Charlie White, Author at Gizmodo

Toshiba Builds Personal-Sized Micro Nuclear Reactor? Huh?

Here’s an idea that’s not going to go over well with the Department of Homeland Security: Toshiba has reportedly developed a nuclear reactor that will fit in your basement. Measuring 20 feet wide by 6 feet long, it cranks out 200kW and doesn’t even require Homer Simpson to operate, since it’s supposedly totally automatic and…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

Lumiquest Soft Screen Gives Your Pop-Up Flash Shots That Playboy Look

If you don’t have an empty cigarette pack around to make an impromptu flash diffuser for your digital SLR, you might be interested in this slightly more refined Lumiquest Soft Screen. The best photographers know that soft light is the most flattering, and it’s not exactly easy to obtain when all you have on hand…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

HyperDrive4 is a RAM Hard Drive, Fast as Lightning

RAM is getting so cheap, HyperOS Systems figured it might as well just make a 32GB hard drive out of the stuff. Even though the HyperDrive4 costs $2940, imagine a hard drive that fits in a conventional 5.25″ bay, but is 8000 times faster than a 10,000RPM spinning hard disk. The downside? You have to…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

Sno-Baller, for Lazy Ice Warriors

Don’t you hate it when your hands get all frozen forming those snowballs? There’s a gadget that’s made to solve that problem, called the Sno-Baller. Now your snowballs can be just as precise as everything else in your life. And in the summer when there’s no snow, you can use this press to create gigantic…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

Nokia SU-27W Digital Pen to Finally Ship

On the heels of the Epos digital pen we showed you earlier this month, now Nokia gets into the act with the Nokia SU-27W Digital Pen, and this one goes a step further with Bluetooth connectivity. The idea is you write or draw something with this fat instrument on an ordinary piece paper, and everything…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

Nutty Salt and Pepper Shakers Are All Screwed Up

Salt and pepper shaker collectors will be interested in this innovative way to dispense those table staples, looking a whole lot like nuts and bolts. They’re actually constructed like a Slinky. Bend one of these bolts, and the gaps between its coils get wide enough to release your chosen seasoning. Good thing there’s an “S”…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

All Giz Wants: One Plug For Everything

Come with us into the world of fantasy, where there’s just one kind of plug and its associated cable that will work for every electronic device. What we would like to see is one cable that carries audio, video and power to or from whatever device you need to use. It needs to be small,…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 18

Brisa 2000 Fan Looks Crazy, Gets the Job Done in Steampunk Style

If you’re looking for decorative weirdness around your abode, a strange-looking Brisa 2000 ceiling fan by the Matthews Fan Company ought to fit in perfectly. Imagine a spinning fan, itself orbiting around a counterweighted axis as it fills the room with fresh breezes or draws all that hot air upward, your choice. Available in a…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

Liquor Lock Keeps the Non-Resourceful Kids Sober

This just in for parents who want to control every aspect of their teenagers’ lives: The Liquor Lock secures your Christmas spirits under a three-digit combination. Supposedly, the stopper within expands when you engage this $15 device, but we’re hoping the glass on that bottle is stronger than that muscular kid down the street with…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

Coolness Roundup: 2007 Holiday Gift Guide

On this week’s netcast, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and DVICE’s Stephen Schleicher bring you the Coolness Roundup Holiday Gift Guide, packed tight with 20 of the best gift ideas for that geek on your list. The Gurus pick their fave cameras, HDTVs, cellphones, home theater gear and much more on this fast-moving review-fest of gadgetude that’s…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 17

Waterfall Audio Speakers Deliver Shimmering Sound with Drivers Perched Inside Glass

If good looks translate into spectacular sound, these Waterfall Audio speakers might just take you to audio heaven. They’re made of special glass that makes it look like the drivers are just floating there in mid-air. The Victoria EVO model you see here is a three-way design with four drivers, including a down-firing 8.5-inch passive…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

SanDisk Photo Album Displays Photos on Your TV

The SanDisk Photo Album might just be worth carrying around in your camera bag on your Christmas journeys this year, because it takes those photos you’ve shot off the small screen of the camera back and tosses them up on the big screen of any TV. It accepts just about any kind of memory card…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

