Kit Eaton, Author at Gizmodo

Asos Disk Dial Watches: Confusing Displays, Analog-Style

These watches sit somewhere between the confusing displays of Tokyo Flash digital watches and the amazing mechanical-digital Meccanica DG. Inside they have two wheels that spin relative to a marker line: and that’s where you peek to work out how many hours and minutes of the work day remain (that’s the main reason for wearing…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 4 '08

Flower Power to Solar Power: Artificial Plant has Solar Cell Leaves

A Japanese science and engineering team have created this crazy artificial houseplant with high-efficiency organic thin-film solar cells as leaves. Developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, it’s got about 9 square inches of power-generating area, and each flexible leaf has a complex structure protected by a thin plastic layer. This…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 4 '08

WowWee Wrex the Dawg Bot Gets Video Review

The guys over at RobotsRule.com have just come up with this review of WowWee’s new Wrex the Dawg toy robot. And sure, it’s no Aibo, or even the robot dog from yesterday, but it’s got a certain something. It’s remote-controllable, programmable and has a suite of 18 tricks to act out, depending on its mood.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 4 '08

Modder Discovers Eee PC 901 is Most Hackable Yet

Just yesterday we brought you the cheap Eee 701 touchscreen hack, and now it looks like the same guy who did that mod has been ferreting around inside an Eee 901, with some unexpected results. In fact, it looks like the 901 is even more moddable than the earlier models, with some extra functions inside…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 4 '08

Scientist Predicts Flexible Computers As Shape Of Things to Come

We’ve been talking about next-gen display technology like e-paper for ages, but professor Roel Vertegaal thinks we’re not thinking about future computing flexibly enough. He’s convinced that “non-planar” computing devices with screens in almost any shape will one day be ubiquitous, and is busy building prototypes in his lab. https://gizmodo.com/epson-proud-of-its-13-inches-of-e-paper-392498 Professor Vertegaal forsees drink cans…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

Brando BTM-118 Bluetooth Headset Squeezes in FM Radio, Display

I kind of like the BTM-118 from Brando, with its weird fusion of Bluetooth headset and FM radio in one gizmo. Maybe because I use a similar clip-on headset (partly to avoid fashion geekiness.) I guess this might be useful if you’re into radio but your cellphone doesn’t do it: most ones with built-in radio…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

Scramble and Progression Tokyo Flash Watches Aren’t Totally Confusing

Just a few weeks ago I showed you the Infection watch, which was very much in the vein of befuddling time display that importer Tokyo Flash has become famous for. But now there’re the new Scramble and Progression watches from Nekura, and it looks like their LED-backlit LCD displays are slightly more straightforward, if still…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

Samsung i900 Cellphone Hands-on Photos Leaked

We first brought you leaked mock-ups of Samsung’s upcoming i900 cellphone in January, along with a single pic and some specs. Until now, that’s all we have to go on, but now Chinese site pconline.com.cn has got their hands on a real model and some more details on what the touchscreen phone will have inside.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

Simple Hack Gives Eee PC a Touchscreen for Just $70

People love to mod the Eee PC it seems, cramming everything you can imagine, including a touchscreen, into the diminutive cheapo notebook. But perhaps none have been so cheap and easy as this straightforward $70 touchscreen hack. It takes just 9 steps (including unscrewing the Eee 701 and putting it back together) to slot a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

Bluetrek’s Metal Bluetooth Headset is World’s Slimmest

Wearing Bluetooth headsets is always a risky fashion statement, but it may be that the slenderness of Bluetrek’s Metal headset reduces the fashion-geek effect. It looks even skinnier than Apple’s offering, being a scant 0.16-inches deep, and weighing a mere 0.01-pounds. Nevertheless, the skinny earbud-like device will give you five hours talk and seven days…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

SanDisks New pSSD is Aimed at Low-Cost Notebooks

SanDisk’s new pSSD is a pATA drive aimed at the low-cost notebook PC sector— that range of ULPCs, MIDs and the like. Using Multi-Level Cell and Single-Level flash chip designs, the pSSD will have a read speed of about 39MB/sec and a streaming write speed of about 17MB/sec. Though there’s no pricing info available, they’ll…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 3 '08

Optimus Prime T-Shirt Transforms into Arrest Threat at Airport

We love Transformers here at Giz, but it looks like the UK’s already slightly-crazed authorities don’t. A guy called Brad Jayakody was recently barred from boarding a flight at Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5 because his T-shirt had a picture of Optimus Prime brandishing a gun. https://gizmodo.com/optimus-prime-usb-hub-speaks-but-wont-stomp-across-your-387030 Yup, you got it: a cartoon robot with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 2 '08

Constant Garden Speakers: Make Your Desk Look Like Shrek Crop Field

A design team at Umea Design School created Constant Garden to act as a desktop speaker that gently plays gardeny sounds (“Oh— would you look at those weeds?!”) and act as an audio secretary, prompting you about appointments. It’s designed in rubber, and each of those Shrek-ear-like fronds holds a mini speaker that also lights…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 2 '08

Earth Trek Phone Stand is USB Hub, Card Reader Too

Sure, this all-in-one from Earth Trek is no good-looking gadget stand like the iClooly, but it’d be hard to beat it for convenience. You can use it to prop up your cellphone (though how does it stick on? … magic? love? glue?) and also charge it through a range of swappable connectors. It’s also a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 2 '08

