Charlie White, Author at Gizmodo

Mustek PF-i700 Digital Photo Frame Hooks up with Your IPod

Mustek just rolled out its PF-i700 digital photo frame that has an integrated iPod docking station. Since digital picture frames are so hot this holiday season, perhaps the company figured it might as well ride that wave while satisfying the iPod crowd at the same time. Unfortunately, like lots of inexpensive digital photo frames, its…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 21

Art.Lebedev Camouflage Christmas Ornaments May Disappear on Your Tree

Leave it to the Art.Lebedev Studio, maker of expensive keyboard prototypes and whimsical objets d’art, to give you a skewed take on an everyday item, and these camouflage Christmas tree ornaments are no exception. Art calls them the “SHAR-404 portable set for improvement of forest units in the face of the new approaching year.” https://gizmodo.com/art-lebedev-optimus-keyboard-to-ship-after-spring-2007-208079…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 21

Salvador Dali Watch Persists in Our Memory

What better artist to depict on a watch than the immortal Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter of The Persistence of Memory and many other works featuring time and confusion. You’ll need to jump to the next page to see an animation of the insane way the watch’s hands move, accompanied by one of Dali’s favorite…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 21

YourPND Lets You Record Your Own GPS Nagging

If you don’t get enough nagging at home, now you can record your wife’s voice on the YourPND website, and in just a few minutes, for $10 you can download files that you can transfer to your TomTom GPS navigation system, giving you the pleasure of having her yelling at you for getting lost wherever…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

You Know Christmas Is Coming When the Holiday-O-Matic Shows Up

Cheer up, everyone! The holidays are upon us, and what better way to celebrate than creating a random greeting on this Holiday-O-Matic virtual greeting machine, and then annoying all your closest friends by emailing that message to them? It’s convenient, mechanized and completely soulless for your holiday pleasure. Nevertheless, we simply adore its artwork and…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Kenyans Can Now Max Out Their Credit Cards Wirelessly

Those poor Africans. When they want to use their credit cards to go on a spending spree at Bloomingdale’s, they just can’t do it because there aren’t enough phone lines to handle all those credit card transactions. That’s where this Siemens BiasharaPhone MTT 1581 might bring African countries, specifically Kenya, into the 21st century. It…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Test Builds Seeded to Developers

After all the gushing about Mac OS X Leopard has died down, now it’s time for some reality, namely, bug fixes in the form of OS X 10.5.2. According to Apple Insider, test builds of this update were seeded to developers, and that distribution included a 76-item list of fixes and code corrections thus far.…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

eStarling Wifi Picture Frame (Verdict: Third Time’s the Charm)

You may recall that hapless eStarling picture frame we tested last year at this time, where version 1.0 had a Wi-Fi radio that didn’t work for diddly squat. Version 2.0 didn’t fare much better with its screen that was so bad it was barely tolerable. Well, we’re here to tell you that eStarling has now…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Doggy Style Pencil Sharpener Takes One for the Team

We are not sure how we missed this exquisite work of art when our beloved sisters at Jezebel displayed it not long ago, but we’re just wondering where on earth such a pencil sharpener might’ve come from. Is this what it’s come to? Certainly this is not how we treat our women here at the…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Speedy Power Boat Powered by Human Flab to Circumnavigate the Globe

This is one radical looking trimaran, but we’re still scratching our heads trying to figure out why its owner lipo-sucked his own fat to make biofuel for the 78-foot craft on his way to attempting to break a world speed record for circumnavigating the globe. Oh, now we get it. It’s a publicity stunt to…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Blockbuster Online Members Socked With Christmas Price Hike

Isn’t this a fine little Christmas present from our friends at Blockbuster? Maybe the movie rental company figured since it’s this close to the holidays, no one would notice a price increase at Blockbuster Online, announced in a letter to subscribers yesterday. The most painful hit will be taken by those with a “three-out unlimited”…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 20

Dell Year-End Report Card: B

Following an utterly abysmal 2006—exploding battery, anyone?—Dell‘s 2007 was more of a mixed bag. Its products were sharper than ever: gorgeous new notebooks, formidable gaming desktops and great values in large monitors (often found on sale). But at the same time, production issues and lingering organizational problems brought the company down from its comfortable perch…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 19

