Andrew Liszewski, Author at Gizmodo

Giant Magnifier For Those Who Think the iPhone 5’s Display Is Still Too Small

The iPhone 5’s most obvious upgrade is its larger four inch display. The size boost makes it easier to enjoy widescreen content, but if four inches is still too damn small for your liking, this monstrous magnifier puts a miniature IMAX theater on your lap. The best part of this—let’s call it a dock, for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 17

A Plate Made of Sand Sounds Like an Awful Dining Experience

Given that sand finds its way into every nook and cranny of your person when you go for a swim, the prospect of dining on the beach is even less appealing. So what possessed artist Victor Castanera to create a series of plaster-based dinnerware cast from the natural contours of a sandy beach? It’s unfortunately…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

This Spray Bottle Trigger Has a Safety

Even with that twisty on/off knob at the end of the barrel, little tykes apparently still have no trouble using spray bottles filled with poisonous cleaning products. So to make them safer for households with inquisitive kids, researchers at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University have created a new spray bottle design with…

Health Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

NASA Needs This Fantastic Spationery in Its Gift Shop

Since it’s totally pre-occupied with its latest rover roaming the surface of Mars, we figured we’d give NASA a hand, specifically when it comes to restocking its gift shop. Unfortunately, South Korean designer Jeongmi Lee’s lovely space-themed Spacionery office accessories don’t exist yet. But NASA put a man on the moon and a robot on…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

Beautiful Maple or Walnut Bluetooth Keyboards: The Wood Makes It Good

If gleaming white plastic and brushed aluminum don’t suit your fancy when it comes to keyboards, a French design shop called Orée will hand craft you a beautiful alternative made from your choice of either maple or walnut wood. But if you thought keeping your current keyboard clean was a pain, imagine having to sand…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

This Tiny Keychain Laser Keyboard Is Still a Waste of Space

Being able to project a full-sized QWERTY keyboard onto any surface makes the idea of ditching your laptop for a tablet a lot more plausible. And since CTX Virtual Technologies’ new compact keyboard projector is barely larger than a lighter, it would barely add any weight to your gear. It’s just too bad this technology…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

Mix and Match the Multi-Function Tiles on This Table Like Your Smartphone’s Homescreen

Taking inspiration from the modular tiled design of modern smartphones, Mamikim’s cleverly named ADAPTable is composed of six A4-sized wooden tiles that can be moved around and repositioned. So every time you come to work, you can customize it for the task at hand. The tiles include pencil holders, cutting mats, and even a section…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

Sliding Chopper Keeps Your Fingers Well Clear of Its Rocking Blades

If you’re looking for as many shortcuts as possible to becoming a whiz in the kitchen, this concept chopper makes short work of meats, vegetables, or whatever needs dicing. And you don’t need to spend months honing your knife skills or constantly replacing bandages. Designed by Andreas Kalt for the iF Design awards, the tool’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

There’s No Way This Ridiculous Hot Tub Exercise Bike Is Real

The fitness industry thrives by preying on people’s insecurities about their bodies. It means even the craziest of contraptions—from Thigh Masters to Tae-Bo dummies—fly off the shelves. But who in their right mind would drop over $18,000 on this hot tub-wrapped Fit-Wet exercise bike that flushes itself after every use? (What are they expecting people…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

Artist Skywrites the First Thousand Digits of Pi over San Francisco

Any eyes in San Francisco that weren’t focused on Apple’s announcements yesterday might have noticed something peculiar in the skies over the Bay area. As part of the ZERO1 Biennial—a months long festival celebrating the coming together of art and technology—an artist known only as Ishky used several planes to skywrite the first 1,000 digits…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

Jimmy Kimmel Confirms People Love the New iPhone 5, Even Though They’re Being Pranked With an iPhone 4S

The iPhone 5 has been criticized for being a boring and marginal update to the iPhone 4S—at least in terms of design, since the new handset looks a lot like its predecessor. The two phones are so similar, that when Jimmy Kimmel showed the iPhone 4S to random people on the street, passing it off…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

This Film Reel from 1902 May Be the World’s Oldest Color Footage

The oldest known color film footage has long been traced to a reel from 1909. But that was before Michael Harvey, the curator of cinematography at the National Media Museum in England, discovered an old forgotten tin in the museum’s archives. After examining the stock, Harvey discovered it was actually color test footage dating all…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

Conan O’Brien’s Got an Even Cheaper Amazon Tablet For You

Amazon’s Kindle Fire has declared an all out price war with the iPad. But if you don’t need all those fancy color-screen bells and whistles, you can opt for the even cheaper e-ink Kindle. And if even that’s overkill, Conan O’ Brien has discovered Amazon is selling, or renting, an even cheaper solution. What the…

Commerce Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

Music Video Uses Three Projectors and a Blank Room To Make Your Holodeck Fantasies Come True

If Star Trek: The Next Generation was any indication, we’re still hundreds of years away from actual holodeck technology that lets us travel the world without ever leaving home. But a music video for a Belgian group called Willow comes pretty close to recreating the experience using nothing but a triad of video projectors. The…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

Will Trash Cans That Charge Per Use Just Encourage Littering?

