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What Is Bestmodo 2.0?

As you may know, Bestmodo is the badge of honor our editors give to products that go above and beyond the competition, thus raising the gadgetry bar for all that come after. Now we’re expanding on this concept and letting the voice of the people also determine which gadgets are worthy of praise. The new…

Gawker Media Fall Internships

Gawker Media is hiring three fall interns to work in its New York office. Office Intern Handle a variety of administrative tasks for all Gawker Media properties. Proficiency with Excel, experience using blogging tools such as Movable Type and ability to multi-task a must. Send email with bio, resume, and subject line ‘Office Intern’ to…

Stephen Chao — who was fired from a top position at the News Corporation after, in separate incidents, hiring a male stripper to disrobe at a company meeting and nearly drowning Rupert Murdoch’s dog at a party — plans to announce on Wednesday the formation of a Web video company that he hopes to build…

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Product Design for the Elderly By Gretchen Anderson If we are what we use, then it seems the elderly people in today’s society are cranky, stupid and tacky. Of course, looking at products made for the elderly really says more about what product designers and manufacturers think the elderly are. Even as technology has gotten…

Obopay: Your Phone Is So Money, Baby

Phone wallet functionality has been going strong in Asia for some time now. But here in the U.S. of A. it’s still a wish list item—or at least it used to be. Last week the folks from Obopay dropped by to show off their new app, which lets you access and transfer money from mobile…

Ten Fingers On The Das Keyboard 2

Update: The Das Keyboard 2 was supposed to go on sale March 27, but the shipments were held up at customs. The new Das (pictured above) will be available starting April 3. The creator of the all-black, all-blank Das Keyboard claims it will improve your typing 100 percent in a few weeks. As someone who…

Peter Potty: Training Urinal

Why is it that all those potty training toilets for our sons are of the sit-down variety? Because women control the world, and are biased against men who mark their territory around the toilet while stand-up peeing. Well, boys, no longer will your son have to suffer the indignity of peeing like a girlie. Meet…

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The Widget Economy By Laura Richardson Remember the time when a widget was simply an abstract concept in your math class? Your teacher probably tried to stump you with a question like this: “A company has ten machines that produce gold widgets. One of the machines is producing widgets that are a gram light. How…

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DRM Doesn’t Have to Suck (Part 1 of 2) By Mathilde Pignol As more and more consumers have become aware of digital rights management, they’ve taken to spitting out the technology’s acronym, rather than merely speaking it. Oh, it s that darn DRM again! a consumer will screech, flecks of saliva spewing from his mouth.…

Oscar Swag: Motorola’s “Gunmetal” PEBL

Motorola always gives its latest, just-released phones away to Oscar nominees, and this year’s, ahem, gifting experience includes the special edition PEBL shown above. Moto is touting the “gunmetal” finish (as opposed to silver or black), as well as the personalized “keepsake box”—although why anyone would keepsake this is beyond me. The phone is only…

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The Brand Boutique Completes the (Entertainment) Experience By Mahin Samadani I must have walked by hundreds of mall kiosks this past holiday season. You know, those carts set up in the aisle-ways, designed to maximize rental revenues. Although I generally walk right by, this year my wife stopped in her tracks and exclaimed, “Look at…

World’s Greatest… Laser Jammers

By Alexander Roy When was the last time you prayed the government would improve its surveillance technology? I pray for it every day. Why? Because in the escalating technological war between police and speeders there remains a gap—a legal opening big enough for car lovers to drive through far in excess of posted limits. It’s…

Napmosphere – Office Productivity Suite?

George Costanza would not be able to fit this translucent cocoon-like shelter under his desk, but it is meant for power napping and it can be stowed in a sports bag. This is one of four prototypes developed by architecture students from the University of Stuttgart in support of research showing that short daytime naps…

Hard Drive Dying Dance Track Winner

There were well more than 100 entries in this remix competition—and picking the winner was a tough tough decision. It’s clear that the challenge of making music based on the sound of Hitachi hard drives failing was as much a reason to take part as winning the Tokyoflash Equalizer watch. So before announcing the winner,…

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Mashups for the Masses: When Mom Meets Gadget by Denise Gershbein Everywhere I look recently, I see possibilities for personalizing or customizing products and services. I m not talking about choosing a nice skin for your media player or downloading ringtones for your Razr. I’m talking about a quantum leap that’s occurring as consumers morph…

More Transparent OLED Madness

The Fraunhofer scientists who developed the transparent OLED technology I told you about on Friday are not the only ones with see-through powers. An outfit called Universal Display Corporate also has the technology, which they have dubbed TOLED. Universal also claims a patent on transparency, but the two technologies are different. Universal has developed a…

Transparent OLED On the Way

It’s hard to wrap your head around at first, but there are a zillion innovations that will be possible now that German scientists have figured out how to make organic LEDs that are transparent. The most obvious application is to incorporate them into conventional LCDs and “transform laminated glass into a display panel.” OLEDs could…

Hard Drive Dying Dance Mix Contest is Over

The deadline is past. Thank you for sending all your remixes. There are 99 tracks available on Odeo. And a bunch of direct downloads can be found after the jump. There are some surprisingly groovy submissions for your listening pleasure. The genres cover everything from electronica to techno—and punk rock, rap, dub, country. It may…

Mitten-Gloves for Winter Photographers

Have you ever encountered Yeti in the freezing Himalayas and you could not operate the camera with your numb fingers before he disappeared? The outdoor goods manufacturer Axes Quin is selling a, literally translated, “2 way finger through mitten glove” that keeps your fingers warm and still allows you to operate a camera without taking…