If you had to pinpoint one common feature of all the backup batteries on the market, it would probably be their uninspired brick-like form factor. There are exceptions, though, but none as elegant and civilized as Brando’s new lightsaber-themed portable backup battery.
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Sometimes well-placed propaganda is the strongest weapon of all. So the folks at Brando have come across what could be the most dangerous RC toy ever devised, armed with an extra spinning rotor that displays custom messages. Because a foam arrow to the eye doesn’t hurt nearly as much as the revelation that "Jason smells like poop."
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It’s been a while since I featured a product from Brando, and I have to say I’m slightly disappointed with what they recently showed to us. It’s a USB drive shaped like a king chess piece. I know right? A perfectly reasonable, gift ready gadget that doesn’t make you want to bash your head against the wall in confusion? What’s going on at Brando?
The only weird thing about it it’s that Brando calls it a Chess Flash Drive. And it’s not even that weird! They just accidentally a word.
If you’re looking for a gift for a chess fan, get this from Brando. It sells for $16 to $38 (USD) depending on the capacity you want. Meanwhile I’ll be here mourning the end of an era.
If you’ve got $38 to spare and a few weeks to wait for delivery, Brando’s got a new temperature sensing travel mug that guarantees you’ll never again burn your mouth on scalding hot coffee—or accidentally sip a stale brew that’s gone cold.
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While winter’s dry air here in Chicago is finally nearing its end, I’m sure there are many of you who live in dry climates where humidification is a must year-round. If your need to moisturize your nasal passages and are into photography, have I got something for you!
One of the latest wacky gadgets to find its way from Hong Kong via Brando, the USB Camera Lens Humidifier is exactly what it sounds like. This gadget looks just like a Canon SLR camera lens, but is actually a compact desktop humidifier. Just load it with water, plug it into a USB port, and you’ll be fogging up your eyeglasses in no time flat.
The USB Camera Lens Humidifier is available for just $25(USD) over at Brando. Just don’t try and mount it to your fancy DSLR and expect to shoot steamy photos with it.
Have you managed to figure out just what kind of gamer are you? Some of us like to solve adventure-based puzzles such as Mario, the Legend of Zelda series, or perhaps a little bit of swashbuckling adventure on the side with Lara Croft in her Tomb Raider outings. For the more tame folks out there, there is always the classic Rubik’s Cube, but assuming you have mastered this puzzle for many years already and are out looking for a new adventure, here is the $79.90 Roulette Wheel IQ Cube that certainly looks as though it will cause you to crack your head permanently in solving it.
For starters, the Roulette Wheel IQ Cube sure as heck looks a whole lot more complicated than your regular Rubik’s Cube, where the former is positively child’s play. Each surface on the Roulette Wheel IQ Cube comes with a roulette, so the ultimate objective in solving it is not only to accomplish each surface’s color, but also the roulette color alongside its sequence number. Looking at it already makes my head spin, and I think I would like to pass, but if you want one, gadget mavens Brando will ship out its pre-orders at the end of this month.
[ Roulette Wheel IQ Cube copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Leave it to Brando to add one of the most obscene iPhone cases we’ve ever seen to its online catalog. If you love the iPhone 5’s minimalist design, you’re going to hate it. But if you love The Avengers, particularly Iron Man, you’ve just found your next iPhone case. More »
Unless you’re some kind of prodigy who can solve one while juggling, making pancakes, and whistling Dixie, the Rubik’s cube is already difficult enough. So why on earth would someone go and add a numbered, spinning dial to each side? That’s just sadistic. More »
At first glance it’s easy to dismiss this memo board alarm clock as being just another piece of technocrappery from Brando. But how often do you wake in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea you don’t want to forget? More »
If you hang with a tech-minded crew, a high-end DSLR with a giant telephoto lens is definitely an object of lust and envy you’re going to want to show off. And when Canon handed out those telephoto lens thermoses at the Olympics a few years ago, of course photographers and gadget aficionados went nuts over them. But enough is enough. More »
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