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“Innovative” New Polaroid t703 Camera Not Innovative But Definitely Cheap

Polaroid, once the fun company that marched to its own weird drum beat, is now officially in lockstep behind every other electronics maker. The “innovative” new Polaroid t730 digicam boasts the following: • Bright 2.5″ color LCD screen lets you “see it before you shoot” • It can tag audio to any picture • It…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jul 10

Letterman Jerks Off Optimus Prime

That David Letterman sure knows how to demo products. Check out his deft operation of this Optimus Prime Transformer, reminding himself of some adolescent transformations of his own. [Late Show with David Letterman, CBS] https://gizmodo.com/optimus-prime-voice-changing-helmet-and-battle-blaster-271177

Tech News Charlie White Jul 10

iPhone File System Hacked, Custom Ringtones to Come Soon

The iPhone file system has been compromised and you can access it using iPhoneInterface. Full access to the file system means custom ringtones and all kinds of fun stuff. One them you can see in the image: They moved the Safari application from the dashboard to the iPhone space. This also opens the door to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

Lenovo Cranking Out Energy Star 4.0 Qualified Laptops Early

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 4.0 revision hits July 20th, but Lenovo isn’t worried about making the cut. Three days before the revision, Lenovo plans to have the T61p, its first Energy Star 4.0 configured machine, out on shelves. The T61p won’t skimp on power to save energy, either. It has a suite of…

Tech News Kevinhall2 Jul 10

BBQ Grill Made of a V8 Engine Block

Add this to our collection of crazy barbecue grills, this one looking exactly like a V-8 engine. That’s because it’s made of a Chevy V-8 engine block, retrofitted with a grill and propane burners that can crank out 60,000 BTU. Trent Watley and his neighbor Terry Bacon paid attention to details on this do-it-yourself project,…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 10

Shocker: People Want Their Digital Entertainment on the Go

Hotels and airlines have stumbled across the fact that people own iPods, computers, HDTVs and all manners of fancy gadgetry loaded with music, movies and more—and maybe, just maybe, we’d like our lodgings and flights to resemble the rest of life in the 21st century. So now they’re racing to catch up to two years…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jul 10

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: We’re all about energy this week, as we mark another notch in the “world’s biggest” belt, with an 80 Megawatt solar “farm” in California. Solar’s chill cousin, “ambient vibe energy,” gets some love with this generator that harnesses the power of tiny vibrations. The Pentagon announced a public prize competition to…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10

More and More Campgrounds Getting WiFi

Camping is getting less and less rustic by the day, with most campgrounds now offering Wi-Fi, mostly of the free variety. Kampgounds of America, one of the largest campground companies in the country, offers 379 campsites with Wi-Fi, with 324 of them not charging for the luxury of being able to check your fantasy baseball…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 10

Lawn Chair Balloonist Flies 193 Miles

Ken Couch is the quintessential American adventurer. Last weekend, he hitched 105 helium balloons to a lawn chair and set out on a nine-hour adventure that took him to a height of 13,000 feet, traveling 193 miles from his home in Bend, Oregon, all the way to the other side of the state. Loading up…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 10

Samsung’s YouTube Phone Invading Europe Later This Month

Korean handset makers are all about YouTube on your cellphone it seems: Samsung is following up LG’s announcement of an upcoming YouTube-optimized phone with their own YouTube wunderkind, the SGH-L760. Difference? Samsung’s drops in Europe this month. https://gizmodo.com/lg-to-develop-youtube-phone-274615 Like LG’s months-out phone, this 3G slider lets you directly upload and share clips recorded with the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jul 10

New Casio Exilim Cameras Have YouTube Capture Mode and Easy YouTube Uploading

Casio today announced it was getting cozy with YouTube, introducing two Exilim cameras that will have a YouTube Capture mode—640×480 H.264 video at 30 frames per second—plus bundled YouTube Uploader for Casio software that boasts “three easy steps.” The sleek 8.1-megapixel Exilim Card EX-S880 will come in red or black for $299.99; the slightly larger…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman Jul 10

Ring, The Vibrating Alarm

Here’s a design concept that’s long overdue: It’s a vibrating alarm that you wear on your finger, bypassing all that morning racket for a gentle jostling. Each of the two rings can have its own separate wake-up time, designed for comfort with an elastic band so you’ll hardly know you’re wearing it. When you wake…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 10

