Gizmodo: gizmine

Free Gadgets Using the Konami Code at Gizmine (Again, Free Gadgets)

matt buchanan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:33:10 EST

For once, the Konami Code will help you cheat in real life: Punch it in on any product page at Gizmine followed by [enter], and a mystery gadget worth $20-$60 will be added to your cart, for free. Exciting!

We had a hard time getting it work in Firefox, though it worked okay in Safari. [Gizmine]

Yamanote Train Bank Lays Down Tracks To Financial Savings

Elaine Chow — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:00:00 EST

What better place to save your yen than this adorable bank in the shape of Japan's iconic Yamanote subway train? Each deposit triggers the bank to play a melody from a randomly chosen Yamanote station.

The Yamanote line carries an estimated daily ridership of 3~5 million passengers. That's comparable to the number of people that use the entire New York subway system. If you put a penny in for every person who got on the line each day, you'd have a crapload of pennies... and probably a completely empty bank account. The price for "train"ing you to save is $90. [Gizmine]

Tokyo Street Watches Graph the Time, Shoot It, or Turn It Into Some Bugs

John Herrman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:17:13 EST

These watches from Tokyo Street take three novel approaches to telling time: one draws a target, the other makes a graph, and the last displays ants. Glowing, inscrutable little ants.

The Ever-Increasing watch slowly draws a graph of the time which, though it displays what some might call a rather predictable function, gets the point across just fine. The SCOPE II is more direct: a small targeting reticle locks onto the current time, which is arranged among a bunch of incorrect ones. Then there's the ANT.

It's not clear what each of the the ANT watch's ants symbolize, but if you take for granted that they probably correlate somehow to the current time, then you can accept that it's at least a useful icebreaker. The SCOPE II and Ever Increasing watches are priced at $180 and the ANT at $120 from Japanese überimporter and Gizmodo Gallery suppoter Gizmine. [Tokyo Street at Gizmine]

Introducing Gizmine: A Store For Weird Japan Gadgets

Brian Lam — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:01:05 EST

Doug Krone is my friend who started the dependable Japan importer Dynamism in the 90's and he's just launched Gizmine. Gizmine is different from Dynamism, a high end gadget site, by measure of its content type and breadth. I'd most summarily explain it as a collection of weird stuff on gadget blogs from Japan, but for sale. In fact, most of the inventory is stuff discovered on blogs and while walking through Shibuya on any given afternoon. Doug is also the man responsible for making Gizmodo Gallery possible. Below are a few of the pieces in his catalog that are my personal picks, and Doug says they'll be adding new pieces every day til the end of the year. Not a bad place to find a gift for the geeks in your life. [Gizmine]

Casio Poptone Vibrating Watch

Conof Desk Light

Self Explosion button

Tokyo Street LED Scope

Common Sense Keyboard (Charges by solar panel)

Fuji Film Instax Mini 7S (Like a polaroid!)

Model Camera Kit

[Gizmine]

[Thanks to REED ANNEX and thanks to our benefactor gizmine.com]

Gizmodo Gallery
Reed Annex
151 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

Gizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup
The reader meetup takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called The Annex (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery is hosted.) The address is 152 Orchard Street and we'll be there at 9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th.

Gallery Dates:
December 4th-7th

Times:
12/4 Thursday
12-8

12/5 Friday
12-8

12/6 Saturday
11-8

12/7 Sunday
11-4

[Gizmodo Gallery]

Gizmodo Gallery: Our Wonderful World of Gadgets On Display in NYC

Brian Lam — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:45:26 EST

This holiday season we're taking a break from our usual schedule of eating candy canes to throw an event called Gizmodo Gallery. "Gizmodo Gallery?" you ask, "What's that?" It's basically the best of Gizmodo come to life, in NYC meatspace from the 4th to the 7th of December. UPDATE: I'm rolling a few device details, slowly, from our +30 artifacts, and we've just published the details for our Friday Night reader meetup and a raffle for Prizes for those who donate over $10 to Toys for Tots.

Devices:
• Ancient Apple Phone Prototypes From Frog Design
• The Red One Camera
• Weird Japanese USB Gadgets!
• The Lego Death Star
• Free Laser Etching of Your Gadgets for a day, from Make's Phil Torrone
• At Gizmodo Gallery: Draganflyer X6 UAV
• At Giz Gallery: 103-Inch Plasma
• A Back To the Future Delorean
• At Gizmodo Gallery: Tiny Projectors That Fit In Your Hand Or Mouth!
• At Gizmodo Gallery: A Never Seen Before Tokyoflash Watch
• The Full List.

We thought about how so many readers never get a chance to see the things we write about in person. We thought it would be fun to get some space in NYC, gather together our favorite things and put them on display for all who would come to visit. Then we found out we had no money because the economy. It's broken.

Then we found out that our friends from Staple Design and Reed Annex would lend us their space for a few days, and our friends at Gizmine gave us a couple of bucks to pull it off, which was awfully kind of them.

So we started collecting the artifacts. One by one, people donated or lent us gear. A month later, we've got a quite a line up, including the biggest and best from this year, strange tech from the far reaches of the world and prototypes from the dawn of the electronic age. We're avoiding stuff you may already own or already see too much of, focusing instead on things you've yearned to touch but have had no chance to. Mark calls it a cross between "Ripley's Believe It or Not and a Smithsonian for gadgets." I'd just say there's going to be a lot of stuff and all of it is great.

The gallery opens this December 4th through the 7th, in NYC at REED ANNEX. What exactly will we be displaying? For now, its a secret, but every day that goes by, it seems another kind face from the gadget world shows up to loan us another amazing gizmo. If you've got weird, wonderful or monumental gadgets you'd like to loan us, space is already tight, but please drop me an email and we'll see if there's a fit. More details to come, so stay tuned.