Smallist

Amazon offers this tiny Sega Genesis — with games already included — for $9.99. Helluva lot cheaper than a Wii, and in stock.

A word of advice: If your kitchen is small enough that you need a built-in coffee pot, get your morning cup in the outside world. You need the air anyway. On the other hand, this built-in coffee machine is pretty nifty looking for a kitchen of any size, taps into your water supply, and it does save a bit of counter space.

Via Slashgear and Freshome.

Brando brings us this little 5 volt, USB powered cooler. Takes 5 minutes to get cold, holds a single can. Nifty!

They also have a category called “USB lifestyle“…. I had no idea a hardware standard could be so dope.

Via Engadget.

Gizmodo’s got a few good small things today. First, these miniature classic chairs. At 38 to 50 per set, they’re the cost of cheap real human chairs. But then, I’ve seen those marshmallow couches go for like fifteen grand on ebay, so it’s a bargain if you don’t mind sitting down very carefully.

And then there’s this mini-filing cabinet for business cards. It holds 800 business cards altogether, enough for anyone who prefers cuteness over the practicality of a Rolodex, or zeus forbid, one of these computer things everyone’s talking about. It’s a better deal, at 13.98. Oh and it has a clock.

T3 has a mini-review and video of the Haier Elegance cellphone, which claims to be the smallest phone in the world, with some set of qualifiers (smallest phone with music, smallest phone that doesn’t flip, yadda yadda). It has an FM radio and a OLED, both very nice touches. And with its nice rounded edges and tiny size, it’s the first phone that can be passed harmlessly through the digestive tract*, if you’re in a cellphone-free zone, or need to smuggle MP3s over the border.

*Not true. Don’t sue me.

Holey moley that’s a small laptop. The Lifebook U is claiming to be the “smallest tablet-convertible UMPC.” It runs full XP or Vista at a resolution of 1024×600, and weighs 580 grams, a little over a pound. The processor runs at 800 mhz and you can get it with a gig of ram and a 20 Gig hard drive. And most importantly, it gets 8 hours of battery life.

I’m still unconvinced that this form factor has a market, but I guess time will tell.

From AudioCubes, miniature appliance alarm clocks. The blender blends little pretend peas when you wake up — why you’d want split pea soup before the 6 am commute is beyond me. Maybe to use the possessed vehicles lane? The fridge has a radio in it. The TV doesn’t seem to do much (it just makes some kind of noise), but has a very nifty display. There’s also a washing machine and an oven, both of which vibrate. These things don’t have to make sense, people.

MetaEfficient covers a new invention, Micro-Wind Turbines. It’s an modular design whereby the fans can be linked to each other by a set of gearteeth on the outside of each unit. Unfortunately, the current models are not designed to plug into the grid.

The company also performs workout machine conversions which allow the equipment to power about 50% of the gym’s needs. Video here.

Coolhunting has a nice portable and tabletop grill roundup. I really like the flower-box grill, called Bruce.

The A-Z of Popular Scooters & Microcars looks like a fun read! The printing and typesetting look a bit cheap judging by the sample chapter [pdf] and cover, so it might not be coffee table material, but it seems to be pretty comprehensive. So if you’re into bubblespotting, this is your book.

Via AutoBlogGreen. Previous post on bubble cars.