Charlie White, Author at Gizmodo

Guitar Captured with Enough Coke Stashed Aboard to Take Us All to Electric Ladyland

What on earth would make this Stratocaster clone worth well over a million dollars? As you can see in the pic above, the electric guitar was stuffed with lots of cocaine, that’s what. We former musicians are well aware that the gigsters always have the best blow, but this guitar player went overboard when he…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 26

Robotic Snap-o-Lantern, the DIY Gape-jawed Snapping Turtle Pumpkin

Make yourself a robotic mini-pumpkin just in time for Halloween by following the instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. The little gourd acts like an electrified snapping turtle, with his beady little LED eyes lighting up the spooky night. Only problem is, you have to have a hobby servo motor lying around and a couple…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 26

Radius Design Home Flame Keeps the Domestic Fires Burning the Easy Way

As the weather gets cooler, we’re starting to eagerly anticipate the romance of a fireplace, and we haven’t seen any easier to deal with than this Radius Design Home Flame. Just about the only installation you need to worry about is to hang it on the wall like a picture frame, and there’s no chimney,…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 26

Brando Adapts eSATA Drives to USB with a Simple Adapter

We’ve already seen a clever way to conveniently adapt eSATA hard drives to USB, and now here’s an even easier and cheaper way to do that from Brando. It’s a $15 adapter, and sure, you’ll have to add $10 to that ticket to get a power supply to fire up that drive, but the money…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 26

Pear Cable Chickens Out of $1,000,000 Challenge, We Search For Answers

Click to viewWhen we first criticized the $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables, little did we know it would stir up such a hornet’s nest of controversy. James Randi, former magician and professional debunker, responded to our post by offering $1 million from his James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to anyone who could scientifically prove in…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 26

Light ‘Em Up With This Pig Lighter

What’s up with these weird smoking accessories lately? First we see the immoral cigarette extinguishing devices (NSFW), and now here’s this crazy Pig Lighter that works when you push his goofy little hat back. Suddenly, flames come billowing out his nostrils like he’s some kind of angry fire-breathing dragon. And then the clincher: When you…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 25

Samsung Demos World’s First Bendable OLED Screen

Samsung is cranking out the ideas with OLED displays lately, and now adds the world’s first bendable OLED screen to its stable of coolness. This 4.3-inch screen’s rocking 480×272 pixels, and Samsung claims it’s capable of a contrast ratio of 1000:1. Demonstrated at the FPD International 2007 Forum going on now in Yokohama, Japan, this…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 25

Space Heater Might Warm You Up With Its Pretty Design Alone

There was a chill in the air this morning, and it made us start thinking about heating up the place. But who wants one of those metal space heaters that can burn the house down if it tips over when there’s a designer space heater like this Plus Minus Zero model that’s on its way…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 25

Papercraft Skull with Moving Jaw, Just in Time for Halloween

This Papercraft skull has a tab on the back that you can pull and make it talk, scaring the children, and maybe even your pets. Download the PDF, and you can make one for yourself, just in time for the big day. After the jump, we have a very special hat you can wear for…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 25

Sound Visualization Trick Works Like an Audio Spirograph

There’s not a whole lot of explanation attached to this video clip, but this is either white sand, powder or flour (or maybe it’s a zillion dollars’ worth of coke) showing the shape of sound. The sound waves make the tiny particles organize themselves into symmetrical patterns. We found ourselves mesmerized by the various shapes…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 25

Reports of Gizmodo/Engadget Throwdown Greatly Exaggerated

It’s a good thing this story written by satirical website CAP News isn’t true. The goofy web rag has Engadget and Gizmodo going at it, “planning to meet at the flagpole at 3 p.m. tomorrow to determine once and for all which site reigns supreme.” Even though such a hand-to-hand battle would certainly never take…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 25

Mach 8 Hydrogen Hypersonic Airliner on the Drawing Board

It looks like that Boeing jet we showed you yesterday isn’t going to be the only airplane using hydrogen if the European Union has its way. The European Space Agency just got $14.5 million in a second round of funding from the EU to study the idea of developing A2, a hydrogen-fueled hypersonic aircraft that…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 25

Yamaha Aims High With CD-S2000 CD Player and A-S2000 Amplifier

Yamaha targets a notch or two above the level of midrange audio consumers with this A-S2000 amplifier and CD-S2000 CD player, set to hit the Japanese market in mid-December of this year. The company upgraded components inside, including the PCM-1792 DAC (digital-to-analog converter) from Texas Instruments inside that CD player ($1466), a DAC that’s a…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

