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A Clever Pot Holder That Disappears Before Your Eyes

A kitchen gadget is only as useful as it’s easily accessible while you’re cooking. So with that in mind, designer Chih Ching Yang created this adorable Gasper pot holder that’s designed to forever haunt your kitchen counters. When not in use, Gasper looks like a cartoon ghost floating next to your stove. But since he’s…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26

Over-Dramatic Mannequin Promises To Make Computer Animation Easy

If you reached the limits of your artistic capabilities with crude flipbooks in your high school textbooks, but dream of being an animator, the Qumarion will make up for at least a little lack of talent. It’s essentially an electronically-enhanced version of those wooden mannequins that artists often use to sketch the human form. Except…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26

Build Your Own Hovering Lawn Chair For the Perfect Long Weekend Lounger

Long weekends are all about maximizing your laziness before you have to return to work. And over on Wired’s Geek Dad blog, Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, has an easy to follow tutorial on building a hovering lawn chair so you can be mobile without ever having to actually get up all weekend. All you…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26

You Should Spend Your Entire Long Weekend With This Ice Cream Sandwich Maker

Slapping a dollop of ice cream between two cookies is the best thing to happen to that frozen treat since chocolate syrup. But there’s nothing quite as satisfying as the soggy chocolate wafers of an ice cream sandwich, which this brilliant machine lets you churn out by the hundreds. It might look like one of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26

Specially Sculpted Pot Creates a Whirlpool When Cooking So You Never Have to Stir (Updated With Video)

A Japanese dentist, of all people, has invented a sculpted pot that will automatically stir its contents as they heat up. It promises to completely revolutionize cooking, at least for the world’s laziest chefs. The Kuru-Kuru Nabe (aka the ‘Pot Round and Round’) was invented by Hideki Watanabe, who came up with the design after…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26

Insane 33 Megapixel 120fps Video Camera Captures 4 Billion Pixels Per Second

We’ve already brought you news that Japan’s NHK was developing a mind-boggling 33MP video camera to capture footage for its new Super Hi-Vision format (7580×4320) that will one day supplant HDTV. But with a frame rate of 120fps, it means it’s capturing some 4 billion pixels every second. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-watch-the-olympics-in-insaneballs-33-megapixel-5859080 The boost in frame rate, from…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26

Slicing, Serving Kitchen Knife Is an Excalibur For Dinner Hosts

It’s hard to choose one item as the perfect kitchen accessory, but the Slice n’ Serve makes a strong case for the crown by incorporating a pizza slicer into a knife that’s wide enough to be used for serving food. There’s enough synergy here to make even Victorinox throw in the towel on its multi-function…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 24

A Single Strap Can Turn Your Bike’s Frame Into a Basket

If you’ve ever wished for some more storage space on your bike without resorting to adding a hipster basket on your handlebars, you’ll appreciate this alternative solution from designer Yeongkeun Jeong. It’s a simple strap system that turns the bike’s own frame into extra storage. A long elastic strap is strategically woven around the inner…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 24

The 6 Best Toys to Keep Your Dog Really Busy

Memorial Day is coming and, if you have a dog, you would probably want to keep him or her busy while you honor those who fought on countless battles to preserve your freedom to stuff your face with BBQ’ed burgers and ribs. Dog training expert and longtime Gizmodo collaborator Anna Jane Grossman has picked the…

Gadgets Anna Jane Grossman - Thedo.gs May 24

Bizarro Lamp Illuminates a Room With Its Shade

Thanks to the relatively compact nature of LED technology, lighting designers have been able to create some truly unique designs now that they don’t have to accomodate a bulb. Like Peter Stathis’ Symtra lamp which turns the fractured shade into the source of illumination. In fact, since the shade really isn’t necessary, its flat 2D…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 24

The Compact Bluetooth iOS Remote That Apple Won’t Give Us

Apple’s wireless Bluetooth keyboard plays wonderfully with all of the company’s hardware, from laptops to iOS devices. But for whatever reason, Apple has limited its lovely aluminum remote to IR, so it won’t work with your iPhone or iPad. So Satechi has stepped in to save the lazy day. Its Bluetooth multimedia remote might not…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 24

The First Wireless TV Remote Looked and Worked Like a Sci-Fi Ray Gun

As we mourn the passing of Eugene J. Polley, it’s worth taking a look back at his seminal invention that changed how we all lounge about watching TV. But when the first commercial wireless remote control appeared way back in 1955, it bared little resemblance to the remotes we use today. https://gizmodo.com/eugene-polley-inventor-of-the-first-wireless-tv-remote-5912204 In fact, it…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 23

