Theft-Resistant Bike Light ($TBA) to make sure no thieves can get their hands on your bike light. Once it’s locked onto your handlebars (the installation only takes 30 seconds), it’s practically impossible to remove without the security screwdriver that comes with it. Made of lightweight aluminum, with ultrabright LED’s, The Defender works on 3 AA batteries (also theft-proof without an allen key), and is sealed with three, tightly sealed silicone gaskets, making it completely waterproof. The Defender might just be as impenetrable as your poker face.

Withings Blood Pressure Monitor

Withings Blood Pressure Monitor

Withings Blood Pressure Monitor

iNurse

Your day jobs (alligator wrestler/Ryan Gosling sex scene stand-in) and your hobbies (volunteer Navy Seal—when they’re lucky enough to get you) can sometimes get the old ticker going in your chest going just a wee bit faster than you’d like it sometimes. To check out your blood pressure at any given moment, check out the Withings Blood Pressure Monitor ($130). Simply wrap the armband around your arm, plug it into your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, fire up the app and get your diastolic and systolic pressure, plus your heart rate in an instant. All of your data is captured and stored in your secure online space, and there’s even a secure way to share your results with concerned doctors, or even adoring fans.

Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar

Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar

Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar

Six Strings, Two Legends

Fender. Kurt Cobain. Need we say more? Brace yourself for this, but it’s been TWENTY years since Nirvana released “Nevermind” and high school kids everywhere stopped washing their hair and started moshing. To commemorate that ground-breaking album, Fender is releasing a special edition Kurt Cobain Jaguar ($1,300), exactly as it appeared strung around Cobain’s shoulders—a three-color sunburst guitar with an alder body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard and all the same wounds and scars Cobain himself inflicted on it. Kurt was a leftie, though, so south paws, you’re in luck. The Jaguar not only comes in a custom hardshell case, but a book of never-before seen photos of Cobain. Take a whiff of your very own teen spirit.

Samsung Flip Phone

Samsung Flip Phone

Samsung Flip Phone

More Screens!

Between laptops, desktops, flat screens, silver screens, iPhones, iPads, Nooks, Kindles and cameras, it’s safe to say we, as a society, enjoy screens. We’re guessing that was the insight behind designer Nick Trumbo’s Samsung Flip ($TBA) concept phone. Using OLED screen technology, Trumbo’s vision consists of a phone that can fold up or flip out, with screens on both the inside and the outside. The outer screen’s main purpose is for quick-glance notifications, while the inner screen can be used to view larger content, OR to even break down into two separate screens. If this many screens still won’t suffice, we suggest seeking some sort of psychological help.

Tentsile Tent

Tentsile Tent

Tentsile Tent

Branch Out

In your Eagle scout days, you were always taught to hang your food in the trees overnight lest a bear ravage your tent trying to get his grubby paws on your leftover weenies. But since you’ve gotten more gourmet in your old age, you prefer sleeping with your Truffle Oil and Baconnaise close at hand, thank you very much. Guard your goodies up in the trees with the Tensile Tent ($upon request), an off-the-ground shelter that combines a hammock and traditional tent. The Tensile Tent comes in three sizes, the largest of which can sleep up to 8 people, so you and your camping buddies will never worry about finding flat ground or dealing with rocks in your back again. The squirrels, though…you may have a problem with the squirrels…we hear they have a special affinity for Baconnaise.