Next-Gen Tomy Heli-Q RC Helicopter Takes to the Skies Next Month

Japanese toy giant Tomy says it’s about to roll out the next generation in tiny copters, and it’s calling this one the Heli-Q. The company says this is the world’s smallest radio controlled toy helicopter, but other than its smaller size, its specs seem similar to those of Picco-Z Styrofoam helicopters we’ve flown before. The…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

Bladerunner GPS Tracker Jacket Locates Kids, Replicants

We’ve heard of GPS trackers for kids before, but here’s one that’s ironically branded Bladerunner. It’s sewn into a jacket to be worn by small children, and replicants if they’re small enough. Whenever that rug rat ventures beyond a boundary that you set, the jacket texts you on your cellphone. Hey, this is like an…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

TV Show Teaches Nosy Parents How to Spy On Their Kids

Okay my little droogies, check out this video from the chirpy Morning Show, a nasty broadcast your ‘rents might be watching. In this little segment, they can learn how to spy on you with some of those high-tech thingamajigs. You already knew about all this Big Brother stuff anyway, though, didn’t you? Just makin’ sure.…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

iShoes, Movin’ and Groovin’ at 15MPH

Why roll around on a Ferrari Segway looking like a dork when you can look like a dork rolling around on these electric iShoes at 15mph? At least you’ll be able to wear your own kicks when you strap into these things, which fit men’s shoe sizes 8 to 12 and women’s sizes 7 to…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

Wired Names Olevia 747i Best LCD in 38- to 49-inch Category

After a post about Olevia’s new lower-priced 65-inch HDTV ($6999), we were wondering just the other day exactly how good these Olevia TV sets are. Now our estimation of the brand just raised up a notch or two when we saw a big thumbs up from Wired for the 47-inch 1080p Olevia 747i LCD TV,…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer Debuts in Shiny Stainless

If you’re no longer content with the simple Senseo, now you can get the Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer, a single-cup coffee maker completely covered in stainless steel. Hey, it even has a backlit LCD screen that gives it that extra high tech goodness. At $299, it aims to please with a charcoal filter…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 24

Philips Builds Small, Cheap Hotel Rooms

Build a small hotel room and cram it full of Philips lighting, TVs, gadgets and remote controls, and you end up with this supposedly cheap lodging due to open in Q1 2008 in a few airports worldwide. A step up from those pod/coffins rented out in Asian locales, this room looks great with a big…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

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Guitar Captured with Enough Coke Stashed Aboard to Take Us All to Electric Ladyland

Robotic Snap-o-Lantern, the DIY Gape-jawed Snapping Turtle Pumpkin

Radius Design Home Flame Keeps the Domestic Fires Burning the Easy Way

Brando Adapts eSATA Drives to USB with a Simple Adapter

Pear Cable Chickens Out of $1,000,000 Challenge, We Search For Answers

Light ‘Em Up With This Pig Lighter

Samsung Demos World’s First Bendable OLED Screen

Space Heater Might Warm You Up With Its Pretty Design Alone

Papercraft Skull with Moving Jaw, Just in Time for Halloween

Sound Visualization Trick Works Like an Audio Spirograph

Reports of Gizmodo/Engadget Throwdown Greatly Exaggerated

Mach 8 Hydrogen Hypersonic Airliner on the Drawing Board

Yamaha Aims High With CD-S2000 CD Player and A-S2000 Amplifier

Next-Gen Tomy Heli-Q RC Helicopter Takes to the Skies Next Month

Bladerunner GPS Tracker Jacket Locates Kids, Replicants

TV Show Teaches Nosy Parents How to Spy On Their Kids

iShoes, Movin’ and Groovin’ at 15MPH

Wired Names Olevia 747i Best LCD in 38- to 49-inch Category

Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer Debuts in Shiny Stainless

Philips Builds Small, Cheap Hotel Rooms

The ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Knows What It Is

Trump, When Asked About White House Meeting with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: ‘Who?’

‘The Batman, Part II’ Has Finally Found Two-Face’s Dad

TotalAV Keeps Prices Low While Covering the Basics of Online Protection

RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

Marvel Studios’ Former Art Staff Discuss ‘Shortsighted’ Layoffs

Amazon Delivery Drones Involve a Perilous 10-Foot Drop. Users Are Posting the Apparent Results

Organ Transplants Without Lifelong Meds? New Trial Shows It’s Possible

The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire

Mysterious ‘Red Dot’ Galaxies Could Have ‘Relic’ Black Holes Predating the Big Bang

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

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

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

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

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