Adam Frucci, Author at Gizmodo

Woz Talks iPhone, Sets Our Hearts Aflutter

Click to viewThis morning I was fortunate enough to have a chance to sit down with Steve Wozniak, otherwise known as Woz, king of the geeks. The co-founder of Apple and the father of the personal computer is like Santa with a tech fetish, an incredibly nice guy with lots to say about the future…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley May 10 '07

How to Sync Your Contacts with the Ocean

The Helio Ocean is an emailing machine, allowing you to manage a whole slew of email accounts at once. Also, Helio, unsurprisingly, would love it if you stocked up on their phones. You know, if you grabbed an Ocean for going to work and a Heat for going out at night. But what about loading…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 10 '07

Digital LED Fan Isn’t any Colder than a Normal Fan

This fan uses LEDs to display the temperature on its whirring blades. That way you can look over at it and realize just how hot it is and that you should have bought air conditioning instead of a gimmicky fan. Nice work, idiot. Product Page [via Book of Joe]

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 10 '07

Pyromaniac’s Delight Rube Goldberg Machine

Do you enjoy fire? Do you also enjoy very intricate Rube Goldberg machines? Of course you do. So just hit play and prepare to be entertained to an embarrassing degree. College Humor [Neatorama]

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 9 '07

Auto-Paparazzi Likes Celebrity Cleavage as Much as You

At last night’s ITP Grad Show at NYU, we saw this super-sweet project that essentially creates robotic paparazzi. It’s a smart robot, as it knows what humans like: skin, and lots of it. It has sensors that detect how much skin someone is showing, and it takes more pictures and yells at them more as…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley May 9 '07

Pantech’s Slider Features a Touchscreen with Tactile Feedback

There’s more than one fancy slider out there, you know. If you are sick of the Ocean (Already? You’re too jaded, my friend), then feast your eyes on the Pantech IM-R200. https://gizmodo.com/first-unboxing-of-the-helio-ocean-258988 It’s a slider that features two LCD screens, one that slides out from beneath the other. While one might argue that this has…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 9 '07

Disky Digital Music Players Won’t Let You Do Much of Anything

I think the problem with buying digital music is that it isn’t restricted enough. I’d like to only be able to listen to my music on one device. Don’t let me move them around! No, I don’t deserve it. I’ve been a bad boy, a bad boy indeed! Disky knows what I deserve for being…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 9 '07

NASA’s Moon Mission “Trailer”

NASA has clearly been spending their funding wisely. The above video is a, well, teaser trailer for the next planned mission to the moon. Complete with music and editing reminiscent of Battlestar Galactica and animation that looks to have been made around the same time as the original Toy Story, it makes me really want…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci May 9 '07

Snap Judgements: Helio Ocean vs. Apple iPhone

OK, so in the next couple months the two phones I am most excited about – the Helio Ocean and the Apple iPhone – will be coming out. Now, since all we have to go on for both of these things are pictures, specs, and wild, uninformed speculation, it seems like the perfect time to…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 8 '07

Awesome Tube Slide Should Replace Stairs

Who needs stairs? They’re so last century. If I had my druthers, going up a floor in a building would be done via escalator, and going down would be done via slide. Giant tube slides, to be exact. You might think it’s impractical, but that would just mean that you’ve murdered your inner child. The…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 8 '07

Sony Ericsson T650 Packs 3G, 3.2MP Camera Into a Slim Candybar

In addition to the S500 we showed you earlier, Sony Ericsson is also tossing out the T650, a cousin to that slim slider. A candybar, it packs a beefier 3.2-megapixel camera while remaining only 12.5-mm thick. It’s also a 3G phone, making checking your email or RSS feeds a snappier affair than if you’re using…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 8 '07

Sony Ericsson S500 Shows Your Inner Artist

Sony Ericsson announced a new phone today, the S500. Clocking in at a respectable 14mm thick, the slider is all about style. It’s got “ever-changing themes and illuminations that change as day turns to night” and “hidden illumination” to make you stand out while taking calls outside a club. As for the guts, it’s got…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 8 '07

Wee HDD is Like a Feature-Free iPod

This fun “Wizplat” external HDD is basically an iPod without the media playing functionality. I mean, it’s about the same size, and it comes in 40GB and 60GB flavors, so if you want to be able to carry around large amounts of data with you in your pocket, it’ll do the trick. And because it…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 8 '07

