Category: Quickhit

[A wind powered model car](http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/loopwing-toy-car-runs-on-wind-power/). What would be better if you could adapt the wind generator to charge a laptop…

[AT&T ends its automated speaking clock](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/29/reflections-on-atts.html). These were really clever bits of technology in their day. But who on earth would have guessed that they would get killed by mobile phones.

[The Cold War Jet Train Race](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wacky-races/the-soviet-union-vs-us-jet-train-race-293010.php). I hope the Mythbusters saw this, because just imagine what they could do with them…

[A chair shaped like an audio wave](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/chair_lets_you_sit_on_a_s.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). Nice, but where would you put it?

[An ex-Playschool presenter says TV is akin to child abuse](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/14/2090814.htm). Like many cranky people, her point isn’t clear other than ‘not happy’.

[A home arcade cabinet with built in beer keg](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/05/gamerator-arcade-cab.html). Awesome. Of course, it would probably be a lot to cheaper to have your keg separate.

[A wind dam straight out of a film like Waterworld](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wind-dam/wind-dam-design-for-russian-lake-is-spooky-awesome-323062.php). One is pretty. More than one is going to get pretty ugly pretty quickly.

[An explanation from the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart](http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/11/not-the-daily-s.html). Funny and accurate. Of course, you need to see [the response from the Colbert Report writers](http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/videologblog-writers-strike-colbert.html) as well.

[A pocket sized doomsday device button](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/japanfan/9806/). I often wish for one of these during long meetings…

[WW2 code breaking computer Colossus is making a return](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/code_breaker/colossus-back-to-crack-codes-after-a-60+year-absence-323006.php). Great stuff, but I fear it’s going to be trounced in the competition with a modern PC. It’s hard to overstate just how much computer power has increased.