Nokia Magnetic Cellphone Port Concept Mimics Apple’s MagSafe Ports

Nokia is thinking about making its charging and headset ports magnetic, just like Apple’s MagSafe ports on its laptops. Nokia users are well aware that the headset and charging ports on their phones are quite similar. The beauty of this idea is that there is a negative magnetic polarity on one of the ports and…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

Paper Mario Animation, Six Weeks of Work in 60 Seconds

Here’s an enormously entertaining little video that took thousands of times longer to make than it does to watch. Created by an animator who calls himself "sketch (537CH)", he says it took six weeks to create this Paper Mario Animation. We like the way he moved the paper cutouts over the crayon-colored backgrounds, resulting in…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

Digital Clapperboard Alarm Clock Looks Like the Real Thing

We’ve shown you a digital clapperboard alarm clock before, but it was lame compared with this one. The Digital Clapperboard Alarm Clock reminds me of the real digital slates we use in professional show business. We’re not sure how distracting its display would be if you wanted to use it as an alarm clock on…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

Wi-Fi Detecting Watch, The Broadband Sniffer for Your Wrist

If you feel like you’re going commando when you’re not in the presence of Wi-Fi, strap on this Wi-Fi wristwatch that detects signal strength from 0 to 8, letting you sniff out that broadband connectivity wherever you go. Simply push the Wi-Fi button and it shows you the signal strength right there on its LCD…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

Zelco OUTI Headphones Make Your Backbone Flip

Clip these Zelco OUTI headphones onto your earlobes and they supposedly rattle your bones so much that you can feel the bass all over your body. Never mind that people around you will also have to listen to that tiresome rap music that makes you shake your booty. The $110 earphones (that look a whole…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

AK-47 Paper Gun Model Kit, for Terrorizing Paper Dolls

The AK-47 assault rifle is probably the most popular weapon in the world, so much so that it’s been made into lamps by designer Philippe Starck, gold plated by Saddam Hussein, and there’s even a Hello Kitty edition. Now you can build yourself a perfectly harmless replica of the beloved killing machine with this AK-47…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

Sorapot Teapot, Video of the Sexy Steeper in Action

Here’s video of that sexy Sorapot teapot by designer Joey Roth we showed you last month, available for pre-order for a $50 deposit. As you can see, this is a teapot that steeps the tea in style—but you must heat up the water elsewhere. While the years-in-development object isn’t available just yet, it’s gone beyond…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 19

Build Your Own Mofo Pneumatic Snowball Cannon

You’d better be dead serious about your snowball fighting if you want to build this pneumatic snowball cannon. If you already own an air compressor, you can build it with $45 worth of parts and a heaping helping of patience. Team this sucker up with that Sno-baller we showed you earlier today, and your snowball-fighting…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

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Mustek PF-i700 Digital Photo Frame Hooks up with Your IPod

Art.Lebedev Camouflage Christmas Ornaments May Disappear on Your Tree

Salvador Dali Watch Persists in Our Memory

YourPND Lets You Record Your Own GPS Nagging

You Know Christmas Is Coming When the Holiday-O-Matic Shows Up

Kenyans Can Now Max Out Their Credit Cards Wirelessly

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Test Builds Seeded to Developers

eStarling Wifi Picture Frame (Verdict: Third Time’s the Charm)

Doggy Style Pencil Sharpener Takes One for the Team

Speedy Power Boat Powered by Human Flab to Circumnavigate the Globe

Blockbuster Online Members Socked With Christmas Price Hike

Dell Year-End Report Card: B

Nokia Magnetic Cellphone Port Concept Mimics Apple’s MagSafe Ports

Paper Mario Animation, Six Weeks of Work in 60 Seconds

Digital Clapperboard Alarm Clock Looks Like the Real Thing

Wi-Fi Detecting Watch, The Broadband Sniffer for Your Wrist

Zelco OUTI Headphones Make Your Backbone Flip

AK-47 Paper Gun Model Kit, for Terrorizing Paper Dolls

Sorapot Teapot, Video of the Sexy Steeper in Action

Build Your Own Mofo Pneumatic Snowball Cannon

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