Charlie White, Author at Gizmodo

Multibook is a Lamp, Charger and Alarm Clock, Disguised As an Ordinary Book

The Multibook by Italianos Dante Donegani and Giovanni Lauda offers three conveniences in one handsome package that looks a whole lot like a book. From the angle of the Multibook’s spine, it appears to be a conventional alarm clock, displaying the date and time. Behind a diffuser (situated where the book’s pages would be) are…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Dinosaur Skull or Staple Remover? You Decide

This family of crazy staple removers and other office implements are by New York designer Jac Zagoory, crafted of pewter and certain to elicit raised eyebrows and quizzical looks around the office. What the heck is that skull doing on your desk? The purpose of the lion, gorilla and gator you’ll see in the gallery…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Citizen i:Virt Bluetooth Watches, Convenient Without Being Completely Dorky-Looking

Until now, if you wanted a Bluetooth watch that could show you your cellphone caller ID info, usually you had to wear a cheap plastic monstrosity on your wrist. But Citizen has somewhat alleviated that problem, releasing i:Virt, a variety of five Bluetooth-compatible watches that don’t look half bad. With a product like this, pricing…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Ford GT Nitro Gas RC Car Goes 60MPH

As far as model cars go, this Ford GT Nitro Gas RC car is gigantic. Just over 3 feet long, this 1:5 scale car is big enough to knock you down and kill you if you get in its way, so you’d better have a big parking lot where you’re going to race this thing.…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Pathfinder Space Ship, an Incredibly Complex LEGO Masterpiece

We’ve seen a few LEGO models that must have taken a long time to create, but this Pathfinder Space Ship by a LEGO aficionado who calls himself Grey Fang must be some kind of record. Check out the gallery, and then see the specs on the next page. DIMENSIONS: —————————- 192 x 86 studs 67…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Macs Not as Popular As Fanboys Think

For Mac fans, there is good news and bad news coming out today from analyst Gene Munster of investment bank Piper Jaffray. The most notable aspect of Apple’s skyrocketing popularity is the fact that the company shipped 2.16 million Macs in the third quarter of this year. The part of the analyst’s report that might…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Parrot DF7700 MMS Digital Photo Frame Shows Pics from Cellphones

Here’s one more way to send photos to a digital photo frame: The Parrot DF7700 thinks it’s a cellphone—it even has its own phone number—and you can send it pics in an MMS message from any other cellphone. Its 7-inch frame (a similar 7″ Bluetooth-friendly frame is pictured here) is big enough to show you…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 23

Coolness Roundup: Leopard About to Pounce

Episode 108 of the Coolness Roundup has Stephen and Charlie talking about the joys and pitfalls of Mac OS X Leopard, where Stephen is pumped but Charlie yawns. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is also on the agenda as both gurus express their fondness for breasts, and then they wonder what the heck is going on…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Canon Snap Concept, a Microcam for Your Index Finger

This is one of those design concepts that might also require a genie in a bottle to actually come into fruition. It’s called the Canon Snap, a high-quality camera small enough to wear like a ring. Push its single button, and you’ve got digi-photos. Sure, looks neat. If they could just make that lens retract…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Linn Klimax DS Network Audio Streamer Welcomes Audiophiles to the 21st Century

Okay, audiophiles, the coast is clear. Now you can safely dive into the streaming network audio game with this strangely named and wildly overpriced Linn Klimax DS, billing itself as the “highest performance digital music player in the world.” It’s able to move those high-rez FLAC audio files from one place to another with excessive…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Cupcake Kitchen Timer Might Get You a Batch of Cupcakes or Two

This might be the perfect device to get someone to make more cupcakes for you: The Cupcake Kitchen Timer, which at 3.5 inches tall is almost big enough to qualify as a cake. Or you know what? You could take a giant leap and makes some cupcakes yourself! Don’t bite into this one, though—it’s made…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Ordinary-Looking Lamp Has a Little Surprise Inside

At first this looks just like a mild-mannered table lamp (except for the fact that it’s almost six feet tall), but open it up and you’ll see a tiny table lamp sitting on a table. It’s like those Russian nesting dolls. We would like to see the tiny lamp opening up to reveal another table…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Embraer and BMW Team Up for Luxo-Jets

