1 In 4 Of Us Text While We Drive

According to a new survey of 4800 U.S. drivers, it turns out that 26 percent of those people have admitted to texting while driving. God knows that it’s hard enough to keep your mind on the road while talking on the phone… texting while driving sure seems like a great way to win a Darwin Award.

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Know When It's Safe To Go Pee

Why didn’t we think of this! So simple yet so useful! Finally a website that tells you when it’s safe to go pee during a movie!

RunPee.com creates a timeline for movies and lets you know when you should relieve yourself based on key events in the plot line. That way you won’t miss a thing!

Right now RunPee is still in beta and the movie archive is pretty sparse, but once users start uploading pee times it should prove useful! What a great app to have on your phone to take to the theater with you!

[Via UberReview]

Transformers USB Flash Drive

A USB that is More than Meets the Eye! The USB Transformer is the ultimate gift, I mean, who wouldn’t want one?!? This soon to be collectible actually transforms from jaguar to USB flash drive in seconds.

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Twitter: The Book

You knew it was only a matter of time. Yes, Twitter is all the rage right now, and O’Reilly Media has jumped at the opportunity to make some quick cash by releasing The Twitter Book.

O’Reilly claims this guide will teach you everything you need to know about Twitter, and how to use it to boost your business and online presence. It did however break the 140 character rule, as this guide is a whopping 240 pages!

The book retails for $19.99.

[O'Reilly]

Hulu On Its Way To Britain?

The free online video-on-demand service we all know and love is headed across the pond. The Telegraph is reporting Hulu is trying to sign a deal with commercial broadcasters so it can roll out its service by September.

The Telegraph’s source says the service would stream 3,000 hours of American content, as well as material from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. However, there is a sticking point. Hulu wants control over advertising sales around Channel 4’s and ITV’s content.

Neither side is willing to comment on the story. Surprise surprise. Strange Hulu doesn’t look north to conquer Canada before before jumping across the pond.

[Telegraph]

Use Retro Controllers On Your Wii

It won’t be officially announced until E3, but word has leaked developer Komodo is set to release an adapter which will let you use your classic Nintendo controllers on your Wii.

The adapter itself looks like an old N64 system and has three female ports. You’ll be able to plug an old NES, SNES or N64 controller into the Gamecube port on your Wii and use the controllers to play Virtual Console games. Finally a use for all those old dusty controllers!

The adapter is expected to retail for around $20, and should be available in mid-June.

[Via Crave]

Video Games To Offer 2 Year Warranty?

Well that could very well be the case if the European Union got its way. The EU is proposing video game developers be forced to provide a 2 year guarantee on new games coming out. The warranty would force retailers to give a full refund if a game has a show-stopping bug that prevented the user completing it.

The proposal has The Business Software Alliance up in arms. It says since digital content is not a tangible good, it shouldn’t be subject to the same liability rules as items like  toasters.

Would be interesting to see if this would fly on this side of the pond. What do you think? Should developers and retailers be held accountable for buggy games?

[Via Pocket-Lint]

Your Own Personal Water Park

We’ve seen water trampolines before, but nothing quite like this. Now you can have an entire floating water park!

Rave Sports lets you start out with a water trampoline as your main hub, then let’s you to add on up to three different attachments. The Aqua Log is an inflatable extension which challenges your balance as you walk across it. The Aqua Slide pretty much speaks for itself…you slide down. Then there’s our favorite, the Aqua launch. Jump as high as you can on the trampoline then land on the Aqua Launch. Your friend sitting on the opposite end will be launched up into the air then splash into the water.

The entire setup doesn’t come cheap, setting you back around $5000. C’mon, tightwad. You only live once!

[Rave Sports]

Not Enough Palm Pres To Go Around

Sprint’s CEO is already ringing the alarm bells. Dan Hesse announced to investors at a recent conference there will not be enough Palm Pres to meet demand at launch. Hesse even went on to say the company doesn’t plan on advertising the Pre very heavily at first, because it doesn’t want to add to the shortage issue.

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Google Announces First PowerMeter Cities

You can’t improve what you don’t know. That’s what Google has been saying when it comes to power consumption in homes around the world. Well now the internet giant has announced the first handful of cities it has partnered with to get its PowerMeter software off the ground.

Cities with Itron smart meters can embed Google’s PowerMeter software into their equipment so residents can see their power consumption in real time. The idea is simple, if residents know how much power they are using, maybe they will cut back.

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