Gadgets

Colossus of Rhodes to be Rebuilt as Colossal Light Sculpture

The Colussus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, is going to be rebuilt as an innovative light sculpture—the “world’s largest light installation” according to its architect. And it’ll be even bigger than the 120-foot original, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 226BC.The new architectural piece will be between 200…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm Private Pre-Sale Has No Storms

Oops. You know that pre-sale flyer that was doing the rounds to Verizon “VIPs”, the one with the BlackBerry Storm on the left hand side? Turns out that if you, a VIP, turn up at a store with that very flyer you’ll not be able to buy a Storm ahead of its launch. You won’t,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Blackbird Rider Nylon Guitar Actually Carbon-Fiber and Nearly Indestructible

Blackbird’s Rider Nylon guitar is actually not made of nylon—ok its strings are—but instead it’s far more highly-tech’d and its body and neck are actually carbon fiber. It may not be bullet-proof, but Blackbird says its “nearly indestructible,” making it perfect as a travel guitar. The material has meant a few design tweaks over a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

iDog MP3 Speaker Toy Goes Soft And Cuddly, At Last

It’s been a while since we mentioned the iDog from Tiger/Hasbro, because it was basically a dog that’d had its day: Until now that is, when Tiger have removed one of the toy’s problems by adding cuddliness. It still has a speaker and does the same LED-flashing face and wiggling in reaction to your music,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

American Express My WishList Holiday Super Deals Get December 1st Launch

My WishList is, if you remember from last year, American Express’s holiday e-shop deals promotion, and we’ve just learned it’ll be launching December 1st this year. Basically American Express has this “holiday e-tail” site where they sell gadgets at crazily bargainous prices, in a kind of “get one if you’re lucky enough to click” manner.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today’s batch of deals features some tasty ingredients like a 42-inch 1080p Sharp LCD for $800, a Olympus Stylus 7.1MP Digital Camera for $99.99 shipped and an awesome Valve set that delivers you every game in their catalog for $99. As always, there is plenty more where that came from (and at these prices you…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Nov 17

Question of the Day: Is Re-Gifting a Gadget Wrong? Have You Ever Done It?

When it comes to gadget gifts, I take the safe route and ask for (or give) specific ideas. After all, gadgets can be expensive and that problem is compounded many times over when faced with the dilemma of receiving an unwanted gift. This is especially true in the midst of a recession. People will probably…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Nov 17

Lunar Baby Thermometer Avoids Sticking Things Up the Wrong Places

According to designer Duck Young Kong—probably the best name ever in the history of best names ever—his Lunar Baby Thermometer is great because “it eliminates the need to insert an external tool while holding them in a still position” since it uses the “common and natural behavior of putting your hand on the forehead to…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Nov 17

10 Gadgets That Have No Business Using a Jet Engine

Ever since we started putting high-powered engines into jets, there has been a long line of skilled but misguided lunatics eager to rip them out to use in their stupid and dangerous contraptions. Simply put, we are fascinated by speed—whether it is the latest military super aircraft or a flaming toilet blazing down the road…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Nov 17

10 Robotic Pets That Deserve to Live in the White House

Click to viewEver since Barack Obama announced that he would be getting his daughters Malia and Sasha a puppy, dog-lovers have speculated on the breed of the future First Pooch. But we suspect the perfect dog for the Obamas is, in fact, a robot. A robotic pet won’t aggravate Malia’s allergies, and it would help…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 17

Skyla Memoir Digital Photo Frame Has In-Built Photo Scanner

Looks like digital photo frames are beginning to move from nice-to-haves to actually quite useful: Skyla’s Memoir photo frame has an in-built 600dpi scanner so it’ll digitize your hardcopy photo archive for you. It’s got a 1GB memory, apparently good for about 200 4 x 6-inch prints (the maximum size the scanner can take). Plus…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino’s Pizza Ordering

Ahh…digitally controllable TV, and the chance of fresh tasty pizza: That’s what TiVo and Dominos Pizza are now offering. Broadband-connected TiVo users will be able to order pizza for delivery or pick-up (though that’d involve leaving the comforting hug of your sofa’s cushions…crazy!) and then can even track the progress all via the TiVo interface.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

Harry Potter-ish Photos With Moving Shadows Invented

Click to view Okay, so this new moving-photo tech doesn’t have the photo subjects actually dancing about within the frame, but it does allow for objects to have moving/reactive shadows and highlights and it’s zero-powered like an old-fashioned picture.Essentially an object is photographed from multiple angles in different lighting conditions, and a cleverly-processed composite image…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

