Comments on: custoMONDAY: Win a Plasma Dunny by Dustin Cantrell

By: Plasma Dunny

Plasma Dunny — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:57:25 +0000

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By: Jeremy Brautman

Jeremy Brautman — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:17:38 +0000

Looking for the winner…we just announced the winner of Dustin Cantrell’s custoMONDAY Plasma Dunny here: http://www.toycyte.com/dustin-cantrells-customonday-plasma-dunny-goes-viraland-the-winner-is

By: AndyL

AndyL — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:16:23 +0000

This wont be the best but its my favorite gadget.
The 3d scanner, its just impossibly good!

https://www.nextengine.com/indexSecure.htm

check out the spawn scanning in the gallery.

When i get one im just going to scan everything i own.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:28:47 +0000

My favorite current piece of technology? I’m excited about the direction that rapid-prototyping and 3D printing is moving in. There are applications for this technology everywhere – the ability to create parts to fix machinery in the field. Perhaps more importantly to this audience the ability to create one-off custom toys on the quickly and efficiently. I long for the day that this technology progresses further and anything your imagination can dream up can be held in your end just a few short minutes later.

By: nxn

nxn — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:52:51 +0000

My favorite piece of technology is actually two inventions (you can’t mention one without the other as they go hand-in-hand), taken from a book I’ve just finished writing entitled 2492. The first is the Struse Recycler, which uses a combination of lasers, intense magnetic fields, centrifuges, and other, wicked complicated tech-type-stuff to take your trash and break it down into its component elements. The elements are then neatly separated and stored for future use. The second half is the Struse Generator which allows you to make anything you can possibly imagine…provided you have a pattern and the necessary elements. Not only is trash no longer a concern (actually, refuse is highly sought after as it’s a free source of elements), but the economy as we know it radically changes when people can make whatever they want at home. Just make sure you have enough elements and plug in a pattern (both are available from StruseCorp) into the Struse Generator, and voila.

By: Inspired

Inspired — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:11:15 +0000

With so many innovative and inspirational gadgets/technology out there, it is difficult to narrow it down to one. I have realized that my favorites come from movies that I have taken a liking to. Thus, the top are the guide and point of view gun from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, full of information which is invaluable and allowing people to understand different viewpoints, again invaluable; the flux capacitor in Back to The Future for time travel, and a wand from Harry Potter along with a book of spells. As a non-tangible object, imagination is the best piece of technology.

By: Jaxx

Jaxx — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:17:42 +0000

i want to say a watch so that i’d actually be on time and qualified for the competition, but i’m going to leave a comment anyways because that dunny is awesome!

i’m a pretty big fan of the old polaroids/polaroid cameras. unfortunately, since kodak doesn’t make them anymore, they’ve pretty much become extinct. i loved the anticipation, waiting for the picture to develope and hoping that the film wasn’t overexposed/shaken too much.

By: Snowman

Snowman — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:32:30 +0000

My favorite gadget or piece of technology would be the time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12 from the Back to the Future movies. This car looked and still looks awesome even though it’s from the early 80s. It was really ahead of it’s time, and the movie version was in every part of time lol. Having the ability to travel trough time in this excellent vehicle must be one awesome experience. You can change any mistakes that you’ve made or just execute the greatest pranks with the flux capacitor. A plus is being able to leave your marks on the road with the flaming skid marks .

By: beforetheehype

beforetheehype — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:04:18 +0000

Probably I would say an iPhone. It does everything people in the current world need at the moment. It helps us communicate, keep up with diets, send files [perfect work], write down ideas, and of course listen to music. The sheer mulitultide of things we can do and ability to carry it around makes it a great gadget.

My second thing would probably be a cross-communication device that types as you speak and can translate things into any language. It would make doing business extremely easy and free of misinterpretation.

By: Gil who wants to win

Gil who wants to win — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:43:28 +0000

I feel the greatest piece of technology has to be HAL 9000 from 2001!
Everyone knows him, and has made reference to him, you have to be nice to him around airlocks, and he has a great singing voice…

Think of it this way, add one letter to HAL and you get what? IBM!

Brilliant!

