Kit Eaton, Author at Gizmodo

TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino’s Pizza Ordering

Ahh…digitally controllable TV, and the chance of fresh tasty pizza: That’s what TiVo and Dominos Pizza are now offering. Broadband-connected TiVo users will be able to order pizza for delivery or pick-up (though that’d involve leaving the comforting hug of your sofa’s cushions…crazy!) and then can even track the progress all via the TiVo interface.…

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G-Speak Minority Report Gesture UI Actually Made By Minority Report Designer

Un-frickin-believable: there’ve been a few pretenders, but it looks like this new G-Speak system is really the Minority Report UI made into science-faction;it’s made by one of the guys who actually worked on advising the Minority Report movie. It even has gloves something akin to Tom Cruise’s natty controllers from the film, and it lets…

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Harry Potter-ish Photos With Moving Shadows Invented

Click to view Okay, so this new moving-photo tech doesn’t have the photo subjects actually dancing about within the frame, but it does allow for objects to have moving/reactive shadows and highlights and it’s zero-powered like an old-fashioned picture.Essentially an object is photographed from multiple angles in different lighting conditions, and a cleverly-processed composite image…

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MP3-Playing, Photo Frame Skull Belt Buckle is Gothic Gadget Wrongness

Sadly this doesn’t have “I am become death, the bringer of MP3s” inscribed upon it—it’d chime nicely with the ohmygod tackiness of the Digital Skull Belt Buckle. It’s in fact so terrible it’s wonderful: A metal belt-buckle in the shape of a skull with interchangeable modules in a cutout in the forehead. One’s a cheesy…

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Fujistu’s Wraparound Exterior Car Video Gives Bird’s Eye View, World’s First

Fujitsu’s taken the handy exterior cameras found on high-end, larger vehicles today and applied some nifty video processing to make them a driving aid par excellence. In fact, Fujitsu’s saying it’s the world’s first 360º wraparound vehicle view. The system has four exterior video cameras at the vehicle’s corners, and a central processing unit that…

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Esc Key Alarm Clock Won’t Let You Escape The Daily Drudge

This concept alarm is simple, but self-contradictory: shaped like a giant Esc key, you mash it with a fist to deactivate it, and it wirelessly communicates to a dock to (presumably) turn off the sound. But, it won’t let you escape the inevitable requirement of exiting the bed and getting to that early morning meeting…

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Nooka Zon Watch Dots The Time Away

The Zon is the latest in Nooka’s line of variously confusing and interesting (for a given value of beauty) timepieces: Its 35 x 45mm dot-matrix display either displays the minutes of the day dotting into nothingness like a digital egg-timer that’s counting down until tomorrow, or a proper numeric time readout. It also has a…

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Meade ETX-LS Motorized GPS Telescope Basically Does Astronomy For You

Some details on Meade’s ETX-LS telescope have snuck out ahead of its early 2009 launch, and it looks like an amateur telescope for the digital age. That’s because it’ll drive itself to locate the stars you’ve chosen to look at automatically, using its database, in-built GPS and electronic level-detector system. And then there’s a sensor…

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Swedish Nuclear Bunker Transmogrified Into Data Center Fit For Bond

This must take the record for the trippiest data-center build anywhere, ever: It’s an old nuclear bunker 30 meters below central Stockholm, and its new conversion for one of Sweden’s biggest ISPs has made it truly 007-worthy. Check it: it has simulated daylight, greenhouses and waterfalls, there’re German submarine engines rigged as emergency backup generators,…

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Walloffice Is Smallest Home-Office Solution, Not For Shiny Floors

This Wallflower Walloffice desk from Jonas and Jonas design may hold the record for the smallest and simplest home-office solution: It’s got just two legs, and is made from a one-piece bent-laminate structure you lean up against the wall. Nevertheless, it looks useful, is “scratch and shock-resistant” and “allows for any kind of strain,” though…

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Cycle Life Watch Concept Charts Your Life Draining Away In Daily Drudgery

Here’s a bit of tech that’ll cast a wonderful air of doom and gloom over your morning breakfast cereal: The Cycle Life watch charts your progress through the boring average day’s drudgery. It begins cheerfully with “wake up!” but then the rest of your productive, vividly personal, exciting daily life is reduced to displays for…

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Kami Kami Sensor Counts Your Kids Chews, No Kidding

It’s been a long time since I’ve heard anyone reference the old saying “You must chew every mouthful 15 times”…but those memories of childhood arguments with my parents have just come roaring back when I spotted the Kami Kami chew counter. No, seriously: this gizmo really is a counter that you strap to your kids…

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iGala Wireless Photo Frame Has Touchscreen, Own Gmail Account

