Kyle VanHemert, Author at Gizmodo

Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone

On March 18, at the Baselworld watch show in Switzerland, a vaporous French company called Celsius X-VI-II will unveil the Papillon, a $300,000 mobile phone that is packed with the most advanced micro-mechanics of any gadget ever created. All of this according to a recent profile in PCMag, one that frankly raises more questions than…

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Control 20 Spotlights in Vancouver’s English Bay From Your Web Browser

I spend all day online, but sometimes I like to pretend that I’m doing something exciting out there in the real world. Vectorial Elevation let me control 20 gigantic spotlights in Vancouver. I almost forget I was in my sweatpants. The site is one component of a telerobotic art installation that includes twenty spotlights scattered…

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i-Tab Offers Rock Stardom By Way of Huge Geekdom

Music and technology aren’t unfamiliar bedfellows, but the i-Tab offers a unique method for enhancing your guitar with gadgetry: clamp it on. Like a TomTom for tunes, the electronic songbook prompts players with chords and lyrics for thousands of songs. For hundreds of years guitarists have mastered their instrument with patience and practice. But this…

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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Breaking News Edition

In today’s Remainders: news that’s breaking. Boxee Beta is available on Apple TV; Symbian^4 rears its ugly head; analysts analyze things and predict cheaper iPhones; Carly Simon reveals who was so vain; and a nation-sized iceberg breaks free in Antarctica. Boxee On Your Apple Boxy According to the Boxee blog, Boxee Beta is now available…

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Ambient Light Concept Pleasantly Reminds You Your Gadgets Are Wasting Energy

It’ll be at least a decade before the Bloom Box solves our energy crisis. In the meantime, you’re gonna have to turn off your gadgets. This concept uses ambient light to gently remind you which are still sucking power. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-fuel-cells-and-bloom-energys-miracle-box-5479460 The design bears the creatively-sequenced name Saving Energy Multitap, and it’s intended as a replacement…

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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Empire Edition

In today’s Remainders: Empires. Apple tends to theirs at their annual shareholders meeting; Verizon reinforces their cellular empire for Spring Break action; and the Galactic Empire’s graphic design team faces off with Ole Miss’s new rebel mascot. And more! It’s a Mascot! Ole Miss has been without a mascot since 2003, when its Colonel Reb…

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Evict Bacteria With the Cleankeys Touch Sensitive Keyboard

Did you know that your run of the mill keyboard is basically a gigantic apartment complex for bacteria? Gross, no? Thankfully there’s Cleankeys, a keyboard that bulldozes that shit and replaces it with a sleek, sterile touch-sensitive slab. Wiping a standard keyboard with a disinfecting cloth kills about 5% of bacteria. Cleankeys claims the same…

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Microsoft’s Newly Patented uPad Peripheral: One Side Charges, One Side Displays

Microsoft’s Beijing office filed a patent yesterday for an unusual little device with two distinct functions: one side is an inductive charging pad, for, say, a mouse. The other features a tiny built-in display for displaying headlines or sports scores. Sometimes mash-ups are just right, creating something that’s greater than the sum of its parts.…

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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Coming Right Up Edition

In today’s Remainders: the upcoming. The Spring Design E-Reader, soon to be available for presale; 4chan’s mainstream embrace, as signaled by their Jeopardy mention; an idiotic Mall Cop’s impending termination; a backlash to RFID gravestones, and more. Oh Alex? We thought the Spring Design Alex ebook reader was a viable threat to the Nook when…

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Philips SoundSphere Stereos Keep Their Tweeters Where You Can See ‘Em

Before Twitter existed, the term “tweeter” didn’t describe a person but rather a thing—the part of the speaker that reproduced high frequencies. Philips’ new MCi900 and MCD900 hi-fi stereos let theirs hang out for the world to see. Before you get too excited, take note the pretty new systems were announced by Philips’ Spanish division…

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The Haunted Mansion’s House Band

We love figuring out how things work, but in the case of this video—a bizarre musical performance involving disembodied holographic heads—it’s probably better to just behold. OK, fine, speculate how they did it in the comments. [Make]

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Dance Away Your Paternity Anxieties With DIY “Billie Jean” Shoes

