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SkiBob Lets You Swim Like Superman

SkiBob is like a miniature jet ski that can pull you along on the surface or under water. It uses a combination of a 5hp electric motor along with an electric jet stream to propel you through the water at a brisk 12.5mph, letting you swim faster than all but the quickest fish. It’s safe,…

Gadgets Charlie White

T-Mobile Picking up the Nokia N95?

One of the pluses (or minuses) of the US cellphone industry is that the carriers control everything. For example, if you currently want to pick up the unlocked N95 Stateside, you will have to pay more than $700 straight up from Nokia, but rumor has it that T-Mobile may be interested in this phone, along…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Game Shell Hides Your Shameful Gaming Habit, Sort Of

If you hide your gaming habits like a leprous half-brother in order to protect your image as “the cool one” on your high school’s math team, you know how embarrassing it can be to have controllers strewn about your bachelor pad. You can’t let the ladies know that you spent $600 on a Playstation 3…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Mac OS X Less Secure Than Vista?

If prize-winning security researcher Dino Dai Zovi is correct, it’s time for Mac fanboys to stop being so smug about Mac OS X security. Dai Zovi says Microsoft Windows Vista slam dunks Mac OS X 10.4 when it comes to vulnerabilities: “I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be…

Privacy & Security Charlie White

If You Want Joost, You Gotta Have Friends

Today marks the first day of YouTube competitor Joost’s commercial availability. That’s right, it’s out of “expanded beta” and open to an “unlimited number”—cue record scratch noise—”of friends, family and colleagues of existing beta testers.” Maybe it’s not beta, or expanded beta, but I am going to call this interim period “expanded expanded beta.” The…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Weird Weird World of Gizmodo Mornings

Listen up, you Decepticons! Megatron here with the 1200h round-up. But first, Megatron is happy today! Megatron saw Gizmodo Editor and Dictator for Life Brian Lam bend and squeeze and poke fun at puny Optimus Prime on video! Roll out that, Prime! Hahaha! Ha. https://gizmodo.com/video-review-transformers-optimus-prime-vs-r2d2-vs-i-256618 Urm… OK. Wait, what’s this? Looks like those pathetic earthlings…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Cellphone-style Camera Packs Whopper LCD

Designed by Matthew Swinton, the Axis camera fits in your hand vertically (like a cellphone) to let you take pictures with one hand rather than two. One side of the camera holds the lens (along with the protective lid) while the other packs a massive LCD for viewing your pics and videos. I like it…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Lexon LCD E8 Wall Clock Keeps ‘Em Guessing

Annoying timekeeping schemes are not just for watches any more, as evidenced by this minimalist LCD E8 eight wall clock from Lexon, a company that also makes a watch with this same goofy layout. https://gizmodo.com/lexon-e8-watch-reinvented-time-191290 How does it work? Each of the four columns represents a digit, and sure, it’s confusing but we hear it’s…

Tech News Charlie White

Tater Mitts Will Change Your Life, I Guarantee It

The great thing about infomercial kitchen products is that, generally speaking, they seem like they solve some grand problem, but in reality they end up sitting in the back of a drawer, only to be used once or twice. Take the Tater Mitts, for example. They’re rubber gloves with an abrasive surface, allowing you to…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Solar Heater Built With Soda Cans

While some of the highest technology in the world is being brought to bear on the problem of saving energy, here’s a guy who painted 50 soda cans black, drilled holes in them, stacked them up inside a box he made out of two-by-fours and some plywood, and what do you know? Wafting out the…

Tech News Charlie White

Doggie Stroller Robs Both You and Your Dog of Dignity

Well, consider my mind blown. Yes, that’s a picture of a dog in a rainbow afro wig riding in a doggie stroller you’re looking at. What has the world come to when there’s a market for strollers so people can walk their dogs without their dogs actually walking? When did we decide that dogs didn’t…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Overhead Highway Turbine Creates Energy, Kills Birds

These crazy turbines, designed by a University of Arizona student, get juice from the wind created by passing cars and trucks. As vehicles fly by, the breeze they create is harnessed by the overhead turbines to power what we can only assume would be more rest stop Roy Rogers and McDonalds. Able to generate an…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Rosie Brings Home Control But No Maid Service

