Nat­ural dis­as­ters and acci­dents hap­pen with lit­tle or NO warn­ings. One of the best ways to deal with such sit­u­a­tions is by being a bit pre­pared. By being pre­pared I mean more than just the First Aid Box; stuff like lights, shel­ter, tools, sup­plies, instal­la­tions and kits that can help you deal with emer­gen­cies. Here’s a look at Ten Neces­si­ties When Dis­as­ter Strikes; a com­pi­la­tion of what we got on YD.

10) Swiss Peace Knife by Qian Jiang, Yiy­ing Wu & Car­olina Flores

What’s Spe­cial: A pocket tool that holds a pill box, ban­dages, dis­in­fec­tant spray and whistle.

9) Uni­fied Sprin­kler And Light by Duck Image Studio

What’s Spe­cial: A water sprin­kler sys­tem that includes an LED light sys­tem to illu­mi­nate the room dur­ing emergencies.

8 ) H2O by Leonardo Manavella

What’s Spe­cial: Almost always water is in of short sup­ply dur­ing the sal­vaging oper­a­tions and at the dis­as­ter site. H2O is a spe­cial­ized con­tainer that turns urine into drink­able water. Before you go ewww…consider this…dying parched or drink­ing re-cycled pee?

7) Dis­pos­able Pre-Paid Phone by IDEA

What’s Spe­cial: This dis­pos­able phone can be worn like a bracelet and has very basic fea­tures. It’s meant for quick calls for help and sup­ports pre-paid services.

6) Ocean Res­cue by Seol-Hee Sohn, Seung-Hyun Yoon & Cheol-Yeon Cho

What’s Spe­cial: The Ocean Res­cue dis­tills the salty sea water into pure drink­ing water, it pro­vides loca­tion infor­ma­tion of the ship-wrecked vic­tims by emit­ting light at night and col­or­ful smoke dur­ing the day.

5) Recover Shel­ter by Matthew Mal­one, Amanda Gold­berg, Jen­nifer Met­calf and Grant Meacham

What’s Spe­cial: Designed for dis­as­ter relief, the Recover Shel­ter can house a fam­ily of four for a month. It can be set up by one per­son in min­utes, col­lapsed into either of two con­fig­u­ra­tions for trans­porta­tion (horse-shoe shape or flat), and is made of 100% polypropy­lene. Another big plus is that the ridges can col­lect drink­ing water when it rains.

4) The Wiz­ard by HJC Design

What’s Spe­cial: The Wiz­ard is a safety-harness that can help peo­ple get off build­ings dur­ing an emer­gency. It uses web­bing woven from liq­uid poly­ester capa­ble of with­stand­ing forces in excess of 2 tonnes. Engi­neer­ing plas­tics based on semi-crystalline polyamides were spec­i­fied for the case and inter­nal drum, encas­ing a cas­sette spring recoil sys­tem capa­ble of deploy­ing a 50-250m Kevlar lanyard.

3) Emer­gency Stool by d e Sellers

What’s Spe­cial: Wall mounted and unas­sum­ing, this flat-pack Baltic Birch ply­wood opens up to form an Emer­gency Stool to help you climb out of sticky situations.

2) The Shooter Fire Extin­guisher by Eun­jung Kim, Yang­woo Kim & Junyi Heo

What’s Spe­cial: This Shooter is a light weight gun loaded with CO2 car­tridges. A laser guid­ance sys­tem helps you take aim and an alarm but­ton to let the rest of the gang know your position.

1) Pul­light Dynamo by Sebastien Sauvage

What’s Spe­cial: This flash­light is pow­ered by stored kinetic energy built up from pulling a string. The dynamo can charge devices like a mobile phone or iPod, mak­ing it the per­fect handy device dur­ing an emer­gency situation!

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It’s that time of the year again, Back-to-school. I still remem­ber those days. Even though it’s been 2 years since I’ve had to go back to school, I still love this time of the year.