If you have a pair of hard-soled shoes, two pressure-sensitive LED tiles, and some baby mama drama from which you need to extricate yourself, let this Instructable be your guide and recreate the special-FX steps from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” Admittedly, I’m not sure how easy it would be to do any sort of dancing…

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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Solutions Edition

In today’s Remainders: solutions! Solutions for distilling water vapor into drinkable water; keeping your lunch warm with only a USB port; beaming an entire Springsteen album to your phone in under 10 seconds, and more. Wossy Jonathan Ross, a UK television personality, isn’t the first person you’d expect to deliver the latest news on Microsoft’s…

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At Laptop-Spying School MacBook Use Was Mandatory, Tampering Grounds For Expulsion

Details continue to trickle out about Lower Merion School District, their MacBook loan program, and the unsavory security practices they used to keep those computers safe. The latest: the school-supplied MacBooks were required for classes and students could not use their own personal machines in their place. Worse yet, it was impossible to disable the…

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“Typeface” Creates a Typeface From Your Face Type

File Mary Huang’s Typeface, a piece of software that analyzes your face in real time to create a custom font, in the “projects preceded by their puns” category. But unlike some things with that designation, Typeface is surprisingly functional. Stick your face in front of a webcam and Typeface will analyze it live to generate…

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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Caught on Video Edition

In today’s Remainders: video! And in many cases, things caught on video for the first time, like Samsung’s E6 and E101 ebook readers, Apple’s $1 billion data center, Big Bloom’s “miraculous” fuel cell, and a modern day Superman. Stylish Stylus We got a look at Samsung’s ebook readers—the E6 and the E101—back at CES, but…

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Spot GPS Rescue Gadget Tested By Getting Lost In Snow Country

A Wired writer wanted to test just how effectively the Spot GPS Messenger could save his life. So, in the dark of night, he walked for 8 aimless hours into Tahoe National Forest. Then he pressed Spot’s emergency button. https://gizmodo.com/spot-gps-tracking-device-now-a-smaller-more-powerful-l-5320435 Having covered his tracks carefully and inserted himself as deeply into the forest as he…

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Lego Crawler Town Makes Having a Tiny Yellow Head Totally Worth It

I’ve played with my fair share of LEGOs, but I never actually envied the little guys until I saw Dave DeGobbi’s Crawler Town, a work as impressively conceived as it is constructed. I’d forfeit bendable elbows to live in it. It sort of reminds me of those old books on a single building—Castles or Pyramids…

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HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One

If you’re a Nexus One owner and you have a sense of adventure—or are black-out drunk—you can now flash an alpha version of the leaked HTC Desire ROM on your phone. Speaking of Flash, this ROM has it. Have you secretly harbored Desire-envy ever since its unveiling at MWC? This is your chance to close…

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Forbidden Apple: On The Death of iPhone Sex Apps

Recently, Apple removed Wobble—an app that adds animated jiggles to photo breasts—from the App Store. Other removals followed. Now, a developer who talked to Apple says the future of iPhone titillation is bleak. https://gizmodo.com/apple-removes-an-innocent-boob-jiggling-app-from-the-ap-5475270 Really bleak. Like no racy photos, no suggestive language, no bathing suits bleak. This devastating news comes by way of TechCrunch,…

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Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone

Control 20 Spotlights in Vancouver’s English Bay From Your Web Browser

i-Tab Offers Rock Stardom By Way of Huge Geekdom

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Breaking News Edition

Ambient Light Concept Pleasantly Reminds You Your Gadgets Are Wasting Energy

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Empire Edition

Evict Bacteria With the Cleankeys Touch Sensitive Keyboard

Microsoft’s Newly Patented uPad Peripheral: One Side Charges, One Side Displays

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Coming Right Up Edition

Philips SoundSphere Stereos Keep Their Tweeters Where You Can See ‘Em

The Haunted Mansion’s House Band

Dance Away Your Paternity Anxieties With DIY “Billie Jean” Shoes

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Solutions Edition

At Laptop-Spying School MacBook Use Was Mandatory, Tampering Grounds For Expulsion

“Typeface” Creates a Typeface From Your Face Type

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Caught on Video Edition

Spot GPS Rescue Gadget Tested By Getting Lost In Snow Country

Lego Crawler Town Makes Having a Tiny Yellow Head Totally Worth It

HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One

Forbidden Apple: On The Death of iPhone Sex Apps

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

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

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

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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?