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Spenco MTB Cycling Gloves

I imagine that all Gizmodo readers regularly exercise like fiends, so these cycling gloves may prove to be quite useful for many of you. The Spenco MTB Heat Wave, Trail Pro and Cold Snap help prevent the sensitive nerves in your hands from being agitated via special gel pads in the glove. The gel pads…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 12

Seeing Machine Sheds a Little Light

Star Trek’s Geordi still has the advantage over this “seeing machine” designed by a legally-blind poet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but for $4000, this represents the current state of the art. It’s housed in a box that’s rather small, but it’s not small enough to fit inside a pair of Star Trek glasses…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12

Samsung Digimax A503 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid BeginnerCam)

Reviewers at Lets Go Digital took a look at the Samsung Digimax A503, an attractive and low cost ($125) digital camera for the entry-level enthusiast. This 5-megapixel shooter has a 2-inch LCD viewscreen, but at these prices you’ll have to sacrifice an optical viewfinder. Overall, the reviewers were impressed with the quality of this low-cost…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12

Dual Booting Vista and XP Explained

Our trusted first cousins at Lifehacker were able to download a copy of the publicly available Beta 2 of Windows Vista last weekend, and in a fine how-to article show you how to dual boot it with Windows XP. How they were ever able to download the file from the zoo that is the Vista…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12

Sony E Series: Post-It Notes Landing Strip

Sony’s E Series LCDs have a blank space at the bottom that the company suggests you fill with Post-it notes. And just below the display is a groove for pens and pencils. The 1280×1024 displays have 17″ (SDM-E76D) and 19″ (SDM-E96D) screens, can be connected with both DVI and D-sub inputs, and actually have a…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12

AP2006 World Cup MP3 Player

People are getting pretty critical of all of the World Cup crap that has been popping up lately. Now while the AP2006 definitely falls into the World Cup crap category, it shows a little promising twinkle because it is actually inspired by the 2006 World Cup. It resembles the 2006 World Cup Adidas ball and…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 12

Pro Extreme Contact Microphone

Designed in Israel by a military contractor, the Pro Extreme Contact Microphone enables you to amplify the sound being produced behind walls, ceilings and floors, thus making holding up a glass cup to a door obsolete. The acoustic “super sensor” amplifies sounds by up to 100 times thanks to the 1-watt RMS amplifier. Additionally, the…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 12

MacBooks Looking Skanky

You ran out as soon as the words MacBook slipped past Saint Jobs’ craggy lips and what do you get a few months later? A big skanky notebook covered in sweat stains. The symptoms of this problem first seem to after appear about 2-3 weeks of use of the Macbook. As you can see in…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 12

Baby-Proofing and It Feels So Good

This is a personal request from my wife and me for assistance at baby-proofing our electronics. Wee Kasper is only five months old now, quite a large fellow, and can’t quite crawl yet. However, there’s a glimmer in his eye that informs us that soon he’ll be scooting around the house like a Roomba. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-kasper-the-incredibly-human-technology-stra-145485…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 12

PC Consumes 8.5 Watts, Has No Moving Parts

Nigerians have been so busy trying to introduce everyone on the Internet to the son of the late president of that war-torn country who needs you to help him move US$21,320,000 million out of the country, they’ve had little time for anything else. But instead of giving it away, someone has taken that boatload of…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12

Volvo’s Fully Automatic Brakes

Volvo’s Collision Warning System with brake support was launched recently in its S80, where a red light flashes and a buzzer sounds if you’re about to run into something. It even goes a step further and applies more brake pressure if you’re not stopping fast enough. Now, the company is working on the next generation…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12

Gigabyte g-Smart i120

It looks like Gigabyte is starting a whole like of smartphones with the g-Smart monicker. This new Computex-revealed g-Smart i120 runs on the now-common Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a 240×320 pixel, 2.4-inch touch screen interface, but lacks a QWERTY keyboard. The navigation pad is to the right of the number keys, but instead of…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 11

Leica M Lens Encoding

For use with their upcoming digital M camera, Leica’s announcing a 6-bit encoding scheme for all new M lenses. Each lens will have a unique 6-bit code that will be recognized by the M camera, which can be used to identify the lens and optimize image quality. The M camera will also store that information…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 11

Recover Water Heat With the Power-Pipe

With oil prices recently at record highs, people—homeowners especially—have been looking for ways to save money on things such as heating costs. What many of them don’t realize is that they’re spending an unnecessary amount of money on keeping their warm water warm, lest Jack Frost make taking showers in the winter a frigid affair.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 11

The Week In Comments

Yoda Backpack I can just hear Master Yoda saying, “Babe magnet think you? Babe repellant, find you out!” by Cardinal Fang https://gizmodo.com/yoda-backpack-179185 Sony Reader Gets Delayed Again “Much like my ex-girlfriends, those promises got broken pretty quickly…” https://gizmodo.com/sony-reader-gets-delayed-again-178703 – You broke your ex-girlfriend? What, did she deflate or something? by mathew Wait, his ex-girlfriends were…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 11

The IDF Chess Set Made From Sterling Silver

While it’s one thing to play chess with the standard pieces, it’s an entirely different matter to play with actors from the Israeli Defense Forces. This particular set contains 32 individual pieces made from sterling silver, with the black pieces made from gilded sterling silver. Needless to say, this isn’t a set you’re going to…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 10

The Big Lo Network: Pirate DVDs to Your Train Stop

I got this slip of paper from a friend of a friend a while back, but I’m slack so it took me a while. Apparently ‘Big Lo’ is his ‘movie dealer.’ One call—and I’ve obfuscated the number because it would be impolite to rat out someone else’s dealer—and Big Lo will meet you at your…

Tech News Joel Johnson Jun 10

Nixie Clock Gallery

Nixie displays are the old tube-based displays that were widely used in electronics back in the 1960s to display numerals and symbols. Their retro style is what makes them attractive to do-it-yourselfers now. https://gizmodo.com/6502-powered-nixie-clock-165100 Here’s a huge gallery of all kinds of nixie clocks made by people all over the world. Some of them look…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jun 10

Xbox 360, iPod and Plasma TVs Are Going to Transform In The New Transformers Movie

According to a leaked script, three of our favorite consumer electronics are going to do a little “transforming” in the new Transformers live action movie courtesy of Michael Bay. The Xbox 360 game console, iPod music player, and plasma televisions are going shape-shift to become, well, we don’t know what yet. Maybe the Xbox 360…

Movies Jason Chen Jun 10

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Spenco MTB Cycling Gloves

Seeing Machine Sheds a Little Light

Samsung Digimax A503 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid BeginnerCam)

Dual Booting Vista and XP Explained

Sony E Series: Post-It Notes Landing Strip

AP2006 World Cup MP3 Player

Pro Extreme Contact Microphone

MacBooks Looking Skanky

Baby-Proofing and It Feels So Good

PC Consumes 8.5 Watts, Has No Moving Parts

Volvo’s Fully Automatic Brakes

Gigabyte g-Smart i120

Leica M Lens Encoding

Recover Water Heat With the Power-Pipe

The Week In Comments

The IDF Chess Set Made From Sterling Silver

The Big Lo Network: Pirate DVDs to Your Train Stop

Nixie Clock Gallery

Xbox 360, iPod and Plasma TVs Are Going to Transform In The New Transformers Movie

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