Charlie White

Crayola Total Tools Audio Ruler, the Talkative Measuring Assistant

Here’s an odd toy from Crayola that could function as a tool, too. The Crayola Total Tools Audio Ruler lays down a line of disappearing ink, and then blurts out exactly how long that line is as soon as you’re done drawing it. It’s accurate to within a quarter of an inch, but has a…

Get Drunk Mozart-Style with the Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter

Many of our oenophile readers will dig this Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter, a gorgeous crystal vessel that will embrace your prized vintages in complete elegance. Now we can stop drinking that rotgut straight from the bottle, and maybe pour it into a glass or two. Or we could still quaff it straight from this curvaceous…

Honda ASIMO to Return to Disneyland, Run Around and Talk Up a Storm

Honda’s ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) humanoid robot is back on his feet after a conspicuous face-plant late last year, and now he’s returning to the stage at Disneyland, running around at nearly 4mph. Besides all that robo-sprinting, this version of ASIMO reportedly interacts a lot with a live host in the 15-minute Say…

Leaked Photo Looks Like Garmin Nuvi 700 GPS Navigator

With the big European consumer electronics tradeshow IFA just around the corner, the leaks are starting, and this spy photo of the Garmin Nuvi 700 pocket GPS navigator is one of the products about which we’re hearing a rumbling or two. There’s precious little information about it so far, but some wags are saying it’s…

Crocs Creates New Sweat-Absorbing Material for Shirts, Calls it Croslite rt

Crocs, a shoe company suddenly famous for its clunky, gummy footwear made of what it calls Croslite, has decided to try its hand at making shirts of a similar material. And no, fetishists, this is not a rubber shirt. Jeez. Since the company’s been notably successful making ugly shoes for luminaries such as Jack Nicholson,…

LEDs Hidden in Corks Light Up Booze Bottles to Eerie Effect

Lighting designers’ minds must be turning toward boozing it up lately (joining those of your humble narrators), because this is the second time in as many days we’ve noticed special lighting devices that somehow illuminate containers full of alcoholic beverages. This clever idea involves a battery-operated LED, nestled within a cork that takes its place…

Laptop Confidential II: We Have a Winner!

All the votes are in for our Laptop Confidential II contest, and the winner is the video above, entitled “The Gizmodo Informant,” a brutal look at the torture of an innocent detective whose clueless captor can’t figure out that “mocodomzig” is Gizmodo.com spelled backwards. The winner, calling his group “Hidden Agenda,” takes the $2000 laptop…

Pantech 180, Thinner and Smaller than Helio Ocean, Coming Up on AT&T

Look at this Pantech C180 that Boy Genius Report just uncovered, branded AT&T and looking a whole lot like a smaller and thinner Helio Ocean. Unlike the Ocean, this Pantech slider runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard, but just like the Ocean, it has that appealing dual-sliding arrangement, where a horizontal slide reveals a QWERTY keyboard…

NASA Mistakes Star Wars for Reality, to Launch Lightsaber Into Space

Now the US space program has really jumped the shark. The Space Shuttle Discovery will carry into space Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, a prop used in Star Wars. The entire journey of this movie prop will be accompanied with crazy fanfare—from prop shop to space and back—all in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 1977…

Olinari Silver USB Dog Tags, Designed by Mysterious, Shadowy Figure

As USB drives become even more commoditized, now they’re turned into scary looking jewelry in the form of these Olinari sterling silver dog tags. Choose from the fleur-de-lis style you see here or a few others you can see in the gallery, some of which make you look like you’ve been tapped into the Knights…

Toshiba Gigabeat T401 Slims Down, Beefs Up Sound

The Toshiba Gigabeat T401 just saw the light of day, and it looks like Toshiba is hopping on the slim and trim bandwagon with this 9.9mm-thin music player with a 2.4-inch screen. Plus, the company says it has improved the player’s sound with “H2C” tech, giving you better highs and less noise. We’re liking this…

Air Ray, the Shiny Remote-Controlled, Wing-Flappin’ Critter

Here’s a helium balloon with a twist: The Air Ray is modeled after a manta ray but instead of lazily plying its way through the ocean, it floats gracefully through the air. The guys at Festo, a company that specializes in factory automation but seems to have a lot of spare time for fun projects,…

Amimon’s Full 1080P Wireless HDMI Confirmed as Ready and Shipping

Click to viewAmimon showed us its WHDI (Wireless High Definition Interface) working perfectly at last January’s CES and today the company is shipping that chipset to manufacturers of TVs, projectors and other consumer electronics products. That’s fine, but the big deal is that they’ve confirmed that 1080p over wireless is a go. Hurrah! It does…

Mathemeticians Figure Out What Makes Women Beautiful

After studying the movements of women for years, finally we get scientific confirmation of what we’re seeing: Researchers at Cambridge University in the U.K. have figured out exactly what makes a perfect swivel-hipped walk with “a more angular swaying and bounce to the hips.” The mathematicians got out their slide rules, calculators, blow-up dolls and…

PodBrix to Release Young Woz and Jobs Playset Made of LEGO

You’d better hurry up and get in line, because the limited-edition Young Woz and Jobs Playset is going on sale in just two days. Tomy will be cranking out this little PodBrix set made out of modified LEGO, featuring the young Steve Jobs and his Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak working in Steve’s parents’ garage to…

Gateway to scoop up European PC vendor Packard Bell BV [PR Newswire]

Coolness Roundup: High-Def YouTube?

This week on Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher spill the beans on Adobe’s new version of Flash. Could high-def YouTube be far behind? The duo also answers listener email and talk about the rumored Phatty Apple iPod nano. [Free Podcast on iTunes or at Coolness Roundup]

Boozy Lamp Lets the Spirits Shine Through

We like to celebrate all things drinking just like the next guy, but we’re kind of scratching our heads over this goofy table lamp that attempts to splash the color of your favorite booze all over your walls. Just insert the neck of that bottle of wine, liquor or whatever else into this rocker-shaped lighting…

Wolverine ESP, Still Plain-Looking But Even More Useful with 250GB

Even though these Wolverine ESP players are not exactly sleek, they can do just about anything with video and audio, and now this one’s packed with 250GB of storage. Except for a bit of a color change, it looks just the same as its predecessor that we reviewed last year, with that same 3.6-inch LCD…

360-Degree Speakers Pump Out Sweet Sounds from Anywhere in the Room

Here’s a wild idea for a design concept: put together a speaker with 12 sides, otherwise known as a dodecahedron, and you’ll get a 360-degree blast of music. These spacey-looking Quasar speakers send their sound all over the place, so no matter where you are in the room, their sweet audio will be spilling out…