Medidome Syringe Aims for Veins with Kid-Friendly Design

We’ve brought you inventions that aim to replace the scary-looking hypodermic syringe before, but this new design reinvents the device in a kid-friendly package. Designed by Christopher Holden, a student at Northumbria University in the UK, MediDome combines drug and needle in a stick-on blister, designed for a single use only. So it reduces the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 2 '08

Horm Voltaceleste: A Fiber-Optical Star-Spangled Cabinet For Your Stuff

I loved the glowing Full Moon sideboard from the other month, but I wasn’t able to convince my wife it’d make a good addition to our home. I reckon I’d have more of a chance with Horm Voltaceleste, from designer Salvatore Indriolo as it’s a touch more subtle but just as astronomical. The doors are…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 2 '08

iClooly Stand Gives Your iPod Touch a Mini-iMac Look

This iPod Touch-only stand from Rockridgesound blows the iPhone Xtand out of the water in its iMac-alike styling— it’s even got the drive slot there on the right-hand side. Handy for propping the iPod up when you’re watching movies, the iClooly’s got tilt and rotate functions, and you can connect up the dock connector and…

Tech News Kit Eaton Jun 2 '08

Peeandgo, The Lady Urinal with a Splash of Gold

You may be forgiven for thinking it’s toilet week here on Giz, but how could we not show you this? The Peeandgo, designed by Chen-Karlsson takes its inspiration from traditional squat urinals in Asia and the Middle East, and I’m guessing its *ahem* provocative shape is designed to stop splashback. There’s no info on pricing,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton May 30 '08

Be a Space Ambassador, Fly On Virgin Galactic for Free

Screw voluteering to lie down for 90 days for NASA: the National Space Society is offering a job as a Space Ambassador, with taking a ride into space as part of the duties. Yes— this is the kind of job you dreamed of when you were a kid, but you’d also have to “inspire the…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton May 30 '08

aTV One-Step Apple TV Hack Gizmo Discontinued

It was just the other day that we brought you news of the aTV single step Apple TV flash-drive hack, bringing cool functionality to your Apple TV. But now a notice on Apple Core’s website says the device has been discontinued (voluntarily, according to the company) over questions about the fair use of some of…

Tech News Kit Eaton May 30 '08

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Asos Disk Dial Watches: Confusing Displays, Analog-Style

Flower Power to Solar Power: Artificial Plant has Solar Cell Leaves

WowWee Wrex the Dawg Bot Gets Video Review

Modder Discovers Eee PC 901 is Most Hackable Yet

Scientist Predicts Flexible Computers As Shape Of Things to Come

Brando BTM-118 Bluetooth Headset Squeezes in FM Radio, Display

Scramble and Progression Tokyo Flash Watches Aren’t Totally Confusing

Samsung i900 Cellphone Hands-on Photos Leaked

Simple Hack Gives Eee PC a Touchscreen for Just $70

Bluetrek’s Metal Bluetooth Headset is World’s Slimmest

SanDisks New pSSD is Aimed at Low-Cost Notebooks

Optimus Prime T-Shirt Transforms into Arrest Threat at Airport

Constant Garden Speakers: Make Your Desk Look Like Shrek Crop Field

Earth Trek Phone Stand is USB Hub, Card Reader Too

Medidome Syringe Aims for Veins with Kid-Friendly Design

Horm Voltaceleste: A Fiber-Optical Star-Spangled Cabinet For Your Stuff

iClooly Stand Gives Your iPod Touch a Mini-iMac Look

Peeandgo, The Lady Urinal with a Splash of Gold

Be a Space Ambassador, Fly On Virgin Galactic for Free

aTV One-Step Apple TV Hack Gizmo Discontinued

Companies Are Getting Burned by Burning Tons of Tokens

How to Watch the Champions League Final 2026 for Free in the UK: Arsenal vs PSG Live Stream

Xiaomi Claims Watch S5 Has 21 Days of Battery Life

‘.hack//Sign’ Still Hits as an Existential Gaming Anime About the Virtues of Logging Off

Senator Raises Alarms Over TikTok’s Handling of American Users’ Data

There’s a Deadly ‘Rotating’ Soup of Forbidden Toxins at Lake Erie

Damien Leone Has His Post-‘Terrifier’ Plans in Place

Dev Says He’s Getting Threats After Leaving a Booby Trap for Vibe Coders

TP-Link Says Screw It, We’re Doing Wi-Fi 8 Now

This One VPN Made Me Cancel Every Other VPN Subscription I Had: Here’s Exactly Why

Sony 1000X The Collexion Review: Too Expensive for Anyone but Sony Superfans

Alienware Fixed the One Problem With the Area-51, and Now I’m Afraid I Love It

Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max Review: Wireless Earbuds With Enough Features to Make Your Head Spin

Anker Solix E10 Review: No Power? No Problem

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker Review: Sonos Can Start Sweating Now

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: A Boisterous Stab at Dominating Home Theater

Dell’s XPS 16 (2026) Is Almost Everything I Could Have Asked for… Almost

Smart Glasses With Subscriptions Are As Bad as They Sound

iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In

Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It