By: adam moore

adam moore — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:45:32 +0000

the best piece is the plasma dunny.

By: Jim K

Jim K — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:48:08 +0000

I would have to say the greatest piece of tech is vinyl. I know of no other material that can be applied to such an absurdly wide range of uses. Records, insulation, raincoats (& raincoats , boots, shower curtains, water infrastructure, auto & areospace components, food wrapping, and life saving medical devices just to name a few. But beyond all those possibilities, there is the most important use of all – toys. All the star trek phasers, star wars creatures, flux capacitors, Geordi La Forge visors, hoverboards, gloomys, munnys, dunnys, labbits and so on are made possible by the material whose form is limited only by imagination – humble and glorious vinyl.

By: Janero

Janero — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:41:29 +0000

My fave gadget of all time has to be Paradise Islands Invisble plane used by Wonder Woman in the comic Wonder Womans Secet Files #1. The Jet was originally a “morphing crystal” that was developed scientifically by an alien race called the “Lansinarians”.
The Lansinarians were a blind alien race and could not react quickly enough to changes in their environment. So they developed a life support device- the morphing crystal that catered to their needs. The crystal is a shape-changing device that can take many forms. It was a gift from the lasinarians to Wonder Woman in gratitude for saving them. . The plane possesses a sophisticated artificial intelligence that responds to Wonder Woman’s thoughts. It is able to render itself invisible as well as alter its shape, transforming into any form of vehicle its bearer desires, be it a jet, submarine, motorcycle, or horse-drawn chariot. This my friends I think is the coolest gadget ever made!

By: gabe larios

gabe larios — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:20:56 +0000

the best piece of technology ever has to be the plasma dunny, i mean it can light up your room with a ghostly purple light, it can make you kiss ass to the webmasters and designers of our times, it even can be affordable to your miserable pockets for the awesome ammount of zero if you are creative enough!!!! is there anything you wouldn’t do for a plasma headed dunny???? (honestly not… wink, wink >_O and i mean anything…lol hahahahahaha!!! ) anyhow morbid promises aside i really wanna win one of those awesome dunnys!!!!! you guys rock!!!
gabe

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:31:47 +0000

I’ve always been intrigued by the “Wall” systems from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. These huge, interactive, television-like systems that could take up entire rooms. Hell, you could have more than one and link them together to take up the entire room.

I’m sure we’re not too far off from seeing these actually emerge as a high-end technology… let’s just hope the whole “book burning” part is way off.

By: Zac Broder

Zac Broder — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:54:26 +0000

The coolest gadget hands down is the “clockstoppers” watch. Preferably a sick g-Shock or what have you, any watch that can stop time for the wearer and whomever else they are holding onto is the coolest concept i’ve ever come across. And that’s saying a lot considering all of my years having subscribed to Popular Science/Popular mechanics.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:12:28 +0000

The Quicklink Pen (http://the-gadgeteer.com/2000/05/14/quicklink_pen_review/) rocks my world more than I ever expected. Need to quote someone and afraid you’ll have a typo? Scan it in and get it going. Also, historical analysis has become a thousand times more enjoyable with the ability to scan old documents and save money on photocopying. Yes, yes, the academic geek in me loves the functionality of a device that lets me quote at ease and save up information from documents. What can I say, it’s the things which make my life that much simpler that I love. Make’s the highlighter a waste of money.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:01:28 +0000

RE RE: Frank Lkoyd Wright’s Fallingwater:

It doesn’t matter who helped Wright. The house is still his design; any idea that anyone had was to be shown to Wright first in order for it to be incorporated in the house. Yes, he was extremely stubborn, but it doesn’t matter how stubborn he was. Any architect would be stubborn to have somebody tell him what to do in a house he was building. At least he had the balls to try something new, even if he hardly knew what he was doing. The most important thing is that Fallingwater is still standing.

By: Willef

Willef — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:30:54 +0000

I think a rolling machine dunny would be a very good idea for the stoner crowd and also woulndt be very hard to incorperate into one and would be very funny and also functional very nice conversation piece

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:11:13 +0000

The most amazing technology is the pogo stick. Useful like a sport, play with friends and save the galaxy, or not commander keen?