A few good ideas

Kandle
I like the Kandle because it looks like the book light I had when I was a kid (which I later strapped to the top of my GameBoy).

Amazon Via Gizmodo

Pictionaire
Pictionaire looks like the kind of the product that should be released in 2010. As I understand it, Pictionaire, which is being developed by Microsoft and the University of California Berkeley, is an adaption of Microsoft's Surface technology. The Pictionaire table uses overhead cameras to make digitise physical objects, allowing users to manipulate the digitised copies. Take a look at the video below, it's much easier to understand than any description I could come up with.


New Scientist via Gizmodo

GNOP
There is not much to Gnop, but that doesn't stop it being cool. It's Pong, but you play as the ball. It's surprising that this hasn't been done before (well, not that I have come across). Give it a whirl.

Bit Battalion via Boing Boing

For Me

This post is for me. My good friend JP sent me an email last week, which read as follows: "Saw this and thought of you."


Totally awesome. There was a time in my life when I would have killed for an eight foot tall space marine. Fortunately, that time has passed: I now live in a shoebox sized apartment in Hong Kong, so I don't have anywhere to put it, unless I turfed sleepyanimal out of the bed and put it there ... but that would be weird.

Ok, confession time. I still have a half painted and half-customised squad of Black Templar space marines under my bed, along with a full Citadel paints colour pallet, customising knife and other accessories. I will probably never finish that squad, but I can't bear to throw them away. Maybe one day ...