Andrew Liszewski, Author at Gizmodo

Bang & Olufsen’s Book-Shaped Bookshelf Speaker Will Disappear Into a Shelf Full of Books

It’s hard to believe that anyone spending $900+ on a 10-inch tall, ultra-slim wireless speaker is not going to want everyone visiting their home to see their $900+ speaker, but that didn’t deter Bang & Olufsen from designing its new Beosound Emerge to look like a handsome tome that can disappear into a shelf full…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Urbanista’s New Solar-Powered Wireless Headphones Will Run Forever as Long as You Stay Outside in the Sun

The limitations of battery technology continue to be the bane of every gadget’s existence, but, like the solar calculators of yesteryear, Urbanista’s new noise-canceling Los Angeles headphones feature a solar panel that helps recharge the battery any time you’re exposed to even dim lighting indoors. As wireless headphones go, the new Urbanista Los Angeles headset…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Every Coffee Table Should Have a Secret Pop-Up Miniature Model Railroad

If you’ve always dreamt of building a miniature model railway but don’t quite have the space for one, Peter Waldraff came up with a solution by building a complete four-season N-scale layout that disappears into a nondescript coffee table so you can hide your hobby when company visits. This isn’t the first attempt to build…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

New Photo Colorizing Process Factors In How Skin Reacts to Light For Incredibly Lifelike Results

Film stocks from a century ago weren’t just limited to only capturing details in black and white; they could only capture a limited band of the color spectrum, resulting in images of famous individuals that didn’t accurately represent how they actually looked. So a new approach to colorization using AI finally takes that into account,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Ikea’s Immortalized Its Iconic Allen Wrenches as Decorative LED Lighting and Flashlights

Although best known for its meatballs and maze-like warehouse stores, there’s one Ikea product that its customers never intentionally buy but almost always leave the store with: an Allen key, the unsung hero of flatpack furniture that Ikea is now immortalizing as a pair of LED lights. Last month the Swedish furniture and housewares giant…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Coolest Star Wars, Marvel, and Transformers Reveals From Hasbro’s Fanfest, and More Toy News

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s usual round up of the latest and greatest in plastic collecting. This week: Hasbro’s all but taken over for its Fanfest of Transformers, Star Wars, and Marvel reveals—give or take a bonus Baron Zemo—but there’s also fun Avengers cards and a sneak Star Trek away mission facilitator. Check it…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy and Build Festo’s Incredibly Agile Wing-Flapping Robotic Bird

About a year ago, Festo, a company whose nature-inspired robots are as impressive as Boston Dynamics’ creations, blew our minds with a robotic flying bird that used feather wings to perform agile airborne maneuvers. It was a prototype back then, but later this year, the company will start selling a kit that allows anyone to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

My Eyes Hate Me for Loving This Impossibly Tiny Game Boy Clone

If someone dared Nintendo to make the smallest handheld console imaginable, the results would be the FunKey S, a keychain-sized retro gaming machine that can emulate more than 10 different classic consoles. Only this console wasn’t made by Nintendo—instead, this pint-sized device was created by a group of retro enthusiasts whose love for gaming has…

Gaming Andrew Liszewski

There’s Now a Tiny Washing Machine to Clean Your Wax-Encrusted Earbuds

If you’re ashamed to take your earbuds out of your ears in public because of what might be caked inside them and yet too disgusted to clean them at home, you better believe there’s a Kickstarter product to solve that. Imagine a washing machine miniaturized to sit on a desk that cleans earbuds instead of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Someone Found a Way to Make Video Calls Even Worse With a Realistic Robot Eye Webcam

For anyone who doesn’t think a year spent trying to work and socialize through video calls could get any worse, behold the Eyecam: an anthropomorphic robotic webcam designed to look like a human eyeball that even blinks and looks around the room. Maybe telephone calls and email weren’t so bad after all? The Eyecam was…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Highly-Absorbent Nasal Swab Means Uncomfortable Covid-19 Tests Are Over Faster

Anyone who’s had a covid-19 test requiring a nasal swab knows it’s not the most pleasant experience. Part of the problem is that the swab has to be left in place for 10-15 seconds to ensure an adequate sample is absorbed. But a company born from 3D printing research at MIT says it’s created a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

One of the unique challenges of 3D printing is that models that feature structures hanging in mid-air, like the spout of a teapot, also need temporary structures to support the soft extruded plastic until it hardens. This can result in a lot of wasted material, because those supports are just discarded afterwards. A new prototype 3D…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

THX’s First Consumer Gadget Is a Tiny Headphone Amp That Will Have You Embracing Wires Again

THX is a brand synonymous with sound, best known for its eardrum-tickling deep note trailer played before movies in theaters. For years, THX has partnered with hardware makers, lending its expertise in sound to improve the audio capabilities of everything from smartphones to laptops, and now the company is finally releasing its own consumer product:…

