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Neuton Cordless Electric Mower

Get rid of all that noise and exhaust from those infernal internal combustion engines with the Newton cordless electric mower, a 48-pound lawnmower that runs for an hour on a charge. Its 15-pound battery takes 12 to 24 hours to charge up, and it lets you quietly mow the grass on a small to medium-size…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 2 '06

Mosquito Jihad: Mega-Catch Ultra Trap

We’re looking for a way to put the hurt on clouds of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, something a mosquito-repelling T-shirt or necklace probably can’t do very well. Enter the Mega-Catch Ultra Trap, a serious-looking contraption that lures in the little buggers with a combination of flashing LEDs, an ultraviolet light and a strip of octenol. After attracting…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 2 '06

iBook in Flames, Film at 11

There was a little problem with an Apple iBook in Minnesota, where an 11-year-old boy was playing with the laptop as it sat on a carpet. After he left the room for a few minutes, his family heard a popping noise, and noticed the carpet melting underneath the overheating iBook. After the kid’s mom promptly…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 2 '06

Sonic Impact K1: Display Enlargement

If that 5G iPod’s screen is a bit small for extended video viewing, nestle it into the Sonic Impact K1 with its 7-inch widescreen display and solve the problem pronto. It has integrated speakers and a touch-sensitive interface, but we’re a bit worried about the stretched video in the picture here, where the iPod’s 4×3…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 2 '06

$100 PC Now Costs $130, Due in April, 2007

Nicholas Negroponte of MIT’s Media Lab showed off the latest version of his $100 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), the Linux-based laptop that will begin shipping to developing countries starting in April, 2007. The 2-pound laptop won’t cost $100, though. Its price will actually be between $130 and $140 not including shipping, but Negroponte expects…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 2 '06

Soios 55-Cam 360 Surround Webcam

Japanese company Suekage Sangyo introduced Soios 55-Cam 360, a webcam that shoots 360-degree video and connects to a PC via FireWire. It gives you a choice of outputting full 360-degree surround video, 270 degrees or a single 4×3 frame. Since the lens is in the base of the camera pointing up at a 55mm hyperbolic…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 2 '06

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Tech News Charlie White Jun 2 '06

Jesus on a Pancake

If you’re envious of that Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich that fetched $1700 on eBay, imagine how much money you could make selling a few pancakes featuring the Main Man, that Holy Ghost of Nazareth, Jesus himself. Now you can brand the face of the Lamb of God on sandwiches, pancakes, or even your ass.…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Poop Freeze Creates Excretory Confections

Blast that shit with a $12.99 can of Poop Freeze, turning your pet’s hefty hunk of steaming junk into an ice sculpture complete with a white crusty film that makes it oh-so-scrumptulicious to pick up. Best of all, it contains no CFCs and doesn’t harm vegetation. Plus, instead of carrying around that warm mushy plastic…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Elecom MS-77W USB Speakers

Elecom, the Japanese company that specializes in making cheap mice, hard disks and other USB thingamajigs smaller, has even put together some fairly nice-looking speaker orbs for iPods. Now it goes for the cubic look with its MS-77W USB 2.1 speaker system, with two satellites and a subwoofer powered by an integrated 3-channel amplifier. The…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Time Cube for the Cube-Obsessed

If you can’t stop thinking about Steve Jobs’s Fifth Avenue cube, remind yourself of your object of obsession twice a day with this Time Cube, a clock that shifts into all kinds of strange shapes but turns into a perfect cube at noon and midnight. http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/apple-fifth-avenue-store-opening-175313.php&e=9797 One of the corners has three rotating triangles, one…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Intel Core 2 Extreme Running at 3.5GHz

Intel’s Core 2 Extreme processor has lots of headroom, proven today by Intel which plans to launch the chip at 2.93GHz but showed it already running at an overclocked 3.5GHz. Could this mean that the gigahertz race isn’t over after all? Sure, there are a lot of other factors that contribute to chip speed, but…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Elvis on a Pinhead

How many Elvises can dance on the head of a pin? Just one, and only if you’re micro-miniaturist Willard Wegan, a British artist who’s been credited with creating the smallest works of art on earth. To create these micro-sculptures, there’s not a whole lot of shakin’ going on, either—the guy goes to great lengths to…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Battery Camel: Panasonic SV-MP010 MP3 Player

Panasonic announced the tiny (2.5 inches) SV-MP010 MP3 player whose best feature is that it sucks 75 hours of life out of a single AA alkaline battery. The 1GB version is powdery pink for the girlies (or girlie-men) or white, and it’s $99. There’s also a 2GB unit (the model SV-MP020 pictured here) available in…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Sony VAIO TX800 Ultraportable Gets FCC Nod

Here’s an 11″ Sony VAIO notebook that just received FCC approval, the VGN TX800 which will start out with an Intel Core Solo ULV (ultra-low-voltage) 1.06GHz or 1.2GHz processor, eventually to be upgraded to the Intel Core Duo U2500. Not much else is known about the TX800, but we thought all the other manufacturers had…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Gryphon Single-Man Flying Wing

At first we thought this was a joke—didn’t Batman have a pair of wings like this? But no, this Gryphon Single-Man Flying Wing is a parachute system whose 4.9-foot Delta wing has two jet engines on board that can carry a paratrooper 110 miles on a half gallon of jet fuel. The device will be…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Creative DiVi CAM 525D Camcorder

Creative Labs announced the DiVi CAM 525D, a versatile solid-state pocket-sized camcorder that shoots MPEG4 video at 640×480/30fps and also brings a 5-megapixel still camera along for the ride. Since it’s challenging to hold a palm-sized camcorder still, the 525D has a motion stabilizer to keep things steady, but from what we can see, it’s…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Nikon Intros D2xs Digital SLR

Nikon rolled out an update to its high-end D2x digital SLR (DSLR), adding an “S” to the end of its name as it added just a few tiny updates. The 12.4-megapixel D2xs adds to its excessively long list of attributes minor capabilities such as a recent settings menu that lets you recall shooting parameters you’ve…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

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Tech News Charlie White Jun 1 '06

Cool Jewels Ice Tray

Give out the bling at your next party with this $8.95 ice tray that lets you fill up your glasses with 10-carat diamonds. Just pour water into these trays and the cubes come out looking like multi-faceted gems. Add a little green food coloring as you see in the picture here, and presto! Instant emeralds.…

Gadgets Charlie White May 31 '06

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Neuton Cordless Electric Mower

Mosquito Jihad: Mega-Catch Ultra Trap

iBook in Flames, Film at 11

Sonic Impact K1: Display Enlargement

$100 PC Now Costs $130, Due in April, 2007

Soios 55-Cam 360 Surround Webcam

Gizmodo Today

Jesus on a Pancake

Poop Freeze Creates Excretory Confections

Elecom MS-77W USB Speakers

Time Cube for the Cube-Obsessed

Intel Core 2 Extreme Running at 3.5GHz

Elvis on a Pinhead

Battery Camel: Panasonic SV-MP010 MP3 Player

Sony VAIO TX800 Ultraportable Gets FCC Nod

Gryphon Single-Man Flying Wing

Creative DiVi CAM 525D Camcorder

Nikon Intros D2xs Digital SLR

Gizmodo Today

Cool Jewels Ice Tray

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