Hasta La Gadget!

You all know Tim Burton as the only man on planet earth who can make an animated nine year-old child give a grown man nightmares.  (Yes, I’m talking about Frankenweenie.)  On an unrelated note, you probably also know a man named M. Night Shyamalan, who is the only guy who can put a (un-satisfying) twist ending into every single one of his movies.  Anyone see that movie Devil?  SPOILER: It was the old lady, who died almost halfway through the movie.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy these Pokemon characters drawn like Tim Burton would have imagined them.

These were done by a Tumblr guy named Hat Boy, who is currently drawing Pidgey in the style of Tim Burton.  (He’s just going in numerical order.)  The above is a rather mutated, frustrated Venusaur that the frightful person himself would approve of.  I’ll tell you what, though: if that came ouf of a Pokeball, I think you could win most battles by default.

This Tim Burton-like representation of Charmeleon is one of my favorites that HatBoy has created.  Why?  It reminds me of the two little guys from the Hercules Disney movie.  It also reminds me to plug in my nightlight, since I am now afraid of what I may find under my bed.  Hint: my bum brother-in-law wielding a pack of opened matches.

Here’s our little buddy Squirtle, complete with creepy dot nostrils characteristic of Tim Burton characters.  I’m done giving myself the heebie-jeebies, so you should probably go check out something else weird like the Q*bert Pillow.  Or, if you’re drawn more to the Pokemon side of things, take a look at these custom Pokemon onesies.  For adults.

[via Venture Beat]

This super awesome post was written by Jack, lead blogger at Cool Gizmo Toys.  Jack puts together lists to help geeks quickly find the stuff that they love, and has a free eBook that you can get today!

How many of you out there actually use a scanner, raise your hands? Well, scanners are useful for stashing important documents and immortalizing them in the digital format, as you have more or less run out of space to store those physical papers. Here is one unique scanner that doubles up as an iPad dock as well – the £149.99 DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad. Coming in a sleek form factor, the DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad will be able to scan documents and photos amongst others, where all you need to do is dock your iPad in the standard 30-pin connector, send those documents that you want to be scanned through the scanner, and see them appear on your iPad’s display, as though there was a bunch of garden gnomes hiding in your iPad to perform such magic.

Definitely a whole lot more enticing to look at than the noisy flatbed scanner, the DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad will run off juice from your iPad’s 10W power adaptor. It is a snap to tote around in your backpack whenever you travel, and it has just strengthened the case for tablets being a viable portable workstation for folks who work in a mobile environment.

[ DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

It looks like IFA will be where many Windows 8 devices shown back at Computex get (more) official. Exhibit A is ASUS, which today pulled the curtains on the Vivo Tab and the Vivo Tab RT, previously known as the ASUS Tablet 810 and the ASUS Tablet 600, respectively. There’s still no pricing info available, but the company has filled in some of the remaining spec gaps.

As we previously knew, the Vivo Tab sports an 11.6-inch IPS display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution and supports a Wacom digitizer input in addition to 10-point multitouch. The tablet runs an Intel Atom CPU with 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The Vivo Tab measures 0.33 inches thick and weighs in at 1.5 pounds. There’s also an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, plus a 2-megapixel shooter up front. As we learned back in Taipei as well, an NFC sensor will be on board.

Then there’s the Vivo Tab RT, which is slightly smaller, at 0.33 inches thick and 1.1 pounds, and with a 10.1-inch screen. Like its non-RT brother, it boasts an IPS display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution, but it runs a Tegra 3 processor and a 12-core GPU, with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The RT tablet includes the same cameras and NFC sensor as the Vivo Tab.

Of course, these two slates also come with a Transformer-like dock, which adds a full QWERTY keyboard, trackpad, two USB ports and a second battery. The missing element to this equation is still pricing and availability: check back for those details, and in the meantime hit up the press release below the break.

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