Hasta La Gadget!

Gamers who are extremely serious about their favorite titles would know that one can spend hours on end for a particular game, and if you do not have any work to attend to, there is always the tendency to spend the entire next day sitting right in front of the computer or console, doing your very best to make sure that you are able to collect every single coin available, as well as achieve a 100% kill rate to boot.

The thing is, when you spend that much time in front of your console or computer, you might not even bother getting up to shower for more than 24 hours straight. As for your physical sustenance, all you need would be the phone number of the nearest pizza parlor and you are good to go. Here is one novel way to make sure you are able to keep yourself clean and smelling nice, coming in the form of the NES Controller and the SNES Controller under the guise of Gamer Soaps. These will go for £9.99 a pop, and you can also choose from three other designs such as the Playstation 3 Controller, SEGA Mega Drive Controller and Xbox 360 Controller which will be slightly more expensive at £12.99 a pop.

[ Gamer Soaps look like the real deal copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Extend your cleanliness meter with this beautiful Legend of Zelda Heart Container soap, made with glycerin, natural oils and lots of love and affection.

The soap doesn’t look that special when dry. Use it so you can see its true beauty. I wonder what a heart container smells like.

You don’t have to search high and low or defeat a boss to get the Heart Container soap. Just head to Small Things for Sale on Etsy and pay $2 (USD). The store also sells Rupee and Triforce soaps if you need more Zelda in the shower.

I am quite sure that as a kid, you had your fair share of fun with those soap bubbles. These days, I see automated soap bubble blowers – even your kids need not build up their lung power any more, as all they need to do is dip the dipstick into a bottle of soap, pick it up, press a button and a built-in fan will do all of the blowing. Dogs and cats have had fun chasing down after these bubbles, and so did kids. Who would have figured out even remotely that the humble soap bubble could eventually be used as a display of some sort?

In fact, it has already picked up the moniker of being the ‘world’s thinnest display’ along the way, coined by no one else other than the team behind this transparent screen. This is made possible thanks to the research team who came up with new technology that is capable of projecting images onto a screen that is made up of nothing else but soap film. Just how does this work? We shall take a closer look after the jump to find out.

Basically, this international team managed to come up with this particular display by relying on ultrasonic sound waves that will change the film’s properties, resulting in either a flat or a 3D image. As for the bubble mixture used, you can say that it is somewhat akin to the one sold in stores for little kids, albeit with a far more complex chemical make up.

The team is quick off the mark to claim this as the world’s thinnest transparent screen, so you can more or less kiss those ultra slim Samsungs and LGs goodbye from their once lofty pedestals. Lead researcher, Yoichi Ochiai from the University of Tokyo, wrote, “It is common knowledge that the surface of soap bubble is a micro membrane. It allows light to pass through and displays the colour on its structure. We developed an ultra-thin and flexible BRDF [bidirectional reflectance distribution function, a four-dimensional function defining how light is reflected at an opaque surface] screen using the mixture of two colloidal liquids.”

No idea on when a commercially available version will arrive.

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[ Soap bubble screen touted to be thinnest display in the world copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]