Reviews Andrew Liszewski

eBay’s App Can Now Recognize and Automatically Make Listings for Trading Cards You Want to Sell

Who’d have thought that over 150 years after the first baseball cards were printed in the late 1860s that trading cards would still be a hot commodity? Every minute, almost 100 of them are sold on eBay, according to the company. So, to make the process smoother, it’s updating its app with image recognition capabilities…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This 1.5-Pound Stainless Steel Dock Ensures Apple’s MagSafe Charger Always Stays Put

The iPhone 12’s new MagSafe charging is a marquee feature, but there’s one thing no one ever mentions: Separating the phone from a charger isn’t effortless, which means when you reach for the device and forget it’s being charged, you can yank the cable a little too hard. Nomad’s solution to the problem is a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Now Make Old Photos of Your Relatives Dance and Blow Kisses

According to MyHeritage, since the launch of its Deep Nostalgia tool five weeks ago, over 72 million photo animations have been created through its site—and that was with just 10 different options available. Today, the company is doubling the number of unique movements that can be applied to still photos in Deep Nostalgia, including one…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Dremel’s New Cordless Glue Pen Heats Up in Just 15 Seconds for Crafting Emergencies

Crafters know that if you need to attach two delicate things together quickly, a glue gun is your secret weapon. If you’re dealing with a real crafting emergency, however, and don’t have a couple of minutes to wait for a glue gun to heat up, Dremel’s new cordless option gets the hot glue flowing in…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

8BitDo’s Pro 2 Is Closer Than Ever to Being the Perfect Nintendo Switch Controller

There’s still not a perfect controller for the Switch (even Nintendo’s own Pro controller has its flaws) but 8BitDo’s new Pro 2, an upgrade to its SN30 Pro+, comes about as close as you’re going to get. By addressing some of the more glaring shortcomings of its predecessor, 8BitDo has made the Pro 2 a…

Gaming Andrew Liszewski

Playing the World’s Largest 6-Foot-Long, 65-Pound Nintendo Switch Looks Like an Excellent Workout

For many of us, the last year was definitive proof that sitting on a couch with a portable console in hand is a terrible way to stay in shape. But what if that console was a supersized version of the Nintendo Switch measuring six feet long and weighing 65 pounds? Just trying to reach the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Week’s Toys Feel Like They’re Wearing Nothin’ at All, Nothin’ at All, Nothin’ at All…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest merchandise on the internet lately. This week: head back to Middle-earth’s Second Age, Lego strikes out on DC and Marvel with classic Batman and Venom sets, the perfect Star Trek Rubik’s Cube, and more. Check it out! Asmus Toys Lord of the Rings…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

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Bang & Olufsen’s Book-Shaped Bookshelf Speaker Will Disappear Into a Shelf Full of Books

Urbanista’s New Solar-Powered Wireless Headphones Will Run Forever as Long as You Stay Outside in the Sun

Every Coffee Table Should Have a Secret Pop-Up Miniature Model Railroad

New Photo Colorizing Process Factors In How Skin Reacts to Light For Incredibly Lifelike Results

Ikea’s Immortalized Its Iconic Allen Wrenches as Decorative LED Lighting and Flashlights

The Coolest Star Wars, Marvel, and Transformers Reveals From Hasbro’s Fanfest, and More Toy News

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy and Build Festo’s Incredibly Agile Wing-Flapping Robotic Bird

My Eyes Hate Me for Loving This Impossibly Tiny Game Boy Clone

There’s Now a Tiny Washing Machine to Clean Your Wax-Encrusted Earbuds

Someone Found a Way to Make Video Calls Even Worse With a Realistic Robot Eye Webcam

This Highly-Absorbent Nasal Swab Means Uncomfortable Covid-19 Tests Are Over Faster

Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

THX’s First Consumer Gadget Is a Tiny Headphone Amp That Will Have You Embracing Wires Again

eBay’s App Can Now Recognize and Automatically Make Listings for Trading Cards You Want to Sell

This 1.5-Pound Stainless Steel Dock Ensures Apple’s MagSafe Charger Always Stays Put

‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Now Make Old Photos of Your Relatives Dance and Blow Kisses

Dremel’s New Cordless Glue Pen Heats Up in Just 15 Seconds for Crafting Emergencies

8BitDo’s Pro 2 Is Closer Than Ever to Being the Perfect Nintendo Switch Controller

Playing the World’s Largest 6-Foot-Long, 65-Pound Nintendo Switch Looks Like an Excellent Workout

This Week’s Toys Feel Like They’re Wearing Nothin’ at All, Nothin’ at All, Nothin’ at All…

Did AMD Just Make the Best CPU for Gamers and Creators?

AI Just One-Shotted Another CEO

6 Magic School Anime and Manga to Discover Instead of Thinking About ‘Harry Potter’ Ever Again

Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees