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amphibian

Home-Built Amphibian Frog-Truck Is Kermit's Favorite Vehicle

PopSci got their hands on this 2.5-ton home-built frogtruck, a 260-horsepower treaded monster which is the first-ever amphibious vehicle that can fully retract its drive assembly. The path for the perfect amphibian truck was as hard as the ones this thing can now travel through at 30mph: the mud flats, bogs, ice fields, snow slopes, rivers and lakes of the Alaskan tundra. More »

6:02 AM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Jesus Diaz
4,120 views, 13 comments

Latest by x23: @icegnome: -26? you must've been here in spring! -40 isn't uncommon. i've seen (non-confirmed by actual official recorded data) -78. more »

cellphones

Alltel Adds 1 Million Subscribers, Makes Sprint Feel Even Worse

Alltel, the runt of the nationwide carriers, added 1 million customers this past quarter, totally now over 13 million subscribers. Even though the CDMA-based carrier says it operates the "largest" network, we don't actually know anyone who uses it. Still, its aggressive pricing strategies and frogdesign-based interfaces have drawn our attention. Maybe Sprint, down a million this quarter, could learn a thing or two from the upstart. (Press release after jump, if you care.) More »

11:55 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,550 views, 46 comments

design

Aura Health Concept Device Drags Hippies Into the 22nd Century

The Aura Health Concept from Frog Design Mind attempts to fuse traditional healing and medical technology that is so cutting edge, we probably won't be able to build it for another 1,000 years. I could break down how it is supposed to operate, but the official description illustrates it best: More »

8:20 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,644 views, 17 comments

gadgets

Thirsty Light: The Cheap Nerd's Way to Keep Plants Alive

In the tradition of Dr. Frog and Botanicalls comes Thirsty Light, a $10 sensor that sits in your potted plant and blinks when the soil goes dry. You get to trade all that anxiety for a straightforward Pavlovian response: you see a blinky light, and you water your plant. Alternatively, there's a "quick-check" method: buy one and walk around the house with it, sticking it in all your plants. When you are done, you can even turn it off to save juice. OK, I'm sold—I'll take one. (I just noticed you can buy 12 for $84—that's how they get you: the damn volume discount!) [Thirsty Light]

8:30 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,445 views, 4 comments

Latest by StarChaser Tyger: ...literacy... more »

robots

Japanese Jumping Frog Robot Makes For An Efficient Killer

No no no! The deal was to make robots clumsily—and harmlessly—lumber along like the Honda Asimo, not spry and limber like this Japanese jumping frog robot. Mowgli, or as we call him, Death Jumper-kun, can hop about 50 cm into the air, effectively putting them at slightly under crotch height. Its creators at University of Tokyo, also known as Todai (which means atrocities against humanity), also programmed it to kick a soccer ball and leap down again from the chair. We better stop these maniacs now before one of them gets the bright idea to strap some saw blades to its feet. [Crazy U via Tech.co.uk via The Raw Feed]

6:20 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Jason Chen
29,529 views, 24 comments

Latest by Escamotage: Metal Gear Ray more »

toys

Disney Flix Camera (Plus iPod Docks and TVs)

Along with that news is the Disney Flix Video Cam that includes Disney Director software, packed with storyboards, sound effects, character voices, and music, guaranteeing your rug rats are able to cobble together movies of at least the same quality as the straight-to-video kind of Cinderella IV or whatever.
Along with this, there are the already-covered Disney iPod Dock and those 15-inch TVs with high def tuners and 1024 x 768 Sharp LCDs.

6:03 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Brian Lam
1,930 views, Comment

thanko

The Mouse that Quacked/Went Ribbit/Did Whatever a Seal Does

Thanko has released a new range of animal-themed mice. Both Mac- and Windows-compatible, you can have one of three beasties—duck, seal and frog—floating inside. They look like bath toys and cost $12.50. By the way, what noise does a seal make? I need help. Gallery after the jump. More »

3:35 AM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By AddyDugdale
1,585 views, 14 comments

frogs

Control a Dead Frog via the Web

Art or science? That's the question you'll be asking yourself when you see this dead frog with a server embedded into its guts. Suspended in a clear glass of inert liquid, the frog has an Ethernet cable coming out of its insides, which in turn allows remote "visitors" to issue commands and make the frog twitch its muscles. It's definitely the most sadistic thing we've seen done to a frog since that Miss Piggy's S&M video. [Conceptlab via BoingBoing]

4:00 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Jason Chen
5,650 views, 11 comments

Latest by gtr225: @nube: Basically that's all it is. I thought they were using electric impulses or something to make the muscles in a dead frog twitch. But I guess it's easier to make a bot covered in dead frog skin. more »

disney

High School Musical iPod Clock/Radio and LCD TV Make You Jealous of Little Kids

The smartest way to produce cool-looking electronics is to hire someone who already knows how, someone from frog design, for instance. Disney's electronics team is helmed by two former froggers, Chris Heatherly and John Guerra, and they've started turning some wild designs into hardware realities. The High School Musical Clock Radio above probably won't outblast other iPod docks on the market, but has a totally original look, and only costs $60. It should be hitting Toys"R"Us stores in October, in case you want to go in and buy one—I mean you know, for your kid sister. There's a matching LCD TV that may actually be even cooler than the iPod dock. Take a look... More »

