Chris Magor, Author at Gizmodo

CAT5 Wedding Bands Pronounce You Geek and Geek

Here’s something from 2004 worth bringing up again as it circulates the blogs. I am guessing that wedding bands featuring male and female 8P8C Ethernet connectors have a somewhat limited demand. I mean, sure I have met geeks that would be right into this, but never a pair of them, though the fact that they…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 24

Autoliv’s Hood Airbag System Saves Dumb Walkers From Dumb Drivers

Autoliv’s new Pedestrian Protection System combines a hood that opens to cushion impact and a pair of hood mounted airbags to reduce the risk of serious injury when a car comes into contact with an unfortunate pedestrian, cyclist or motorcyclist. The tech’s safety specs are impressive: “From almost certain death to less than a 15%…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 23

Honda GPS Warns Drivers of High Crime Zones

Honda’s new GPS warns drivers when they’re about to leave their car in places where it is likely to be stolen, broken into or otherwise vandalized. The new technology, available from today if you live in Japan, links to local police stations and provides crime ratings by location, and if area is particularly dangerous it…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 21

Homebrew SNES Emulation Hits the Wii

SNES emulator SNES9X has been successfully ported to the Wii, allowing the core of original SNES fans, rapidly approaching middle-age as they are, to relive their gaming youths. Information on the homebrew app is sketchy at the moment, but we do know that it features classic controller support and comes bundled with a whole swathe…

Gadgets Chris Magor Apr 21

Japan’s Astro Boy Robot Redesigned As a Fat Ass

Astro Boy, the robot Mickey Mouse of Japan with a machine gun in his ass and laser on his fingertip, has received his first major graphic overhaul in years. And they made him fat! The formerly svelte, doe-eyed bot with 100,000 horsepower looks like a cross between a fish lips and a mini sumo wrestler.…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 21

Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

The Multi-level bicycle park at Tokyo’s Kasai Station might sound like a crazy overblown way to tidy up the streets, but the woeful lack of available parking spaces at most Japanese train stations is a real problem. In some places legal parks are impossible to find and private security guards are known for performing periodic…

Gadgets Chris Magor Apr 18

Six Cloned Labradors Enter the Korean Customs Service

Six cloned male golden Labradors named Toppy look set to be sniffing suitcases for the Korean Customs Service. The cloning method was developed by a team at Seoul National University led by Lee Byeong-chun, former lieutenant of disgraced scientist Woo-Suk Hwang, who was found to have fabricated research. Their father was chosen due to his…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 18

OWC’s Triple-Interface Mercury-on-the-Go 500GB HDD

The Mercury-On-The-Go from OWC is a somewhat tempting three-way connectible 500GB portable HDD. Component-wise there are no surprises, under the hood is a 2.5″ 5400 RPM Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 with an 8MB cache. With Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 you get three-way connectivity and bus power. I don’t think that there is quite enough cool…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 18

Microsoft to Release Limited-Edition Joy Division Zune in June

Microsoft will release a limited-edition Joy Division Zune sometime around June 5, coordinated with the launch of a DVD about the band. It is thought that the Joy Division Zune will be designed by Peter Saville, the graphic designer behind both Joy Division album covers, and a big player in the Manchester music scene of…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 18

Thanko’s Mono-wheeled Laptop Lugger

If you lack the upper arm strength to lug around your laptop, worry no more. Thanko has created a regular looking laptop bag that sports a telescoping mono-wheel. Whether you haul around some ultra-light and super-portable contraption or an 8.9 lb gaming beast, Thanko thinks that they have got you covered. Looking at Thanko’s wheeled…

Gadgets Chris Magor Apr 17

A Man Needs a Mother – Japan’s Otaku Culture Dumps the Maid

In a cafe deep in the heart of Amerikamura, Osaka, tables of otaku are sitting down to tea and cake with women old enough to be their mothers. Mother Café is an otaku fetishist establishment staffed with women that give off a motherly vibe; maid cafés are so yesterday. Working up the courage to talk…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 17

DIY Moped Runs on Air

This Puch moped only has a range of about 7 miles and with a top speed of only 18 mph, it isn’t going to break any land speed records, but there is definitely something special about it: it runs on air. Jim Stansfield, an aeronautics graduate outfitted his Puch with a pair of carbon-fiber air…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 16

German Schoolboy Corrects NASA’s Math – We’re All Doomed

NASA has been forced to check its math after a 13-year-old German boy wrote to tell them their calculations for the probability of an asteroid hitting earth were incorrect. Agency bosses had predicted a one-in-45,000 chance of an interstellar object bringing an end to life as we know it; that was until teen Nico Marquardt…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Magor Apr 16

Scandyna iPod Docks Amplify External Speakers

There are literally hundreds of iPod docks on the market and not too many that I would lose sleep over. I must admit, however, that the Scandyna dock and V-Dock both have me intrigued; it looks great and it is a powered amplifier rather than your standard pod dock with underperforming speakers, you get two…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 16

Sanyo’s Big and Bright 4200 Lumen T-Series Projectors

Sanyo has launched two new 4200 ANSI lumen projectors that pack enough punch to throw a screen up just about anywhere, regardless of whether the lights are on or not. The PLC-ET30L will give you 1400 x 1050 resolution, while the more affordable PLC-XT21/L produces 1024 x 768. Aside from the resolutions, both models seem…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 16

Vtech’s IS6110, an Instant Messaging Cordless Telephone

The Vtech IS6110 is the little cordless telephone that could. There is a lot of functionality packed into one tidy little package. It is a fully featured DECT 6.0 cordless phone that includes a full QWERTY keypad and lays claim to being the first cordless phone to deliver instant messaging capabilities. All you do is…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 15

Dewitt’s Incognito 2008, a Monstrously Steampunk Watch

Monstrous is the first word that comes to mind when gazing upon the Dewitt Incognito 2008, a design that is the lovechild of a collaboration between DeWitt and French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. At first glance, the Incognito looks to be a little fat and perhaps clumsy; on closer inspection, however, you can see what a…

Tech News Chris Magor Apr 15

Chris Magor

CAT5 Wedding Bands Pronounce You Geek and Geek

Autoliv’s Hood Airbag System Saves Dumb Walkers From Dumb Drivers

Honda GPS Warns Drivers of High Crime Zones

Homebrew SNES Emulation Hits the Wii

Japan’s Astro Boy Robot Redesigned As a Fat Ass

Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

Six Cloned Labradors Enter the Korean Customs Service

OWC’s Triple-Interface Mercury-on-the-Go 500GB HDD

Microsoft to Release Limited-Edition Joy Division Zune in June

Thanko’s Mono-wheeled Laptop Lugger

A Man Needs a Mother – Japan’s Otaku Culture Dumps the Maid

DIY Moped Runs on Air

German Schoolboy Corrects NASA’s Math – We’re All Doomed

Scandyna iPod Docks Amplify External Speakers

Sanyo’s Big and Bright 4200 Lumen T-Series Projectors

Vtech’s IS6110, an Instant Messaging Cordless Telephone

Dewitt’s Incognito 2008, a Monstrously Steampunk Watch

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