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Facial Recognition For Stars Lets This Telescope Automatically Find Objects in the Night Sky

Spotting constellations like Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) or Orion in the night sky is easy, but finding harder-to-spot celestial objects can be challenging and frustrating for amateur astronomers who shelled out a few hundred bucks for a fancy telescope. Celestron’s new StarSense Explorer promises to make star spotting impossibly easy using your smartphone’s camera…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Garmin’s New Dashcam Records Both the Road Ahead and Passengers in the Back

Instead of just recording what’s happening on the road in front of a car, Garmin’s new Dash Cam Tandem has a second rear-facing lens that also records everything happening inside the vehicle at the same time. It won’t make the job of an Uber driver even easier, but it will provide irrefutable proof of unruly…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes

Fully autonomous vehicles are already being tested on roads across the country, but there’s one feature in every car that feels like it hasn’t been upgraded in a century: the sun visor. So a group of engineers from Bosch set out to update this antiquated feature so that it blocks the sun without also blocking…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Withings’s Latest Smartwatch Doubles Down on Medical Wearables

Last year, Withings wowed at CES with a hybrid smartwatch that could also take your ECG. That was no small feat, considering it came just months after Apple made waves with the same feature on the Series 4. This year, it’s doubling down on ‘medical-grade’ hybrid smartwatches with the ScanWatch, which can take ECGs and…

Gadgets Victoria Song

This Smart Faucet Should Pour Exactly the Amount of Water You Need at the Perfect Temperature

Three years at CES 2017 Moen revealed a smart shower system that could be preheated from your smartphone without having to climb out of bed in the morning. This year the company is bringing that technology to the kitchen with a new smart faucet that delivers some surprisingly practical features. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-pre-heat-this-shower-from-your-smartphone-while-1790151005 The U by Moen…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Beefy Suunto 7 Is a Great Reason to Be Excited About Wear OS

Unless you’re hardcore into outdoor fitness, you probably haven’t heard of Suunto. The Finnish company is mostly known for its compasses and GPS sports watches, but at CES 2020, the company is launching its first Wear OS watch, the Suunto 7. At a glance, the Suunto 7 is reminiscent of other beefy fitness watches, like…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Vector, the Little Robot That Could(n’t Do Much) Is Back From the Dead

Vector, a tiny desktop companion robot that was both surprisingly endearing and unsurprisingly useless, met its demise earlier this year when its creator, Anki, ran out of money and shut down. But despite the robot failing to justify its $250 price tag, it apparently has its fans, and Vector is being brought back from the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Matrix’s Juno Uses Thermoelectrics to Cool Down Even the Hottest Drinks Fast

For the past few years, Matrix has been mostly known for its body heat-powered smartwatches. But at CES 2020, the company is taking a different tack with its thermoelectric tech. Its latest gadget, Juno, is meant to help you cool super hot drinks super fast. I got to see a demo of Juno and true…

Reviews Victoria Song

Segway Makes a Self-Balancing Stroller for Adults

There were lots of great reasons to hate on the original Segway: it was overhyped, it was expensive, it was easy to fall off, but most disappointing was that it required extensive standing. We were promised a future with minimal physical exertion, and Segway-Ninebot’s new S-Pod personal transporter finally delivers that—almost two decades later. Like…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Poop-Spotting Cameras Could Be This Robovac’s Secret Weapon

The biggest problem with even the smartest robovacs is that they’re not actually that smart. They can navigate your home and avoid collisions with large pieces of furniture, but smaller obstacles, like hazards left behind by pets, they’ll simply plow right through creating even larger messes. Lucy, a new robot vacuum from a company called…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Hardware Hacker Designs and Builds His Own Digital Camera Sensor—Sony Has Nothing To Worry About

Making your own digital camera sensor isn’t as complicated as you’d think, as YouTube hardware hacker Sean Hodgins discovered. But you’ll need a solid understanding of electronics, an immense amount of patience, a steady soldering hand, and very low expectations of how your homebrew hardware will perform. https://gizmodo.com/the-perfect-halloween-costume-is-a-projector-mask-that-1839452370 The general idea of how a digital…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Tech Ghouls, Yoda Theories, and One Dumb Wikipedia War: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

This is it, everyone. 2020 begins this week. A new year, a new decade, a new physical form to inhabit . . . Anywho, let’s see what the Gizmodo team got up to this past week. We talked about how Apple’s iPad needs some time to really find itself, the dumbest Wikipedia editing face-off of…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Garmin Will Charge You an Extra $450 To Buy Its Luxury Smartwatch Collection in a Wooden Box