The Netherlands is rolling out some 6,000 smart garbage cans that can only be used when residents scan an RFID-enabled ID card. Besides monitoring just how much trash someone disposes of, the cans will also measure and charge the user based on how much refuse they tossed. Alongside the new garbage cans will be recycling…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

Speaker-Packed Bed Is Everything Teenage Guys Think Grownup Sex Will Be Like

There is a time in every young man’s life when a jam-pumping bed with a hi-fi leather headboard would seem like a great idea. It represents success, it represents excess, and when used to play Barry white, exclusively, the ladies would love it. But when you grow up, you hopefully realize that it is foolish…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

This Is the Ugly iPhone 5 Lightning Adapter You’ll Need For All Your Old Accessories

If you’re gung-ho on upgrading to the iPhone 5 and have a mountain of old accessories from previous generations of the iPhone and iPod, this is the ugly adapter you’ll need to buy for all of your deprecated gear. The iPhone 5 introduces a new, and considerably smaller, Lightning connector that’s incompatible with every single…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

Adaptive Resonance Technology Could Make Wireless Charging Far Less Finicky

Even though the companies involved have finally come together in a consortium and finalized a standard, wireless charging is still struggling to gain acceptance. But a new technology called adaptive resonance from Fulton Innovation promises to bridge the gaps between devices, and make wireless charging pads less difficult to use. With current hardware a device…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

Eating Rice Oozed from a Tube Sounds Efficient and Delicious

Taking some inspiration from the sucker-in-a-sleeve known as a Push Pop, Takara Tomy’s Smart Han bento lunchbox lets busy office drones enjoy sticky rice lunch extruded from a large tube. It’s not unlike the Sushi Bazooka, except that this contraption is designed to pump the food directly into your mouth. https://gizmodo.com/sushi-bazooka-5926339 A screw on cap…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

World’s Thinnest Graphite Heat Shield Stops Your Smartphone From Melting Your Hand

The dual and quad core processors used in modern smartphones make the devices extremely capable, but also run extremely hot. So to wrangle all that excess heat without adding too much bulk, Panasonic has managed to shrink its graphite heat shields to a mere 10μm (microns) thick. (Size comparison: A human red blood cell is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 12

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Giant Magnifier For Those Who Think the iPhone 5’s Display Is Still Too Small

A Plate Made of Sand Sounds Like an Awful Dining Experience

This Spray Bottle Trigger Has a Safety

NASA Needs This Fantastic Spationery in Its Gift Shop

Beautiful Maple or Walnut Bluetooth Keyboards: The Wood Makes It Good

This Tiny Keychain Laser Keyboard Is Still a Waste of Space

Mix and Match the Multi-Function Tiles on This Table Like Your Smartphone’s Homescreen

Sliding Chopper Keeps Your Fingers Well Clear of Its Rocking Blades

There’s No Way This Ridiculous Hot Tub Exercise Bike Is Real

Artist Skywrites the First Thousand Digits of Pi over San Francisco

Jimmy Kimmel Confirms People Love the New iPhone 5, Even Though They’re Being Pranked With an iPhone 4S

This Film Reel from 1902 May Be the World’s Oldest Color Footage

Conan O’Brien’s Got an Even Cheaper Amazon Tablet For You

Music Video Uses Three Projectors and a Blank Room To Make Your Holodeck Fantasies Come True

Will Trash Cans That Charge Per Use Just Encourage Littering?

Speaker-Packed Bed Is Everything Teenage Guys Think Grownup Sex Will Be Like

This Is the Ugly iPhone 5 Lightning Adapter You’ll Need For All Your Old Accessories

Adaptive Resonance Technology Could Make Wireless Charging Far Less Finicky

Eating Rice Oozed from a Tube Sounds Efficient and Delicious

World’s Thinnest Graphite Heat Shield Stops Your Smartphone From Melting Your Hand

This 4-in-1 Ergonomic Laptop Sleeve Hits a Record Low With $53 Worth of Free Extras Included

Samsung Clears Out Galaxy SmartTag2 at 42% Off, Now Nearly Half the Price of Apple’s AirTag

‘Daemons of the Shadow Realm’ Has Four Banger Songs For the Price of Two

JBL Boombox 3 Portable Speaker Drops to 40% Off, Though This All-Time Low Price May Not Stick Around for Long

Apple’s M5 13-inch MacBook Air Hits Record Low With Its Biggest Discount Yet Since Launch, Cheaper Than 2025 Model on Amazon

‘Chucky’ Is Finally Returning to the Big Screen

Used Electric Vehicles Are Having A Resurgence

Claude Mythos Preview Has Officially Frightened the British

Apple’s New Wearables Push Will Start with Glasses In 2027, Report Says

Crypto Investor at Center of Trump Corruption Allegations Now Sees Himself as ‘Victim’

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

This Loud-Ass Party Speaker Almost Got Me High AF

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Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

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