This time of the year also means stu­dents will want the lat­est gad­gets before head­ing off to col­lege. That’s where we come in and tell you some of the hottest gad­gets out there and what you need to make this year in col­lege a success.

Log­itech Squeeze­box Boom

Col­lege stu­dents love music, so the Squeeze­box is per­fect. The Wi-Fi radio speak­ers can stream pre­mium music con­tent from online music ser­vices, along with inter­net radio sta­tions. Some of the ser­vices offered are Sir­ius, Rhap­sody, Slacker, Pan­dora, and Last.fm. But that’s not all, it also streams music straight from a PC or Mac on a Wi-Fi net­work. For $5 more, you can add an exten­sion cable to add an iPod, PC or another source. It’s avail­able on the Log­itech web­site and will run you $300.

iPhone 3GS

The iPhone is still the hottest phone in the mar­ket and every­one wants to get their hands on the one of these devices. The iPhone 3GS takes it to another level by offer­ing video record­ing and edit­ing capa­bil­ity. While many may not like AT&T, its the only car­rier if you want the iPhone. The 3GS could end up being your go to device for everything.

Ama­zon Kin­dle DX

Car­ry­ing around those heavy text­books no longer applies with the Ama­zon DX. It’s only 19 ounces and can hold hun­dred of text­books for all your classes. You can down­load books under 60 sec­onds but most col­lege kids are also pretty savvy inter­net users, so look online, you’ll also get access to text­books from such edu­ca­tional pub­lish­ers as Cen­gage Learn­ing, Pear­son and Wiley. The 9.7-inch screen wire­less read­ing device costs $489. If you can find text­books online, then the cost of the device might not be so bad, con­sid­er­ing text­books can be very expensive.

Playsta­tion 3 Slim

Sony came out last week and made their gam­ing con­sole very appeal­ing by mak­ing it slim­mer, lighter and faster. Most col­lege stu­dents will already be in school when Sony releases the gam­ing con­sole, but it’ll be out dur­ing the first week of Sep­tem­ber, so it’s not too far away. Plus with the slim­mer design, it’ll be eas­ier to carry around.

iPod Touch 3rd Generation/Microsoft Zune HD

Apple is plan­ning to release their 3rd gen­er­a­tion iPod Touch music player. It’s rumored to be updated with a cam­era. The iPod Touch is one of the best sell­ing music play­ers out in the mar­ket, so why not get the updated version.

If you’re not an Apple per­son, then Microsoft is releas­ing the Zune HD. It’ll offer a touch­screen with a Tegra proces­sor, and updated OS. Plus it looks good enough to com­pete against Apple’s Touch.

The Zune HD will start out at $220 for the 16GB ver­sion, while the Apple iPod Touch will prob­a­bly be in the $250 range for 16GB version.

Mac­book Pro

Apple has low­ered the price for their Mac­book Pro line and also included the 13-inch in their Pro fam­ily. The 13-inch starts out at $1,199, while the 15-inch will run you around $1,699, and then the high end 17-inch, starts out at $2,499. All of the Mac­book Pros are avail­able with a stu­dent dis­count on Apple’s Edu­ca­tion Store.

Brita Ultra­max Filter

If you’ve ever lived in a dorm room, then you know you never want to drink the water on cam­pus. Most kids end up get­ting bot­tled water but that adds up and not really green. To solve that prob­lem, get a Brita fil­ter, bet­ter yet, get a Brita Ultra­max water dis­penser. It’ll give you 18 8 ounce glasses of water and has a elec­tronic gauge that’ll tell you when it’s time to change the fil­ter. The water dis­penser will cost you $42. Split it with your room­mate and you’re look­ing at $21 for a con­ve­nient and healthy water solution.

Nikon Coolpix S1000PJ Pro­jec­tor Camera

Teens love tak­ing pics of them­selves and their friends and what bet­ter way to share them right away instead of wait­ing for them to be uploaded on Face­book, than on your dorm room wall. The Nikon pro­jec­tor cam­era solves that prob­lem. It can make a 40-inch pic­ture from six feet away, show­ing your friends all the stu­pid things you were doing while get­ting ham­mered last night. It’s a fun and an expen­sive cam­era. But you pay more for the lat­est fea­tures and a pro­jec­tor on a cam­era is some­thing. The cost of the Nikon pro­jec­tor cam­era is $429 and will be avail­able soon, in September.

