Kat Hannaford, Author at Gizmodo

If Your Eyes Were Ripped Out, Put Onto Skewers and Turned Into Speakers

I should think Hannibal Lector would’ve liked SW Speakers’ Figaro speakers. In fact, he probably would’ve played Bach’s Goldberg Variations while chewing the faces off a few unsuspecting guys. But don’t let that put you off this well-designed Swedish-Austrian model. While the price hasn’t been revealed just yet, they’re said to be made from carbon…

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Don’t Cry For This Hacksawed Leica Lens

While most Leica lenses cost thousands of dollars, you can pick one up on eBay now for $995. There’s just one catch…it’s in half. It wasn’t some random Sigma fan armed with a hacksaw—oh no, it was those darned Leica students, who created them for a graduation project. The lenses, a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm (top)…

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A Rolling Terrain Robot That Flies—Why Has it Taken Us So Long?

If you cast your minds back to the appearance of the Sony Rolly, you’ll remember it flapped its wings, but like a little chick, it couldn’t take flight. Someone, somewhere, taught one of the rolling robot’s cousins how to fly. https://gizmodo.com/sony-rolly-rollies-into-us-391976 It may only be small, but if the University of Minnesota’s Center for Distributed…

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Fake Stick-On USB Cables, For Causing All Sorts of Office-Based Hijinx

Oh, you want me to send you the report from our last meeting? Let me just connect my banana/coffee mug/signed photo of Madonna via USB cable and get that for you. (Just 5 bucks.) [ThinkGeek via Technabob]

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HTC Sensation 4G Will Cost $200 From Target, Seemingly

While the fine print can’t be read on the sneakily-snapped photo of Target’s sales paraphernalia for the HTC Sensation 4G, it looks like it’ll cost $200 upfront, and potentially on the 12th of June, too. [AndroidCentral] https://gizmodo.com/htc-sensation-a-dual-core-video-editing-smartphone-su-5790902

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Seagate’s New Hard Drive Transfers Media To and From Your iPhone, Android or Tablet Over Wi-Fi

It must be scary, offering traditional storage in these cloud-based times. Seagate’s obviously thought long and hard over this one, and whacked Wi-Fi into their new GoFlex 500GB drive, so you can store/draw from your data-bank, using your phone. Apparently it’s the first battery-powered hard drive to ever have Wi-Fi capabilities, and Seagate believes it…

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So 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks Have Been Recalled…

…Will this put you off purchasing one? According to RIM, ” approximately one thousand BlackBerry PlayBook tablets (16 GB) were shipped with an OS build that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up.” Their official statement, handed to CrackBerry yesterday, specified that the “majority” of the affected tablets—only…

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Who Knew Opening a Bottle of Champagne With an Iron or Wine Glass Looked So Damn Suave?

I would happily go through several crates of champagne in the quest to find other tools to open a bottle of champers with. Even on a Monday morning. Especially on a Monday morning. [VVV via DailyWhat via @Litmanlive]

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Nokia: Ovi Brand Ditched; Now Everything’s Just “Nokia”

After killing off Ovi Music in January, the new Nokia is shedding its old image, rebranding all its live Ovi services as “Nokia services.” That means the Ovi app store will just be known as the Nokia app store. [NokiaConversations] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-kills-off-ovi-music-service-you-didnt-know-existe-5735707

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Apparently One Third of You Open Apps Before You Even Get Out of Bed

I’ll admit the first thing I do upon turning the phone alarm off is to fire up my emails and then Twitter. And that’s all before I get out of bed! I stop short of actually replying to messages, though. According to some research undertaken by Ericsson ConsumerLab, I’m not alone—35 per cent of Americans…

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Tron-Esque Curtains Not Only Cancel Out Noise, They Sample it in Cool Music Mixes For Your Speakers

These noise-cancelling curtains go a step further than the last drapes we saw, as they actually replace all the humdrum from outside with music. Music created from the honks of cars outside! https://gizmodo.com/this-curtain-is-super-effective-at-blocking-out-sounds-5798928 FutureAcoustic, the designers behind the “adaptive acoustic architecture” use sensors to detect the ambient noise filling the room, and then actually turn…

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Onkyo’s TX-NR809 Receiver Needlessly Upscales 1080p to 4K for $1,099

Just like with Onkyo’s HT-RC370 and HT-RC360 receivers, the TX-NR809 upscales to a resolution that’s only on a handful of ludicrously expensive TVs and projectors. You’ll be future-proofing yourself for a long, long, long, long, long time with this receiver. https://gizmodo.com/this-receiver-is-so-future-proofed-it-wont-work-with-a-5788666 You can check out all the details below in the release, or comb through…

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I’d Consider Buying an iPhone or iPad Just to House Them in These Gorgeous Alarm Clocks

