Hasta La Gadget!

If you’re gamer who’s played the puzzle-platform game Portal 2, you’ll undoubtedly remember the sentry turrets you encounter during the game. If you never played Portal 2, it’s a cool game that debuted in 2007 and five years later fans are still playing. This isn’t a the first Portal 2 sentry turret toy we’ve seen over the years, but this is one of the few we’ve seen that plugs into your computer via a USB port.

This particular turret comes from ThinkGeek and is called the Portal 2 Sentry Turret USB Desk Defender. Once you connect the device to your USB port, it will monitor your desktop environment with motion sensing technology. When the turret senses motion it will offer one of five quips the turrets say in the game.

The turret will say things like “There you are,” “Preparing To dispense product,” “I see you” and a few others. If you knock the turret over or move it, it also says things you’ll recognize from the games such as “I don’t hate you,” “hey, hey, hey”, “Nonfunctioning” and others. Once activated if the turret senses no motion for 30 seconds it will say, “Are you still there.”

When the turret does since motion, it opens up its little side wings where its guns hid in the video game. This little USB-powered turret doesn’t shoot anything, it only makes sounds. The turret is 7.5-inches tall and is an officially licensed Portal 2 collectible. You can order one right now for $39.99.

[via EverythingUSB]

Portal 2 sentry turret protects your desk is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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So you are a huge fan of Doctor Who and all that entails it, no? Having a miniature Tardis fridge in your office alongside some tiny Dalek figurines guarding your workspace, you might as well go the whole nine yards with the exclusive $15.99 Doctor Who K-9 Figure from ThinkGeek. This K-9 Figure is the Doctor’s robot doggie friend, and it is more than ready to come home with you, assuming you are willing to part with the amount of dough mentioned. Come on now, how far is $20 going to bring you these days? Yeah, not very far, right?

The Doctor Who K-9 Figure comes across as a cute alternative to rubber duck lovers, and it measures 8” in size, making it ideal for you to exercise your imagination to the maximum. Sporting a whole lot of details all the way down to the striped collar, it is more than ready to love you to bits – even better is, there is no need for you to pick up after it, and neither do you need to comb it for fleas from time to time.

[ Doctor Who K-9 Figure copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

It’s Thanksgiving for us here in the U.S. of Gorging On Turkey and we wanted to give thanks for you, our dear audience. It’s your constant readership and semi-trollish comments that keep us waking up in the morning and keep us from going to sleep at night. To thank you, we want to give you a $100 and a $50 ThinkGeek gift card to two lucky winners.

What will you buy with your winnings? Star Trek underwear? A Dr. Who T-shirt? Something that will amuse your co-workers for a few minutes and then collect dust on your cubicle shelf? The choice, as they say, is yours.

To win, please comment below describing the dark carnival of familial pain you’re currently attending with or without your loved ones this holiday. Non-US readers please describe how much fun you’re having in your own milieu, whether you’re going to work tomorrow or hoisting a tankard of your local ale in the warm companionship of your local meadery.

We’ll close the contest on Saturday and pick two winners then. Thanks to ThinkGeek for the cards and happy Thanksgiving!

There is nothing quite like a science fiction device being brought to life in the real world, and here we are with the $39.99 Portal 2 Sentry Turret USB Desk Defender that ought to wet your pants – in a good way, of course. This is basically a motion detecting turret that will help guard your desk against any pesky busybodies who love to loiter around your work area whenever you are not around.

Featuring sound effects from both Portal and Portal 2 titles, the Portal 2 Sentry Turret USB Desk Defender will be able to open up its wings as well as shoot bullets – naw, it will only do the former, but is as harmless as a cute little hamster as there are no bullets that it can discharge. Whenever it detects any motion nearby, it will say one of the following : “Target acquired”, “There you are”, “I see you”, “Preparing to dispense product”, or “Activated”.

Should the turret be moved or knocked over, it will say, “Critical error”, “Shutting down”, “I don’t hate you”, “Hey, hey, hey”, and “Malfunctioning”. If it is ignored after 30 seconds of inactivity, it will ask innocently, “Are you still there?” Sounds like the ideal device to own, no?

[ Portal 2 Sentry Turret USB Desk Defender copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

You might think that a coffee mug is just that – a coffee mug. However, what if we were to tell you that the $24.99 minibru Coffee Mug is no ordinary coffee mug? Sit down and hear us out for a while as to the uniqueness of this particular drinking contraption. Basically, it is capable of making a single cup of French press – executing it to perfection, if you will, and yet remains dishwasher safe for easy cleaning up once you have kick started your day with the perfect cuppa.

The minibru Coffee Mug more or less eliminates two niggling issues for those who can be pretty particular in their lives – it means you need not rely on a French press pot any more, and there is no worry to drink all of it before it gets cold, and neither do you need to look silly while drinking from one of those French press travel mugs. With the minibru Coffee Mug, you can have a single, perfectly brewed cup of French press coffee while oozing with class. All you need to do is fill your cup with coarsely ground coffee to the lower fill line, pour in some hot water to the upper fill line, and be patient for up to three minutes before you insert the filter cylinder and press it down slowly until the entire brew is completely filtered.

[ minibru Coffee Mug copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]