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Gun Geeks Will Love This 12 Gauge USB Charger

By on July 3, 2015 in gadgets, general geekery, guns, more nerd than geek

122Most geeks love gadgets, and many of us gadget geeks dig guns on all kinds of levels. Whether it’s the mechanism itself, the power it wields or just the beauty in functional design. Geek designers and gun enthusiasts Jack Easterly and Baird Snyder made a profound discovery – a 12 ga. shotgun shell is the perfect size to fit into your 12 volt charger port in your vehicle. They realized this wasn’t a mere coincidence and began to experiment with converting empty shotgun shells into the ultimate USB gadget charger for gun geeks everywhere.

The duo has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Twelve Gauge Charger to refine the the unit by improving the USB connector and start mass producing them. There are only 5 days to go on the campaign and they have already exceeded their funding goal and have added a stretch goal – if they get to $15K in funding, they plan on upping the power on the unit from 1 amp to 2.1 amps to increase the charging speed of your precious gadgets.

I personally backed this campaign to the tune of four of these babies to be used as Christmas gifts for family members that will be in orbit when they see them.

You can follow the project on Facebook, Instagram and their company website.

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Holy Yoda Holograms, Batman! Star Wars Holographic Chess Just Left the Millennium Falcon and Can Be in Your House. For realz!

By on July 2, 2015 in future tech, gadgets, general geekery, holograms, star wars, toys
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If you’ve got it in a digital format, you can see it in a 3D holographic experience in your home with the Holus. Your coolness factor will go up by 12 parsecs.

For my readers that are my real life friends I’ve known for years – you’ve heard me joke about wanting the next gizmo to come out with Yoda Holograms. The Holus, a Kickstarter campaign from Vancouver, Canada, is bringing us closer to the magic of 1977, when kids and grown-ups around the world saw R2-D2 beating Chewbacca at holographic chess… and of course, Princess Leia beaming out of R2 as a hologram – all of it was beyond magical, and we were just seeing it in 2D the whole time. This campaign ends in a week and has well exceeded its funding goal.

Their goal is not just to deliver a hologram that says, “This is our most desperate hour. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope!” No – their goal is reflected in their company name – to humanize technology. There are a ton of applications for this technology, especially in education. Kids are already blitzed by their iPads and other flickering gizmos. They can experience not just games in 3D, but perhaps a walk through of Auschwitz or a jungle in India, where their environment looks like environments do in real life – in 3D, and without glasses or headaches after the show.

Check out the video below for an insight on how other tech geeks at CES enjoyed engaging with this in person.

You can follow Humanizing Technology on Facebook, Twitter. and their website.

That smiling person on the other side of the 3D action could be you!

That smiling person on the other side of the 3D action could be you!