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Japanese Speaker Lantern Looks Good, is Functional

Why would Gizmodo be featuring something as simple as a lantern? Well, you obviously didn’t read the headline because this isn’t an ordinary lantern. It actually has double functionality as a lamp and a speaker. It uses USB connectivity for the audio streaming and power. Don’t expect it to have the best sounding speakers out…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 21

Metaphys Transforming Uzu Vacuum Emerges from Vapors

More than a year after baffling us over whether it was a vacuum or an art project, the Metaphys Electric Uzu Vacuum is finally available. It costs $243 when purchased from Japan, which is around the low end of what you can get a Dyson vacuum for. https://gizmodo.com/art-project-or-vacuum-cleaner-136473 You don’t get a neat British man…

Gadgets Jason Chen Feb 21

Ditch Your Computer for One Day? Really?

Could you stand to be without your computer, just for one day? Experimenters Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor want to know. The 24-hour period in question is March 24, which happens to fall on a Saturday. Maybe we’ll try it. Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 21

3DLabs Bringing Real-life Maps to Your GPS

The thing about most GPS systems is that rather than see real-life renderings of where you’re driving/navigating, you’re instead stuck with 2D maps that try to pass off as 3D. To address that issue 3DLabs is working on an interface that would use skinned textures of real-life buildings and landmarks to help you navigate in…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Feb 21

Frankenfight: Blu-ray vs. HD DVD, Formats Not Equal

Click to viewThe Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD battle seems as old as time itself. Being tech savvy consumers, we’ve heard the two formats are, to the end user, pretty identical. Both are capable of equal resolution, equal sound output and equal mass flopping. But are tech specs the only way to judge DVDs? Of course…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 21

Today at Giz: To Overpriced HDMI Cables

To: Overpriced HDMI Cables From: Ben Yeah you might charge a whopping $73.17 more then the discount guy for the same 6-foot HDMI cable, but you need tech news too, don’t you? Hell maybe something here will spark you into a crazy thing we like to call competitive pricing. https://gizmodo.com/hdmi-cable-ripoff-continues-cable-prices-go-even-lower-238443 We found the inspiration for…

Tech News Ben Longo Feb 21

Dealzmodo: Philips 42-inch Pixel Plus Plasma, $800

Oh, Philips Outlet Store, why do you have to tease me with deals like this. The 42PF7220A is a 42-inch Pixel Plus plasma that is available for $980. Tack on $180 savings (coupon code 42PLASMA-0207) for a President’s Day Sale (thanks, Lincoln!) and it brings the final price down to $800. Free shipping is also…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 21

Paralyzing Searchlight to Put the Hurt on Mobs of Miscreants

Of all the bombs, bullets, blasts and booms that have been paralyzing you with fear, now there’s a paralyzing spotlight to add to that grim list. The U.S. Army has figured out a way to use a 7.5 million candlepower beam of light to put the serious hurt on you without killing you, shining an…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 21

Consumer Reports Convinces Us That the iPod Nano Isn’t the Best

Consumer Reports ranked the 18 best flash-based MP3 player, and shockingly, the iPod nano isn’t number one. Now, give me a second while I go cry and kiss my pictures of Steve Jobs in my Apple shrine. Okay, all better. They actually ranked the iRiver U10, Cowon iAudio U3 and the oldie, but goodie Samsung…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 21

Homeless Genius Bar Worker Doesn’t Think Your Broken iPod is a Life Crisis

Andy Bussell works as a Genius at an Apple Store in California by day. By night, he is homeless. It’s not that Apple doesn’t pay livable wages – no, Andy is homeless by choice. He decided to start sleeping in his truck once he realized he was wasting all his money on rent and had…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 21

Japan Loves It Some Wacky Cellphone Charms

Wired and Gizmodo’s Lisa Katayama gathered up some of the strangest and most fun cellphone charms from Japan all in one place, proving once and for all that nothing defines the land of the rising sun better than a tiny, cigarette-smoking baby wearing a cowboy hat. Here are some of our favorites. Check the full…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 21

PS3s of the Rich and Famous

While the rest of us plebes are stuck with our fat black PS3s, Sony invited a few of their celebrity friends out to the Palms Hotel this past weekend for a little PS3 pimpin’. At the “PlayStation Parlor” celebs like Kobe Bryant got to dip their newly minted PS3s in vats of glossy paint and…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Feb 21