Nin­tendo DSi

Nintendo’s most pop­u­lar hand­held gam­ing con­sole will def­i­nitely make the breaks between classes a lit­tle more fun. No one really stud­ies in between classes right? So, why not pull out your DSi and con­tinue your saved game until it’s time to head into Econ 101. The hand­held con­sole will run you around $169.99 and is avail­able now.

Shure Pro­fes­sional Headphones

I’m a big fan of head­phones and when Shure, known for their ear phones, released three pro­fes­sional head­sets, I wanted one. They’re avail­able in 3 dif­fer­ent mod­els. Prices for the pro­fes­sional head­sets ranges from $59.99 for the entry level head­set, $99 for the mid level head­sets and $199.99 for the higher end model. They’re def­i­nitely worth grab­bing if you’re going to cram for exams and papers. Might as well lis­ten to your music comfortably.

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I never fully believed the Apple tablet was real beyond dreams, until I heard these words over my phone: “Hey, it’s . I may or may not have sat in some Apple meet­ings for the tablet.”

I was dri­ving, and swerved a lit­tle bit, even though both hands were on the wheel. Some­one honked at me.

“What was that?”

They repeated themselves.

I switched on Blue­tooth and pulled over to the side of the road to hear the story. You see, ear­lier in the day I’d given my phone num­ber out to some­one who sent me a cryp­tic email want­ing to talk Apple. This must have been them. (Later on I ver­i­fied to a high level of cer­tainty that they were in the posi­tion to have access to the infor­ma­tion and after talk­ing to them for over an hour, I believe them to the same level of certainty.)

“The device, which I’ve held mock ups of, is going to have a 10 inch screen, and when I saw it looked just like a giant iPhone, with a black back— although that design could change at any time” they said, “with the same black resin back, and the famil­iar home but­ton.” That’s obvious.

“But it will come in two edi­tions, one with a web­cam and one for edu­ca­tional use.”

Edu­ca­tional use?

They con­tin­ued to explain the device as some­thing that would sit between an iPod/iPhone and a Mac­Book, and would cost $700 to $900—“More than twice as much as a net­book,” they said.

To make up for that cost and make the device more than just a big iPod there was, this per­son claimed, there was talk of mak­ing the device act as a sec­ondary screen/touchpad for iMacs and Mac­Books, much like a few of the USB screens that have come out in recent months from Chi­nese com­pa­nies. Very interesting.

They went on to say that although the project has been going on under var­i­ous names between four and six years, the first pro­to­type was built around the end of 2008. Adding, “The time to mar­ket from first pro­to­type is gen­er­ally 6–9 months.” That would place the device’s release date in this hol­i­day sea­son. (Update: John Gru­ber and Jim Dal­rym­ple believe the date is fur­ther out, how­ever.) They then said, “There was a ques­tion of what OS the device would run, too.” (Other peo­ple I’ve talked to have implied this remains a huge secret. Update: in vari­a­tion. Obvi­ously, it’ll be OS X.)

My call dropped on some windy road off Sky­line Drive. Fuck­ing AT&T.

Later, I asked, was there a code name for the project?

“Yes….”

I thought about it for a sec­ond, googled the term, and it all made sense.

“Don’t pub­lish that name, please,” they requested.

Don’t worry, I won’t.

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Emo­tional attach­ment with worldly goods in not healthy! Look at me; I’m a wreck coz I broke my favorite cof­fee mug. Curse the moment when it slipped outta my fin­gers and crashed into pieces. I know I can eas­ily get a replace­ment, but a fav mug is a favorite mug! Ok, enuf of rant­ing now, I’m in the mar­ket for some­thing new and excit­ing, so join me in a jour­ney that brings out Ten Cre­ative and Evolved Cups/Mugs, coz appar­ently some of em now host speak­ers and a comp!