Garmin’s MARQ line was designed to bridge the gap between highly functional smartwatches and luxury timepieces made with high-end materials. And for those who’ve struggled with choosing which design to splurge $1,500+ on, Garmin has now packaged almost the entire line in a fancy wooden box that will set you back $10,000 for the entire…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Spinning LED Cube Is a Dizzying Way to Play Your Favorite NES Games

If you’re on the hunt for a new 4K flatscreen TV to hang on the wall, you’re thinking far too one-dimensionally. YouTuber Theremin Hero (aka Greig Stewart) rightfully realized that four screens are better than one, and hacked together this spinning LED-wrapped cube that provides a dizzying way to play classic retro games. https://gizmodo.com/a-diy-dual-screen-laptop-that-doesnt-sacrifice-the-keyb-1839963928 Be…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Hidden Magnets and a Video Projector Make This the Most Advanced Pinball Machine Yet

Despite mobile devices in our pockets that deliver arcade-quality graphics any time you need a gaming fix, pinball machines, a seemingly antiquated form of entertainment, are still thriving, thanks in part to companies like Stern Pinball whose Stranger Things table introduces new features like video projections and a clever ball trap inspired by Eleven’s telekinetic…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How to Back Up All the Devices That You’re Not Backing Up

We hope you’re all diligently backing up your phones and laptops these days, but our lives are filled with so many gadgets and gizmos that it can be easy to lose track of where all your data actually is and what gadgets actually need a regular back up. Here’s a quick check-up for some of…

Gadgets David Nield

Gadget Hacker Solves the Biggest Problem With Robovacs by Making One That Flies

Even the most expensive robot vacuums—like those capable of emptying themselves so they can run autonomously for weeks—lack the ability to climb up and down stairs in order to clean multiple floors of a house. YouTuber Peter Sripol came up with a solution to that problem, but it’s a hack you probably won’t see as an…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Most Improved Tech of the Past Ten Years

In the grand scheme of things, ten years is nothing; an insignificant slice of our planet’s long timeline. But when it comes to technological innovation, a lot can change in a decade, and some of the gadgets, software, and silicon you relied on back in 2010 now seems almost ancient and ready for the antique…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Casio Smartwatch Perfectly Illustrates the Struggles of Wear OS

The history of Wear OS watches is long, and mostly disappointing. Over the years, Qualcomm’s less-than-snappy Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip bore a decent chunk of the blame. The arrival of the 3100 was supposed to offset that, and it’s better sure—but not by a degree that offsets years of stunted development. Knowing all this, I…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Motion Sensing Wifi Is a Limited But Fascinating Peek at the Future of the Smart Home

In 2013, researchers at MIT demonstrated how the wifi signals that fill every corner of your home with high-speed internet could also be used to detect the movements of pets and people—even through walls. Six years later, Linksys has introduced similar functionality on its tri-band mesh routers, and while the technology is clearly still in…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Andrew Liszewski

Facial Recognition For Stars Lets This Telescope Automatically Find Objects in the Night Sky

Garmin’s New Dashcam Records Both the Road Ahead and Passengers in the Back

Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes

Withings’s Latest Smartwatch Doubles Down on Medical Wearables

This Smart Faucet Should Pour Exactly the Amount of Water You Need at the Perfect Temperature

The Beefy Suunto 7 Is a Great Reason to Be Excited About Wear OS

Vector, the Little Robot That Could(n’t Do Much) Is Back From the Dead

Matrix’s Juno Uses Thermoelectrics to Cool Down Even the Hottest Drinks Fast

Segway Makes a Self-Balancing Stroller for Adults

Poop-Spotting Cameras Could Be This Robovac’s Secret Weapon

Hardware Hacker Designs and Builds His Own Digital Camera Sensor—Sony Has Nothing To Worry About

Tech Ghouls, Yoda Theories, and One Dumb Wikipedia War: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Garmin Will Charge You an Extra $450 To Buy Its Luxury Smartwatch Collection in a Wooden Box

A Spinning LED Cube Is a Dizzying Way to Play Your Favorite NES Games

Hidden Magnets and a Video Projector Make This the Most Advanced Pinball Machine Yet

How to Back Up All the Devices That You’re Not Backing Up

Gadget Hacker Solves the Biggest Problem With Robovacs by Making One That Flies

The Most Improved Tech of the Past Ten Years

This Casio Smartwatch Perfectly Illustrates the Struggles of Wear OS

Motion Sensing Wifi Is a Limited But Fascinating Peek at the Future of the Smart Home

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This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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