Hasta La Gadget!

Thank goodness for ThinkGeek. It provides us with the toys that keep us from feeling too much like grown ups. Its latest gotta-have-it item is the Electronic Spy Camera Shirt, a t-shirt with graphic featuring a James Bond-like agent holding a camera in one hand and a gun in the other. And, beautifully, that camera is a real working camera. It links to a controller you keep in one pocket.

The shirt is capable of capturing 150 photos at 640 x 480 resolution. The pocket remote works off of three AAA batteries, and offers vibration feedback so you know when you’ve taken a shot. The electronics in the shirt remove for washing. You’ll get better results in the daytime, as the camera doesn’t do well in low-light. You can pick one up from ThinkGeek for $39.99.

Halloween may be over, but these ghosts can should be out year round. The great people of ThinkGeek have won us over once again with these Ghost Lamps. Weather or not they can legally use the Pac-Man name, we know these little ghosts are based on the beloved characters from everyone’s favorite old-school arcade game.

You can choose from four different colored ghost lamps that, as Think Geek puts it, will “keep your domicile safe from the wokka-wokka of doom!” They come in white, red, blue, and yellow. Okay, so the colors don’t’ totally match up with the original ghosts’ colors. Where’s our beautiful pink-colored Pinky, or our loveable orange-hewed Clyde?

Nevertheless, these adorable ghosts will provide great mood lighting for when you bring that potential lover home. Who doesn’t like Pac-Man, right? Screw the candles and Barry White; turn on a ghost light and some 8-bit music to woo your mate.

The lamps are $69.99 each at ThinkGeek.com.

If only we lived in a world where we could actually have robot-maids like Rosie from The Jetsons, or those creepy butler robots from Sleeper. Okay, so technology has advanced enough to give us Roombas to vacuum our floors for us, but what happens when you’re eating a flaky croissant at your desk at the office and realize you’ve created an ant’s dream? Do you clean it up yourself? 

The answer is no. The Mini Robo Vacuum will be your new robo-BFF. He’ll sit upon your desk, and, with the simple push of a button on top of his tiny head, he’ll clean up all the messes you make. This little robot takes 2 AA batteries to sweep up your debris. The Mini Robo Vacuum comes in red, black, or a rather R2-D2-ish gray.

You can get it now for $20 at Fredflare.com. But, lucky for you, Fredflare is having a holiday preview sale. Enter code “flare” at checkout to receive 30 percent off sitewide. This deal ends on November 15, and cannot be combined with any other offer.

Who would win in a fight between Luke Skywalker and Wolverine*? If you have an answer at the ready with a needlessly articulate argument to back it up, you’ve probably got quite a Halloween costume lined up. If that costume happens to be star of this year’s early-summer eponymous sequel, Iron Man, you might want to click on over to instructables where you can find several DIY Arc Reactors that no Iron Man costume would be complete without.

Some are ridiculously intricate and complicated. Some are more approachable for those without engineering degrees. You can even purchase a DIY kit to get started on yours with all the parts included. But I’m of the opinion, if you want to stay true to the costume, you have to lock yourself down in your basement or garage and make one for yourself.

Take a look at one simple video walk-through after the jump.

* the answer is Luke Skywalker because he could use The Force to pin Wolverine down and then slice him up with his lightsaber–if it can cut through the space metals on the Death Star, it can surely make butter of Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton. Even if it couldn’t, enough damage could be inflicted on Wolverine’s fleshy parts that he would not be able to recover.

I guess this was inevitable. Macy’s recently unveiled the “Magic Fitting Room.” It’s a 72-inch mirror display fitted with an iPad interface that will allow users to superimpose a variety of clothes on the viewer, without ever having to remove so much as a sock.

The augmented reality-powered Magic Fitting Room is a collaboration between Macy’s and marketing company LBi
International. The technology made its debut last month as part of New York Fashion Week’s Fashion Night Out and is currently open for use at Macy’s flagship Herald Square location in NYC and will remain there through November.

The mirror also has a social aspect and will allow users to share their photos via Facebook, SMS, and email. “Do I look fat in this?” can now take place half way around the globe.

via Crave, PR Newswire