Video: Smartcar Slams Into Concrete Barrier at 70MPH

Thank goodness there was no one sitting in this Smartcar when it hit the wall at 70mph, but even though the German-made Mercedes vehicle is tiny, it’s built like a truck. Remarkably, the door still opens after that tremendous impact. Maybe the Smartcar isn’t a deathtrap after all. Although we still doubt such a crash…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

Cerevellum Bike Computer Does It All, Including Video From Behind

Soon you’ll be able to set up a computer network on your bicycle that’s just downright useful. The Cerevellum’s main unit mounts front and center on your handlebars, and then you plug in USB modules that give you GPS capability, heart rate readings, and even the amount of energy you’re expending pedaling that bike. Heck,…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

Former Apple Designer Creates Sound Machine iPhone Dock

Behold the Sound Machine, a dock for the iPhone created by a company called Audio Jibe, headed up by Robert Brunner, one of the Apple design bigwigs between 1989 and 1996. Set to ship at the beginning of next year, the Sound Machine communicates with an iPhone via Bluetooth, but it also plays back DVDs…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 17

Flybar Does its Part to Support the Darwin Effect

As if a pogo stick wasn’t already an accident waiting to happen, now here comes the Flybar, catapulting you four feet (and maybe even six if you push it) off the ground with its heavy-duty rubber bands. To give you an idea of how dangerous this is, notice all of the users are wearing helmets.…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 7

Rugged Augmentix XTG Taken to Iraq for Battle Testing

We’ve seen some tough notebooks before, but this Augmentix XTG, which is actually a ruggedized Dell Latitude ATG630e, wins the prize for ruggetude. Noah Shachtman from Danger Room took this monster out into the field—in Iraq of all places—for some real-world battle testing, and calls its hefty “Armored Protection System” overkill even for that harsh…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 7

Stormglass Predicts Weather the Old-Fashioned Way, With Crystals

At first I thought this Stormglass weather predicting instrument was a joke, reminding me of that old weather device that featured a picture of a donkey whose tail was made of yarn. Its deadpan instructions told us “if tail is wagging, the weather is windy; if tail is frozen, weather is cold; if tail is…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 7

Solar City Teams Up With Tesla for Solar-Powered Sports Car Driving

One of the problems we can see with the Tesla Roadster is that you still have to suck up pollution-causing power to run the thing, even though it doesn’t directly pollute the air with noxious internal combustion engine fumes. Now Solar City has teamed up with Tesla to provide solar panels that you install on…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 7

Make Surround Sound Earphones for a Song

Here’s a relatively easy and cheap way to turn ordinary headphones into 5.1 surround sound phones for your PC. Just make sure you have a 5.1 surround sound card, and then you can turn a pair of full-sized headphones into a conduit for mucho surround sound goodness. The full-sized headphones provide the center channel and…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 7

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Toshiba Builds Personal-Sized Micro Nuclear Reactor? Huh?

Lumiquest Soft Screen Gives Your Pop-Up Flash Shots That Playboy Look

HyperDrive4 is a RAM Hard Drive, Fast as Lightning

Sno-Baller, for Lazy Ice Warriors

Nokia SU-27W Digital Pen to Finally Ship

Nutty Salt and Pepper Shakers Are All Screwed Up

All Giz Wants: One Plug For Everything

Brisa 2000 Fan Looks Crazy, Gets the Job Done in Steampunk Style

Liquor Lock Keeps the Non-Resourceful Kids Sober

Coolness Roundup: 2007 Holiday Gift Guide

Waterfall Audio Speakers Deliver Shimmering Sound with Drivers Perched Inside Glass

SanDisk Photo Album Displays Photos on Your TV

Video: Smartcar Slams Into Concrete Barrier at 70MPH

Cerevellum Bike Computer Does It All, Including Video From Behind

Former Apple Designer Creates Sound Machine iPhone Dock

Flybar Does its Part to Support the Darwin Effect

Rugged Augmentix XTG Taken to Iraq for Battle Testing

Stormglass Predicts Weather the Old-Fashioned Way, With Crystals

Solar City Teams Up With Tesla for Solar-Powered Sports Car Driving

Make Surround Sound Earphones for a Song

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

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Marvel Studios’ Former Art Staff Discuss ‘Shortsighted’ Layoffs

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