Hasta La Gadget!

I love rings. Getting my fingers cut off by a butcher’s knife, not so much. Surprisingly, you get something sort-of pretty (in its own way), creepy, and fashionable when you combine both together.

This is the Cleaver Ring by Raul Souza, who hails from Brazil. It’s made from Sterling silver and recycled wood and as its name implies, it’s essentially a butcher’s knife-shaped ring that you can wear around your intact digits.

As you can see, it’s normally not “bloody” so you’ll have to add the “blood” yourself. I think some watered-down ketchup or corn syrup and red food coloring will do fine.

The Cleaver Ring is for sale on Raul’s Etsy shop for $190(USD).

[via helablog via Incredible Things]

Just because they’re dead doesn’t mean they approve of your shopping habits. There’s nothing they can do about what you buy or don’t buy, but they can remind you that there’s more to life than shopping by showing you their dead and zombified faces every time you take that little plastic card out of your wallet..

..provided you’ve got one of these special edition prepaid debit cards, that is.

The artwork on these cards is by the talented Charlie Adlard, who is currently the primary artist for Robert Kirkman’s highly-acclaimed The Walking Dead series.

The art might look familiar, but that’s probably because they’ve already been published in the comics or in the graphic novels that collect a set of issues of the series. My favorite one features the zombified versions of Rick, Michonne, and Andrea shown above.

Which one’s your favorite?

The Walking Dead prepaid debit cards are available online from Card.com. At least they’re not credit cards – The Governor would be responsible for collecting any late fees.

[via The Hollywood Reporter via OWWWP via Nerd Approved]

It’s not every day a company comes around claiming they’ve got a pair of headphones that “intelligently” enhance the audio blasting through your eardrums in real time. That’s what the team at Creative Technology Ltd have come forth with today, suggesting their two headset contributions to the fold this month, Sound Blaster EVO ZxR and

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Creative is gearing up to drop their latest Bluetooth 3.0 speaker, the Airwave HD. Powered by a built-in rechargeable battery, this portable wireless speaker provides a working range of up to 10 meters, and features a built-in microphone for hands-free calls, NFC pairing function, /SBC/AAC/apt-X audio codec support, a 3.5mm audio jack and is compatible with Bluetooth 3.0 enabled devices. The Airwave HD will hit the market from late June for 17,800 Yen (about $184) in black and red color options. [Creative]

Intel’s Computex 2013 keynote wasn’t all Atom and Core; the company also had a new gadget to show off, the Creative Senz3D camera. Intended to add depth vision to an Intel-powered computer, the add-on camera is set to go on sale next quarter, and brings Kinect-style motion-gesture control to the desktop. However, Intel also has ambitions to integrate it into future systems.

Down the line, Intel VP of marketing Tom Kilroy revealed, the company plans to build 3D depth camera technology directly into future Intel-based devices. Presumably, just where most laptops have a webcam today, that will evolve into a depth-sensor. That’s not likely to happen until the second half of 2014, however, Kilroy conceded.

Before then, add-on devices like Creative’s webcam will be able to bring the same gesture control to existing hardware. The depth-perception is added to other sense-recognition, including touch, voice, and face, and is capable of differentiating between the subject and their environment.

In fact, the software can even remove the backdrop behind the user completely, which could be handy for video calls. Right now it’s reasonably bulky for a webcam, though that’s likely to change as the technology is refined.

Of course, Intel and Creative aren’t the only companies working on this sort of technology. Microsoft has already confirmed that it is readying a new Kinect for Windows for instance, based on the updated sensor-bar included with the Xbox One, for release sometime in 2014.

IMAGE: Steve Paine

Intel reveals Creative Senz3D depth camera: Embedded version in 2014 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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