Hands Hands Soap is Just Wrong Wrong

The Hands Hands Soap is not just creepy and scares the bejeezus out of me. This soap shaped as baby hands to wash your hands is just wrong at the cosmological level, as cleaning your hands with hands will also clean the hands that cleaned your hands while cleaning your own hands, incurring in a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

TEAC MP-600 Media Player is Thin and Crisp

We like our MP3 players small and wafer-thin, and this TEAC MP-600 qualifies as both because it’s about the size of a Triscuit. Even though it’s just 3 inches wide and 9mm thin, it still shows off a 3.5-inch touchscreen up front, and packs an FM tuner along with digital voice recording inside. Take the…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 10

PowerBook Earrings Are Totally Geeky But Totally Classy, Too

What to do with an old PowerBook when you replace it with a shiny new Santa Rosa MacBook Pro? Make jewelry out of the power buttons, of course. While these are of the dangly, girly variety, they would make a pretty killer pair of gauges, too. [Flickr via MAKE]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 10

Belkin N1 Adds 802.11n to Your Express Card Laptop

Belkin has just released a way to add 802.11n connectivity to your laptop with Express Card or PC Card slot, so you could easily get all those streaming porn HD clips where it really matters: in the bathroom. Destined to become obsolete as soon as you change your notebook, the Belkin N1 Wireless goes for…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

Nimbus Ultimate Wheel is Simplest Unicycle Ever

Maybe it’s not the simplest, but apart from running on top of a sequoia log, I can’t think of any simpler unicycle than this. $74 will get you the Nimbus Ultimate Wheel with no seat and no chain. However, it comes with lots of free stuff, plus a demo video after the jump. Free stuff…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

Phonofonics II Dock Pumps Out 55db Without External Power

The Phonofonics II pumps out sound at 55 decibels, directly from your iPod and without using any external power whatsoever, just with its white ceramic horn. How this hornstastic magic happens? Quite simple: This thing has ears. As you can see in the gallery, the patent-pending Phonofonics II has two receptacles to put your earphones…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

Gigantastic Flask Completely Defeats Its Purpose, Will Get You Drunk Anyway

Orvis Stainless Steel Huge Flask. One. Entire. Gallon. Bourbon. Rum. Tequila. Whatever. It won’t even fit into André the Giant pants, but if you ask me, it’s totally worth the $200. [Product Page via Oh Gizmo] https://gizmodo.com/andre-the-giant-selected-as-new-hand-model-for-iphone-268165

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

Sundance Teardrop is Stylish, but Still a Trailer

More than just a glorified tin can on wheels, the Teardrop trailer from Sundance is a little pocket of retro heaven – provided your pockets are deep enough to afford the wonga needed to snap one of these up. With an aluminum exterior and maple interior, the 1,000-lb trailer has a whole heap of things…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Jul 10

“Innovative” New Polaroid t703 Camera Not Innovative But Definitely Cheap

Letterman Jerks Off Optimus Prime

iPhone File System Hacked, Custom Ringtones to Come Soon

Lenovo Cranking Out Energy Star 4.0 Qualified Laptops Early

BBQ Grill Made of a V8 Engine Block

Shocker: People Want Their Digital Entertainment on the Go

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

More and More Campgrounds Getting WiFi

Lawn Chair Balloonist Flies 193 Miles

Samsung’s YouTube Phone Invading Europe Later This Month

New Casio Exilim Cameras Have YouTube Capture Mode and Easy YouTube Uploading

Ring, The Vibrating Alarm

Hands Hands Soap is Just Wrong Wrong

TEAC MP-600 Media Player is Thin and Crisp

PowerBook Earrings Are Totally Geeky But Totally Classy, Too

Belkin N1 Adds 802.11n to Your Express Card Laptop

Nimbus Ultimate Wheel is Simplest Unicycle Ever

Phonofonics II Dock Pumps Out 55db Without External Power

Gigantastic Flask Completely Defeats Its Purpose, Will Get You Drunk Anyway

Sundance Teardrop is Stylish, but Still a Trailer

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