Gadgetory

hey guys my name is stephen beach and here's what's happening this week on peanuts crave block hockey ball is a hackable toy that uses an ipad to create and play games with your friends in the real world the ball contains a ton of technology including LED lights a speaker gyroscope accelerometer vibration motor rechargeable battery memory chip and a processor all house and protected within a rubbery silicon shell that acts as a shock absorber for all the techie guts the free iPad application allows kids to easily program the ball for a variety of personalized games that the kids come up with on their own there's a game on make food hit job the game starts to boog on jello when I talks then I programmed it comes the hitch that's how you make hit me up it can record their own sounds that the ball will playback use the ball as an alarm clock or program it to be a disco ball the hacker ball is currently raising funds on Kickstarter and can be yours for a pledge of 65 to 69 dollars the ferrofluid lamp is trying to bring sexy back to the world of lava lamps ferrofluid is a thick oily fluid containing nano scale magnetic particles when you use a magnet to interact with the fluid suspended inside a lava lamp you get this awesome alien looking effect that reminds me of venom from spider-man creator kyle haines is the brain behind the ferrofluid and is currently raising funds on kickstarter for his fair of fluid lamps he is named inspiration for a pledge of $149 you can get your very own 450 milliliter glass ferro fluid motion lamp on kickstarter i wonder what it would be like if wes anderson directed the x-men hmm i'll break dear mr. Drake as it has come to my attention that your mutant abilities have recently emerged I am extending to you an invitation to join the Charles Xavier school for gifted youngsters here you will join our small but extremely talented student body so you're the new guy yeah I guess so we have to get you set it for a jumpsuit like yourself each has their own unique ability I can't shoot anything what am I supposed to do maybe you could drop a LED pie it you got the entire video embedded in the crave blog post all right thank you very much for watching the show as always you can find all these news stories that cnet's crave blogs raved on cnet com make sure you follow crave on twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crib giveaway is version 4 of nuance communications Dragon Dictate speech recognition software for Mac go to the blog and enter to win