10) Tea Bag Cof­fin by Jonas Trampedach

Writer Chris has an inter­est­ing anec­dote to his tea–dink­ing ven­tures, sadly I have none coz I don’t drink tea. But I greatly appre­ci­ate this design for offer­ing a clever solu­tion for plac­ing a wet drip­ping tea bag.

9) Link Mugs by Jonathan Aspinall

Announc­ing a trip to the café at work usu­ally results in requests for “me-too wants another cup of cof­fee”. Link 6 together and carry them with­out a spill. No trays required!

8 ) Drip With Song Con­cept by Jong­min Kim

Say “design me a cup” to an Asian designer and you can expect the most unusual out­come. You’ll under­stand more when you scroll down a bit. Take this CD player cup for instance…It’s a cup alrite, but you can play a CD from it.

7) Fold­ing Cup by Jae­hyung Hong

Picky about your cup? Over-possessive maybe? Alrite patent it with unique mark­ings of let­ters, num­bers or sym­bols, this ways you’ll always know which cup is yours. Always!

6) Bal­ance — Cup for Every­body by Pamela Lindgren

Dot­ted with Braille mark­ings on its side, so that you can get a bet­ter grip. Alas! Bet­ter Grip in the first place would have ensured that my cof­fee mug never slipped! No place for but­ter fin­gers. Boo Hoo!

5) Mes­sage Of Love Cup by Sun­man Kwon

For the love of your brew, or sim­ply coz you adore quirky styles; this one’s ideal for hint­ing sweet noth­ings. And as Anthony puts it, a slow strip tease of affection!

4) The Cup by Hyuh-Jin Lee & Hyer­oung Choen

Like I said ear­lier, tech­nol­ogy has hit cup design as well. Get you daily dose of info via “The Cup”. My cup run­neth over with pics from YD!

3) The Yuno PC Cup by Jason Farsai

If your your caf­feine and net addic­tion had sex then their love child would be this cof­fee mug! It shows impor­tant morn­ing alerts such as weather, time, traf­fic, stocks etc. on the out­side dis­play, while hold­ing your bev­er­age inside!

2) Ceramix For Mix by Flo­rian Dus­sopt, Jérémie Reneau & Julie Girard

How can I for­get the stiff-upper-lip vari­ety? After all Tea-drinking is cer­e­mo­nial in many places and to add a dash of high-end glam to the event, you will need some­thing as com­plex yet stun­ning as the Ceramix For Mix!

1) iPod Ghetto Acces­sory by Dmitry Zagga

Four single-serving paper cups, two tooth picks (for hold­ing cups together) + iPod with clas­sic ear­buds. The increase in vol­ume, of course, is ridicu­lous, but hey, you get styl­ish iPod acces­sory out of noth­ing!
I rest my case!

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Hump­ing USB Dog

They could eas­ily have shoved a giga­byte or two of stor­age into this and mar­keted it as a nov­elty flash drive, but no, don’t let the shiny plas­tic cas­ing deceive you into think­ing that this fella can do any­thing mar­gin­ally useful.

This is purely and sim­ply a dog that plugs into your USB drive and humps away. Bizarre and unashamedly point­less, it should come as no sur­prise that this is another Japan­ese con­tri­bu­tion to the world of gadgetry.

From boysstuff.co.uk

Pee Pow­ered Battery

This new envi­ron­men­tally friendly liq­uid pow­ered bat­tery has just hit the shelves in Japan. We has­ten to add that you could use pretty much any liq­uid to recharge this bat­tery, but unsur­pris­ingly ‘pee-power’ is the phrase that has cap­tured people’s imag­i­na­tion. And ‘NoPoPo’, in case you won­der, stands for ‘Non Pol­lut­ing Power’.