Normally I’d say digital photo frame, splidgital photo frame…but iGala’s one has a couple of features that make it stand out. It’s an 8-inch touchscreen, with standard 4:3 ratio 800 x 600 pixels so you get less irritating crops or letterboxing, plus its wireless and has 1GB of internal memory. But it’s actually got its…

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Nokia’s Clamshell “Wahoo” Leaks Out, Looks Weirdly RAZR-Like

This strangeness is a leaked photo of an upcoming Nokia handset, dubbed “Wahoo” internally, and we can’t decide if it reminds us more of Motorola’s aging RAZR range or the BlackBerry Kickstart. It’s got a half-QWERTY keypad, is quad-band and UMTS/HSDPA, has an internal and external display, 2-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth and AGPS. BGR…

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Vauxhall Sky Garden Building Gets Three-Storey Gardens Inside

This 130m skyscraper has been approved for building in London, but unlike “dead” conventional buildings, the Sky Garden includes plans for two three-story gardens to be built inside it. The idea is to “create a space for social interaction” and “foster micro communities,” which sounds like a neat way of combining green eco-friendliness and dense…

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Solar Vertical Lamp Blind Charges-Up in Daylight, Lights Rooms At Night

Sometimes a simple idea will make you react with ambivalence, but designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim’s Solar Vertical Lamp probably isn’t one of those. At its core it’s a solar-powered lighting system, but unusually it’s embedded in standard window blinds. During the day tiny solar panels charge up the individual lighting elements (LEDs?), and…

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Mathmos Glowing Wind Lights Probably Best For Breezier Locales

Mathmos‘ eight-inch tall windlights are pretty simple—just a generator, 2.4-inch propeller and two LED lights—but that doesn’t stop them from having their own cute, glowing eco-charm. Basically when the wind blows strongly enough, they light up: dot them about your garden and you’d have a great display, but only if the wind is blowing. If…

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AMD’s Quad-Core “Shanghai” Server Opterons Go 45nm, Desktop Version In ’09

AMD’s just revealed its quad-core Opteron chips manufactured with its new 45nm process. Based on the “Barcelona” chipset, the new “Shanghai” chips have a few extra tweaks: the L3 cache has risen from 2 to 6MB, giving it about 35% boosted power performance over the previous generation. The new chips also have better power management,…

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 Gets Launch Date, $450 Price Tag in Germany

We knew it was coming to Germany first, but there’s new info that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will hit the streets there mid-November, and at around $450 (360€) price for a contract-free handset. German T-Mobile subscribers can even get it for as low as $6.20 (5€) with the right kind of 2-year contract monthly plans:…

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Digital Photo Bauble Lets You Spice-Up Christmas Trees With Inappropriate Pics

This is a 21st Century Christmas tree bauble: There’s a 1.4-inch screen in there, powered by AAA batteries and 8MB of USB-accessed storage, and it’s capable of showing slideshows of your pictures. Out now for around $12 each. Which is cheap enough that you could have a bunch of them on the tree, among the…

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TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino’s Pizza Ordering

G-Speak Minority Report Gesture UI Actually Made By Minority Report Designer

Harry Potter-ish Photos With Moving Shadows Invented

MP3-Playing, Photo Frame Skull Belt Buckle is Gothic Gadget Wrongness

Fujistu’s Wraparound Exterior Car Video Gives Bird’s Eye View, World’s First

Esc Key Alarm Clock Won’t Let You Escape The Daily Drudge

Nooka Zon Watch Dots The Time Away

Meade ETX-LS Motorized GPS Telescope Basically Does Astronomy For You

Swedish Nuclear Bunker Transmogrified Into Data Center Fit For Bond

Walloffice Is Smallest Home-Office Solution, Not For Shiny Floors

Cycle Life Watch Concept Charts Your Life Draining Away In Daily Drudgery

Kami Kami Sensor Counts Your Kids Chews, No Kidding

iGala Wireless Photo Frame Has Touchscreen, Own Gmail Account

Nokia’s Clamshell “Wahoo” Leaks Out, Looks Weirdly RAZR-Like

Vauxhall Sky Garden Building Gets Three-Storey Gardens Inside

Solar Vertical Lamp Blind Charges-Up in Daylight, Lights Rooms At Night

Mathmos Glowing Wind Lights Probably Best For Breezier Locales

AMD’s Quad-Core “Shanghai” Server Opterons Go 45nm, Desktop Version In ’09

BlackBerry Curve 8900 Gets Launch Date, $450 Price Tag in Germany

Digital Photo Bauble Lets You Spice-Up Christmas Trees With Inappropriate Pics

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, Cut Your Daily Coffee Costs at Home

Amazon Clears Out Govee LED Smart Light Bulbs (2-Pack) at a Record Low, Each Bulb Costs Just a Few Dollars

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees