You're looking at the Sony DEV-50V, an overhauled version of the pricey multi-gadget Sony announced at IFA a few years ago. The sophisticated optical set has a brand new beautiful look. And the guts inside are nuts: They're part 25x zoom digital binoculars, part sophisticated 3D camcorder, and all kinds of crazy expensive. Read More >>

Smart watches fart watches. Why would you want to have your email on your wrist when you could have an impossibly badass — and doubtless expensive — analogue sucker made of reclaimed AK-47 steel wrapped around your arm. Read More >>

If your job involves handling explosives, probably the last thing you're worried about is whether or not your watch can survive a blast that would leave you dead. But that didn't stop Kaventsmann from crafting this truly over-the-top timepiece that's been torture tested with five kilos of C4. The verdict: the crystal got scratched, but the watch kept on ticking. Read More >>

Starbucks baristas will write your name on the side of your coffee cup, but that's nowhere near the level of personalisation the Barista Bot is capable of. After snapping your portrait with a webcam, it uses a robotic arm to then draw your face in the milk foam atop your latte. That's overkill in the best way possible. Read More >>

Nikon has been teasing development of the new absurdly long, fixed AF-S Nikkor 800mm, f/5.6 aperture lens since last year. Now it's here, and you'll be happy to know that this lens' crazy and inflexible magnification potential is coupled with the absolutely ludicrous price of £15,600. But don't worry, cheapskates, because there's an actually affordable new lens coming out, too. Read More >>

If you thought Sony's 84-inch 4K TV was expensive at around £16,000, then think again. Samsung has announced the pricing of its new flagship model — and you could buy a number of cars with the same cash. Read More >>

Need to protect your PC from earthquakes and catastrophic clumsiness? Not opposed to ridiculous design? In-Win's D-Frame PC case might be up your alley. This little monster is so ugly it wraps back around to awesome. Read More >>

Smart gadgets you can wear are all the rage, but Toshiba's Computer Graphics Watch prototype kind of misses the point. Read More >>

We steeled ourselves last week as we learned that frequent ruiner of things, Will.i.am planned to release a gaudy iPhone case that turned your iPhone's 8-megapixel camera into a 14-megapixeler. Now we have images and it's even more garish and ugly than we could have imagined. Read More >>

Massive email attachments are the scourge of Exchange users everywhere, but not so for Gmail users. You can now send attachments directly from your Google Drive, meaning files up to an inbox-exploding 10GB in size are now go. That's a heck of a lot of, err, porn work in your mail. [Google via LifeHacker] Read More >>

One of the few non-kitchen related tasks during the holidays involves prepping the dining room table with inserts or expansions to accomodate extra guests. But why wrestle with heavy slabs of lumber when this lightweight table made from carbon fibre, kevlar, and titanium can be set up and lifted by a single person? Oh, that's right, it costs £42,640. Read More >>

OK, so you've just won the lottery. You've already bought yourself a £5 million pound mansion, plus a Bugatti Veyron to fill that garage, but what do you buy next? A colossal £600,000 152-inch ultra HD (4K) plasma TV for your massive living room wall, of course. Read More >>

Scarecrows are a tried and true piece of human technology, but nowadays birds harass more than just crops; they also bother planes. That's why South Korea has developed a new kind of overkill scarecrow for airports: an unmanned tank with laser and acoustic weapons. Read More >>

This is the world's most advanced Scrabble set. Packed with LEDs, RFID sensors and fancy software, it's the cutting-edge in boardgames — and it's worth a cool £19,000. Read More >>

T-shirt cannons are typically tiny little toys that shoot out free t-shirts to rabid fans, who want nothing more than a free t-shirt tagged with a silly phrase and drenched in crappy sponsors, even though they spent a hundred pounds to come to the game. This T-shirt cannon though? It's a freaking monster. It's the world's largest T-shirt cannon. Read More >>