8:56 AM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By Wilson Rothman
15,640 views, 9 comments

Latest by Trackback: If you took a liking to the popular teen movie High School Musical you might like this fiery red High School Musical iPod clock/radio. more »

cellphones

Send People Your Current Location (and Directions), Rate Local Restaurants Using TeleNav 5.2


The most elaborate GPS software for cell phones is TeleNav, and it's also the longest running. I remember testing its turn-by-turn navigation with a Nextel phone back in the summer of 2004, the GPS-phone equivalent of the dawn of time. Today TeleNav introduces version 5.2, starting with Sprint customers first. It may sound like an incremental update, but it's really a whole new deal, with location sharing, business ratings and other fun stuff, plus a new user interface courtesy of frog design. More »

12:01 AM on Mon Jun 11 2007
By Wilson Rothman
3,784 views, 2 comments

Latest by Destardi: I have this...it can take FOREVER to load a route, because of the "traffic checker" function, and you can't disable it :( but other than that, it's definitely better than VZ Navigator. more »

ribbit

Dr. Frog Reminds You to Water Plants, Plays One on TV

If your plants always look like they came out of the jungle where Predator and Governor Schwarzenegger did battle, invest in Doctor Frog. He's an accredited Ph.D. in plantology, and uses what's left of the lower half of his body—he was in a horrific golf cart accident—to detect the conductivity of your soil. More »

4:50 PM on Thu May 17 2007
By Jason Chen
1,528 views, 4 comments

the fifth carrier

Alltel Teams With Frog Design and eMusic, Launching Jump Music


Today, Alltel, the littlest big carrier, launches Jump Music, software that's iTunes-like in its dual nature as music manager and storefront. The announcement might seem like a non-event to most Giz readers—how many Alltel customers are even out there in the Giz nation? But you may want to start paying attention to the carrier: Like T-Mobile, Alltel has begun to address concerns of younger, more deal-conscious customers with unique pricing and unusual phone features. Alltel launched the "My Circle" network, which lets you pick 10 people from any network that you want to talk to for free. (OK, for "free.") Now it is getting into the music business. More »

1:01 AM on Fri May 11 2007
By Wilson Rothman
5,495 views, 11 comments

Latest by shawn30: thanks more »

cellphones

CUin5 Cellphone: Design Fiction by branko Lukic


The design of your phone is the result of countless business plans, TCO and ROI analyses. The CUin5 is the bizarro world version of that business plan. Every face includes a keypad, microphone and speaker.
Imagine grabbing it quickly - from inside your bag, from off a shelf, from under a car seat - and freely interacting with it without needing to turn it over or align it right side up?
The "super-practical" interface is also one of several sci-fi design hybrids— or Design Fictions—that will be included in branko Lukic's upcoming book titled non.object. Lukic knows what he's talking about: he spent 5 years at frog Design and then moved to IDEO where he designed products like the TaylorMade r500 golf club and Zyliss salad spinner. The book won't be published until later this year, but a sampling of his absurd concepts will be debuting here in the coming months. –Noah Robischon More »

4:30 PM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Noah Robischon
3,855 views, 15 comments

Latest by time4change: yeah, concepts are meant to open your mind, not close them off. Please divorce yourself from T3 magazine, Best Buy, and any other place where you find mass produced garbage and try to think a little differently - this, I more »

peripherals

Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker Set - Frog Family


If googly-eyed penguin speakers just aren't quite creepy enough for you, how about the Frog Family PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker set. Suggested by commenter wolfrider (thanks!) who says "go big or go home", every piece of this set, the keyboard, the mouse and the speakers are green frogs with wiggly eyes. Fun for kids sure, but bordering on freaky for adults. Although that's never stopped you before has it? –Dana Bushman More »

3:05 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
2,172 views, 5 comments

gadgets

Vonage Router Gets Gussied Up by Frog Design

VoIP provider Vonage made friends with hipster frog design inc., resulting in this pleasing router design that just might someday make it out of the basement and server closet and onto the desktop. It looks awfully purdy, plus it's designed to be more durable, too. More »

10:26 PM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By Charlie White
801 views, Comment

software

Anti-Spam Group Gets Uber-Spammed, Dies

Anti-spammers are like gazelles. They're graceful, charming, and beautiful. Spammers, however, are like gazelle gut worms—they're gross, cause horrible diarrhea, and eventually kill the host. A perfect example of this is Blue Frog. Blue Frog, and their service Blue Security, originally offered folks a way to spam spammers. First, customers would send spam to the Blue Frog service which would reply to the spammer with a request to remove the victim from their list. If that didn't work, the system would fill out any webforms it found on the spammer's website with requests to remove the victim. It seemed to work fairly well. More »

2:46 PM on Wed May 17 2006
By johnb
151 views, 12 comments

Latest by Worf: They're russian spammers. You think Russia would bother prosecuting them? (Remember, laws are national (except for the US, and only then, when prodded by some bribe^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contribution).). We might have to see more murders like those Russian hackers... And the problem is that more »

columns

frog Design Mind

Product Design for the Elderly


By Gretchen Anderson More »
robots

Gizmodo Gallery: Garnet Hertz


"Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" (Hertz, 2005) More »
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