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The RoadPrinter Paving Machine Rolls out Brick Roads Like Carpet

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The RoadPrinter by RP Systems is a paving machine that literally lays down brick roads. It still needs some human intervention, but helps lay down brick roads much faster than traditional methods.

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Humans simply load bricks into the machine and it does the rest, carefully setting the bricks into position on the ground. I have no idea how long it takes to make a brick road the old way, but as you can see, it doesn’t take long with this machine. It spits out brick roads like a carpet being unrolled.

Check out these videos of the RoadPrinter in action around the world. The machine isn’t even that big, making it easy to get to job sites. I love watching odd machines like this at work.

[via Tech Insider via Laughing Squid]

Dart Lightweight Adapter Replaces Your Brick

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Dart Lightweight laptop Power AdapterLaptops continue to get thinner and lighter, making that power brick that you have to tote along seem to get bigger. Finsix says the have a solution for this with the lightweight Dart power adapter.

The Dart is four times smaller and six times lighter than most of the 65W power adapters that laptops commonly use today, and isn’t a matte black square. The’ve designed to so you can order with the correct power adapter for your specific laptop and it fits the “holes” in the wall in just about anywhere in the world. They say that they’ve even managed to find a way to keep the adapter relatively cool while charging your laptop.

Finsix has been running a Kickstarter campaign that has been fully funded and they are expecting to deliver in November of 2014 with colors of Blue, Magenta, Silver, Gunmetal, and Orange. Pricing looks like it will be in the $110 range for an adapter, and a little more if you want one that works with your MacBook.

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This Game Boy Has Been Bricked

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I never would have thought that a Game Boy would look good as a brick, but it actually looks pretty awesome. It looks heavy, but cool. Anyway, you may not believe it, but Nintendo’s handheld gaming system recently celebrated it’s 25th birthday. Does that make you feel old?

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To celebrate this milestone, Vadu Amka took inspiration from the people calling the Game Boy a “brick” and transformed an old model into an actual brick wall from the Zelda series. It even has a Triforce and a Hylian crest.

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It looks like a handheld that belongs in the Game of Thrones world. Great job, Vadu. You bricked your Game Boy and we love it.

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[via Kotaku via Nerd Approved]

Power Brick Battery Pack: Charge It, Build It, Brick It, Mod It

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Power Brick Charger

This is probably the coolest smartphone charger that we’ve seen in a long time. Built from lightweight materials, the Coi+ Power Brick comes packed with a 4,200 mAh battery pack and four official LEGO bricks that can be attached onto it to transform it into a stand for your device. The entire thing is compatible and connectable with minifigs and the other bricks that you have in your LEGO stash.

Put a LEGO Mario on your Power Brick or customize it with your initials using LEGO bricks. The possibilities are endless–as long as you’ve got the bricks for them, that is.


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The Coi+ Power Brick is currently available for pre-order for $49.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ C|NET ]

 

Binatone’s Brick phone was acceptable in the ’80s (hands-on)

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"If you're an '80s guy like me, then you know it's important to be a shark. That means getting up, choking down a double espresso and listening to Huey Lewis. Then it's time to hit the trading floor and make a cool hundred mil or something before dinner. Lunch? Lunch is for wimps. Talking about wimps, those hipsters who use Native Union's Pop retro smartphone handset are scum. Me? I'm all about the Binatone Brick. Cram in a SIM card and you can make calls on this thing AND play Snake (I mean, we are living in the future) even while riding the elevator. But pair it over Bluetooth to your smartphone, and you'll impress everyone when you're walking and talking. It'll launch soon for you mere mortals, priced at £50 in the UK with a 1,000mAh battery, but for a big-shot like me who's always making deals, I'm holding out for the 2,000mAh version that'll come later for £80. Oh, and one more thing -- in the time it took you to read this, I just bought San Marino."

-G. Gekko

Mr. Gekko's views are entirely his own and do not reflect those of Engadget or AOL.

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Retro Brick Phone

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If we imagine a world without Smartphones, then it’s easy to picture this Just 5 Brick Phone by Art Lebedev Studio as a must-have. However, we do live in the world of Technicolor so a large-key, monochromatic graphics-display phone sounds a bit off. Or does it? Specs like retractable antenna, radio, alarm clock, flashlight, calculator, calendar, handheld meter, only one game – “Race” and mapping are nostalgic. The winner of course is the one-week battery power. Will you trade this for your iPhone or Samsung Galaxy?

Designer: Art Lebedev Studio

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Another Brick In The Wall

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As our USB sticks keep getting smaller, chances of us losing them in our bags and backpacks keep getting higher. This inverse proportion can be curbed thanks to the unique Brick USB Stick Design. The pint-sized stick rests snugly in your smartphone’s headphone jack. The design allows you the flexibility of carrying your USB without the bother of losing it, plus the dense pattern lets you know the storage capacity.

Designers: Hongshik Kim and Se-eun Kim

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Some Pebble smartwatches bricking after shutdown, company replacing faulty units

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It appears that Pebble's smartwatch is officially feeling its largest growing pain since debuting just two months ago. A five-page long (and growing) thread on the company's forum has some owners describing a bug that's leaving their Pebbles pebbled bricked after shutdown. Pebble's Eric Migicovsky let us know that is actively replacing affected units, while examining those being sent in to find out the root cause:

We've had reports of this issue, and we understand of course that it's annoying for users. We're replacing any Pebbles for users who report this issue. We're reviewing the Pebbles that get returned, working to get to the bottom of the issue. We have our support team ready to follow up to any user that reports this issue.

As it stands, there's no word on whether firmware update 1.9 has any role in keeping the devices from turning on after being shut down. Owners have further reported that no amount of charging their Pebble will help it to actually come back to life. We've reached out to the company for more info on the matter (including nailing down how many units the company has replaced so far), and we'll be sure to keep you updated. For now, let us know whether your experience with Pebble has been rocky at all so far.

Update: That was fast -- apparently Pebble has received about 30 reports of this issue since Friday. Here's the official word from Migicovsky:

We're tracking a few reports of this issue. Up to Friday, we've had 20-30 reports (out of 30,000+ pebbles in the field). We've gotten several back to the office, and we're getting to the bottom of it.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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