Jason Chen, Author at Gizmodo

55-Gallon Drum Sink

These 55-gallon drum sinks wouldn’t fit in your standard suburban home, but it’s perfect for the urban-industrial look that we hear is so popular nowadays. The base costs $1,790 and the sink basin is $840, for a total of $2630. At that price, we’d suggest you go down to the dump, grab a drum, and…

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Geox Breathable Shoes

Have you ever had to change your socks in the middle of the day because your feet were too sweaty? Nerds often have this problem—ourselves included—so Geox developed a type of shoe with perforated soles that lets air in the bottom. The high-tech membrane allows sweat to trickle away while blocking any water from getting…

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Sony Ericsson SO902WP+ Waterproof Cellphone

Those silly Japanese, always dunking their cellphones into toilets and hot tubs. Luckily for them, Sony Ericsson just released the SO902WP+, which is about the same as the SO902i, but waterproof. The only major difference is the camera, which is 1.3 megapixels instead of the original’s 3.2. Bummer. The phone can last up to 30…

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Ten Highest Radiation Cellphones

Guess who has eight on this list? If you answered Motorola, give yourself a tumor cookie. And the cellphone with the highest radiation? The Motorola SLVR L6. You fellas should really get yourselves a bluetooth headset. Ten highest-radiation cell phones (United States) [CNET]

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MacBook Disassembled

Do you go to the San Diego Zoo and wonder what the guts of an orangutan would look like sprawled out? Kodawari-chan (honorifically owned!) does, and he takes his love of dissection and directed it towards a MacBook instead. As much as we wince seeing a perfectly fine piece of equipment manhandled this way, his…

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I-O Data 2TB External Hard Disk

Mmmmm, digital storage. Made up of four 7200rpm, 500GB hard disks, this two TB external drive can store all those movies you took of booth babes at E3. In fact, it can probably store this year, last year, and all the years back to when E3 first opened. Of course back then, John Carmack and…

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Logic3 i-Station 8 Speaker LCD iPod Dock

How many speakers do you need in your iPod Dock? 2? 4? You could not be more wrong. The answer is eight. You need eight speakers. And i-Station’s Logic3 is the one to bring them to you. What else do you need? How about a one line LCD, SVideo and composite output, AA battery and…

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Microsoft RingCam – 360 Degree Camera

We can see these things being useful for security applications, or conferencing, or for, you know, an orgy. But we don’t think consumers have ants in their pantaloons for a 360 degree webcam. Made up of four cheap firewire webcams of 640×480 pixels each, the images are combined to make one large panorama pic. According…

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TomTom Go 510 Video Review (Verdict: Goes Decently)

Cinemazement has a video review of the TomTom Go 510 GPS unit. Actually, the video is more of a demonstration of the 510 than a review, but it’s interesting nonetheless. Their thoughts: bluetooth cellphone calling is mediocre but useful, driving directions are sometimes off, and the touch sensitive screen has easy to navigate menus. The…

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LaCie Encrypted Portable Hard Drive

Guess Lacie’s getting tired of making silly hard drives. Their new SAFE Mobile Hard Drive has biometric access (fingerprint recognition) that encrypts all the data on it with a 24-character passphrase. You can also set up access for 5 different users with differing levels of read/write permissions. https://gizmodo.com/lacie-lego-bricks-138934 Available now for $179.99 (40GB) and $339.99…

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Shower Tanning

For those too modest to go to a nude beach to get an all over tan, there’s the Idrolux luxury tanning shower that, get this, tans while you shower. Two models are available, the Symphony, which fits into your current unit, and the Idrolux, which is an integrated replacement for your entire shower. Since you’re…

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LG L1900 19″ Monitor

LG’s making some inroads into being a “cool” manufacturer. Sleek black frame, curved base, 4ms response time, 2000:1 contrast ratio, and a glossy finish all for around $589. Comes in 3 versions, L1900J, L1900E and L1900R, all with different lighting systems. Then again, what do we know about being cool? If we got back all…

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Lenovo Waterproof Keyboard

Intern Travis just hates it when he spills the water from his smoking paraphernalia on his keyboard, and honestly, so do we. Lenovo demonstrated that their new keyboard technology can take a whole cup-full of water and keep on clacking. After reading all those lame comments on Fark—lol omgz you owe me a keyboard!!11eleven!!111—we think…

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Cheap Phone Customization – Cingular and Motorola’s Phone Tattoos

Remember those cheap phone $5 phone covers you got down at the mall in the ’90s? These phone tattoos are kinda like that, except they’re just stickers. A 3-pack of pre-made tattoos or a 4-pack of blank, printable ones are available for $9.99. You can make your own images or grab some from deviantart and…

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$9 MP3 Player

How cheap can they go with mp3 players? Single digits? You got it. Evergreen makes a screenless mp3 player for $9. USB2.0 and 1 gig SD card support are both included. Who needs an iPod shuffle when you can get this for less than the price of a movie ticket in NY. Evergreen [via Trusted…

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Classic Microphone

Put on a suit and pretend to be George Clooney with this classic looking microphone from Brando. Nine dollars will buy you a touch of class no longer seen in the extravagant womanizing lifestyle of podcasters. Compatible with all PCs and Notebooks with mic in. Classic Microphone [via Red Ferret]

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Flatulence Filter

Back when we worked in an office, trying to pass gas discretely when there were people around was the highlight of our day. Alas, more often than not, the keen nose of our coworkers would alert them to our rear-corridor escapades. But, with the Flat-D odor absorbing pad under your buttocks, you’ll be free to…

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MSI Digi Player 600 – iPod Shuffle Clone

Ever think the screen on your iPod Video was too large, and maybe a nice shuffle sized screen would make your optometrist happier? We didn’t think so, but MSI’s on the wrong side of the tracks riding in the opposite direction. The MSI Digi Player 600 has 1 Gigabyte of flash memory with an OLED…

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Sony Announces External DVD-RAM Burner

Show your chutzpah by using this Sony DRX-820UL DVD burner to “back up” one of Sony BMG’s DRM enabled CDs at 48x. Then “back up” one of Sony Pictures’ DVDs onto DVD+R DL at 8x or DVD-R DL at 6x. Finally, “back up” a Sony Playstation 2 DVD onto DVD+R or DVD-R at 16x. The…

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Targus Notebook ChillHub

If you’re not looking to open up your MacBook Pro and reapply thermal grease on your logic board, you can grab this Notebook ChillHub from Targus. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-cool-your-macbook-pro-down-and-void-your-warran-170687 Not only does it have two fans to keep the skin on your thigh from melting, it’s also got a 4 port powered USB 2.0 hub, perfect for…

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55-Gallon Drum Sink

Geox Breathable Shoes

Sony Ericsson SO902WP+ Waterproof Cellphone

Ten Highest Radiation Cellphones

MacBook Disassembled

I-O Data 2TB External Hard Disk

Logic3 i-Station 8 Speaker LCD iPod Dock

Microsoft RingCam – 360 Degree Camera

TomTom Go 510 Video Review (Verdict: Goes Decently)

LaCie Encrypted Portable Hard Drive

Shower Tanning

LG L1900 19″ Monitor

Lenovo Waterproof Keyboard

Cheap Phone Customization – Cingular and Motorola’s Phone Tattoos

$9 MP3 Player

Classic Microphone

Flatulence Filter

MSI Digi Player 600 – iPod Shuffle Clone

Sony Announces External DVD-RAM Burner

Targus Notebook ChillHub

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