You might know Embraer as the company that makes those pint-sized regional jets that you wedge yourself into to get from here to there. But imagine one of those jets as a private plane as you see in the picture above, and with a BMW interior. Brazilian company Embraer has teamed up with BMW’s Los…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 Projector Has a Rock-Bottom Price

Epson stretches deep into the cheap seats with its PowerLite Home Cinema 720 (the similar Home Cinema 400 is pictured here), figuring in a lot of the higher-end attributes of its Epson Home Cinema 1080 big brother at a rock-bottom price of $1,299. Out back there’s an HDMI port and all the other usual suspects,…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Hitachi Rolls Out P7K500, World’s Most Energy-Efficient Hard Drives

If you’re going to leave that computer on all the time, might as well have some energy-efficient drives inside. That must’ve been what Hitachi was thinking when the company replaced its DeskStar line with these P7K500 energy-savers, rolling out in capacities from 250GB to 500GB. Even though the drives run at 7200RPM, they’re up to…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Money-Saving Comcast TiVo Spotted, Spy Shot Gallery

Maybe being stuck with Comcast isn’t so bad if you can get TiVo without paying $299 for the lowest-priced TiVo HD hardware. That’s because Comcast is using Motorola hardware that it’s already deploying, and loading it up with TiVo software it’s rolling out to its New England customers first. Plus, you get that beloved bone-shaped…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 22

Synth Glitch Creates On-Stage Disaster for Van Halen

And now for a Friday musical interlude, we bring you Van Halen caught on its comeback tour, except there was one big problem and it involved gadgets. What happens when you play back a prerecorded synthesizer track at 48K instead of the intended 44.1K? The whole track plays back a little bit faster and at…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 19

Cigarette Extinguisher Design Reaches New Low of Moral Turpitude (NSFW)

Just when we thought we’d seen the most horrible and immoral cigarette extinguisher in the world, one of our best and brightest commenters points out yet another example, built in a similar vein but reaching even lower depths of depravity. Honestly, a butthole ashtray (or is it an asstray)? At least it could have been…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 19

Sagem Porsche P’9521 Hands On (Verdict: Nifty)

We’re jealous. The guys at the Brit division of Crave got their greasy paws on that gorgeous Sagem Porsche P’9521 cellphone we showed you the other day. Making us feel even worse is the fact that they liked it a lot, writing in their dignified-sounding British way, “It’s not just a piece of rubbish with…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 19

Magnetic Shot Glasses Stay Put Even When You’re Sloshed

Attach this magnetic sextet of colorful 1.5-inch shot glasses to their included stainless steel tray, and the conical vessels stay put even if you hold the tray upside down. At first we thought there was some magical way to hold the contained liquid in place while the glasses were held upside down, too, but what…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 19

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Multibook is a Lamp, Charger and Alarm Clock, Disguised As an Ordinary Book

Dinosaur Skull or Staple Remover? You Decide

Citizen i:Virt Bluetooth Watches, Convenient Without Being Completely Dorky-Looking

Ford GT Nitro Gas RC Car Goes 60MPH

Pathfinder Space Ship, an Incredibly Complex LEGO Masterpiece

Macs Not as Popular As Fanboys Think

Parrot DF7700 MMS Digital Photo Frame Shows Pics from Cellphones

Coolness Roundup: Leopard About to Pounce

Canon Snap Concept, a Microcam for Your Index Finger

Linn Klimax DS Network Audio Streamer Welcomes Audiophiles to the 21st Century

Cupcake Kitchen Timer Might Get You a Batch of Cupcakes or Two

Ordinary-Looking Lamp Has a Little Surprise Inside

Embraer and BMW Team Up for Luxo-Jets

Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 Projector Has a Rock-Bottom Price

Hitachi Rolls Out P7K500, World’s Most Energy-Efficient Hard Drives

Money-Saving Comcast TiVo Spotted, Spy Shot Gallery

Synth Glitch Creates On-Stage Disaster for Van Halen

Cigarette Extinguisher Design Reaches New Low of Moral Turpitude (NSFW)

Sagem Porsche P’9521 Hands On (Verdict: Nifty)

Magnetic Shot Glasses Stay Put Even When You’re Sloshed

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

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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

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Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

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

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Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

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

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