Hasta La Gadget!

Crazily enough, the device you’re staring at above — jaw solidly on the floor, we’re sure — is real. As in, you can purchase one for you and yours. So far as we can tell, this here watermelon cart (priced at ¥19,950, or a whopping $231) serves to keep your voluptuous fruit cool when being transported from market to mouth, but everything beyond that is lost in translation. What’s curious, however, is that this seems like a device created and sold exclusively in Japan. If we had to bet, though, we’d say it was originally dreamed up by a farmer in eastern North Carolina — you know, the home of watermelon Cook-Out milkshakes, an official watermelon license plate and roads where chop-top school buses are frequently used as watermelon hauling machines.

Watermelon cooler push cart: perfect for those sultry North Carolina summers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The enterprising youngster you see above had a dream. A dream to become like his superhero, Spiderman, who isn’t real. Nobody really believed him or thought his ideas about how to achieve his goals were very good, but, as you can see from the photo, he’s got the last laugh. Hibiki Kono, using two cheap, 1,400 watt vacuum cleaners he bought at a grocery store to begin scaling walls of local buildings, and impressing all of his new friends. His mother’s not that into him doing it in the house — she’s afraid he’ll destroy the walls and ceiling — but as you can see from the video below, the sight is pretty impressive.

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Little Spiderman uses vacuum cleaners to climb buildings, win the hearts of the ladies originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bus. Ice cream truck. Personal space invader. Vessel of illicit speaker transport. It’s all semantics, anyway.

Darren: “Man, this smoke is great, but damn if I’m not suddenly craving an orange Push Up.”
Joe: “Unlike the Street View car, the Bing truck is equally at home on the street or at a rave.”
Chris: “In the event the authorities get too close for comfort, Bing is prepared to take its entire operation mobile for weeks at a time, stopping only to refuel.”
Don: “At last, the real decision engine is revealed.”
Richard Lawler: “Ok, so the plot is, we pick up “models” off the street… and find low cost plane tickets, product reviews or a nice restaurant for them. That’s it.”
Ross: “Creative Picture Framing” indeed, Microsoft. Creative picture framing, indeed.
Joanna: “Didn’t we just do a sketchy tech van caption contest!?”
Richard Lai: “For the last time: we don’t sell froyo here.”
Tim: “Creative Picture Framing was a front for GHOST: Google Hating Operatives with better Search Technology. Jeeves had already arrived in his blacked out Benz, but the Altavista boys were nowhere to be found.”
Myriam: “Oh, I see! It’s an art car for Burning Man… Right.”

[Thanks, Hosain]

Caption contest: Bing bus goes searching for search results originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen evidence of the Nao robots’ dancing capabilities in the past, but this gigantic group of them cutting the rug together is off-the-charts impressive. Check out the video below, plus a very special video we made just for you. Because we love you.

[Thanks, Axel]

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Nao robots get together to get down, put a ring on it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Any touring guitar player worth his / her salt likely owns a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner pedal, and while he / she certainly balked at the MSRP at checkout, they probably couldn’t live without it now. And this, friends, is yet another item that you surely cannot live without… but sadly, you’ll have to. As the story goes, Boss was offering up this DS-1 Distortion USB mouse as a limited run item on its UK website, but at just £29.99 ($43), they unsurprisingly sold out in record time. Now, there’s nary a trace of the device on the outfit’s webstore, but at least you’ve got MusicRadar‘s hands-on images in the source link to soothe the hurt. What’s that? It only makes things worse? Dim the lights, grab the eye-black and cue the Brand New, please.

[Thanks, Geoff]

Boss turns DS-1 Distortion pedal into USB mouse, changes the game forever originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 10:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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