Short of having the real Rosie the Robot Maid in your house, this Linux-based Rosie whole-house control system might just be the easiest to program yet. Its makers at Savant Systems say they’re developing the open-architecture multi-room lighting and audio/video control system to be configured in a hundredth of the time of other Rube Goldberg-esque…

Tech News Charlie White

Navizon Peer-To-Peer Navigation Gets You There, Maybe

Navizon, a simple $25 app, is supposed to locate you on a map and provide directions to a destination “on any wireless network and in any country.” Previously available for Windows Mobile and Symbian apps, it now comes in BlackBerry as well. “What makes Navizon even more exciting,” says the publisher, Mexens Technology, “is that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Portable Motion Speakers: for Sound and Vision just Wave

Something tells me that these are going to be popular little beggars this summer. Hot from Japan, these $100 portable motion speakers are button-free, meaning that to turn up the volume, you move your hands in front of the unit in an upward motion. If it’s less cowbell you’re after, then move your hands down—although,…

Tech News Ad Dugdale

Head Lite Cap Makes You Look Like an Oncoming Train

Now you can have a hands-free headlight to light your path instead of cursing the darkness with the Head Lite Cap from Lite and Motion, a new take on the miner’s headlight. Instead of that old-fashioned flashlight beam, now there’s a super-bright LED positioned at the top of your forehead for hands-free lighting convenience. Confuse…

Tech News Charlie White

Plastic Sheet Delivers 40 Watts of Power to Nearby Gadgets

Ok, so it won’t power your massive desktop, but researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a one-millimeter-thick sheet of plastic that can deliver 40 watts of power to gadgets on it or near it. The plastic uses pentacene, an organic molecule whose electrical conductivity can be controlled. The table in the pic is…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Paper-Thin Flatwire Disappears Under Paint

Until we get those miraculous wireless plastic electrical sheets mentioned above, Flatwire is so flat you can stick it on the wall and paint over it, and its manufacturer says you can’t even tell it’s there. Now you can get a variety of types of wiring in this ultra-flat format, including high-voltage electrical, low-voltage lighting,…

Tech News Charlie White

Video Review: Transformer’s Optimus Prime vs. R2D2 vs. iPod

Yes, I still play with action figures. I spent a bit of time today playing with the Optimus Prime toy that I got today to give you this video review of how easy it is to unfurl into robot-ness, and who would win in a fight: New Optimus Prime vs. Old Optimus Prime vs. R2D2…

Reviews Brian Lam

Fujitsu’s First UMPC Will Come with a Twisty Screen

Fujitsu will be the latest laptop maker to jump into the shallow waters otherwise known as the UMPC market. Their forthcoming handheld will look like a mini Tablet PC thanks to its rotating screen. Under the hood you’ll find Intel’s Stealey processor, 1GB of memory, and a 40GB drive. Fujitsu also plans on adding an…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

SkiBob Lets You Swim Like Superman

T-Mobile Picking up the Nokia N95?

Game Shell Hides Your Shameful Gaming Habit, Sort Of

Mac OS X Less Secure Than Vista?

If You Want Joost, You Gotta Have Friends

The Weird Weird World of Gizmodo Mornings

Cellphone-style Camera Packs Whopper LCD

Lexon LCD E8 Wall Clock Keeps ‘Em Guessing

Tater Mitts Will Change Your Life, I Guarantee It

Solar Heater Built With Soda Cans

Doggie Stroller Robs Both You and Your Dog of Dignity

Overhead Highway Turbine Creates Energy, Kills Birds

Rosie Brings Home Control But No Maid Service

Navizon Peer-To-Peer Navigation Gets You There, Maybe

Portable Motion Speakers: for Sound and Vision just Wave

Head Lite Cap Makes You Look Like an Oncoming Train

Plastic Sheet Delivers 40 Watts of Power to Nearby Gadgets

Paper-Thin Flatwire Disappears Under Paint

Video Review: Transformer’s Optimus Prime vs. R2D2 vs. iPod

Fujitsu’s First UMPC Will Come with a Twisty Screen

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