Kit Eaton, Author at Gizmodo

Sega Body Trainer: A Digital Excerise Coach for Your Medical Entertainment

Sega Toy’s new Body Trainer is a “medical entertainment” product, we kid you not, designed to guide you through your exercise regime. Taking account of your age, weight and so on, it advises you with spoken prompts along the lines of “Let’s start warming up.” It actually measures your heart rate with an earlobe clip,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 29

DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power

Designers really are exploring every corner of the laws of physics to bring you eco-friendly products nowadays— this latest design even makes use of the waste heat kicked out by a laptop. The DORmino concept uses an oversized mousepad to soak up the warmth, which embedded electronics convert and transmit to power a wireless mouse.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 28

Banpresto Skyrium Lamp Brings Northern Lights, Psychedelia to Your Living Room

Banpresto’s new Skyrium lamp might be just the ticket for those who like to enhance their trips to psychedelic dreamland with some whacky ambient lighting. Its diffusing lens and nine multicolored LEDs project ethereal cloud patterns onto walls and ceilings, with selectable themes to match your drug of choice mood. The whole thing can be…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 28

NASA’s New Glorious 3D Moon Map to Help Next Lunar Landings

When astronauts return to the Moon in a few years they’ll be using NASA’s new 3D lunar maps. Produced using Earth-based radar measurements, the maps of the south polar region show details as small as 60 feet across and record heights to within 15 feet&mdash 30 times more accurate than previous surveys. Hopefully this will…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 28

REEM B Humanoid Service Robot May Give ASIMO A Run (Ok, Stroll) For Its Money

Spanish company PAL Technology’s ultimate goal is to develop a humanoid service robot, and REEM B is the latest prototype they’ve produced. The robot can navigate autonomously around buildings, identify and interact with people and objects and carry heavy weights. He may not be as nippy or sleek as Honda’s ASIMO—his top speed is just…

Tech News Kit Eaton Feb 28

Test-Tube Babies Start Inside Mom, Thanks to Anecova Silicon Womb

Human trials are about to begin on a new device that goes inside a woman’s body for up to four days, holding fresh IVF embryos in place like an artificial fallopian tube. Developed by Swiss company Anecova, the 5mm-long “silicon womb” is pierced with hundreds of 40-micron holes, the better to expose the embryos to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 27

Friends, Kids, Geeks, A-Data’s Mickey Mouse 2GB Drive Lends You His Ear

The worst thing about this official A-Data Mickey Mouse USB flash drive is that I can think of about five adults I know who’d love one. The modular design conceals the mini 2GB drive as one of Mickey’s ears, the other ear being pierced for pendants or charms. The clear plastic centre even pops out…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 27

Tandem Z1 Chinook Minicopter Flying (and Crashing) on Video

Click to viewMy new Tandem Z1 Chinook finally arrived. And guess what? Two rotors and proper six-way control actually does equal twice the crashes. At least while starting out, anyway— just like a real helicopter these things are a bugger to learn to control. Balancing throttle, forward, backwards, turning and the trimming controls felt like…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 27

Aroma Waker Early Morning Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Technology

Aroma Waker is a not-so-cunningly-named alarm clock that wakes you by emitting aromatherapy scents at a preset time. Its actually got two heated scent pots, so you can have a second dose of smells later in the day— perhaps to remind you it’s lunchtime, to feed the cat, or a “warm welcome from a hard…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 27

Toshiba 815T PB: Transformers-Like Cellphone of Geeky dreams

Toshiba’s new Softbank 815T PB is the robot/cellphone hybrid I would’ve dreamed of if cellphones had been around when I was a kid. It’s made for an upcoming Japanese TV drama called Ketai Sousakan 7 and it really does transform, Transformers-like, into a robot toy complete with tiny bunched fists. Even the display-face is part…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 27

Round-Up: Sony 2008 Line Show Goodie Bag

As you may have noticed, Sony is currently planted in Vegas, announcing gear it withheld from us at CES. The biggest news is the arrival of the BDP S350 and S550, the first full-spec 2.0 Blu-ray players, complete with Ethernet and the long-awaited BD-Live compatibility. On Monday, Sony also gave us two new high-performance Cyber-shots,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 26

Sound Gadgets Get On Your Nerves When Darkness Falls

These little gadgets are perfect for really really annoying your house mates: flip one on and conceal it somewhere, and until it’s dark it does nothing. When the lights are off the fun starts, as the box starts to emit either the distant sounds of dripping water or a barking dog. Of course, your victim…