Mario Rubik’s Cube Combines Best, Worst of 80s

Here we have two of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the 1980s together at last: Mario and the Rubik’s Cube. One of these things is still a beloved part of both children of the 80s and current children’s lives; the other, well, it’s kind of kitchy, I guess. Personally, seeing Mario all over a Rubik’s…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 21

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Eight killer Thunderbird extensions “Thunderbird’s pluggable interface lets developers freely build extensions to make it ever more useful. And ever more useful do a few key extensions make it.” Screenshot Tour: Tweaking Launchy “Check out the photo gallery for a quick look at Launchy’s attractive skins and more detailed view of…

Tech News Gina Trapani Feb 21

Ubiko Robot Smells Fire, Reacts in a Timely Manner

Ubiko is a robot that can save lives and tattle on the smokers. Ubiko is equipped with sensors that are capable of smelling odors commonly associated with fires. Upon smelling the odors, Ubiko sends a wireless signal to security that can come and put out the fire and proceed to kick the smoker’s ass outside.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 21

Speck TechStyle Puck for iPod Shuffle

If it looks like a puck, smells like a puck, acts like a puck and definitely tastes like a puck, then it must be a puck, right? Negative. This puck isn’t so much of a the body checking, tooth-knocking, blood spattering type. It is more the kind of conveniently holding the second generation iPod shuffle…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 21

Flipper’s Got a Backache: Ocean Breeze Wave Motion Dolphin

Ocean Breeze is an undulating segmented worm-like light that’s shaped like a dolphin, is lit up with blue LEDs, and makes strange undersea noises complete with dolphin squeaks. Yes, it actually moves and flaps its tail up and down like a dolphin. Or something. It’s marketed as some sort of romantic talisman, but we wouldn’t…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 21

Vonage to Offer Calling Cards With 200 Free Minutes

Vonage will start offering calling cards loaded with around 200 free minutes, according to a daisy chain of well placed, yet anonymous sources. (“So oooo hot,” said one member in the chain.) Apparently Vonage wants to target homesick business travelers who want to continue to use their home phone number while away from their base…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Feb 21

Motion C5 Tablet to Make Nurses’ Lives Easier

The Motion C5 is a tablet computer designed for nurses, a rough-and-tumble, easily cleaned device that’s meant to help keep track of patient records and record symptoms while on rounds. It should make organizing patients and getting info to doctors without the mess and confusion of paper. It uses fun stuff like wireless connectivity to…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 21

Web-based Exercise Machine Keeps You from Looking Like a Spaz

Nothing’s more humbling than being at the gym and having some bulky meathead call you out for doing an exercise the wrong way (especially as you try to save face in front of the Shakira-like beauty on the treadmill in front of you). Well, that’s where Hammacher’s new Interactive Personal Trainer System comes in. This…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Feb 21

Japanese Speaker Lantern Looks Good, is Functional

Metaphys Transforming Uzu Vacuum Emerges from Vapors

Ditch Your Computer for One Day? Really?

3DLabs Bringing Real-life Maps to Your GPS

Frankenfight: Blu-ray vs. HD DVD, Formats Not Equal

Today at Giz: To Overpriced HDMI Cables

Dealzmodo: Philips 42-inch Pixel Plus Plasma, $800

Paralyzing Searchlight to Put the Hurt on Mobs of Miscreants

Consumer Reports Convinces Us That the iPod Nano Isn’t the Best

Homeless Genius Bar Worker Doesn’t Think Your Broken iPod is a Life Crisis

Japan Loves It Some Wacky Cellphone Charms

PS3s of the Rich and Famous

Mario Rubik’s Cube Combines Best, Worst of 80s

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

Ubiko Robot Smells Fire, Reacts in a Timely Manner

Speck TechStyle Puck for iPod Shuffle

Flipper’s Got a Backache: Ocean Breeze Wave Motion Dolphin

Vonage to Offer Calling Cards With 200 Free Minutes

Motion C5 Tablet to Make Nurses’ Lives Easier

Web-based Exercise Machine Keeps You from Looking Like a Spaz

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