USB Business Card is Just so Practical

Why carry around business cards that are portable and cheap when you can carry something around that’s much bulkier and more expensive? That’s what you’ll do if you go with SolidAlliance’s brilliant idea of printing your business card on a USB thumb drive. Sure, you won’t be able to carry around more than a couple,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 8 '07

Clock Safe Hides Your Goods in Time

Everyone knows you shouldn’t have a safe that looks like a safe. The robbers will know exactly where your valuables are and will focus on cracking it. What you need is a good hiding spot. Sure, you could hide your valuables in some poop-stained tighty-whiteys, but, well, gross. https://gizmodo.com/brief-safe-scares-away-thieves-167338 This wall clock tells the time…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 7 '07

Stock-Predicting Robot to Make More Money Than You

If you think you suck at playing the stock market now, wait until you have to compete with an army of stock-predicting robots. Lehman Brothers is working on a “secret” AI system that they hope will be able to foresee the future of the markets, making the very rich even richer. We aren’t just talking…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 7 '07

Helio Ocean Coming May 21st?

Helio’s iPhone-trouncing Ocean may be available for purchase as soon as May 21st, which is a mere two weeks away. Over at the Boy Genius Report they claim that a tipster says that everything is lined up for a “general release on May 21st and a limited/internal/partner release 5-8 [days] prior.” Hey, that’s really soon!…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 7 '07

Joost Struggling Under the Load of New Beta Users

Joost recently opened itself up to an unlimited beta, and its since been inundated with new users as websites hand out stacks upon stacks of invites. The video streaming service is based on a peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing structure, so in theory it should be able to scale to however many users hop on board. In…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 7 '07

For Hot Rice, Just Add Cold Water

Some Japanese inventors have come up with a way to make a piping hot rice dish by adding nothing but cold water. “Hotto! Raisu” isn’t designed for the totally lazy, but rather for areas hit by natural disasters that are without power. How does it work? By subjecting rice to 4,000 times normal atmospheric pressure,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 7 '07

Video: 873 People Ditch a Downed Airbus in 77 Seconds

How long do you think it takes to clear out an Airbus A380 with 873 people on board in an emergency situation? 10 minutes? 5 minutes, perhaps? Try 77 seconds. That’s what the above video shows, an amazing feat of organized jumping and sliding that clears the entire plane out with amazing speed. Of course,…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 4 '07

Adam Frucci

Woz Talks iPhone, Sets Our Hearts Aflutter

How to Sync Your Contacts with the Ocean

Digital LED Fan Isn’t any Colder than a Normal Fan

Pyromaniac’s Delight Rube Goldberg Machine

Auto-Paparazzi Likes Celebrity Cleavage as Much as You

Pantech’s Slider Features a Touchscreen with Tactile Feedback

Disky Digital Music Players Won’t Let You Do Much of Anything

NASA’s Moon Mission “Trailer”

Snap Judgements: Helio Ocean vs. Apple iPhone

Awesome Tube Slide Should Replace Stairs

Sony Ericsson T650 Packs 3G, 3.2MP Camera Into a Slim Candybar

Sony Ericsson S500 Shows Your Inner Artist

Wee HDD is Like a Feature-Free iPod

USB Business Card is Just so Practical

Clock Safe Hides Your Goods in Time

Stock-Predicting Robot to Make More Money Than You

Helio Ocean Coming May 21st?

Joost Struggling Under the Load of New Beta Users

For Hot Rice, Just Add Cold Water

Video: 873 People Ditch a Downed Airbus in 77 Seconds

Fruits and Vegetables Might Be Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Non-Smokers. Cool, Cool, Cool

Forget AirPods Pro 3, Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) Quietly Return at a Record Low in Another Clearance Round

‘Widow’s Bay’ Proves Apple TV Can Do Horror Comedy Just as Well as Sci-Fi

LG 65″ OLED evo AI 4K UHD Smart TV (2025) Gets a $1,400 Price Cut at Best Buy Ahead of the World Cup Deal Rush

Anker MagGo Power Bank Restocked at Its Lowest Price, the 10,000mAh MagSafe Charger Likely to Sell Out Again

A New ‘Star Trek’ Book Wants to Map Out Every One of Its Timelines

Garmin Forerunner 255 Drops Over 30%, Top-Rated GPS Running Smartwatch Running Low on Amazon

‘Saros’ Is a Colorfully Aggressive Descent Into Roguelike Madness

Google Slashes Pixel 10 Pro XL to Black Friday Prices as It Clears Out 2025 Unlocked Flagship Smartphone Stock

Unlock 3 Free Months of NordVPN: Unlimited Streaming, Privacy, and Security for Pennies

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real