Dancing With Industrial Robot Arms Is Even Sadder Than Dancing With Yourself

As more and more manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas, it’s nice to see that industrial robots are still finding work. Particularly when it pertains to their first love, interpretive dance, thanks to choreographer Thomas Freundlich’s latest performance piece titled Human Interface. Described as a “contemporary dance for humans and industrial robots” the performance features a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 23

10 Gadgets You’d Be a Fool to Buy Right Now

The problem with buying gadgets is that they’re bound to be obsolete at some point. But, as Laptop Mag’s Avram Piltch explains, that point is way sooner for some things than others. Here are 10 gadgets you should avoid like the plague right now, however tempting they might seem: They say patience is a virtue,…

Gadgets Avram Piltch - LAPTOP MAGAZINE May 23

Real-Life Tony Stark Turns His Broken Down Car Into a Motorcycle To Escape the Desert (Updated)

As many of you have pointed out in the comments, this actually happened quite a few years ago, way back in 1993. But it’s still a fantastic story, and if you only follow Iron Man’s adventures in the movies, it actually makes Tony Stark seem like a fictional version of Emile Leray. He might not…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 23

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… and Ugly

Designed to be used by those who are actively getting shot at in warzones, not just those of us who are clumsy with our gadgets, the new Rampage 6 tablet is even more rugged than Panasonic’s Toughbook tablet. Though, far less capable. https://gizmodo.com/the-panasonic-toughbook-android-tablet-is-a-rugged-beas-5812576 The Rampage 6, from Juniper Systems and SDG Systems, has an IP67…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 23

Researchers Turn Bubbles Into Laser-Controlled Microrobots

Of all the exotic space-age materials you can use to build a robot, we never thought bubbles would be a viable option. But researchers at the University of Hawaii have done just that with a microscopic robot creation made from a single bubble controlled by a laser. In lab experiments the bubbles were created in…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 22

How in the World Does This Wooden Lightbulb Work?

At first glance artist Ryosuke Fukusada’s wooden light bulb looks like it was simply carved from a solid block of wood, and meant to hang from a ceiling as an art piece. But surprisingly it actually works, and without it going up in flames either. https://gizmodo.com/miniature-furniture-waffle-mold-ken-and-barbie-better-5902396 That’s because the bulb wasn’t created from a solid…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 22

You Can Pre-Order an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III for $800—But Should You?

By all accounts the Samsung Galaxy S III looks like a monster of a smartphone—the next king of Android mountain. And now there are unlocked versions of the 4.8-inch, quad-core beasts for sale on Amazon—for the whopping sum of $800. What, for serious? It gets worse. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-meet-the-new-android-emperor-5907416 Here’s the other problem with the “liberated” phones…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar May 22

The Perfect Wii Accessory For When You Miss Your SNES

The Wiimote is cleverly designed so that when turned on its side it functions as a classic videogame controller. But if you’ve filled your Wii with classic 16-bit titles from the Virtual Console, you owe it to yourself to pick up this classic Super Famicom controller instead. If you’re not in the know, the Super…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 22

A Clever Pot Holder That Disappears Before Your Eyes

Over-Dramatic Mannequin Promises To Make Computer Animation Easy

Build Your Own Hovering Lawn Chair For the Perfect Long Weekend Lounger

You Should Spend Your Entire Long Weekend With This Ice Cream Sandwich Maker

Specially Sculpted Pot Creates a Whirlpool When Cooking So You Never Have to Stir (Updated With Video)

Insane 33 Megapixel 120fps Video Camera Captures 4 Billion Pixels Per Second

Slicing, Serving Kitchen Knife Is an Excalibur For Dinner Hosts

A Single Strap Can Turn Your Bike’s Frame Into a Basket

The 6 Best Toys to Keep Your Dog Really Busy

Bizarro Lamp Illuminates a Room With Its Shade

The Compact Bluetooth iOS Remote That Apple Won’t Give Us

The First Wireless TV Remote Looked and Worked Like a Sci-Fi Ray Gun

Dancing With Industrial Robot Arms Is Even Sadder Than Dancing With Yourself

10 Gadgets You’d Be a Fool to Buy Right Now

Real-Life Tony Stark Turns His Broken Down Car Into a Motorcycle To Escape the Desert (Updated)

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… and Ugly

Researchers Turn Bubbles Into Laser-Controlled Microrobots

How in the World Does This Wooden Lightbulb Work?

You Can Pre-Order an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III for $800—But Should You?

The Perfect Wii Accessory For When You Miss Your SNES

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