Tech News Kit Eaton Feb 26

Add Some Laughs To Your Lawn With Little Green Men

Much as I think all lawn ornaments should be heaped into a pile and blown to kingdom come, I think I could spare a corner of my garden for these tiny chaps and their crashed spaceship. Disappointingly not made from exotic metals recovered from the Roswell crash site, they are instead made of weatherproof resin.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 26

Survival Kit Charges Your Gear with Solar-Powered Naffness

The designers of this naff gadget followed an interesting recipe: take one 3800mAh rechargeable battery, a solar cell, digital watch, analog thermometer, compass and LED torch light and jam them haphazardly into the nearest scratchy plastic box. Add in 12 connectors for mobile phones and USB gadgets, and serve up for around $33. Yuckity-yuck yuck.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 26

Zeki Cellphone Is Walkie-Talkie with SMS and MP3 for Kids

A company called YoungToys is bringing out a cellphone aimed at kids and toddlers in Korea. The Zeki is a digital walkie-talkie, enabling conversations and short messages exchange between two handsets up to 260 feet apart, as well as MP3 playback and audio/video recording (presumably useful if you’re the snooping parent type). For older kids,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 25

LEGO MP3 Players Are Not Official, Look Great Anyway

Why settle for a boring old MP3 player, when you can have one based on everyone’s favourite plastic toy? We mean LEGO, before you get smutty, though these brightly colored players should probably be called LEGOish since they don’t look too official—not a Lego logo in sight. With controls concealed as the raised bumps, and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 25

New Botanicalls Lets Plants Communicate Using Twitter

The new version of Botanicalls can now talk to Twitter. It uses an Arduino electronics board connected to a notebook, and some soil moisture probes crafted from a couple of galvanised nails. Your plant can then send out a Twitter alert when it’s thirsty, detect when its been over- or under-watered and let you know…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 25

Paddle-Wheel Propeller Designs Take Flight, 115 Years Late

Researchers in Singapore have demoed a flying model that uses a strange paddle-wheel-like propeller design that was first patented in 1893. The cyclogyro’s flat whirling propeller-blades look like the comical contraptions built in the years before and after the Wright brothers flights, but could potentially be more efficient and quieter than those currently used on…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 25

NTT RedTacton Device Turns Your Body Into Swipe Card

Japanese telecom company NTT is soon to launch a product that transmits data via your body, effectively turning you into a touch-technology swipe card. RedTacton is a card-like gadget that you simply carry anywhere on your person, and it transmits data via electric fields&mdash a world’s first according to NTT. The data is passed on…

Tech News Kit Eaton Feb 25

Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans Itself

Nokia’s new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user’s needs, a far cry from today’s solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 25

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Sega Body Trainer: A Digital Excerise Coach for Your Medical Entertainment

DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power

Banpresto Skyrium Lamp Brings Northern Lights, Psychedelia to Your Living Room

NASA’s New Glorious 3D Moon Map to Help Next Lunar Landings

REEM B Humanoid Service Robot May Give ASIMO A Run (Ok, Stroll) For Its Money

Test-Tube Babies Start Inside Mom, Thanks to Anecova Silicon Womb

Friends, Kids, Geeks, A-Data’s Mickey Mouse 2GB Drive Lends You His Ear

Tandem Z1 Chinook Minicopter Flying (and Crashing) on Video

Aroma Waker Early Morning Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Technology

Toshiba 815T PB: Transformers-Like Cellphone of Geeky dreams

Round-Up: Sony 2008 Line Show Goodie Bag

Sound Gadgets Get On Your Nerves When Darkness Falls

Add Some Laughs To Your Lawn With Little Green Men

Survival Kit Charges Your Gear with Solar-Powered Naffness

Zeki Cellphone Is Walkie-Talkie with SMS and MP3 for Kids

LEGO MP3 Players Are Not Official, Look Great Anyway

New Botanicalls Lets Plants Communicate Using Twitter

Paddle-Wheel Propeller Designs Take Flight, 115 Years Late

NTT RedTacton Device Turns Your Body Into Swipe Card

Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans Itself

The ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Knows What It Is

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Marvel Studios’ Former Art Staff Discuss ‘Shortsighted’ Layoffs

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Organ Transplants Without Lifelong Meds? New Trial Shows It’s Possible

The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire

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