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Min-Kyu Choi Wins Design Award with Skinny Plug – Big Genius

by Jay Garrett on March 18, 2010

You know the simple things are generally the best.

This redesign of the good ol’ British three-pin plug trounced the competition that included a twin-seat electric aircraft to the late Alexander McQueen’s last fashion collection!

Min-Kyu Choi’s rethinking of the safe yet bulky, fuse packing, plug has won the 2010 Brit Insurance Design of the Year award. He seems to have ‘fused’ (sorry) the UK plug with the UK’s ‘love’ of flat-packs ;)

Let’s face it – the plug attached to your swanky hi-tech actually dates back to around 1946.

Choi, 29, designed the product during his Masters at London’s Royal College of Art after buying a MacBook Air and decided that the plug looked a bit chunky next to the sleek lines of the MBA.

By having the vision to rotate the bottom two pins 90 degrees so that they lie parallel with the static top pin he managed to crash-diet Britain’s 45mm thick plug to a lithe form measuring under 10mm.

Not content with his size 0 plug Choi has also designed an adaptor (see gallery below) that allows three of his plugs, or a USB plug, to fit into one power point, making our sockets and bags even more clutter-free. This guy needs to be Prime Minister and should become very rich if there’s any justice!

The winning design and all other short-listed entries are on display at the Design Museum, London, until 31 October.

Now – I challenge Marvell to squeeze a computer into that plug!

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Gadgety Girls Must Have 3D Stiletto Police Heels!

by Jay Garrett on February 5, 2010

Ok Gadgety girls!

Some of you no doubt like to dress up and perhaps a future-cop may be part of your repertoire.

If that happens to be true then you’ll be hoping these neat heels become reality – almost as much as us guys ;)

The 3D Stiletto Police have been designed by Tim Cooper and whether this concept gets accepted or not these shoes are very cool.

As you can see, these shoes are wonderfully detailed with graphics, LEDs and even carbon-fibre effect heels.

Let’s hope that these get made eh?

More pics below :)

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Gadgety News Returns From Odd 403 Situation

January 29, 2010 Click to read more →
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Hey all!
Thanks for your concerned emails and notifications that GadgetyNews fell off the interwebs whilst I was Tweeting about the iPad.
Originally I thought it was just the amount of traffic the site was getting but when I noticed that Geekahol had suffered the same terrible fate – then I knew something was wrong.
But – it’s [...]

My Essential Blogging Gadgets from 2009?

December 31, 2009 Click to read more →
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As I write this, 2009 is coming to a close. I thought it would be fun to look back at all the great gadgets that we bought, played with, and still love. For this article I focused on the gadgets I used for blogging, but I would love to hear about your favorite gadgets of [...]

Stone Age Cranberry DVD will Last Another 1,000 Years – DiamonDisc

November 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ok – so this is actually new tech and not something from when flint knapping was actually a life-or-death skill to have.
There’s a new company going by the name of Cranberry who is selling a DVD made from high-tech stone (yes, stone) that will store data for up to 1,000 years.
That obviously dampens the [...]

Folding Bike Where Even the Wheels Fold Away – Possible Fail?

October 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ever attempted to ride a folding bike that wasn’t secured?
Not pretty but at least the wheels didn’t give way.
Well, here’s a folding bike that has actually been designed to include collapsing wheels!
It’s all very clever and the folding wheel sequence looks real as well as being a feat of engineering but……….
………when you’re battling against rush [...]

Linos – The Fold Away USB Record Player for Ultra-Portable DJ’s

July 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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Your USB port can power any number of useless things as well as constantly recharging your iPhone.
If, like me, you have a stack of vinyl (that’s records or LP’s to people of a certain age) and would love to make playing them a little more portable – you need to check out this design!
Charlie Pyott [...]

Samsung to Give Their Phones Wings! Oh, and a QWERTY board

July 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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Wow!
A flying mobile phone!!
Well, not quite.
Looking at the article over on PhoneArena it seems that Samsung has patented a rather fantastic idea for giving your phone a QWERTY board.
Yup – it unfurls from the blowers body just like a pair of wings.
I’m not sure, given the keyboard’s position, how it would feel in the hand [...]

Panasonic Fukitorimushi – Robotic Worm Floor Cleaner

May 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you have hardwood floors and love robots to do the tedious task of wiping up after you then the Fukitorimushia floor-cleaning robot should be on top of your wishlist.
It inches along wriggling your floor clean like a cleaning compulsive caterpillar.
The Fukitorimushi (“wipe-up bug”) has been thought-up by Panasonic and is wrapped-up in a sticky nanocloth sleeve which [...]

It Bee.One Cute British Electric Car

April 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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The British start-up company ‘Bee’ has just released details of its new electric car, the One.
This affordable and adorable five-door doopher will have a top speed of around 80 miles per hour and a max range of 200 miles before needing to be rejuiced.
The cute car will run on two battery packs stowed under the [...]

Zalman Budget 5.1 Surround Sound Headphones

April 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Remember the fantastic looking Psyko 5.1 surround sound headphones?
Well, here’s some more aimed at those with a smaller budget – the ZM-RS6F+M
Zalman bring you a set of 6 channel cans for $60 albeit avoiding the mention of Dolby, THX, or any other clever sound surrounding tech.
In most cases you gets what you pays for – but, perhaps, these might be [...]

D-Roll is the 21st Century Scroll

April 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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I think we’ve all got used to the default design of laptops and netbooks.
You know, hinged book affairs, no matter how slim and light – they’re all much of a muchness really.
That’s where the D-Roll concept shakes things up a bit  – giving it that E-Scroll vibe.
D-Roll, or “digital roll,” is a concept from designer [...]

Miesrolo Chair Wood Be Great at a Festival or Picnic

April 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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Uros Vitas is a clever chap.
Back in 2007 he managed to devise an easy chair that would roll-up so you can take it and use it at a picnic, festival or just when you want to have a nice sit down and has had a bit of a tweaking.
The bit that boggles my mind is that the Miesrolo Chair is [...]

VAX77 – Folding Full-Size Synth

December 24, 2008 Click to read more →

Keyboard players.
Ever since joining my first band in 1989 playing such joys as Van Halen’s Jump, Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds and Incommunicado by Marillion, keyboard players have tended to be the most geeky of the band bunch.
They generally had the money, the latest toys and took up the most power points.
It [...]

Brits Are Loving The Mobile Internet – FACT!

November 27, 2008 Click to read more →

More Brit based gadgety news that goes further to prove how addicted to the bleeding-edge of technology the UK is.
Neilsen Online suggests that mobile web usage has increased by 25% between July and September of this year and that 7.3 million (up from 5.8 million) of Britons are now logging on through their mobiles.
It is [...]

Star Wars Christmas – Jingle Droids! Jingle Droids…..

November 21, 2008 Click to read more →

Here’s a whole lot of WTF!???!
Thanks to those folks over at Walyou for this
This collectible was inspired by the 1980’s Lucasfilm holiday greeting card art by Ralph McQuarrie, the concept artist responsible for much of the look of the original Star Wars trilogy. The set comes with a display base and includes a [...]

Mac Gets Blu-Ray Burner

July 8, 2008 Click to read more →

There is now a Blu-Ray 6x Superdrive for all you Mac fansters and it comes thanks to MCE Technologies.

The new drive will enable you to burn both single and dual layer Blu-Ray DVDs and store up to fifty gigabytes of information on a single disc.
The Superdrive is capable of burning at 6x for Blu-Ray, 16x for standard [...]