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Minty Mouse: Mouse in an Altoids Tin

More clever displays of ingenuity today with pictures of a mouse mod sure to get people asking, Why? It’s a completely functional mouse housed inside an Altoids tin. The mouse mod, pieced together with parts from a Logitech optical mouse and assisted by plenty of free time, is sure to make all-night WoW raids all…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 10

Toshiba’s Gigabeat S30 and S60 To Ship Later This Month

Hailed as an iPod killer by marketing goons (what isn’t an iPod killer nowadays?), Toshiba is poised to debut its Gigabeat S line of portable digital media players on April 28 in Japan. The Gigabeat S line features two different players, the Gigabeat S30 and the Gigabeat S60, which have 30 and 60 gigabytes of…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 10

iTod MP3 Player for Infants

Things must be pretty good if companies can devote time and resources to developing items such as the iTod, an MP3 player from Fisher-Price designed exclusively for tiny babies—infants, if you will. The iTod includes a pair of volume-restricted headphones so as not to harm your pride and joy’s hearing. There’s also an iTunes-style music…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 10

Sexy Robots Need Love, Too

World-famous Takahashi-san is known (apparently) for designing realistic male robots. Now, he’s stepping up his game to do the impossible: create a realistic and attractive female robot. The robot will walk like a real woman and nag you incessantly like a real woman. The stats, for those of you playing at home, are as follows:…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 9

24/7 Apple Store in Manhattan Pics

Work on the new Midtown Manhattan Apple Store, which will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, presses forward. The big news is that the tarp has been lifted and the basic structure of the store is now apparent: it’s a giant cube, and right now, it’s completely black. Rumors point to…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 9

The BeoSound 4 Audio System from Bang & Olufsen

Bang & Olufsen will launch its previously revealed BeoSound 4, a compact audio system that integrates an SD card slot into the mix. As a result, users are able to record CD music or radio to an SD card, which makes it easy to share music amongst friends (don’t tell the RIAA) or to transfer…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 7

Robots to Explore the Antarctic?

Since playing around (read: performing experiments) in the Antarctic isn’t exactly the safest thing to do, scientists are turning to man’s best friend—the robot—to carry out experiments for them. Recently, scientists have developed a robotic prototype that can drive for hundreds of kilometers (scientists love their metric system) and carry a payload of about 70kg.…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 7

D-Link Set to Roll Out RangeBooster 802.11n Routers, Adapters

The next combination of letters and numbers that you’ll be hearing about is 802.11n, the new Wi-Fi standard that was adopted in January and promises speeds of at least 100Mbs (802.11g maxes out at 54Mbps). As it turns out, D-Link will be the first to the market with routers and adapters compatible with the newly…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 7

Kanguru 64GB Flash Drive Max

Do you feel like your current USB flash drive fulfill your needs? Perhaps 64 gigabytes of storage is more to your liking? If it is, and you have an extra $2,800 laying around, then Kanguru has just what you’re looking for. The Kanguru Flash Drive Max is a USB flash drive that weighs just .63…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 7

Lazy Drinker Programmable Drink Mixer

With summer right around the corner, many people are starting to fantasize about days spent poolside (or, we suppose, computerside) with nothing more than a drink in hand trying not to get burned by heaven’s unfeeling eye. Why not fix up that drink with the Lazy Drinker, a programmable drink mixer that makes whipping up…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 7

The Media Tank External Media Reader

Probably the next best thing to having a Sherman on your desk, the Media Tank from ATMT is an external media reader that reads pretty much anything you throw at it. Firstly, let’s not ignore its size: the Media Tank is pretty darn big, weighing in at 1.5 pounds. If your desk can handle the…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 5

The Nap Alarm, Another Innovation From Japan

A Japanese company by the name of Takanoha has come up with a tiny gadget that prevents you from falling asleep. Putting the Nap Alarm behind your ear, the gadget vibrates once it detects that you are falling asleep. It measures the speed of head movements in order to determine whether or not the user…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 5