Harking back to the classic Dieter Rams design, Frog’s wooden alarm clock would go perfectly with one of the flip clock apps for the iPhone. And oh, how the iPad looks in that mini-CRT… Unlike a lot of the well-designed objects we feature on these pages, they are actually real. But that’s not to say…

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This Unwanted Monstrosity of a Floodgate Saved a Japanese Village From Tsunami Ruin

At the time, the 3,000 Fudai villagers despised the $30 million (in today’s money) floodgate when the now-deceased mayor built it in the ’70s, but after March’s devastating tsunami, they’re thankful to still have their lives and homes intact. https://jezebel.com/the-complete-japan-crisis-timeline-live-updates-5780998 Like a giant wall that surrounds the village, which lies about 320 miles north of…

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Azuro, the First Typeface That’s Perfect for Reading on Screens

So says FontShop AG, which has published the four-weight font family after months of intensive testing on all operating systems—even iOS—which is apparently a first for a typeface. The experts at The Font Feed talk of the difference between Azuro and the other fonts you normally see in your daily travels: “What differentiates this font…

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Tell Me You Wouldn’t Do the Same, Given Half the Chance…

Poor Uncle Scott. At least Dan owned up to his shenanigans, I guess? [The Poke]

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HTC Flyer On Sale Today Across Europe From 499 Euros

HTC’s first tablet, the Flyer, has hit store shelves in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, costing 499 Euros (£600, $710) for the Wi-Fi/16GB model, or Wi-Fi and 3G with 32GB of storage for 649 Euros (£480, $923). [HTC] LONDON, UK – May 13,…

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Do You Think the Value of the World’s Most Expensive Photo Is Deserved?

I’m not so sure, truth be told. I do like a lot of what photographer Cindy Sherman does; her photos always feature her as the subject, dressed up in story-telling mode. But is this one worth $3.89 million? That’s how much Untitled #96 sold for this week in an auction at Christie’s, beating 99 Cent…

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Leak: Motorola’s Droid X2 Will Have a 4.3-Inch qHD Screen, Tegra 2 Innards and 8MP Camera

Someone at Motorola is being awfully careless with their documents, as more official photos have leaked out of the Droid X2, along with purported specs sheets. https://gizmodo.com/three-motorola-android-phones-leak-out-with-the-targa-5782045 The 8MP camera with dual-flash might go some way to explaining that sizeable hunchback it’s going going on, but flip ‘er ’round and you’ll see there’s a cheery…

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Cartons Made From E-Paper Could Tell Us When Milk Goes Bad

Rotten milk must be the most disappointing thing in the world; unless you have another carton lurking in the back of your fridge. Small sensors could change your morning disappointment in the future, with information about the milk’s quality. It’d make cartons of milk a heck of a lot more expensive, sure, but displaying the…

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If Your Eyes Were Ripped Out, Put Onto Skewers and Turned Into Speakers

Don’t Cry For This Hacksawed Leica Lens

A Rolling Terrain Robot That Flies—Why Has it Taken Us So Long?

Fake Stick-On USB Cables, For Causing All Sorts of Office-Based Hijinx

HTC Sensation 4G Will Cost $200 From Target, Seemingly

Seagate’s New Hard Drive Transfers Media To and From Your iPhone, Android or Tablet Over Wi-Fi

So 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks Have Been Recalled…

Who Knew Opening a Bottle of Champagne With an Iron or Wine Glass Looked So Damn Suave?

Nokia: Ovi Brand Ditched; Now Everything’s Just “Nokia”

Apparently One Third of You Open Apps Before You Even Get Out of Bed

Tron-Esque Curtains Not Only Cancel Out Noise, They Sample it in Cool Music Mixes For Your Speakers

Onkyo’s TX-NR809 Receiver Needlessly Upscales 1080p to 4K for $1,099

I’d Consider Buying an iPhone or iPad Just to House Them in These Gorgeous Alarm Clocks

This Unwanted Monstrosity of a Floodgate Saved a Japanese Village From Tsunami Ruin

Azuro, the First Typeface That’s Perfect for Reading on Screens

Tell Me You Wouldn’t Do the Same, Given Half the Chance…

HTC Flyer On Sale Today Across Europe From 499 Euros

Do You Think the Value of the World’s Most Expensive Photo Is Deserved?

Leak: Motorola’s Droid X2 Will Have a 4.3-Inch qHD Screen, Tegra 2 Innards and 8MP Camera

Cartons Made From E-Paper Could Tell Us When Milk Goes Bad

Game to Lose Online Mode After Its Server Partner Pivots to You’ll Never Guess What

This $400 (Not) AI Keychain Is Pointless, Extravagant, and Weirdly Lovable

New Getaway Means Subaru Has an Electric SUV in Every Size

pCloud Easter Special: One Payment, Lifetime Storage for Entire Family (68% Off)

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

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NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

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DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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