MP3-Playing, Photo Frame Skull Belt Buckle is Gothic Gadget Wrongness

Sadly this doesn’t have “I am become death, the bringer of MP3s” inscribed upon it—it’d chime nicely with the ohmygod tackiness of the Digital Skull Belt Buckle. It’s in fact so terrible it’s wonderful: A metal belt-buckle in the shape of a skull with interchangeable modules in a cutout in the forehead. One’s a cheesy…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

Fujistu’s Wraparound Exterior Car Video Gives Bird’s Eye View, World’s First

Fujitsu’s taken the handy exterior cameras found on high-end, larger vehicles today and applied some nifty video processing to make them a driving aid par excellence. In fact, Fujitsu’s saying it’s the world’s first 360º wraparound vehicle view. The system has four exterior video cameras at the vehicle’s corners, and a central processing unit that…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

Esc Key Alarm Clock Won’t Let You Escape The Daily Drudge

This concept alarm is simple, but self-contradictory: shaped like a giant Esc key, you mash it with a fist to deactivate it, and it wirelessly communicates to a dock to (presumably) turn off the sound. But, it won’t let you escape the inevitable requirement of exiting the bed and getting to that early morning meeting…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

Nooka Zon Watch Dots The Time Away

The Zon is the latest in Nooka’s line of variously confusing and interesting (for a given value of beauty) timepieces: Its 35 x 45mm dot-matrix display either displays the minutes of the day dotting into nothingness like a digital egg-timer that’s counting down until tomorrow, or a proper numeric time readout. It also has a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 14

Meade ETX-LS Motorized GPS Telescope Basically Does Astronomy For You

Some details on Meade’s ETX-LS telescope have snuck out ahead of its early 2009 launch, and it looks like an amateur telescope for the digital age. That’s because it’ll drive itself to locate the stars you’ve chosen to look at automatically, using its database, in-built GPS and electronic level-detector system. And then there’s a sensor…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton Nov 14

Walloffice Is Smallest Home-Office Solution, Not For Shiny Floors

This Wallflower Walloffice desk from Jonas and Jonas design may hold the record for the smallest and simplest home-office solution: It’s got just two legs, and is made from a one-piece bent-laminate structure you lean up against the wall. Nevertheless, it looks useful, is “scratch and shock-resistant” and “allows for any kind of strain,” though…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 14

Cycle Life Watch Concept Charts Your Life Draining Away In Daily Drudgery

Here’s a bit of tech that’ll cast a wonderful air of doom and gloom over your morning breakfast cereal: The Cycle Life watch charts your progress through the boring average day’s drudgery. It begins cheerfully with “wake up!” but then the rest of your productive, vividly personal, exciting daily life is reduced to displays for…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 14

Colossus of Rhodes to be Rebuilt as Colossal Light Sculpture

Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm Private Pre-Sale Has No Storms

Blackbird Rider Nylon Guitar Actually Carbon-Fiber and Nearly Indestructible

iDog MP3 Speaker Toy Goes Soft And Cuddly, At Last

American Express My WishList Holiday Super Deals Get December 1st Launch

Gadget Deals of the Day

Question of the Day: Is Re-Gifting a Gadget Wrong? Have You Ever Done It?

Lunar Baby Thermometer Avoids Sticking Things Up the Wrong Places

10 Gadgets That Have No Business Using a Jet Engine

10 Robotic Pets That Deserve to Live in the White House

Skyla Memoir Digital Photo Frame Has In-Built Photo Scanner

TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino’s Pizza Ordering

Harry Potter-ish Photos With Moving Shadows Invented

MP3-Playing, Photo Frame Skull Belt Buckle is Gothic Gadget Wrongness

Fujistu’s Wraparound Exterior Car Video Gives Bird’s Eye View, World’s First

Esc Key Alarm Clock Won’t Let You Escape The Daily Drudge

Nooka Zon Watch Dots The Time Away

Meade ETX-LS Motorized GPS Telescope Basically Does Astronomy For You

Walloffice Is Smallest Home-Office Solution, Not For Shiny Floors

Cycle Life Watch Concept Charts Your Life Draining Away In Daily Drudgery

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

‘Kamen Rider’ Is Ready to Take on the World

Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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