Sunday 29 September 2013

Self Stirring Mug


I used to buy coffee from the vending machine in my office. Ever since I changed my job recently, there's no vending machine in my new office and I have to resort to making my own coffee at the pantry. As I'm a lazy person and I refuse to bring any spoon to the office, I ended up buying this, the Self Stirring Mug.

Sunday 22 September 2013

Qi Wireless Charging Pad



It was said that Nikola Tesla had invented wireless electricity transmission more than 100 years ago. Conspiracy theories have been going around suspecting that it wasn't successful because he was threatened by the electricity companies whose business was at stake if wireless electricity could be tapped freely from anywhere. Today however, we have some progress. Although it's considered "wireless" electricity transmission, it's not as impressive as one would imagine it to be. 

Saturday 14 September 2013

Rotating Power Extension Cord


Do you always encounter problems with badly designed power adapters plugged into your power extension cord that can sometimes take up spaces of another power socket beside it? Then you may find this extension cord useful.

Sunday 8 September 2013

Magnetic Tablet Case With Auto-Sleep And Auto-Wake Feature

It seems that tablets nowadays has an auto-sleep and auto-wake feature for magnetic tablet cases. It works by detecting the magnet from the front part of the case, putting the device to sleep whenever you close the case, and waking the device up when you open it. Below is a video of how it works on my Nexus 7 2nd generation.



Saturday 7 September 2013

出ない順試験に出ない英単語 The First 150 Nonessential Vocabulary



If I must choose a WTF book that is really WTF to blog about, this will be the one. It's basically a reference book on words that won't appear in exams. Yes, you heard that right. Words that WON'T appear in exams.