Brian Lam

Classiest Japanese Business Suit Can Be Washed In the Shower

In Japan a suit capable of being washed in the shower without ironing afterwards, has just gone on sale. Shower Clean only needs to be turned inside out and sprayed down with hot water to be sanitized, costs less than $500 and is targeted at college grads going through their first rounds of job hunting.…

How to Make a Bottle Rocket Out of Matchsticks and Foil

Hey, this is a little random, but if you’re bored visiting relatives with no gadgets to fiddle with, here’s a tutorial for making a a bottle rocket out of matches and foil. Beats helping with the cooking. [Instructables 1 and 2 and Youtube]

Blu Site Hacked, Format War Battlers Post Your Flames Here

Contrary to the spirit of Peace and Love on Earth this holiday, Blu-ray site was hacked to redirect visitors to the official HD DVD site, and a few weeks ago, the prestigious AVS Forum shut down the Blu and HD DVD section because of the jump in uncivilized discourse. We generally like higher brow comments…

Apple Year-End Report Card: A

Somewhere between 2006 and today, I stopped considering Apple an underdog. And I’m not just talking about their iPod numbers nor am I talking about their nowhere-close-to-Windows marketshare. I mean, screw marketshare, really: Does Porsche outsell Honda? Apple busted out some serious products like the iPhone and iPods and made aggressive growth in their notebook…

Google Android Prototype In the Wild

Here’s the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we’ve seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator. Our source, a Giz reader, had some feedback to add to the prototype, which he used for a day:…

OLPC Order Watch: Peru is Onboard, Total Count 267k of 150 Million

Peru is onboard for 40k of the machines. By my rough count, that brings the total to 267k OLPCs out of an original estimate of 150 million laptops sold by a year from now. As the WSJ puts it, it seems an impossible goal. But I’m rooting for the project, nonetheless. [Gearlog] https://gizmodo.com/why-and-how-olpc-got-reamed-negropontes-dreams-stolen-326540 The Math:…

Super-Designer Philippe Starck At TED

Philippe Starck is the super designer of many Gizmodo fetish pieces, including watches, lamps, toothbrushes, toilet brushes, and soon, spaceports like Virgin’s in New Mexico. In this recently released TED video, he goes on and on for 18-minute video about design. He brushes up against the different kinds of design, some built to market goods,…

Should I Bring My Email-Capable Phone On Vacation?

I’m going on vacation tomorrow, for a week. Hawaii. I don’t know if I find the idea of news dropping while I’m away very relaxing. Should I bring my cellphone with me to check email? BTW, see you all in a few days. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS…

JetBlue. Free Wi-Fi. December 11th 2007. Kind of.

I can hardly believe my eyes, but the WSJ and Reuters are reporting that JetBlue is offering Wi-Fi on it’s flights December 11th, 2007. But wait a minute. The service will be able to “support the entire plane” but don’t expect YouTube out yet. The biggest catch is that only Yahoo Mail and IM on…

Moviebeam, the overpriced, low quality video on demand box is ceasing service on December 15th. Hope you didn’t buy one.

PC World’s Declaration of Vista Fastest on a Macbook Pro Turned into Mac Vs. PC Ad

I’m sure the editors at PC World didn’t think their declaration that the fastest Vista notebook ever was a Macbook Pro would be immortalized in a Mac vs. PC Ad. Of course, PC benchmarks go stale fast. I wonder what’s going to be announced at Macworld 08. [Apple via TUAW] https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-is-the-fastest-windows-vista-notebook-317060

Limited Edition Zune 2 in Gold

Only 10 of these gold-colored Zune 2s will be sold, in both 80 and 8GB sizes. Microsoft teamed up with the Goods to make these screen printed designs. I like the cross pattern. They’re available next Saturday, in Seattle, if you feel the need to splurge. (No price listed but “Gold” plus “Limited Edition” plus…

Introducing Bestmodo: A List of the Gadgets I Actually Want

“What gadget should I buy?” is a pretty regular question in my life. The irony is that although I’m happy with the work we do at Giz, like all gadget blogs, it really sucks at listing the stuff we’d actually consider taking home with us from the store. With over 50 posts a day of…

TiVo Series 4, First Mumblings

Zatz, ever watchful TiVo fan, noticed the Third Quarter earnings for TiVo make reference to a new box that can do video on demand. It’s a thin thread, but we’ll take it as the first piece of soil that we can use to plant those rumor seeds: TiVo and the cable industry have come to…

Polarpak Moflow Canteen doubles as a Pressurized Shower

This water carrier for outdoorsy types includes a pressurizing hand pump that works to improve the design of ye old camelback-canteen in several ways: First, you won’t have to suck on the straw to get hydrated, an inflated reservoir doubles as a pillow, and mounted high, it works as a pinch shower. Joel notes that…

Analyst Predicts Apple and Nokia to Pull (Legal) Hair Over iPhone Clone UI

Analyst Richard Windsor predicts that Apple’s 200 patents on the iPhone’s UI will stop the new eerily similar Nokia S60 based touch UI from coming to market. Oh, analysts. [Marketwatch] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-introducing-touch-ui-to-open-source-s60-os-311363

The Case for Two TVs in One Living Room

Click to viewIf you’re upgrading your TV, you might wonder what to do with the old one. Girlfriends and traditionalists will say get rid of it or kick it to another room in the house. But I say keep it set up next to your new one, side by side. Screw picture in picture, this…

USB to eSATA Drive Adapter

You probably don’t want to use something like this eSATA to USB adapter to keep an external drive going for any extended period of time— it would be all too easy to trip up and unplug one of the many cables in such a complex setup. But for a quick data grab or dump onto…

Cowon A3 Portable Media Player is Powerful and Overpriced

The Rundown: The Cowon A3 PMP looks to be a full sized PMP (5 inches across its long side) competitive in nature with its 4-inch, 800 x 480 screen and industry standard features including generous DivX support among other formats, text file viewer, photo viewer with support for huge files and USB host mode, audio…

Apple-ish Prototypes for Non-iPod Gadgets

MacLife spent some time wondering what it would be like if Apple forayed into other gadget sectors and came up with a few concepts, including my favorite, the iEye camera. Unlike most design school renderings, this one is accompanied with a few specs: there’s an imaginary but delicious HD video recording mode, 5.1MP stills, 12GB…