“Doing your bit for the envi­ron­ment” sud­denly took on a whole new con­no­ta­tion – I find the men­tal image of this prin­ci­ple expanded to power-plant pro­por­tions pretty hard to erease…

From weirdasianews.com

Back­pack­Shield Bul­let­proof Backpack

Designed for “col­lege stu­dents, high school stu­dents, con­cerned par­ents, and com­muters”, I’d seri­ously con­sider mov­ing to a bet­ter neigh­bour­hood if buy­ing this kevlar re-inforced back­pack, capa­ble of stop­ping a .44 Mag­num bul­let, seems like a sound investment.

The man­u­fac­turer reminds us that “It’s a major sur­vival advan­tage ver­sus not hav­ing any pro­tec­tion at all and being shot with a cou­ple of 9 mm/44 Mag­num rounds.” – Some­how that’s never been par­tic­u­larly high on my list of cri­te­ria when I go back­pack shop­ping – until now.

From backpackshield.com

Mini Desk

Well okay, it’s kind of funny, but could you see your­self work­ing at this desk for years on end? Once the nov­elty wears off, the $4400 you spent on it is prob­a­bly going to be the first thing you think about when you set to work.

From chipchick.com

Tempo Wire­less Trashcan

This ‘trash­can’ is put for­ward as a “unique hard drive stor­age device” which claims to res­cue files from acci­den­tal dele­tion by, well, stor­ing them. That sounds quite sim­i­lar to what my non-trashcan shaped exter­nal hard­drive has been doing for years.

Does the mar­ginal use­ful­ness of this prod­uct war­rant the desk space it uses? Not in my mind. Clut­ter, pure and simple.

From cagninadesign.com

Vel­cro Socket Faceplate

Keep­ing things tidy in the office is never a bad idea, but do you really need your unused plugs vel­croed to the side of the sock­ets to find them again?

The con­cept claims to have energy con­ser­va­tion cre­den­tials, given that “The ‘Attach’ design serves as a strong reminder to the user to unplug the plug.” How this is sup­posed to work if your wall sock­ets hap­pen to be under your desk, is not elab­o­rated upon.

From yankodesign.com

iPod Toi­let Roll Holder

I remem­ber think­ing that all is fine in the world after all, when I found out that the iToi­let was just a joke. I’m unsure which is the most silly, the iToi­let or this iPod toi­let roll holder dock­ing sta­tion, but the fact that the lat­ter is for real and can be pur­chased for $199 just made me a lit­tle more wor­ried about the state of the world.

From bimbambanana.com

The Beer­belly Bev­er­age Bag

For all those who despite lots of hard work (down the pub) just aren’t able to build that cov­eted beer belly, here’s quite lit­er­ally a beer belly to sling across your neck! The key selling-point is that it’ll enable you to smug­gle beer and booze past the most vig­i­lant bounc­ers at gigs, games etc. As long as you don’t mind the weird looks you’ll be get­ting once peo­ple nearby hears the splash­ing noises com­ing from your ‘belly’, that is.

For women who find the beer belly look hard to swal­low (no pun intended) there is also a female Wine Rack model in pro­duc­tion, which puts the bulge(s) in a more flat­ter­ing position.

From TheBeerBelly.com

The Fun­trak Paint­ball Tank

Quite pos­si­bly the ulti­mate boy’s toy, bring­ing this $16000 cus­tom built beast to bear on your office neme­sis at the next paint­ball game will not only secure your vic­tory, it also gives you a very strong change of get­ting fired, maybe even jailed!

On the other hand; judg­ing from this guy’s big grin, the warm feel­ing you get inside when dri­ving one of these around is sim­ply priceless.

From iwantoneofthose.com

Toshiba 360 Gam­ing Helmet

I always fig­ured that sleek, 360 degree motion con­trolled gog­gles would be the next big thing in computer/television out­put, but then Toshiba pulls a stunt like this. Instead of a cool set of wrap-around gog­gles, they hit on the idea of strap­ping the freak brother of an old-fashioned CRT tele­vi­sion onto some poor girl’s head. If using a mouse or gamepad doesn’t already give you repet­i­tive strain injury, this 2.7kg mon­ster is a safe bet.

From kotaku.com

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