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Use a Wiimote to Make Whiteboards Out of Anything

Johnny Lee’s description of “Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote” may sound boring, but it’s actually a very cool and very innovative use of the Wiimote. Since you can hook the controller up to your computer and accept inputs using the Wiimote library interface, you can use its infrared sensors to detect and track…

Torpedo Projector: You Probably Get What You Pay Only $179 For

Crafted by the makers of TV Poker, the Sweet Thang Plush and the “Original Scoozie Pet,” the Torpedo Entertainment Projector probably isn’t a good choice to form the cornerstone of your home theater. But, for a measly $179 at Target or Wal-Mart, the 920 x 240-resolution projector’s not a bad way to mildly frighten your…

Not only is Woot offering brown Zunes for $79, but that if you already bought one in that color, you’re eligible for an extra $20 off any item worth more than $20.

How to Get Free Air Conditioning From Your Water System

Some cheap guy came up with a way to get “free” air conditioning by cycling up his 50-degree well water through a home-made pipe/radiator system and dispersing the coolness into his house. It’s really, really ugly, but it does save some money on your cooling bill. Useful if you live in really hot areas and…

How to Find Cheap Gas with your Cellphone

Remember GetMobio? That’s the mobile phone app that gives you a bunch of stuff like movie listings, maps, RSS readers, and various ways to help you have fun at night. Well, they’ve just added a Gas app that helps you get the cheapest gas in your surrounding area. https://gizmodo.com/getmobio-verdict-sure-as-long-as-you-live-somewhere-251390 Sure, you could just visit gasbuddy.com…

HANNspree Releases 5 Cheap, ‘Vista Certified’ LCDs

HANNspree’s computer display division, HANNS.G, announced five new LCD displays that are being touted as “Vista certified,” whatever the hell that means. The big beauty is a 22-inch HW-223DPB that displays at 1680×1050 and has a nice 5ms response time and 1,000:1 contrast ratio. It has DVI inputs, but includes a DVI to component adapter…

Cheap Gadget Roundup: Monkeys, Obscene Gestures and a Useful Toilet

Don’t quite have the money for a Helio Ocean but feel like getting a gadget high? We’ve got you covered. Here’s a roundup of cheap gadgets that are both neat and, well, cheap. Cheap as in both low in price and quality. Get an FM radio monkey for anyone who’s born in the year of…

NVIDIA’s GeForce 7200 GS Gets You Windows Vista Aero For Peanuts

If you’re like Adam over at Lifehacker who has a copy of Vista but a graphics card from 1997, nVidia’s got you covered. The latest entry-level GeForce 7200 GS is their cheapest standalone graphics card, but still meets the requirements Microsoft’s set for running Aero. It’s 50% better than integrated graphics cards, which is like…

Jajah VoIP Lets You Call on Your PSP

We’ve written about Jajah here before. It’s essentially a VoIP calling solution you initiate by plugging in two phone numbers into a web page. If both numbers are Jajah subscribers, the call is free. If not, you pay a small (but slightly higher than Skype or calling card) fee. https://gizmodo.com/jajah-mobile-web-makes-cheap-international-calls-from-y-234696 Now Jajah’s taken their mobile…

Frenchies Release Petit Computeur – C’est Très Cheap

French ISP Neuf Cegetel has come up with a computer that costs pas beaucoup. $53 buys you the computer gets you a month’s worth of computer plus ADSL line rental, $39 gets you a mouse, keyboard and camera, and a 14-inch color monitor is $132. UPDATE: That’s about $13 a month more than a broadband…

Jajah Mobile Web Makes Cheap International Calls From Your Smartphone

For the times where you can’t get to a Wi-Fi point for Skype and you can’t remember that 15 digit calling card code, there’s Jajah. Jajah lets you make relatively cheap long distance calls right from your browser-enabled smartphone. How does it work? Well, just visit jajah.com from either your PC or your smartphone’s browser,…

Twenty Five Cheap and Easy Gadgets That Save Money

The penny-pinching cheapoids at The Simple dollar came up with twenty five gadgets that actually save you money when you use them. Some may take longer to reach the break-even point than others—like the Toyota Prius and a residential windmill, for example—but a couple of them should see returns in a few weeks. Some notable…

Pop Art Color Cam

If you have ever wanted to have the inspiration and desire for pop art without the need for LSD or acid (see: Andy Warhol) this cheap-ass camera can do it. The Pop Art Color Cam can reproduce four images, each with a different tint of color. No digital here, folks. This is good old fashion…

Sub-$500 Laptop

Do you love the Earth? You’d better, or she’s gonna kick your ass. To save yourself a Gaia ass-kicking, consider the Everex StepNote NC1500, a laptop with a 15.4-inch screen and a 1.5-Ghz VIA C7-M processor. This, Everex claims, makes it the world’s most energy efficient notebook. While it’s not going to win any speed…

$9 MP3 Player Available in Color, Still 9 Bucks

The $9 MP3 Player that is essentially just a SD memory card reader with some control buttons got a bit of a Technicolor makeover. Orange, blue, green, black and pink are all of the options. Now you can own a rainbow of shitty MP3 players! New colours for the 7 EUR MP3 player [Akihabara] https://gizmodo.com/9-mp3-player-174491

Sanyo Xacti S60: Cheap 6-Megapixel Camera

How cheap is the S60? It’s only $199 and includes 21MB internal storage and runs on 2 AA batteries. While it’s not quite as impressive as similar Kodak or Sony low-ends, the Sanyo does have a 6-megapixel sensor and some sort of touch-sensitive button (I know, I know, but this one you don’t have to…

$9 MP3 Player

How cheap can they go with mp3 players? Single digits? You got it. Evergreen makes a screenless mp3 player for $9. USB2.0 and 1 gig SD card support are both included. Who needs an iPod shuffle when you can get this for less than the price of a movie ticket in NY. Evergreen [via Trusted…

Intel Edu-Wise: Cheap Laptops For All

Hot on the tail of the $100 laptop, Intel is looking to get itself a piece of hot third-world action by creating the Edu-Wise, a $400 laptop for developing nations. The original article was in Portuguese, but Google was able to tell us this about the project: “It, however, said that the project of the…

DIY Photo Lighting System

Photo lighting systems range from massively expensive to outrageously expensive. I know there are a few other there for $99 and whatnot, but this entire system costs $75, a steal at twice the price. What we have here are a set of hot lights on a tripod with blue-tinted photography bulbs, a diffuser made of…

Mice for Less Than a Jackson

ExtremeTech gives does us quite a favor and finds five cool mice for under $20. While I would suggest getting a better cordless mouse—every gimpier model we’ve tried has failed miserably—they run through all manner of corded and cordless meeses and even include a handy slide show of potential candidates. Five Mice Under $20 [ExtremeTech]