GroovyGizmo.com By Jerry J. Davis

Remote Control Flying Machine Gun

Jerry — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:01:40 +0000

This gadget isn’t as much groovy as it is terrifying.

Notice it sounds like a leaf blower. I don’t think I’ll ever feel comfortable hearing the noise of a leaf blower again, ever.

Robotic Grocery Carts are Nigh!

Jerry — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:29:21 +0000

My question is, are they going to actually allow this to follow you out to your car? In the rain? Will it then return itself to the store? Or are you going to have to take all your items out and put it in a “dumb” cart and haul them out yourself?

A man who changed the world

Jerry — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:21:47 +0000

Lego Antikythera Mechanism

Jerry — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:05:46 +0000

What gets me about this video is that it sums it up by saying, “Pretty impressive for a bunch of plastic blocks.” What? Who cares about the Legos! That’s pretty impressive as a piece of technology designed OVER 2000 YEARS AGO! That’s what blows MY mind.

Dolls House for iPad

Jerry — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:25:35 +0000

Dolls house for iPad from happyMedium on Vimeo.

Okay this is a cute little iPad app for kids but … check out what happens when she puts parents into their bedroom. Brilliant. Now kids will know that when they hear squeaky mattress sounds coming from mom and dad’s room … it’s because they’re jumping on the bed.

Of course. What else would it be? Right?

More info: Dolls House by happyMedium

Checking out the New Nooks

Jerry — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:47:06 +0000

I’ve actually seen the Nook Color, which has been out for a while, but never the new touch-screen Nook monochrome. I’m sitting at a B&N right now and have had a chance to play with them (and see how my new novel looks on them: excellent) and I think I’ve met the Nook that would cause me to switch from the Kindle.

I’ve heard that the screens aren’t that responsive, but I didn’t find that to be true. They worked fine. The controls are awesomely intuitive, responsive, and well thought out. The screen refresh on the monochrome version is nice and fast.

I am exceedingly impressed. So much so that you might find my Kindle up for sale on eBay soon.

QR Code Me

Jerry — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:36:42 +0000

There’s a lot of people I know in the marketing side of the world who are getting quite excited and perhaps even infatuated with these QR codes. I find myself resisting them, though, because my perception is the people who they’re generally aimed at find them annoying — at least here in the United States.

Am I wrong?

How do you feel about these things?

Lego + Flash Drive = Fun

Jerry — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:19:12 +0000

Get them here: http://goo.gl/RZfm5

Apple iPad does not like Blackberry Bold

Jerry — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:11:11 +0000

This is what I get when I try to pull photos off my work-issued Blackberry Bold onto my iPad.

No problem, though. I have the MicroSD adapter. I’ll just pop the card out and use the iPad camera connecting kit’s SD card reader.

Nope. Wouldn’t work. The Blackberry is too ‘Windows’ for the iPad. Wrong file structure, so iOS wouldn’t see it as camera data, and so refused to even acknowledge I’d plugged it in.

Apple: FAIL

A Klingon iPhone Stand

Jerry — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:11:13 +0000

Okay, this is just so silly that it’s cool. This is on Neatorama via Make… I present to you probably the first of many Apple accessories made for Klingons.

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with iPods, too. In fact I would think it would be better with iPods because all this metal (that is metal, isn’t it?) would mess with the iPhone’s antenna signal.