Instantly Boil Water With the Hydrotap

While the Zip Hydrotap may look like an ordinary water faucet, don’t be so easily mistaken. What sets the Hydrotap apart from other faucets is that it can dispense boiling water at the touch of a [child-proof] button. Of course, it’ll give you plain old cold water for those hot summer days spent on a…

Gadgets Gizloco Apr 5

Fujitsu Shows Concept Four-Way Slider Phone

Fujitsu is in Milan for the Triennale di Milano Japanese design expo this week showing off a few early concept gadgets. Among them is a four-way slider cellphone that sports a virtual keypad. In essence, you can slide the keypad panel up, down, left or right and the keypad will appear where appropriate. Four buttons…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 4

Apple Acknowledges, Attempts to Fix Macbook Pro Quirks

As the saying goes, you should never purchase the first version of Apple products since they have been known to ship with a few kinks that must later be worked out. As it has turned out, the MacBook Pro, for all its praises, is no exception to this old wives’ tale. Users have reported issues…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 4

Pioneer’s PDP-5000EX, World’s First 1080p Plasma Display

Pioneer plans to introduce in June the world’s first 50″ 1080p plasma display, the PDP-5000EX Pure Vision Black Plasma Display. The display produces resolution of 1920 x 1080 and “smart converts” lower resolution images in order to optimize them for its screen. A number of technologies that Pioneer has developed power the display, including the…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 4

Close Up With the W700i Walkman Phone

In the never-ending quest to make a round peg fit into a square hole, Sony-Ericsson is trying once again to get a music phone off the ground. This time, the W700i is their Trojan Horse. The titanium-colored phone maintains the simplistic styling of previous Walkman phones, but don’t mistake that for weakness. It has 256MB…

Tech News Gizloco Apr 4

MPGlass 230M: Movie Glasses for the Masses

Some may argue that nothing compares to sitting in a movie theater and watching the latest Hollywood action film on the big screen. For those of you who prefer, however, not to be in the presence of loud-mouthed hooligans blabbing on cell phones, sticky floors, and high snack prices, nothing compares to watching a film…

Gadgets Gizloco Mar 31

More Mac Modding Madness: An iMac MAME Cabinet

More exciting news from the Mac modding front. This time, we have a MAME cabinet based on a flat panel iMac. The arcade emulation system’s cabinet is of the cocktail variety, that is, you use it while you’re sitting down. Made out of wood, the cabinet uses speakers that look to have been donated by…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 31

Homebrew Media Mac

Here’s what would have happened if Dr. Frankenstein were born in 200 years later. An industrious go-getter created a Mac media center of sorts fashioned out of plywood and recycled computer hardware. The brain of the system is a 12-inch PowerBook, which is encased in a wooden chassis, speakers dot around the enclosure and an…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 30

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Minty Mouse: Mouse in an Altoids Tin

Toshiba’s Gigabeat S30 and S60 To Ship Later This Month

iTod MP3 Player for Infants

Sexy Robots Need Love, Too

24/7 Apple Store in Manhattan Pics

The BeoSound 4 Audio System from Bang & Olufsen

Robots to Explore the Antarctic?

D-Link Set to Roll Out RangeBooster 802.11n Routers, Adapters

Kanguru 64GB Flash Drive Max

Lazy Drinker Programmable Drink Mixer

The Media Tank External Media Reader

The Nap Alarm, Another Innovation From Japan

Instantly Boil Water With the Hydrotap

Fujitsu Shows Concept Four-Way Slider Phone

Apple Acknowledges, Attempts to Fix Macbook Pro Quirks

Pioneer’s PDP-5000EX, World’s First 1080p Plasma Display

Close Up With the W700i Walkman Phone

MPGlass 230M: Movie Glasses for the Masses

More Mac Modding Madness: An iMac MAME Cabinet

Homebrew Media Mac

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